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PeaceTalks: David Smith Ferri, activist poet coming to S.Cruz 5/23/07 (audio/mpeg 22.2MB) George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews activist poet David Smith Ferri about his book "Battlefield Without Borders" and about he and Kathy Kelly's upcoming talk in Santa Cruz on May 23, 2007....
Posted: Sun, May 20, 2007 5:49pm PDT
Editorial Racism At The Santa Cruz Sentinel Pits Latinos Against UCSC Students? In modern American culture, cars are inherently deadly weapons in the
hands of adolescents.
Adult adolescents, AND the ones under 20-something too.
But to the point... I do have one.
I have zero tolerance for institutionalized racism.
[...] "The bicyclist, who carried no ID, had not been identified late
Friday. He was a Latino male riding a 21-speed mountain bike without a
helmet, according to the CHP.
***Investigators said they don't know why he was out or where he was
goi...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 10:25am PDT
Dam Nation - Dispatches from the Grey Water Guerilla Underground - Workshop/book release (5/24) 
Thursday, May 24th @ Louden Nelson Community Center
7-9pm $5 donation
see flyer attached...
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 4:07pm PDT
REMAINS and REBIRTH: An Evening Around Katrina - May 27, 28 
Join media activist Walidah Imarisha and Orleans-based organizer Suncere Shakur for a screening and presentation on the continuing aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the rebuilding and rebirthing that is going on from the ground up. Two Bay Area events are planned: 5/27 in San Francisco and 5/28 in Santa Cruz; details and full tour schedule below. Watch a 7 minute version of the film here....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 8:46am PDT
UC Hunger Strikers in the Baytree Plaza 
On May 16th, students at UC Santa Cruz were in the Baytree Plaza to spread information about the University of California's Board of Regents and their ties to the management of the Los Alamos and Livermore nuclear laboratories. Ashley and Tosh are two undergraduate students at UCSC that are part of the 44 University of California students on a hunger strike to demand that the UC Board of Regents sever their ties to the the laboratories which are producing new nuclear weapons....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2007 12:45am PDT
Hunger Strikers Protest Bechtel Weapons Deal (audio/mpeg 7.2MB) THE US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY HAS PUT ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST PROMINENT WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY LABS UNDER PRIVATE MANAGEMENT. IN THE LETTER, TAUSCHER EVOKES THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, WHEN LAWERENCE LIVERMORE LABORATORIES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA JOINED TOGETHER TO CREATE THE ATOMIC BOMB.
three minute mp3 file...
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2007 9:26am PDT
Local Harassment of Medical Marijuana Suppliers and Jury Nullification Coming Up Thursday May 17 at 6 PM on 101.1 FM (www.freakradio.org), Roger Mentch, proprieter of The Hemporium, discusses continued local persecution and prosecution of his Felton medical marijuana dispensary; 7 PM, Godfrey D. Lehman, 91-year old legal activist and author, discusses Jury Nullification and the historic power of citizens to end slavery, stop the drug war, oppose war, and generally say "no" to out-of-control police, prosecutors, legislators, and judges....
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2007 8:54am PDT
University of Mass Destruction: UC Students Demanding “No More Nukes In Our Name!” For over six decades, the University of California has been the United States government’s primary nuclear weapons research and design contractor. It has managed the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons compounds since their inceptions. Scientists at these laboratories – UC employees, all – have designed every nuclear warhead in the US arsenal, of which there have been 65 designated types (1). UC nuclear weaponeers have also carried out close to every US nuclear weapons test d...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 7:16pm PDT
UC Hunger Strike Against Weapons Labs Passes 1-Week Mark 
A hunger strike initiated by 44 UC students, several alumni and a professor has passed its 1-week mark. The hunger strikers are demanding that the UC Board of Regents withdraw from their contracts to operate Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories based on, “the grounds that the Reliable Replacement Warhead program and Los Alamos Labs’ ongoing preparations to conduct plutonium pit manufacturing both clearly violate Article VI of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.” The hunger ...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 10:42am PDT
10th Annual Queer Youth Leadership Awards (5/19) (video/mp4 10.5MB) 10th Annual
Queer Youth Leadership Awards 2007
Saturday, May 19th
From Isolation to Visibility...
Harbor High School, 300 La Fonda, Santa Cruz
* 6 pm Catered Buffet Dinner
* Toast celebrating the 10th Annual Queer Youth Leadership Awards
* 7:30 pm Resource Fair
* 8 pm Variety Show and Awards Ceremony
* Community Dance to follow with DJ Reb...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2007 10:36am PDT
May Mashers AlleyCat Race (5/18) Its bike week here in Santa Cruz so lets race!...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 12:52pm PDT
Brazen Squaredance Friday (5/18) live music, dancing in the streets, reclaiming public space...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2007 11:53am PDT
Leveraging the Academy: Suggestions for Radical Grad Students and Radicals Considering Grad School Romanticized, demonized, celebrated, denounced -- among activists in the United States and Canada, academia is all of these things. It is a gate-keeping institution that shapes and is shaped by relations of power and privilege. It is a site of intense struggle: those who are structurally excluded battle for access, while those who study there fight for affordable and relevant education, and those who work there demand dignity, respect, and living wages. It is a place both wh...
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 11:35pm PDT
What you need to know about GSHIP and grad healthcare at UCSC 
Most graduate students are enrolled in the Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan (GSHIP). According to the contract between the TA's union (UAW) and the university, 100% of the GSHIP fees are remitted for TAs. The benefits from the union contract are shared by all grad students, who get the same coverage when they buy in to GSHIP.
So what's the problem? Well, our union contract guarantees that the university will pay the costs of GSHIP, but it doesn't guarantee anything about what kind of...
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 11:27pm PDT
Queer Youth Leadership Awards Harbor High School
300 La Fonda
Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 2:49pm PDT
NICHOLS: More lies from Livermore nuclear weapons lab 
"A group of citizens of the Bay Area are seeking a lawyer to take legal action to stop the open air explosions set off by Livermore Lab in Tracy, California......
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 1:19pm PDT
Action at Burger King in Santa Cruz to Support the CIW 
The Student/Farmworker Alliance announced that May 11th and 12th would be Days of Action vs. Burger King calling on the world's #2 burger chain to take responsibility for the conditions of farmworkers in the fields. On May 11th, four students from the University of California at Santa Cruz and one loyal Burger King customer went to the Burger King on Mission Street / Highway 1 in Santa Cruz to drop off a letter to manager calling attention to the human rights crisis in Florida's tomato field...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 10:06pm PDT
'Illegal' is racism in disguise At last night's Beret meeting one of our compañeras brought up the issue of the widely used term "Illegal Alien" and its link to the racist eugenics movement. It prompted this letter to the editors of the local corporate press....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:47pm PDT
Boots Riley Withdraws Plans for Berkeley Grad Speech in Support of UC Custodians 
Boots Riley Withdraws Plans for Keynote Speech at Saturday's UC Berkeley's Black Graduation
Comes Out in Support of Custodian Union's Fight to End Poverty-Level Wages...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 1:23pm PDT
Free Skool Summer Quarter deadline weeks away Do you have unique skills and knowledge? Do you want to see change in the world? Are you willing to share what you know in a non-authoritarian and interactive way in an informal setting?...
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 2:44pm PDT
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