Stop the War Makers. Hands Around the Lab. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Never Again!
Aug 10, 1:30pm - 3pm, Robert Payne Park, 5800 Patterson Pass Road (at Vasco), Livermore

March for Immigrant Rights
Sep 20, 11am Assemble at Yerba Buena Gardens (Mission St. between 3rd & 4th), San Francisco; 12pm - March up Market St.; 1:30pm - Program & Festival at Civic Center.

Rally and March to Defeat Proposition 54
Sep 25, 12:00noon - Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley

Reportback from Palestine
Sep 27, 6:30pm - Redwood Gardens Community Room, 2951 Derby Street, Berkeley

End the Occupation! Bring the Troops Home Now!
Sep 28, Noon - Dolores Park, San Francisco - 12pm. Gather at Dolores Park, march to: 2pm - Rally at Civic Center

Forum: Defend Environmntal Justice, Defeat Prop. 54!
Sep 30, 7:00 PM - Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave., near Dwight Way, Berkeley.

In Celebration of the Free Speech Movement: The Berkeley ACLU Presents Larry Fly
Oct 6, 7:00 PM - Pauley Ballroom West, Berkeley campus

Stop the FTAA and School of the Americas
November 19-23, Miami and Colombus, GA.

Buy Nothing Day
November 28, Everywhere.

Poetry Should Hijack The Bus
(after Ruth Forman's "Poetry Should Ride The Bus")
Junichi P. Semitsu

Poetry should tag the bus
bring the blind to demand a more scenic route
inspire the driver to announce the next stop in iambic pentameter
push passengers to traverse the rows with a verse on HMOs
& entice morning commuters to call in sick
for the year

Poetry should get Billy Graham to slam grace before dinner
choke Julia Child until she serves Kentucky Fried Chicken
get Martha Stewart to create a lamp shade out of the red-striped bucket
& make Miss Manners lick her greasy fingers
& finger lick her goods

Poetry should fire a cannon through the canon

Poetry should paint the pentagon pink
streak the inaugural ball
sprinkle truckloads of Jell-O powder into the reflecting pool
dump soggy corn flakes on the white house lawn
& leave a flaming bag of dog doo at W's door
ring the bell
& run
for office

Poetry should kiss everyone who stands at your side
& cane everyone who stands in the way

Poetry should conduct sensitivity training at Abercromie & Fitch
with a whip
& bleach everything they sell
white as their Board of Directors

Poetry should jolt Jill Scott into swearing with Gil Scott-Heron
dare D'Angelo & Maya Angelou to duel banjos at open mic
demand LeAnn bust a rhyme
make Yo-Yo, Yo-Yo Ma & yo mama yodel over a lambada
sell Celene Dion on songs about Martin Espada, the Intifada & the whole
enchilada
& convince 2Pac to come out of hiding

Poetry should propel baby boys to rebel at their bris
& bring bruised wives to borrow Lorena Bobbitt's knives

Poetry should pay the rent
Poetry should pay the rent
Poetry should pay the rent
leave your life so rich
everything becomes free
free cheese
free chez panisse
free college degrees
free profiled detainees
free parking
free to lay
free style
free wine & dine
free palestine
free students for justice in palestine
free minds
free behinds
free spoken word
free bird
free land for the kurds
free leonard peltier
free mumia abu jamal
free them all
free them all
free them all
& leave enough dough to bake bread for your lover

Poetry should push rush hour traffickers
to pull over on the next exit ramp
compose an ode to road rage
recycle their sport futility vehicles
board the bus
& hijack any silence with a haiku

Retiring UC president criticizes dropping affirmative action

Newest regent calls for diversity

UC Regent Huerta

Davis appoints Dolores Huerta, co-founder of farmworkers union, to Regents

Claremont labor dispute festering after two years

Huge drop in foreign students on campus - Post-9/11 security discourages many from coming to U.S.

University of California investment records aren't secret anymore

Colleges dubious of tracking system

UC professors get more liberty in what to teach - Supporters say new rules add to academic freedoms

UC regents approve 25% fee increase

Regents vote down Connerly's proposal to stop funding ethnic-themed events

Why we should return to affirmative action

UC race-oriented events under fire

Connerly takes affirmative action fight to Michigan

Panel: Government knew of attacks

Thousands of UC-eligible students could be denied

When it comes to environmentalism: No region left behind