From Flickr, photo by Carlo De La Cruz
An intense speech delivered on Sept. 24th by Gray Brechin on the dismantling of California’s public education system. Berkeley Geography Department = bad ass (…I never knew). On a related note, a mobilizing conference to save public education is being held on Oct. 24th at UC Berkeley in order to determine the next steps for a state-wide action. All UC, CSU, CC, K-12 students, workers, teachers, and their organizations across the state are invited.
Askari Gonzalez, Overfelt High School’s VP of Californians for Justice, asks Arnold to sign on to Educational Funding Fairness. When I was sixteen, the most passionate letters I wrote were to my Xanga, and they were about boys and school dances. Sigh.
Who is Felicia Lee and how come we don’t know? Jen of DISGRASIAN weighs in on how the media determines which lives (and deaths) are more worthy of coverage, and which are not.
I usually try to avoid cheeseball descriptors like “thoughtful” and “personal,” but here it goes: poet and activist Bao Phi delivers a thoughtful and personal piece on Fong Lee and police brutality.
“In the UC system alone, APA undergraduates are the second largest population of undocumented students, accounting for more than 40 percent of all undocumented students. Of these APA undocumented undergraduates, 60 percent are Korean, 14 percent are Chinese, 10 percent are Filipino, 7 percent are South Asian, 7 percent are Thai or of Asian descent, and 1 percent are Pacific Islander.” Enough said.
