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Parking Lot Panic Law Used to Disperse Drummers On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:37am PST
Music to help you rob a bank We're here to help. We appear invited and uninvited at protests and celebrations, furors and fracases, anywhere there's a need to make a ruckus, to shout out and help right injustice, suffering, and oppression, to make a big noise to celebrate our victories and our losses....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 12:27am PST
Musings From Within the Triple Fun Zone Throughout the planning of this year's event, we asked ourselves every time we got together, lest we forget to think big and work to fulfill our dreams: What do we really want to see? What do we want this celebration to look like?...
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 12:21pm PST
SCPD Covering Up False Police Report From Councilmember Mike Rotkin? The following correspondence between me and Trisha Husome, Records Keeper of the Santa Cruz Police Department shows their reluctance to release a public record documenting Councilmember Mike Rotkin's inappropriate call to the SCPD in order to demand my arrest for merely attending a public ACLU meeting with a sign. Could this be to protect the 3-time Mayor? It seems to have that effect....
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 10:32pm PST
Anti-Corporate Xmas Caroling with Santa Cruz Art and Revolution 
After receiving standing ovations on Pacific Avenue and during the Christmas - Chanukah - Quanzaa - Solstice Celebration at the Friends' Meeting House, Santa Cruz Art and Revolution sang songs of holiday cheer and liberation in Capitola on December 22nd as part of their 8th Annual Post-WTO Anti-Corporate Xmas Caroling mini-tour. Anti-corporate Xmas carols were performed in front of a busy credit union, the Capitola Mall and "Traitor Joze." The familiar tunes with unfamiliar lyrics brought smi...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 12:55am PST
Delivering Food to Tree-sitters at UCSC on Christmas 
In 2003, the Princeton Review ranked UC Santa Cruz as having the 'most beautiful campus' in the nation. This year's rankings are in and UCSC placed 8th in the 'most beautiful campus' category for "The Best 366 Colleges: 2008 Edition."
Since November 7th, 2007, Coast Redwood trees on UCSC's Science Hill have been bases of resistance to campus expansion with students sitting on platforms situated in the crowns of numerous trees. Many students, staff and faculty at UCSC, as well as residents ...
Posted: Tue, Dec 25, 2007 8:37pm PST
Update: Solstice Celebration at the Tree Sit 
The gathering planned on Science Hill in observation of the Winter Solstice will be taking place from three o clock today, on until dark. We plan to observe this change of the seasons with music, a potluck, poi spinning (instruction & practice) and other festivities near the trees occupied by individuals dedicated to protecting the forest of upper campus....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 2:03pm PST
Santa Cruz Mayor Lashes Out, Stonewalls on Public Meetings; Lethal SCPD Harassment Surges In response to repeated requests for his Public Meeting schedule, a list of prior meetings with lobbyists, and a face-to-face meeting, Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty responds with the following letter cutting off discussion, stonewalling on information required by the Public Records and Sunshine laws, and attacking the journalist. Meanwhile police are stepping up Xmas-time harassment downtown....
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2007 5:31am PST
Parking, Protest and Security on Science Hill 
On December 21st, security guards at the Physical Sciences Building diligently watched over the parking lot on Science Hill where tree-sitters have been occupying Coast Redwoods since November 7th in protest of UCSC's Long Range Development Plan. Someone up in the cluster of trees dubbed "Tree 1" confirmed what Grrr reported in a comment on SC-IMC, that on December 20th, two carloads of cops accosted the Raging Grannies in the parking lot and then arrested a young woman who allegedly attempte...
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 8:41pm PST
Arrest of UCSC tree-climber- Thurs 3:45pm 12/20/07 A female UCSC student, wearing a climbing harness, was arrested by two cars of cops on Thurs 12/20 at the base of one of the tree-sits. Witnessed by the Raging Grannies at 3:45pm 12/20/07....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 5:37pm PST
Last Night DIY Parade & Street Party 
Start at sunset at Saturn Cafe parking lot....
Event Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 5:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 1:16pm PST
Report & more photos from Dec. 17 police actions at UCSC tree-sit 
The police action on Monday morning (Dec. 17) at the Science Hill Tree-Sit was little more than an intimidating ruse. About five uniformed officers and at least as many plainclothes officers accompanied a "clean-up crew" consisting of a backhoe, a giant dumpster, a cherry-picker and a street-sweeper with accompanying workmen. But what did they find to fill their gargantuan dumpster with?...
Posted: Wed, Dec 19, 2007 1:10am PST
Audio from "Not at Home for the Holidays" Protest at Capitola Military Recruitment Center (audio/mpeg 10.1MB) On Saturday, Dec. 15, peace activists gathered for a "Not at Home for the Holidays" protest and vigil in front of the Military Recruiting Center in Capitola....
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 5:15pm PST
Brown Beret Toy Drive 
There will be a Toy Drive distribution this weekend in Watsonville sponsored and organized by the Brown Berets....
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 12:20am PST
UCSC Police Visit Tree-Sit, Sweep, Leave 
This morning's tactical visit to the Science Hill Tree Sit involved a cherry-picker, street sweeper, a dumpster's worth of branches, a work crew, lots of familiar cop faces, and the removal of the larger banner from between two of the platforms....
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 10:19pm PST
Street Spirit Editor Denounces Mayor Coonerty As "Repulsive" Street Spirit, a monthly newspaper sold by homeless newspaper,
recently published Humanity for Homeless activist Tim Rumford's
story about Mayor Ryan Coonerty and the Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban.
Editor Terry Messman gave me his permission to print his response
to Mayor Coonerty's subsequent e-mail on the subject....
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 6:50pm PST
LRDP Tree Sit Being Attacked! Police arrived at the UCSC Tree Sit and removed things from under the trees....
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 12:41pm PST
Police Stand Ready to Invade Santa Cruz Tree Sit! Solidarity Needed! Early this morning police arrived at the autonomous tree sit zone with gear - prepared to violently remove tree sitters who have occupied the space in opposition to the UC's Long Range Development Plan....
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 9:28am PST
Sharon Delgado speaks at Capitola Book Cafe 12-12-07 (audio/mpeg 63.3MB) On Wednesday December 12th 2007, Sharon Delgado read selections from her new book "Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith led resistance to Corporate Globalization" at the Capitola Book Cafe. Delgado is a former organizer with the Resource Center for Nonviolence, a Reverend of Earth Justice Ministries, and a global justice activist. Sharon walked us through portions of her book, and some of the ideas and philosophies behind her resistance to Corporate Globalization. This file is an un-edited r...
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 7:36pm PST
Raging Grannies Raging at Military Recruitment Center 12-15-07 (audio/mpeg 9.3MB) On Saturday December 15th, an action called Not Home for the Holidays was held at the military recruitment center on 41st avenue in Capitola. This was the second event of its kind designed to draw attention to the thousands of enlisted service people who will not be home for the holidays because they are on one of the hundreds of military bases that the US has worldwide that are used to support the US's military heavy foreign policy. To help draw attention to this situation, the Raging Gran...
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 5:28pm PST
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