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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
Cleaning, Weeding and Tilling in the Beach Flats 
At the March 27th meeting to discuss the Beach Flats Community Garden, Reyna Ruiz of the Beach Flats Community Center passed out flyers encouraging people to "spend the day outside making the neighborhood beautiful" by participating in a Community Clean-Up (Día De Limpieza en La Comunidad) on March 29th. Some people lent a hand or two by picking up trash throughout the neighborhood and other folks gave their time to beautify the Beach Flats Community Garden. Everything was going really well u...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 1:50am PDT
Labor Complaints point to Human Rights Abuses at Lakeside Organics 
Public complaints made against the Watsonville-based Lakeside Organics corporation point to systemic human rights abuses by the Lakeside Organics corporation. These complaints serve as a reminder that organic certification often does always take into consideration abusive labor conditions....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 11:46pm PDT
Police Raid D-Q University: Eighteen Students, Elders and Supporters Arrested 
On March 31st, César Chávez Day, the Yolo County Sheriff's Department raided the buildings at Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl, also known as D-Q University....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 11:10pm PDT
Si, Se Puede! UFW Endorses Bill Monning for Assembly UFW Endorses Bill Monning for 27th Assembly District: President Arturo Rodriguez chooses Chavez' birthday to make the announcement. Bill Monning was legal counsel for the UFW during its hey day....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 1:16pm PDT
Sheriff Visits DQU; Elders, Students and Supporters Prepare for Possible Raid 
On Sunday, March 30th, a group of about 15 people drove from Santa Cruz to DQU in support of DQU students, elders, land and future generations. At 7:38pm, a Yolo County Sheriff drove onto the property of DQU and then left after about a minute. It is very rare for a Sheriff to drive onto DQU....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 10:42pm PDT
Initial Meeting to Save the Beach Flats Community Garden / Primer Reunion Para Salvar El Jardín Comunitario de la Playa 
On March 27th, a meeting was convened at the Beach Flats Community Garden to preserve the special community space and support it's gardeners. The well-attended meeting was a discussion between various concerned parties, including Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Superintendent Carol Scurich, Reyna Ruiz from the Beach Flats Community Center, about a dozen community gardeners, neighbors and other local supporters. Translation between English and Spanish was important, though there were time...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 10:09pm PDT
DQU Students Threatened with Lock Out- Callout for Support 
DQU is expected to be visited by sheriffs and a locksmith on Monday to remove their locks and possibly students. Everyone is welcome on that day to come and stand with the students who may conduct civil disobedience and resist the theft of their education and right to self-determination.
Supporters from Santa Cruz will be meeting in the parking lot of the RCNV at 515 Broadway, at 10:30am Sunday, to carpool to DQU (outside of Davis- see map on their website) for a trip of connecting, sharing ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 6:57pm PDT
Women's Health Class-Clase: La Salud de la Mujer 705 Woodrow, Santa Cruz, CA (Garfield Park Library on Westside, meet on lawn, we'll move to another location if bad weather hits)
Completely free!
705 Woodrow, Santa Cruz, CA (La biblioteca del Parque Garfield en el oeste de la ciudad de Santa Cruz, nos vamos a encontrar en el cesped en frente de la biblioteca y podemos cambiar de sitio si nos pegue el mal tiempo)
Completamente gratis!...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 5:39pm PDT
Reunion para el Jardín Comunitario en la playa-Beach Flats Garden Meeting Locación: Jardín Comunitario de la playa en Santa Cruz, en la calle de Raymond.
Beach Flats Community Garden in Santa Cruz, on Raymond St....
Event Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 4:00pm PDT
st. francis soup kitchen not humane! It is not humane to provide a shower with out a towel. soup kitchen how about dinning room....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:55pm PDT
More Video of Police Dispersing Peaceful Narwhallagraphic Video Showing (video/x-ms-wmv 53.3MB) Here is more video of the night including the police at the end, interviews etc....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 12:16pm PDT
Beach Flats Community Garden Threatened 
Domingo Mendoza is on the front page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel today, planting romero (rosemary). He's been told he shouldn't plant, that after this week, he'll no longer have access to the land he's worked for about fifteen years.
He pointed out a full grown peach tree in blossom yesterday, and mentioned that he planted it.
The Beach Flats Community Garden has had its ups and downs over the years, constantly reminded that the land is leased, rather than owned, that at any point the la...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 12:04pm PDT
Why The Low Application Rate of the LBAM Spray Is Not Reassuring We are told by the CDFA and even the Santa Cruz County Health Dept that the application rate of the Checkmate pesticide sprayed in November 2007 was too low to cause significant health impacts. This article breaks down the details of why that might not be true....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 11:58am PDT
Voces SiN Verguenza/Shameless Voices 
Porter Dining Hall @ Porter College...
Event Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 12:35am PDT
Coonerty Uses New Consent Agenda Gag Rule At the 3-25 Santa Cruz City Council meeting, Mayor Ryan Coonerty refused to allow members of the public to pull items off the 16-item Consent Agenda for public comment and individual vote. Instead he implemented a "public comment limit" of two minutes for the entire 16-items (or a little over 6 seconds for each item if one wanted to talk on each one). This is the first time Coonerty has so clearly activated this new power of the Council to deny the public the right to speak on nearly half t...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 8:08pm PDT
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