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Hatred and Ignorance on Display for "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week"
This report is published to raise awareness and as a call out for people to counteract the messages of hate, ignorance and bias on display at UC Santa Cruz and other college campuses.
Three young men sat behind a table in the Baytree Plaza at UC Santa Cruz on October 22nd as part of "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week." The men and their table of hate-charged literature denouncing Islam were largely ignored for the hour they sat in the plaza. The table had a black, green and red sign for "Islam...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 12:45am PDT
Interview With Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald: 38 Years Locked Down (audio/mpeg 11.2MB)
Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerlad is the longest held Black Panther prisoner. Locked down for 38 years, Chip was due his parole a long long time ago. Still strong and still revolutionary, Chip discusses his history, his case, and most importantly...his commitment and wisdom on the current struggle for social justice and freedom. Currently housed at Imperial Valley State Prison, Chip's supporters include the Monterey Bay NAACP, the Anarchist Black Cross, the Watsonville Brown Berets, the Prisoners o...
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 9:44pm PDT
Employment Non-Discrimination Act: Make Your Voice heard
Support the Baldwin Amendment, which would add gender identity back into the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)...
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 2:25pm PDT
Post-Apocalyptic Film Festival at Santa Cruz GDI Fri Oct 26th
I have been looking forward to this showing all summer, no for as long as we've been doing GDI, no maybe my entire life. Since I was wee I imagined a twisted, blasted landscape in which I, the sole survivor, could finally live out my dreams of freedom and watch the earth regrow and reclaim the cancerous works of mankind. On Friday we water the seeds of the apocalypse. Come join us. -Rico...
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 12:23pm PDT
Labor, Community to Protest La Bahia Project (10/23)
Rally for Union Rights
6 pm-6:40 pm
Tuesday, October 23
Beach and Westbrook in Santa Cruz (across from La Bahia site)
Then we will go to City Hall for 7 p.m. public comment period.
We'd love to see you and anybody else you can bring to the demonstration (chanting, picket-line, signs, some speeches at the end)!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 12:13pm PDT
Step It Up! Action to Stop Global Warming
Pacific Avenue in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 10:42pm PDT
2007 Practical Activism Conference at UCSC (10/27)
This year's conference will take place on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2007.
Practical Activism is a free, student-led conference providing learning opportunities and tools to create local and global change.
This day-long conference takes place at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Workshops, Speakers, Tabling Organizations, Creative Activism Activities, Live Music, and More....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 8:37pm PDT
Free Sale!
Ocean View Park in Santa Cruz
Ocean View Park is at the end of Ocean View Terrace, off Broadway. An easy walk or bike ride from downtown....
Event Date: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 19, 2007 9:41pm PDT
Third World And Native American Students Press Collective (TWANAS) Meeting (10/29)
TWANAS is looking for writers, photographers, graphic designers, activists and artists of color who are dedicated to the liberation of, formerly named, "Third World" and Indigenous peoples. We invite you to contribute to this publication through writing, art or whatever medium inspires you most....
Posted: Fri, Oct 19, 2007 5:39pm PDT
Calling all Animal Lovers!!
Volunteers are needed to get the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act on the ballot. Lets bring this important issue to the voters! The measure would simply ensure that farm animals in California are given enough room to turn around and extend their limbs.
This modest requirement would prevent three of the most inhumane forms of confinement on factory farms:...
Posted: Fri, Oct 19, 2007 5:02pm PDT
Mayor to Back Public Assembly Ban in Parking Lots; Interview Replayed 10-18 FRSC 6:15 PM
In an interview Wednesday, Mayor Reilly announced her intention to cast the deciding vote to make it illegal to assemble, linger, or hang out in the 20 downtown surface parking lots. Those parking vehicles or bikes will have 15 minutes to come and go. She, Madrigal, Coonerty, Robinson, and Mathews voted to make all parking lots forbidden zones except for city workers and those with written permits....
Posted: Thu, Oct 18, 2007 3:11pm PDT
Petition: Stop the Spray!
10's of Thousands of California residents are being sprayed with potentially harmful and partially undisclosed chemicals. Our voices must be heard loud and clear: CALIFORNIA, STOP THE SPRAY!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 11:18pm PDT
Pro LBAM Spray Next Political moves
There is a war for your mind!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 8:37pm PDT
LBAM the stuff they will unleash on us.
You must spread the news fast ! Repost all over !!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 8:22pm PDT
Rally to Stop the Spray Oct-16, 5:30pm
OCT-16, 5:30pm RALLY TO STOP THE SPRAY. 701 Ocean Street Santa Cruz, Court House Steps. Brings signs, share information and meet your neighbors. And it's fun. Then attend Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Meeting at 7pm. At 7pm LBAM is on the agenda.
Meeting is open for public comments....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 2:36pm PDT
Talk of the Bay: Steve Scholl Buckwald on Aerial Spraying in Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 7.6MB)
On Tuesday Oct 9th 2007on KUSP’s Talk of the Bay George Cadman discusses concerns about the spraying with Steve-Scholl-Buckwald managing director of the Pesticide Action Network....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 3:26pm PDT
Counter Recruitment at UCSC Graduate Student Career Fair (10/15)
We're going to meet at 10:30 AM at the Stevenson event center where the grad student career fair is, to hang around and pass out flyers and have a general presence against the army health services. The career fair goes from 11 til 3 so if you drop by anytime between then, come find us!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Suterra's Legal Moves
Suterra, manufacturer of the pheromone spray proposed for use in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, makes legal moves and encounters some roadblocks seeking to suppress info on the composition of the spray....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 12:08pm PDT
"No Loitering" & "Ban on Gatherings" in Public Downtown Parking Lots Update
Last Tuesday, City Council passed its First Reading of Vice-Mayor Coonerty's expansion of last year's "No Trespassing in Public Parking Garages and Lots" law. If given final passage on Tuesday October 23rd, the law will go into effect on November 22nd, making it illegal to linger in any of 9 square blocks downtown. It's already illegal to linger in 4 of those 9 square blocks. Waiting in or with your car or bike beyond 15 minutes will also become illegal. The citation will cost $124 or mor...
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 5:48am PDT
Suterra Issues Cease and Desist Letter to Indybay regarding "Secret" Ingredient in CheckMate Pesticide
Suterra LLC, a manufacturer of "biorational" pest control products based in Bend, Oregon, has issued a cease and desist letter to Indybay demanding that information about a "secret" ingredient in the CheckMate OLR-F mating disruption pheromone be removed from the site....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:09pm PDT