EducationAware is taking back our education system from state's war and militarism propaganda. Being EducationAware includes taking actions such as distributing Opt-Out forms to local schools, asking School boards to keep military recruiters off campus.
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21 Nov 2003- Albuquerque Public Schools refused to renew school teachers Geoff Barrett and Allen Cooper's teaching contracts that expired at the end of the school year. Highland High Schoolteacher Allen was suspended for PRO-WAR and ANTI-WAR posters that were made by his students. Listen to Allen on ESPEJOS DE ATZLAN every Monday at 8pm on KUNM 89.9FM. Come celebrate Allen's activism work on November 22, 6:30pm, Peace & Justice Center, 202 Harvard SE. More...
Pleace Print and distrubute the Opt-Out form - student names not be released to recruiters.
Lies Bush tells about Education "Perhaps one of the biggest categories is education. States are being creamed by the budget shortfalls and they are making up for it by raising local school and real estate taxes. They are raising college tuitions. So, you got your $400 rebate for your kid under 14, well you'll pay $500-1000 or more extra for your 19 year old in college. But that's not all. About 84,000 students will lose federal Pell grants. That's because Bush cut these financial need based scholarships funding by $270 million." See Rob Kall, Bush Lie # 1; Fair Taxes for All
Read impact of War on Students - e.g. The Draft
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Click here for info on Militarism in New Mexico's Public Middle Schools and High Schools -
We are also beginning to assemble information on reports we are receiving of the growing presence of military recruiting in New Mexico Middle Schools, and how impressionable young minds are recruited to militarism. If you have any personal experience with this, please contact David Boje dboje@nmsu.edu At this point we are collecting stories for a study of Middle School involvement with military recruiters. We plan to issue a report to school boards and parents. For more information see (CLICK HERE).
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Save our from Budget Disaster - Did you know that in El Paso School Districts, 140 Philippine teachers are bein imported who will not receive health benefits, and be paid $18,000 so that U..S. teachers can be surplused (means fired).
You can do something about it. Across the nation, schools are suffering. Tens
of thousands of teachers have received pink slips and looming budget deficits
only promise worse to come. Yet in Washington, Congress seems unaware
of the problems at home. They're talking about cutting taxes and cutting budgets
-- not about how to keep the schools and essential services going.
The final vote on these budget cuts will come in just a few days, and we're leading a campaign to bring focus to who is getting hurt -- especially to the cuts that will hurt our kids and fail our schools.
Please join us and sign a petition to Congress, asking key Congressional leaders to lead the fight against tax and budget cuts, and to save education and other basic services from drastic cuts. Just go to:
http://www.moveon.org/saveschools/
The following story each out to be a (cruel) April Fool's joke -
Bush Asks U.S. to Deport Foreign Muslim students
Blocking the Growing Terrorist Threat from Academia
From Ronni Berke and Vivienne Foley CNN Tuesday, April 1, 2003 Posted: 7:08
AM EST (0008 GMT) See what CNN has to accompany this article? God
Bless America
Thursday Feb 20 Damacio Lopez spoke and showed the film: Depleted Uranium, the Gulf War & Socorro, NM PeaceAware formed an I-DUST chapter called, NM-DUST (New Mexico-Depleted Uranium Study Team).
Feb 23 Sun David Boje spoke on NM-DUST DEPLETED URANIUM on Pacifica Radio show 2-4PM
Please Thank the Round Up for their excellent PRESS COVERAGE of the Peace Movement
March 5 Boje's Talk on "Enriched" Uranium and the Sanctions: U.S. violations of Geneva Convention.
Is Enriched (depleted) Uranium being used in the Current Gulf War? "On March 28, a tank unit fired two 120mm DU rounds down the main road of urban Kifl, creating a vacuum effect that literally sucked guerrillas out from their hideaways into the street, where they were shot down by small arms fire or run over by the tanks." (Read Aritcle by Simon Helweg-Larsen April 07, 2003).
EducationAware is also a global issue. For example, the U.S. occupation force in Iraq is attempting to re-educate the population.
Thank you - Every volunteer minute you spend, helps the World Wide Peace Movement
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