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		<title>Fukushima Children stil exposed to Radiation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Protesting outside the Ministry of Education last Year Children from Fukushima, Japan are still being exposed to unacceptable levels of radiation, according to a report The International Solidarity Labour Committee of Doro-Chiba says that 75% of Fukushima&#8217;s 360,000 children are still obliged to go to schools, which are higly contaminated by radiation. Fukushima was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Teaching Unions, says US Scholar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Teachers Protest against Education Cuts Professor Lois Weiner makes the case for transforming teachers&#8217; unions in a new article Weiner argues that teaching unions &#8211; both in the US and internationally are &#8216;the most stable and potentially powerful defender of mass public education&#8217;. However she argues that they are imperilled by the neo-liberal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No History is Illegal! Campaign to support Mexican-American Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A campaign is being launched to support the teaching of Mexican-American Studies in Arizona, USA In response to the Arizona state authorities banning the Mexican-American Studies programme in the Tucson school district, the network Teacher Activist Groups (TAG) has launched a campaign to promote the teaching of the programme throughout the US. They have called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Teachers demand Education Spending Increase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenyan Teachers Protest Teachers in Kenya are demanding that the government increase spending on education The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has given the government 2 weeks to enter talks on overdue allowances to cover housing, commuting and health as well as extra allowances for teachers working in the most difficult areas. These were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Teachers take Action against School League Tables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Queensland Teachers Strike in 2009 Teachers in the Australian state of Queensland are taking action against the introduction of school league tables The Education Minister has taken the step of printing the league tables in the media &#8211; rating schools as outstanding, high, medium of low. As a result of this action the Queensland Teachers Union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Teachers Strike against Cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French Teachers striking last September  against  increased class sizes French teachers went on strike again yesterday against 1000s of job cuts planned by the Sarkozy government Teacher job losses could affect as many as 6,550 secondaryand 5,700 primary schools next September with 2,400 teaching assistants and special needs helpers also slated to lose their jobs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jailed Bahraini Teachers&#8217; Leader: Health failing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Mahdi &#8216;Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb The jailed Bahraini teachers&#8217; leader, Mahdi &#8216;Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb is being refused medical treatment despite his failing health The Bahraini Teachers Assoication (BTA) president was sentenced to ten years in prison last September for his involvement in peaceful protests at the beginning of the year and his leadership of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK School Strike Against Academies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A school in Birmingham, UK, was closed yesterday as workers at the school held a strike in protest against it becoming an academy. The Anti Academies Alliance reported that 100 teachers, parents and pupils stood at the picket line, in the second strike this year against plans to turn it into an academy. The picketers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabweans Continue Week Long Strike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zimbabwean teachers, nurses and doctors continue their week-long strike today, demanding poverty line pay for the lowest paid workers. Although union leaders called for a one day cessation of the strike yesterday while they negotiated with government, The Zimbabwean reports that most workers ignored the call, continuing to stay off work. The negotiations failed, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/zimbabweans-continue-week-long-strike/</link>
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		<title>Dutch Teachers Strike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holland&#8217;s largest teachers union is on strike today against a bill that will increase teachers&#8217; working hours and cut their holidays. They are also protesting against cuts to special needs education, a salary freeze and the introduction of performance-related-pay. The biggest Dutch teachers union, AOb, have said that 20,000 teachers are taking part in the [...]]]></description>
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