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Tallying Election Contributions Made by Development Interests in the City of Santa Cruz
Real estate and development interests continue to flood political campaigns in the City of Santa Cruz with large cash contributions. In the lead up to the March 5, 2024 election, financial documents show construction and development interests have provided the vast majority of the funding for the No on Measure M campaign. Santa Cruz Together, the political action committee heavily financed by real estate and property development interests, spent more than $14,000 on a city-wide campaign maile...
Posted: Tue, Mar 5, 2024 9:08am PST
Support WAMM, a Champion of Medical Cannabis Access and Community Safety in Santa Cruz
Support the new proposed location for WAMM Phytotherapies (WAMM) and The Hook dispensary on Mission Street in Santa Cruz!
Sign the petition here: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/support-wamm-a-champion-of-medical-cannabis-access-and-community-safety-in-santa-cruz...
Posted: Mon, Mar 4, 2024 3:53pm PST
F@ck Your FEMA Camps - We wont go
Stop the nationwide campaign to make it illegal to be homeless
No on Prop 1 - Stop SB1011 - Up hold Martin v Boise...
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2024 9:25am PST
DSA Santa Cruz Electoral Working Group Recommends Yes on Measure M, Housing for People
The Electoral Action Working Group of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Santa Cruz recommends a yes vote on Measure M, the Housing for People initiative, which is on the ballot in the March 5 primary election in the City of Santa Cruz. If passed, Measure M will increase the ratio of inclusionary/affordable housing to 25% in new large projects of 30+ units, and will require a majority vote of the people before the city's General Plan can be amended to raise current building height lim...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2024 8:17am PST
Western Monarch Count Tallies 233,394 Butterflies
Portland, Ore. Jan. 30, 2024—Much anticipated each year, results of the 27th annual Western Monarch Count have been released by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Scientists and volunteers counted a total of 233,394 butterflies at 256 overwintering sites to track the threatened butterfly’s population levels. The count is slightly lower than last year’s total of over 330,000 butterflies, and remains at just 5% of their population numbers in the 1980s, when low millions were comm...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2024 7:52pm PST
Lawsuit Aims to Protect Pacific Sea Turtles From Fishing Gear
Fishery’s Expansion Threatens Endangered Leatherback Habitat Off California...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2023 9:28am PST
Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless
Two homeless memorials were held on December 21st in Santa Cruz, one by "service providers", the other by Food Not Bombs. I reprint the flyers I distributed at these events as well as the December 25th Xmas dinner organized by Joe Schultz, Food Not Bombs, Friends of Xmas, and the inevitable Steve Pleich....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2023 5:34pm PST
Sign the Petition: End Seaside PD Brutality Against Youth
Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/end-seaside-pd-brutality-against-youth...
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2023 1:46pm PST
Seaside PD Protest
4PM Rally at Oldemeyer Center, 986 Hilby Ave, Seaside
4:30PM March to City Hall, 440 Harcourt Ave, Seaside...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 21, 2023 4:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2023 12:48pm PST
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses ratify new contract
Nurses win strong measures to improve retention of experienced nurses, patient safety...
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2023 1:31pm PST
Monterey Bay Central Labor Council Calls for Ceasefire in Israel and Palestine
On December 6, the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council voted on a statement calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine to local, state, and federal electeds. The Monterey Bay Central Labor Council (MBCLC) is the local body of the AFL-CIO. MBCLC serves as a coalition of the Labor Community in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, with over 80 affiliated unions, representing more than 37,000 union members and their families....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2023 8:13am PST
Urge Elected Officials in Santa Cruz County to Pass a Ceasefire Resolution Immediately
Residents of Santa Cruz, Watsonville, and all of Santa Cruz County are urgently calling for our representatives to pass a resolution for a lasting ceasefire and an end to the siege in Gaza once and for all. Email your representatives by clicking on this link to choose to either get an automated letter, or an email template that you can copy and paste yourself: https://linktr.ee/PalestinianSolidarityCC...
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2023 10:56am PST
Tell Good Times: Stop Publishing Islamophobia!
Good Times, 107 Dakota Ave, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Nov 29, 2023 9:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 27, 2023 7:19pm PST
Perinatal Healthcare Workers in Santa Cruz County Call for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
Campesina Womb Justice, a mutual aid project for womb justice and healing for indigenous campesinas in Santa Cruz County, has released a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2023 3:19pm PST
Statement from UCSC Faculty for Justice in Palestine
Announcing Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UC Santa Cruz...
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2023 11:42am PST
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses to picket Monday
Nurses to protest management’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about safe staffing, retention, and safe patient care...
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2023 8:05am PST
Solidarity in War Against the Poor in Santa Cruz and Gaza
The Santa Cruz City government and the Israeli regime are both creating and criminalizing homeless refugees. This flyer--self-explanatory--was distributed at two U.S./Israel Out-of-Gaza rallies as well as at the Town Clock and downtown, among unhoused folks....
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2023 2:06am PST
Farmworker communities protest new regulation of cancer-causing pesticide as racist
November 7th, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) sent its new regulation for 1,3-D use regarding residential bystanders to the Office of Administrative Law, setting the target exposure level at 0.56 ppb – allowing for 14 times more 1,3-D in the air than the State’s official lifetime cancer risk warning level, and aligning perfectly with Dow Chemical’s stated desires....
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2023 11:14am PST
Ceasefire Now: More Deaths Will Not Bring Peace to the Middle East
November 4, 2023 - We need an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a return of all prisoners, and a halt to all forms of violence against civilians and collective punishment, including bombing of ambulances and refugee camps, and deprivation of food, water, medicine, electricity, and outside communication....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 10:28am PST
Conference on the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism launches new Institute
The newly-formed Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) will hold its inaugural bicoastal conference, Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies. This is the first research conference focusing on IHRA campaigns, which ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2023 9:37am PDT