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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....

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,...

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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....

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....

“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.”...

Back to the Bookshop Santa Cruz (1520 Pacfic) for Civil Rights activists this Sunday at 2 PM July 15th. We'll be tabling, singing, soapboxing, and snacking in the Free Speech Zone next to the Statue of IWW Musical Saw Impressario and Activist Tom Scribner. Wanted: more homeless plaintiffs who want to sue the City for disturbing their peace and under the City's unconstitutional Sleeping Ban....

Please join us on July 15th from 3-7pm at River Park on East Front Street in Watsonville for the Migrawatch Block Party kick-off. We will be building community and bringing immigration awareness to our different barrios around Watsonville. The main purpose is to identify and recruit precinct leaders in different neighborhoods to sign them up to the Migrawatch text messaging service and organize the people for the next time the migra terrorizes our community. There will be music, games an jump...

On June 12th, teaching assistants and other members of UAW Local 2865 held a grade-in at the Baytree Plaza at UC Santa Cruz as part of a statewide action to highlight our demand for better protections against excessive workload. The action was successful and turned out over a thousand TA’s, readers, and tutors across seven UC campuses. The willingness of Local 2865 to take action around important issues is a vital part of negotiations. In the bargaining session that took place June 18th a...

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Diane Rejman and Joe Williams about their work with the GI Rights Hotline....