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Nicaraguan Voters Deepen 21st Century Socialism on all Fronts

Jeff — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:42:42 +0000

By John Riddell interviews Felipe Stuart Cournoyer | Axis of Logic

Whitewashing Black History Month

Jeff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:10:41 +0000

Arizona’s suppression of Mexican American studies fits a pattern of making history serve an exclusionary nationalist mythology | Gary Younge | The Guardian

McGuinty defends cuts to university research grants | Toronto Star

Faiz — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:02:01 +0000

“The Liberals’ decision to axe the $42 million came at the same time as the government introduced a 30 per cent tuition rebate initiative.”

Meanwhile … in Nova Scotia:

Government Ushers in New Year with Tuition Fee Increases and Funding Cuts | CFS

Copyright and the Academy — Citizens’ Press

Graham — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:42:03 +0000

–A rather long article on copyright and the academy and how we need to keep fighting for fair implementations of copyright and the “copyleft” alternatives to allow sharing of data and analysis in an increasingly commercialised academy and monopoly publishing world.
Oh, and I wrote it.

PNP wins elections – Joy grips Comrades in East Portland – News – Jamaica Gleaner – Saturday | December 31, 2011

Graham — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:56:24 +0000

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111231/news/news2.html

–The Peoples’ National Party has beaten Labour in Jamaica. A move to the left, but the PNP better put education first and build ties with the ALBA nations if it is going to be able to implement its manifesto.

Canadian Student Debt Limit — Citizens’ Press

Graham — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:27:55 +0000

–A continuation of my comments on student debt and education funding in Canada.

Student and Youth (Un)Employment — Citizens’ Press

Graham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:09:00 +0000

–My comment on Citizens’ Press.

ASSOCIATION POUR UNE SOLIDARITE SYNDICALE ETUDIANTE | Mobilisation étudiante : plus de 60 000 étudiants et étudiantes se regroupent autour de la Coalition large de l’ASSÉ (CLASSE)

Graham — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:09:30 +0000

–French student militants are organised again.

Education is a Right #cfsfcee

Graham — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:52:51 +0000

–New Education is a Right campaign website from the Canadian Federation of Students was launched today. The Federation is calling for a national day of action on February 1, 2012.

The politics of occupation continued | Counterfire

Graham — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:37:13 +0000

–Occupy.

An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw by Concerned Students of Economics 10

Jeff — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:29:37 +0000

“Dear Professor Mankiw –
“Today, we are walking out of your class, Economics 10, in order to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course. We are deeply concerned about the way that this bias affects students, the University, and our greater society.”

It would be interesting to see how many of these Harvard students gain an interest in Marxist political economy. Mankiw, btw, is the author whose Econ textbooks are used in university classrooms all over North America.

The Vampire Squid Turns to Education

Jeff — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:35:33 +0000

by David Blacker | MR Zine | “Education is an irresistibly tempting victim, bleeding but still with enough blood for a few good meals. As during the Soviet economic collapse, where public assets were directed into private oligarchs’ hands, we are now witnessing in our schools what David Harvey describes as “accumulation by dispossession,” a neo-enclosure movement of neoliberal privatization, where previously public assets are transferred over into the private, death-dealing hands of the vampires.”

Reinstate Professors Chatterji and Shapiro to their full faculty status

Faiz — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Two faculty members at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a private university in San Francisco, are being edged out of their jobs largely because of their efforts to create a system for granting tenure at CIIS and their academic work on Kashmir.
The administration at CIIS are claiming their suspensions are the result of ‘poor teaching’, however, such claims contradict the recommendation of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) who, after examining the evidence presented by the administration, have urged their reinstatement.
Unfortunately for the faculty being targeted, CIIS remains a non-unionized workplace, where academic freedom can be usurped under the cover of any performance indicator the administration chooses to implement.
Students and alumni from CIIS have organized their own response to the suspension of their professors, this petition is just one. Please sign it.

How earnings for Canadian university graduates stack up – The Globe and Mail

Graham — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:54:52 +0000

–The “return on investment” argument misses the point. It is not whether there is a good return on investment for funding post-secondary education, it is a question of whether we want an educated and skilled population. It is about what kind of society we want. Personally, I think that a society of educated and skilled workers is better than the alternative. Those that choose to enrich our society by becoming skilled labourers should not be punished for making that choice by slapping them with a massive loan. Education is a right, we should make sure that it is accessible to everyone.

William Watson on post-secondary education

Jeff — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:38:29 +0000

By Nick Falvo | Rabble.ca | On Wednesday, William Watson wrote a comment piece in the Financial Post in which he was critical of Armine Yalnizyan’s recent essay on inequality.

Tuition fees increase in most provinces: Students call for federal leadership on education

Graham — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:33:18 +0000

–The Canadian Federation of Students responds to the latest tuition fee data.

Student Movement Rocks Chile

Jeff — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:49:18 +0000

Students campaign against privatized educational system, demand education as a right | The Real News

Capitalism Is The Crisis [video]

Jeff — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:48:48 +0000

The 2008 ‘financial crisis’ in the United States was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft of public money in history. This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.

Chile police clash with protesters during student march

Jeff — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:03:13 +0000

Demonstrators attack a police vehicle during riots after a student protest in Santiago, Chile. The demonstrations turned violent when masked protesters split off from the main march. | BBC

Chile’s protesting students call for national referendum on demand for free, quality education – The Washington Post

Graham — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:24:17 +0000

–Support the students.