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Book Review: The Creative Destruction of Public Higher Education By Gurminder K Bhambra
8 May 2013 — New Left Project
The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education (Andrew McGettigan, Pluto Press, 2013).
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Boston Set Up? Tsarnaev Brothers’ Mother: My Sons are Innocent, This is a Set Up
20 April 2013 — Global Research - Russia Today
GR Editor’s Note: The Testimony of the Tsarnaev Brothers’ Mother as well as media reports confirm that the two brothers were on the FBI Radar, under FBI surveillance for several years. The Tsarnaev family had been the object of persistent harassment. (M. Ch.)
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Protests, Disturbances, and Violence Continue in Venezuela, General Strike a “Failure” By Tamara Pearson
16 April 2013 — Venezuelanalysis.com
This afternoon president Maduro said the opposition’s call for a general strike today had “failed”. He also blamed the losing candidate in Sunday’s elections, Henrique Capriles, for the seven deaths last night.
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It’s Time to Decide: The Left, Austerity, and the People’s Assembly By Chris Nineham
22 March 2013 — Counterfire
The Peoples’ Assembly will meet in London on June 22, where thousands of those opposing the Coalition’s cuts will gather to work out a strategy to defeat austerity, and by implication, the government. Waiting till a 2015 election is hardly an option. It would be to allow more irreparable damage to be done. And many people, way beyond the radical left, will be wary of assuming that an Ed Miliband government, without strong pressure from below, will do much to alleviate the collective suffering caused by austerity. Continue reading this...
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The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point’ Has Tipped By Franklin Lamb
2 March, 2013 – Damascus
This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now. “It’s just a matter of days, not weeks” President Obama declared back in 2011.
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 February 2013: Palestinian students “surrounded by guns” at Israeli universities
22 February 2013 – VTJP
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Child Injured In Bil’in Weekly Protests, Dozens Treated For Effects Of Teargas Inhalation
IMEMC – Friday January 22 2013; Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlement, and shot one child in the head, while dozens of protesters have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation. … -
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“DeWitt C-L-I-N-T-O-N Boom:” Singing the Praises of Free Public Education In The Privatized Charter School Era By Danny Schechter
4 February 2013
“I’d like to use the word “justice” – that I felt compelled to tell the story of the school as a matter of justice. That we are so easy to write books and tell stories about great universities, but when it comes to high schools we don’t think that way. And yet if you ask every person on the street about somebody who influenced them, he always or she always brings up a high school teacher or a high school coach. High schools have had a tremendous influence on who we are as a people, as a nation. And there should be documentation about the high schools, and I believe that DeWitt Clinton is a great school that has had tremendous influence on American life.” — Gerard Pelisson, former high school teacher and co-author of “The Castle on the Parkway,”a history of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx N.Y.
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Video: Amelia Hill is a Dirty Liar By Craig Murray
30 January, 2013 – Craig Murray
The Guardian hit a new low in Amelia Hill’s report on Julian Assange’s appearance at the Oxford Union. Hill moved beyond propaganda to downright lies.
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There Is No American Left By Salvatore Babones
27 December 2012 – Australian Options
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. (Photo: Iowa Democrats / Flickr)
[Nor British for that matter. WB]
In September 2012 Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel attempted to break the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) with a bid to privatize Chicago’s public schools. The mayor’s proposal was based on a plan to subject teachers (and schools) to performance measurement based on students‘ standardized test scores.
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The Sandy Hook School Massacre: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information By Prof. James F. Tracy
25 December 2012 — Global Research
“[My staff] and I hope the people of Newtown don’t have it crash on their head later.” –Connecticut Medical Examiner D. Wayne Carver II, MD, December 15, 2012
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Does Hugo Chavez Keep Fooling Venezuelans? By Peter Hart
13 December 2012 — FAIR
The New York Times updates readers today (12/13/12) on the health status of left-wing Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and the political implications for his country. But the paper starts out by suggesting that the people who keep electing him must have some kind of problem.
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Workfare comes to the classroom By Alex Diaz
17 December 2012 — Red Pepper
While academies have drawn the headlines, the government’s new ‘studio schools’ are making children work for corporate sponsors. Alex Diaz reports
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Strategic Solutions: If You Want Shorter Hours, Let Me Tell You What to Do…
2 December 2012 – SolidarityEconomy.net via Alternet.org / Nov 28, 20102
Don’t Slave Your Life Away: Why America Should Embrace a 4-Day Work Week
By Bill Ivey
The following is an excerpt from Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy by Bill Ivey.
The Perpetual Workday
Jill Andresky Fraser’s book ‘White-Collar Sweatshop’ details the movement of factory floor, scientific-management-style techniques into the office.
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 28 November 2012: Israel’s repression of Palestinian students reached new level during Gaza attack
28 November 2012 – VTJP
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Seven Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Central Gaza
IMEMC – The Israeli army continued its violations of the ceasefire that was reached on the evening of Wednesday November 21, shot and injured on Wednesday evening (Nov. 28), seven Palestinians east of the Al-Maghazi and the Al-Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza. … -
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Video: The Agueros Archive: Preserving New York’s Latino Heritage
23 August 2012 — Columbia University New York Stories
Jack Agüeros is a poet, playwright, short story writer, translator and author of five books. He was an activist in New York’s Latino community in the 1960s and ’70s and director of El Museo del Barrio for close to a decade. Agüeros, who turns 78 on Sept. 2 and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, can no longer write. But he will continue to inspire students, writers and literary scholars through the collection of papers, videos and photographs he and his three children, Kadi, Marcel and Natalia, are donating to the Columbia Libraries. Continue reading this...
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Financial Warfare: Destabilizing Iran’s Monetary System By Nile Bowie
8 October, 2012 – Global Research
ESFAHAN – Dramatic fluctuations of the Iranian rial triggered small protests among merchants in Tehran’s grand bazaar on October 3rd, 2012. In an attempt by authorities to prevent further devaluation, Iran’s central bank recently issued new limits on the amount of USD available for purchase at a subsidized rate, leading many to panic as the rial fell 40% against the dollar since the start of October. Continue reading this...
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MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism – National University of Ireland Maynooth
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This practitioner MA brings together social movement organisers, community educators, grassroots activists and newcomers interested in social justice for a year of “learning from each other’s struggles”.
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What Causes a Political Sea Change? by John Spritzler
20 February 2012 — New Democracy World
I learned what causes a sea change in people’s political behavior at Dartmouth College, in 1969, a year after I graduated. Here’s the story.
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Video: Chris Hedges and David Zucchino On War Reporting
15 February 2012 — Dandelion Salad – uncjschool on Feb 15, 2012
War correspondents Chris Hedges and David Zucchino, a 1973 graduate of the UNC journalism school, had a discussion with UNC J-school students on Feb. 13, 2012, in Carroll Hall. Hedges spoke later that evening as part of the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Vision Series.
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A Conference on Struggles Within and Beyond the Neoliberal University
5 December 2011
April 27-29, 2012 Toronto, Ontario
The university belongs to us, those who teach, learn, research, council, clean, and create community. Together we can and do make the university work.
