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SIR! NO SIR! at Santa Cruz GDI Sunday (8/12) Like something out of the most dystopian GDI sci-fi feature, the message is loud and clear, if you are not part of the system, you are a criminal. In this sleepy little liberal town, sleeping outside is a crime. Anyone who falls off of the treadmill of earn-and spend (by accident or choice) -- anyone who can't afford five, six, seven hundred dollar rents in Santa Cruz -- might well find themselves in jail. Beyond just an issue of boring old poverty (yes, we should do something about that, ...
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 4:19pm PDT
Local Cyclists Commemorate a Loss 
On Tuesday, August 7, a cyclist was killed at the busy intersection of Bay and Mission Streets in Santa Cruz when he was hit by a semi truck making a right hand turn. Word of the tragedy spread fast and a vigil was organized and started at 6pm. Many people, bike activists, daily bike commuters and witnesses of the accident, came to the vigil and paid respects, some held signs, some brought flowers....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 12:17am PDT
Letter to Sentinel editor Letter promising a well-organized boycott of the Santa Cruz Sentinel if any other racist letters are printed...
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 12:32pm PDT
Cyclist killed by truck, Bay St. Santa Cruz 
8-7-07 A cyclist was run over and killed by a semi-truck turning right onto Bay towards campus from the westward lane of Mission Street.
I was able to take these photos as I encountered this scene on my way to the UC Santa Cruz campus via bicycle, along the Bay Street bicycle lane. Bay street was blocked off and traffic was backed up on Mission. The body had already been removed, but the pool of blood is visible here. One can judge the configuration of the vehicles in the intersection h...
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 10:53am PDT
Sunday April 12th Know Yr Rights, Feed, Film, and Sleep-Out at City Hall 
The culmination of six weeks of organizing for a federal lawsuit against the Sleeping Ban will feature a Know Your Rights forum on the Sidewalk in front of Coonerty's BS Santacruz, followed by songs, stories, and celebrity speakers at City Hall, food and films, and late-night videos. Followed by a sleep-in. Followed by a "Meet the Mayor" line Monday morning.
Bring Sleeping Bags, Cameras, Party Favors, and Friends!
Homeless People Need Housed Support. Come on down!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2007 10:49pm PDT
Street Shit Sheet #169 The Street Shit Sheet is an occasional screed masquerading as a homeless newsletter written largely by Robert Norse. Past issues are available in hard copie in the Main Santa Cruz Library and as scattered pages on www.huffsantacruz.org....
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2007 10:19pm PDT
Urban Guerillas 
The Guerilla Drive-In, which usually occupies 'urban wastelands,' unused lots around town, to show short and feature-length films for free to the public, occupied two corners on Pacific Avenue on Friday, August 3, 2007. The evening featured a series of "Subversive Shorts" projected next to the Cineplex 9, a commercial theater downtown and aimed to challenge what is described as the "downtown police state."...
Posted: Sun, Aug 5, 2007 6:56pm PDT
Guerilla-drivein on Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz 
Typically, the set of folks running the Guerilla-drive in movie series in Santa Cruz uses a white building wall by the train tracks next to a winery near Safeway during the summer, and the inside Bike church during the winter series. Movies are shown every two weeks, and they select from a solicited list of films which are arty, funny, old blockbusters which aged badly and allow reinterpretation, and so on. They usually have about 5 short films at the start....
Posted: Sun, Aug 5, 2007 8:48am PDT
Picket the Prejudiced: Week 6 at Book Shop Santa Cruz Sunday 2 PM August 5th Still no response from Vice-Mayor Coonerty on City Council silence while the SCPD steps up harassment and ticketing of vulnerable homeless under the City's unconstitutional 11 PM - 8:30 AM outdoor sleeping ban. This week we will be picketing the store and urging folks to either boycott the business or demand attorney Coonerty clarify how he and Santa Cruz can call themselves "progressive" when their "midnight wake-up"s violate the 8th Amendment--a practive already banned in Los Angeles, San ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 5, 2007 1:05am PDT
SUBVERSIVE SHORTS FESTIVAL at Santa Cruz GDI (8/3) A program of rollicking and poignant Guerilla Drive-In Subversive Shorts. As you know, for years we've shown shorts before our feature film. By popular demand, we offer you an entire program of our subversive shorts. Great old shorts and many new ones. In addition, we offer you a convenient and central location that challenges the downtown police state....
