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More White Supremacist Propaganda Posted "BRING THE TROOPS HOME! and put them on the Mexican Border"...
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 11:45am PDT
indynewswire: Julia Harumi Mass of the ACLU-NC on ICE Raids (audio/mpeg 10.1MB) Julia Harumi Mass, staff attorney with the ACLU, discusses the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in an attempt to learn more about the Homeland Security agency ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 11:09am PDT
AFSCME on Strike During New Student Orientations at UCSC 
Incoming UC Santa Cruz students and their families got an official orientation to college on July 17th while campus service workers were striking for the fourth day in a row. Since 2004, the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) at UC Santa Cruz has been working to spread awareness and solidarity with the hardest-working and lowest-paid employees at the University of California (UC). In the last year alone, the demand to end poverty wages at the UC has been carried far and wide, inc...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 9:11pm PDT
"Homeless Court" : Rules for Fools Though the law library in the basement of the County building didn't initially have any info, they graciously got the Judge's Chambers to fax over the following document--which defines the rules for Santa Cruz's "Homeless Court". "Homeless Court" is the skeletonic grinning mask of "compassion" that Santa Cruz County wears over its gruesome pointless life-threatening anti-homeless ordinances (the Sleeping, Sitting, Sparechanging, Blanket, Parking Lot Bans)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 5:28pm PDT
Day 4 of AFSCME HUELGA at ucsc 
En el medio del dia, cerramos el campus! We shut down the campus at noon! Video and pictures below.
REMINDER: For people that do not know what we are fighting for... a fair and just CONTRACT!!!
NO CONTRACT! NO PEACE!
Y SI NO HAY CONTRATO! NO HAY PAZ!
- $14.50 minumum wage for all service workers across the board
- market-base wages
- pension protection
- health care protection
- step pay system
- Y PINCHE NO PARKING INCREASES! especially if there is no salary inc...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 3:55pm PDT
Donna Deiss Update Donna Deiss and others who live in their vehicles continue to face harassment. Those interested in her case should check out the continued arraignment hearing happening Wednesday July 30th in Departments 1 or 2. Police reports detailing the extensive follow-up whitewash investigation to discredit non-police witnesses are now in Deiss's hands. Those who want more background should check out http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/25/18511178.php?show_comments=1#18515273 ....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 2:31pm PDT
Day 3 of AFSCME HUELGA at ucsc 
Day 3 of our huelga and we are going strong and long. We shut down the whole intersection (bay and high) today for 15 minutes before a quick 30 minute rally at the intersection and then we ate. We shut it down again at 7 pm and at 7:15 and we will again from 10 to 10:30, be there! See you'll there these 2 last days... enjoy......
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 9:37pm PDT
Banner Manifesto on Highway One 
Text by Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo.
Photos by Bradley.
On Friday July 11th, a group of about 30 people brought together by Youth Coalition Santa Cruz (YCSC), the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV), and the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz (VCSC) all participated in a project to bring a series of radical and contemplative statements to motorists on Highway 1 during rush hour. Dubbed, the "Freeway Banner Manifesto" by organizers, it was an attempt to display a different message on ever...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2008 1:43pm PDT
CDFA LBAM Eradication Program reported to be a Fraud  
Glen Chase, a Professor of Systems Management, has released a report identifying the CDFA LBAM eradication program as a fraud. "CDFA claims the moth is an emergency and pretends that they can eradicate it in order to steal $100's of millions from taxpayer emergency funds, set aside for real emergencies."...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 2:08pm PDT
AFSCME ON FRSC!!! Support the 5 day strike!!! (audio/mpeg 17.8MB) On Monday July 14th students, workers, and supporters from the University of Californina Santa Cruz stopped by Free Radio Santa Cruz to help provide coverage about the first day of the 5 day UC-wide strike. 8,500 University of California workers represented by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) began a five-day strike at UC’s ten campuses and five medical centers. The strike, which began on July 14th, will conclude on July 18th. At issue are poverty wa...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 3:12am PDT
Day One of AFSCME's Five Day Strike at UCSC 
July 14th kicked off AFSCME's five day strike at the University of California's ten campuses and five medical centers. At UC Santa Cruz, AFSCME workers, students, workers from supporting unions, and other community members are picketing at the intersection of Bay and High at the base of campus. County buses are respecting the picket line by dropping people off at the base of campus. Some classes were held at the base of the campus and other spaces in Santa Cruz. Scabs have been hired by the U...
Posted: Tue, Jul 15, 2008 1:05am PDT
UC Santa Cruz Service Workers Strike 
UC Santa Cruz Service Workers Strike July 14-18, 2008. One Union, One Fight. AFSCME Local 3299...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 8:31pm PDT
Anti-Gentrification Action in Santa Cruz On the 4th of July, amidst the tourist frenzy and sounds of fireworks, at least 8 windows were broken on a condominium that is being built in the lower Ocean neighborhood....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 7:14pm PDT
County , Federal and State Social Services - Keeping the impoverished poor since 1935 
A look at the state of County, State and federal health insurance. MediCruz, Medi-Cal, and Medicare as well as Social Security Disability....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 3:57pm PDT
indynewswire: Simba Kenyatta on Overcoming Racism and Building a Racially Just County (audio/mpeg 30.0MB) Simba Kenyatta is a member of the Coalition for a County Wide Community Dialogue on Race, Poverty, Equality, and Justice, and a political and social activist with decades of work in Santa Cruz. We talked about the Coalition's Listening Sessions that are documenting the experience and reality of racism in the community. 43 Minutes & 42 Seconds, MP3 format....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 3:06pm PDT
8,500 University of California Workers GO OUT ON STRIKE 
Picket Lines Go Up at UC Santa Cruz
Picketing Daily, 6am to 8pm, Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18
Rallies Daily at 12 noon and 5pm
UCSC Campus Main Entrance, 1156 High St at Bay St...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 11:50am PDT
Facing Poverty At UC (video/mp4 55.6MB) a film by
K. A. Christensen
&
Regan Brashear
(UCSC Alumna)...
Posted: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 10:53am PDT
food not bombs needs volunteers and resources, please help. food not bombs needs supplies and volunteers....
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 5:47pm PDT
University of California Service Workers To Begin STRIKE July 14 
8,500 University of California workers will begin a strike at UC's ten campuses and five medical centers on Monday, July 14.
In Santa Cruz we will be picketing from 6AM - 8PM Monday through Friday at the UCSC campus entrace at 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz 95060. We will also have rallies at noon and 5pm. Please bring your people and join the line!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2008 2:48pm PDT
Help Caravan to Cuba: call Border Patrol, Office of Foreign Assets Control Calls needed to Border Patrol and Office of Foreign Assets Control to demand release of computers seized at border.
Computers were donated to be given to schools and medical clinics in Cuba....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 9:41am PDT
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