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Struggle on Science Hill. 
Interview with activists, photographs of violence, and a short look at the LRDP brought to you by an unwillingly unemployed and thus angry independant journalist....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:28pm PST
Call in to pressure UCSC and police to respect protesters and students If you can't make it to the campus you can still help pressure UCSC to not maltreat protesters and students....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 11:21am PST
Come by and support the tree sitters! (UCSC Science hill) Come show your support for the tree sitters currently occupying redwoods at UCSC in opposition to the LRDP and its first project, the biomedical facility.
Come hang out and discuss the LRDP and get involved.
If you'd like, just bring by some snacks, water, non perishable foods, support letters anytime. Also, Tarps, Raingear and non perishable food donations would be of great help, bring 'em by if you got 'em....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 1:12am PST
Standoff with Police as Activists occupy redwoods to oppose UCSC Expansion Early Wednesday morning, activists opposed to UCSC's Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) launched a tree-sit in redwoods near Science Hill. UCSC plans to develop the occupied site into a new Biomedical Sciences Facility....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 4:12pm PST
Police Attack Students Protesting UCSC Development Plan BREAKING NEWS - Students protesting UC Santa Cruz's long-range development plan are under attack by police. At least a dozen students were pepper-sprayed, and police with "less than lethal" weapons are filling the campus. Two tree-sits on the site of proposed new development have been cordoned off by police, and at least one tree-sit supporter has been arrested....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 1:47pm PST
Tree Sitters!!! Imagine my surprise when I hop of the bus this morning to police cordoning off the parking lot directly outside the Physical Sciences Building ..... road rage in the parking lot??? It's not even 8 in the morning I think.... but NO it's better than that .... we have 2 platforms about 4 stories high in the red woods - activists protesting the LRDP!
CONTINUA ALUTA!!!!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 11:04am PST
UCSC Enviro-Puppet Manipulators Needed! today-11AM with Art & Rev Envoronmental puppets (a Giant dove, 8 ft butterflys and an old-growth puppet-Tree) need your help! They're migrating to the heart of UCSC (to the "Bay-Tree" Bookstore) for an anti-growth Demo-rally 11AM and March- 12noon. Help operate puppets- with Art & Revolution Convergence SC...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 10:02am PST
One Arrested, as Activists Occupy Trees to Oppose UCSC Expansion Tree-sitters take to redwoods at site of proposed Biomedical Sciences building.
Press Conference
Wednesday , Nov.7, 2007, 10am
Science Hill parking lot #121...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 9:15am PST
Radio Report: Breaking News From LRDP Resistance Actions at UCSC (audio/mpeg 8.8MB) Chris, an LRDP Resistance organizer, calls in to Free Radio Santa Cruz with breaking news about an arrest and a treesit at the site of the proposed new Biomedical Sciences Building at UCSC....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 8:45am PST
Waiting for Tony Madrigal On Sunday afternoon Councilmember Madrigal set up a table on Pacific Avenue in front of O'Neill's sports shop and began distributing gauze masks as protection against the LBAM Checkmate spraying (a publicity device, presumably rather than real protection).
When I asked him whether he'd support emergency shelter measures to protect the homeless during the nighttime spraying, he was evasive and seemed uncomfortable. Rowland Morin forwarded me their e-mail exchange below....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 2:46am PST
Napa county quarantine for LBAM ends Napa county only got quarantine - no spray...
Posted: Tue, Nov 6, 2007 9:31pm PST
Biochemical Spraying Over Santa Cruz Scheduled to start TONIGHT! 
CDFA will bypass Salinas Prunedale/Royal Oaks and North Salinas/Boronda and go right to Santa Cruz tonight.
-weather permitting 11/06/07 3:30 pm
Map of North Santa Cruz County Spray Zones...
Posted: Tue, Nov 6, 2007 5:07pm PST
A DIY New Year's 2007 
a do-it-yourself, decentralized, collective, spontaneous, open, public New Year's Eve celebration...
Posted: Mon, Nov 5, 2007 10:46pm PST
Photographs of 14th annual Peace and Unity march in Watsonville. 
Photographs of 14th annual Peace and Unity march in Watsonville....
Posted: Sun, Nov 4, 2007 4:52pm PST
Stop militarization of our schools Robert Zabala and Sandino Gomez to speak in Salinas (11/14) Iraq War Veteran Roberto Zabala will speak in Salinas on why NOT to join the military.
Sponsored by the Hartnell Students for Peace and the Salinas Action League this counter recruitment event will be November 14 Wednesday at HCC 116 Hartnell College 156 Homestead Salinas 7 pm for more information call MacGregor Eddy 831 206 5043...
Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 2:43pm PDT
California Judge OKs Controversial Pesticide Spraying Democracy Now! Headlines for November 2, 2007...
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 5:07pm PDT
Quit Torture Teach-In & Vigil, aka CAMP BOLIO 2007, Nov. 16-18 
November 16, 17, 18
A three-day protest in Monterey, California.
Concurrent with the SOA Watch protest of the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, GA...
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 2:12pm PDT
CDFA will spray your home with a biochemical pesticide. Nov 4-9 
A flyer for your neighbors...
Posted: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 5:46pm PDT
Rally against the LRDP - Wednesday, November 7th at UCSC 
UC Santa Cruz's irresponsible plans for expansion have been made without the meaningful participation or consent of the student body, and in disregard of Santa Cruz residents' concerns. On November 7th, we will make visible our opposition to UCSC's Long Range Development Plan, while dialoguing with each other about the issues at hand. Come one, come all!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 3:08pm PDT
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