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 12:59pm PDT
Sustainable Food News & the Fight Against GMOs 
Santa Cruz County Looks at New Pesticide Regulations, Bayer’s Insecticide Imidacloprid Becomes a Chief Suspect in Honeybee Die-off, Three West Coast States Consider Pharmacrop Bills, and more....
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 10:27am PDT
Gutting the Local Paper: Dean Singleton, Tom Honig, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel 
Newspapers across the country are in decline. Reporters are being sacked, buildings sold, and operations consolidated. It’s all the fault of the Internet. Print journalism – financed by ad revenue and classifieds – can’t compete with free websites like Craigslist and have seen a huge decline in their profits. Publishers are being forced to make “very difficult” decisions, firing significant numbers of staff in order to make ends meet. It was inevitable that this crisis would reach Santa Cruz,...
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 8:52am PDT
Camp-Out Against the Coonerty Crackdown: 5th Sunday on the Sidewalk With new stats revealing SCPD tickets for "illegal sleeping" have doubled from a year ago, homeless activists and their housed supporters will be back in front of Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz Sunday at 2 PM to build support for a Tent City at City Hall on August 12th. Come on down to 1520 Pacific to sign up and sing out!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2007 4:52pm PDT
Youth & Power 2007 Vet’s Hall - 215 East Beach St., Watsonville, Califas, 95076...
Event Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 23, 2007 1:40am PDT
Youth & Power 2007 (8/14) 
The Watsonville Brown Berets present the 2007 Youth & Power Conference!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 20, 2007 11:55am PDT
Building Towards Tent City: Week Four In Front of Coonerty's Bookshop HUFF voted to support a Sleep-Out Sunday August 12 at City Hall as we continue to table and demonstrate in front of Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's workplace--Bookshop Santa Cruz. Since City Council refuses to hold its police department to the same human rights standard as Los Angeles and San Diego (i.e. not arresting homeless people at night), events will begin at City Hall Sunday nite....
Posted: Thu, Jul 19, 2007 10:55pm PDT
Alberto Tovar Defense Fund Benefit Show (7/19) Support Alberto Tovar, a Salinas local who was arrested challenging military recruiters at a Dia de la Familia celebration....
Posted: Wed, Jul 18, 2007 10:29am PDT
Black Street Hawker Busted for Badmouthing Business Downtown Jason Paschal, an African-American street tarot-card reader, called police after he was called a "nigger" and spat on by a man seen conferring with O'Neill's workers. Instead of the spitter behing apprehended, 5-6 SCPD officers handcuffed and jailed Paschal for "disturbing the peace" because of his outspoken criticism of O'Neill's....
Posted: Wed, Jul 18, 2007 12:11am PDT
Response to Terri Jones, manager of Santa Cruz Pleasant Care’s letter to the editor Response to Terri Jone's letter to the editor in the Santa Cruz Sentinel regarding his new management of Pleasant Care...
Posted: Tue, Jul 17, 2007 4:40pm PDT
Homeland Security Searching Cuba Caravan at the Border!!! 
“This is a battle of David and Goliath – and Goliath knows that he’s losing,” said Rev Luis Barrios,
member of the IFCO/Pastors for Peace board of directors. “What they are taking from us today is
purely symbolic. They are trying to show us that they are in charge. But we know that we are the
ones in charge, and that the people’s power will prevail.”...
Posted: Tue, Jul 17, 2007 11:08am PDT
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