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Santa Cruz Caravanistas On A Human Rights Mission To Cuba
On June 24, peace and human rights activists spent their day at the Live Oak Grange preparing the Santa Cruz contingent of this years Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba. This is the 17th year our fellow community members have challenged the travel ban to Cuba as well as the inhumane embargo on Cuba by our government. Volunteers did a quality inspection of donated supplies before loading them onto the dontated Ambulance, former Police SWAT wagon, and Peace Mobile. Other people put their handpri...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Reportback of Santa Cruz Police Spying Policy Process
Weak severely-limited half-baked policy on police spying on peaceful groups likely to be proposed....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 2:36pm PDT
2,500 U.S. Troops Killed... And Counting
On June 16th, US Veterans For Peace, Methodists United For Peace and other individuals held a vigil in Santa Cruz to mark 2,500 U.S. troops killed in Iraq and countless dead Iraqis. People held banners and peace flags in front of the town clock before marching down Pacific Avenue. We were joined mid-march by Hare Krishnas that had been chanting and dancing on the corner of Soquel. The march paused at Laurel and Pacific before returning to the plaza by the post office for a final peace circle....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 8:41pm PDT
Memorial Service for Jay (Zalmo/Buck) BloomBecker (6/25)
Come join us in honoring Jay’s memory!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 12:19am PDT
FRSC: Peacetalks: Moratorium on GE crops in Santa Cruz County (audio/mpeg 20.7MB)
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Arty Mangan from the Santa Cruz County Genetic Engineering Subcommittee about the recent unanimous vote of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to accept the Subcommittee recommendation of a Precautionary Moratorium on the planting and production of GE crops in Santa Cruz County....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 2:00pm PDT
FRSC: Peacetalks, Green Scare Interview with Marco Rossi (audio/mpeg 26.2MB)
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Marco Rossi of the Olympia Civil Liberties Resource about the "Green Scare" and the government crackdown on the ELF and ALF. The Olympia Civil Liberties Resource is an organization working to defend the civil liberties of all citizens, particularly activists exercising their constitutional rights....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 1:08pm PDT
Powdering The Crooked Nose of The City's Anti-Homeless Panhandling Law
The Santa Cruz City Council did a "quick fix" on an obscure section of its really bad panhandling law on May 23rd and June 13th. Instead of giving the whole panhandling law the civil liberties and common sense overhaul it needs, the Rotkin City Council chaired by Mayor "Two Minutes" Mathews cut short public discussion and rubberstamp City Attorney Barisone's settlement. More legal challenges and more city money will probably be going to pay City Attorney Barisone's questionable defense of h...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 2:12pm PDT
Indynewswire: UCSC Diversity Coalition Rails Administrators (audio/mpeg 18.8MB)
Segment from The Indynewswire Show covering June 6th student demo for diversity in student and faculty retention at UCSC campus.
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Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 6:32pm PDT
OVER THE EDGE at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In (6/23)
This 1979 film pits bored, aimless, white middle-class suburban kids (including a very young Matt Dillon) trapped in a hellish planned community against parents and police concerned about the "youth problem." Intelligent, honest, and with attention to detail, filled with a feeling of teen-age frustration and paranoia. This film is a funeral service held at the graveside of the suburban dream....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 9:02am PDT
South Central Farm Solidarity Actions
At 8:30 am Friday morning, demonstrators staged a blockade at a central Santa Cruz intersection (at Laurel St. & Mission St/Hwy 1) as a gesture of solidarity with the hundreds of families who lost their land in Tuesday's forced eviction of the South Central Farm in Los Angeles....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 3:23pm PDT
the flyer handed out at today's S.C.F. solidarity action
Here are PDF files and the text of a leaflet that was handed out during this morning's brief blockade of a Santa Cruz intersection. We had little time to throw it together and it's far from ideal, but perhaps the PDF file will be useful for people to print and distribute at simliar actions in their areas....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 1:54pm PDT
Hwy 1 Banner Drop in Solidarity With South Central Farmers
During rush hour on Friday morning, June 16, 2006, a banner reading "REMEMBER SOUTH CENTRAL FARM--FUCK RALPH HOROWITZ--FUCK LAPD--SOUTHCENTRALFARMERS.COM" was dropped over Highway 1 in Santa Cruz, California....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 1:20pm PDT
Norse Hearing Postponed from Friday June 16th to early August TBA
A hearing prior to the jury trial of Robert Norse (aka Robert Norris Kahn) to investigate complaints against arresting officer Steve Clark will be postponed from Friday June 16 to early August time TBA....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 4:58pm PDT
Vigil for 2500 U.S. Soldier Deaths This Friday
This Friday, there will be a vigil commemorating the 2500 US soldiers that have been killed in the war in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 1:47pm PDT
Protest Thu. 6/15: support SEIU Head Start Workers
Thursday Emergency Protest...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 11:34pm PDT
Special Showing of ANGRY BRIGADE (6/15)
"You can't reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it til it breaks."
-Angry Bridage, Communique 8...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 5:51pm PDT
Students for a Democratic Society - now forming in Santa Cruz!
If you agree that we need to end the war NOW and that the Bush administration is a clear and present danger to the health and well being of the average American citizen and to liberty and freedom, then you need to join SDS and help bring the noise....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 11:59am PDT
Denton giving in to watching the students' skit (video/quicktime 12.7MB)
Unsatisfied with more of Denton's ambiguous statements, students pull off a skit in front of her (Actual skit not filmed). Afterwards, Denton leaves surrounded by the voices of discontent from the crowd....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 9:13pm PDT
Asking Questions About UCSC's Missing Journalism Program
On June 7th, UC Santa Cruz students concerned about their missing journalism program asked questions of Bill Ladusaw, UCSC's Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education. Ladusaw seemed to place blame on UCSC's faculty for the loss of the journalism program, while dodging questions about the misappropriation of funds at the administrative level, including Chancellor Denice Denton's extravagant dog-run. Ladusaw encouraged students to seek support from faculty members and the academic sena...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 7:53pm PDT
Surprising Denton (video/quicktime 32.7MB)
Students and workers fighting for diversity at UC Santa Cruz silently gather outside a meeting with Chancellor Denton inside and surprise her...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 4:13pm PDT