by Will Parrish
Current and former campus workers from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz — joined by several student sup porters — were on hand to challenge Richard Blum on the poverty he promotes in his capacity as a UC Regent. Blum, who fashions himself as a global anti-poverty crusader by way of his Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley, has had a primary hand in shaping the policies that have led to deep pay cuts and widespread employee layoffs at UC campuses. Moreover, as a leading finance capitalist and political influence peddler on a global scale, he and his ilk have played a strong role in causing the ongoing global economic meltdown — and the various financial austerity measures it is leading to.
by Will Parrish
Part Three of Will Parish and Darwin Bond-Graham’s series on disaster capitalism, UC style.
March 3, 2010 | Posted in
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by Will Parrish
Part Two of Will Parish’s and Darwin Bond-Graham’s series on disaster capitalism, UC-style.
February 19, 2010 | Posted in
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by Mark Scaramella
Guest Commentary by Susan Rush, Manchester
There was no surprise, on my part, by the article which appeared in the Independent Coast Observer (ICO) by D. Glenn O’Hara on February 4, 2010, in which he states Point Arena Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello was “cleared” in the civil suit filed by former Point Arena Elementary Principal Matt Murray [...]
by Mark Scaramella
Paula Patterson was appointed interim principal at Point Arena Elementary in November of 2006 by Point Arena Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello.
Iacuaniello and his lockstep school board had just fired Matt Murray although Point Arena Elementary’s test scores, discipline, campus safety and parent support had dramatically improved during Murray’s tenure. Murray had been hired to drag the [...]
by Will Parrish
On April 17, 2009, with the edifice of the global economy rotting under an architecture of monumental greed, war deficits, and official hubris, the University of California, Berkeley conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for its Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies.
by Mark Scaramella
Testimony continues in the civil trial of Point Arena School Superintendent Mark Iacuaniello, who’s accused of “fraudulent inducement” — hiring principal Matt Murray to improve Point Arena’s troubled elementary school then firing Murray after he’d successfully lifted the school from what amounted to state probation.
by Mark Scaramella
The trial continues of former Point Arena Elementary principal Matt Murray, who lifted the troubled school from probation and was fired behind closed doors.
by Mark Scaramella
Former Point Arena Elementary Principal Murray had successfully lifted the historically troubled Point Arena from state probation. Then he was fired. Behind closed doors.
by Mark Scaramella
Anderson Valley High School and Fort Bragg High School have won figurative silver medals — again this year — in a US News & World Report competition
January 7, 2010 | Posted in
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