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Ghostbike Memorial Ride Pics 4/9/08
Pictures from Wednesday's memorial bike ride in honor of Christopher Evan Rock, killed by semi-truck trailer this past Tuesday....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 10:53am PDT
Santa Cruz Resident Matt Childers Testifies at Winter Soldier (Testimony Attached)
Santa Cruz resident Matt Childers, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, testified at the Winter Soldier hearings held last month in Silver Springs, Maryland. Matt served two deployments to Iraq as an infantryman with the U.S. Marines. Originally from West Virginia, he now makes his home in Santa Cruz and is a student at Cabrillo College. His photography and artwork, including a graphic art book "James Blames Himself Today," about coming home from Iraq, is available online at http://w...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 10:26pm PDT
PeaceTalks: Micah Posner Of People Power On Death of Bicyclist On Mission St. and Protest (audio/mpeg 12.4MB)
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Micah Posner of People Power. On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, around noon, another cyclist was killed at the intersection of Mission and Bay Streets. That is two deaths and one major injury within the last 12 months. People Power has a protest planned for Wednesday April 9th at 5pm, meeting at the town clock and riding bikes up the right lane of Mission Street....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 1:53pm PDT
Bicyclist Killed at Intersection of Bay and Mission
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, around noon, another cyclist was killed at the intersection of Mission and Bay Streets. That is two deaths and one major injury within the last year, due to a street design and a culture of driving that does not allow for our existence. Less than 10 years ago, Caltrans widened Mission Street to four lanes and refused to put in bike lanes....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 10:56am PDT
Ghostride Tonight - Safe Streets Now!
Clocktower...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 9:13am PDT
Bicyclist Killed at Intersection of Bay and Mission
From the People Power website: Another Cyclist Killed at Bay and Mission: Take back Mission Street 5pm April 9th...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 8:34am PDT
Junta para el Jardin Comunitario de la Playa-Beach Flats Community Garden Meeting
El Jardin Comunitario de la Playa-hacia el final de la calle Raymond
Beach Flats Community Garden-towards the end of Raymond St....
Event Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:46pm PDT
Cuba Caravan & Oaxaca Film Event
Office of the Watsonville Brown Berets
408 Main Street
Watsonville, CA 95076...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:27pm PDT
Reel Work for the Environment (5/3)
Saturday, May 3, 4 PM
“REEL WORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT" Vegetarian Potluck, Music & Films: "A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions From Curitiba, Brazil" & Sierra Club films about solar, wind power, biodiesel & community gardens. Speakers: Maria Vaz & Giovanni Vaz Del Bello (Filmmakers), Jeffrey Smedberg (Recycling Coordinator), Dr. Peter Weiss ("The Singing Scientist" & UCSC Professor in Atmospheric Climate Change), Ray Newkirk (President of Pacific Biofuel), Catalina Siri (Founder of "Sprouting...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 5:39pm PDT
Free film screening of INCIDENT AT OGLALA - the Leonard Peltier Story
Big Yellow House
742 N. Branciforte
Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 3:28pm PDT
Guerilla Midnight Movie: REPO MAN (4/11)
The return of Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 2:43pm PDT
Moving Because of LBAM Spray - California’s Refugee Problem
Have You Moved Or Are You Planning To Move If CDFA Aerially Sprays in 2008?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 11:18pm PDT
Santa Cruz Wells Fargo Paint Bombed
Santa Cruz Wells Fargo Paint Bombed...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 12:24pm PDT
Plan Presented at Second Meeting to Save the Beach Flats Community Garden
The second public meeting to save the Beach Flats Community Garden took place on April 3rd. At the meeting, the gardeners put forward a plan for the garden to be managed by the gardeners. Reyna Ruiz of the Beach Flats Community Center said that the plan was something that she could work with and present to the Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation as well as the Seaside Company which claims ownership over the land. The gardeners asked Brent, a supportive neighbor of the garden, to accompany Re...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 8:06pm PDT
UCSF, AFSCME action March 3
AFSCME workers rallied in front of the UCSF medical center on March 3rd....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 1:18pm PDT
Oaxaca Today: paz sin justicia (4/9)
On Wednesday, April 9th, at the Resource Center for Nonviolence at 7pm, filmmaker Simón Sedillo will lead a bilingual multi-media workshop / presentation that will include scene selections from three films, "El Enemigo Común" (2005), "El Machete" (2007) and "Paz Sin Justicia" (2008), in order to illustrate neoliberal atrocities and community based resistance to them in Oaxaca, Mexico....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:46pm PDT
7th Annual Reelwork Film Festival 2008
The 7th annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival is jam packed this year with seventeen different events starting April 25th, and ending May 11th. From its inception, Reel Work has brought together award-winning documentary film producers, workers, activists, students and the public with the goal of increasing community awareness of the central role of work in our lives, to discuss economic and global justice issues and to bring alive the history and culture of the labor movement in the U...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:10pm PDT
Aerial Spray Violates 23 Human Rights
Aerial Spray Program Imposed by CDFA May Violate Human Rights and Incur Liabilities
A detailed outline of 23 international human rights violations...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:13am PDT
PeaceTalks: Upcoming Candidate Forums for State Assembly & County Supervisor (audio/mpeg 8.5MB)
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Micah Posner, Director of People Power, about the upcoming candidate forums for State Assembly and County Supervisor....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:30am PDT