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LIBERTARIAS at Guerilla Drive-In (5/11) In the midst of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, 1936, militia women fully immersed in the overall enthusiasm of revolutionary Spain find themselves confronting deep gender inequality which complicates their efforts in the war against Francisco Franco’s fascist forces. Libertarias is a Spanish historical drama, made in 1996, and released internationally in 2004....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 3:21pm PDT
UC Student Hunger Strike: No More Nuclear Bombs In Our Name! 
May 9th will see the beginning of a hunger strike to demand that the University of California stop engineering, testing and manufacturing nuclear bombs. This bold act of civil resistance is being coordinated by students and community members across multiple UC campuses. Some of us have pledged to go without solid food - permanently, if necessary -- unless our demand is met!...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 12:26pm PDT
Learn to use Santa Cruz Indymedia Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway, near Ocean Street
Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sun, May 13, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 12:12am PDT
3rd Annual Rail and Trail Day (5/12) 
3rd Annual Rail and Trail Day
Saturday, May 12, 2007
10:00 AM: Start loading bikes on the train
Depot Park in Santa Cruz
Ride the Train, Support the Trail!...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 7:41pm PDT
Petition to Save the Flea Market in Santa Cruz! 
We, the undersigned, urge the County of Santa Cruz to save the flea market! The market provides vital economic functions (like livelihoods; stimulation of the local economy; attracting out-of-area tourists and shoppers; affordable and unique goods; testing ground for new micro-enterprise; etc.), environmental services (such as re-use of goods, many of which would otherwise find their way to landfills), and social purposes (like buyer-seller interaction, meeting people, adventure shopping and ...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 7:34pm PDT
Palestine Awareness Week: Check Point at UCSC 
Palestine Awareness Week is taking place at UC Santa Cruz from May 7th through May 10th and began with a Check Point established in the Baytree Plaza. Five Palestinians were being detained for no apparent reason while two Israeli soldiers mentally and physically abused the detainees and prevented them from leaving the prison cell. One Palestinian women plead over and over to be released because she was pregnant and worried should would lose her baby. Unsympathetically, the solider told her to...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 6:58pm PDT
May 10th, The Circus of (im)Migration in Santa Cruz! 
C.I.R.C.A. Boredom Patrol's Traveling CIRCUS of (Im)migration!
A benefit for the No Border Camps in Calexico and Mexicali, the second week of November 2007.
...all the walls are falling down, falling down, falling down...
May 10th at 8 pm See the Circus! including a puppet show and music by The Curse is Cast!, at the Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
May 9th "Subvert Everything" Rebel Clowning Workshop at Oceanview park at 3:30...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 5:43pm PDT
Fight tyranny! Resist oppression! Join Trash Orchestra! If you are full of rebellious insolence and music in your heart, we need you....
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 3:43pm PDT
Phyllis Bennis spoke about Challenging Empire in Santa Cruz 4/30 (audio/mpeg 26.6MB) Phyllis Bennis spoke in Santa Cruz on April 30, 2007 on the subject of "Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN defy US power"....
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 3:07pm PDT
May 8th: March for Custodian Wage Equity @ UCB Custodians at UCSC need your support. After a very unproductive negotiation session with UC Administration last Friday, UC custodians are moving full steam ahead for a Commencement March for Custodian Wage Equity at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, May 8th. UC was given $8.5 million earmarked for custodians on 4 UC campuses, but the administration is only offering a fraction of that. We're aiming to fill a charter bus with workers, students and community members to demand they hand all of the money ov...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 12:40pm PDT
Notify The People! The following is a letter I wrote to friends and allies. Please come out and support us....
Posted: Sun, May 6, 2007 10:00pm PDT
Protest Circus Gatti May 11th - 15th: Over Two Hours of Fun for Everyone! 
MJG Entertainment, Inc's Circus Gatti, based in Hemet, California, operates approximately 450 circuses in 150 towns each year. The performances include acrobats, jugglers, a high-wire act and captive wildlife such as horses, tigers and elephants which are trained to entertain young children and their adults. On Saturday, May 12th and Sunday, May 13th, Circus Gatti will return to the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville for a circus sponsored by the Watsonville Police Association.
W...
Posted: Sun, May 6, 2007 7:48pm PDT
Supervisors' Raise supervisors' pay raise as opposed to allocating the money to more important ventures....
Posted: Sun, May 6, 2007 8:54am PDT
Two Meals a Week Cut for Santa Cruz Homeless 
Suppose you could only eat one meal a day that had any nutritious value? And then suppose that in a round of budget cuts (that don't affect police, fire, or Parks and Rec Rangers) your meals were cut to FIVE days a week instead? No need to imagine such a scenario. The Homeless Services Center in Santa Cruz has done just that. And more....
Posted: Sat, May 5, 2007 9:00am PDT
May Day 2007 March for Immigrant Rights in Watsonville 
The MigraWatch Network has become a dynamic grouping of people and organizations based in Watsonville dedicated to providing a welcoming community and securing human rights for all people. MigraWatch came together in September of 2006 following the raids in Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Hollister on September 7th and 8th by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. In 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets were the primary organizers of the May Day demonstration, however this year's ...
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 2:33am PDT
Free Skool Picnic & Running a Free Skool We have fun, we meet people, we eat, we talk, we have workshops, we play soccer, we have music....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 11:33am PDT
Los Calles Son Del Pueblo 
On Tuesday, May 1, the MIRA Coalition (Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance) organized a march in solidarity with International Workers day and to denounce the ongoing raids affecting communities all across the country. Students also demanded an end to the militarization of the US-Mexico border, amnesty for undocumented migrants and to close the detention centers being used by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to house entire families and other detained persons. The students met up ...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 1:37am PDT
May Day 2007 March from UC Santa Cruz to Downtown 
Hundreds of students and workers rallied at UCSC's Baytree Plaza and then marched to downtown Santa Cruz to meet up with families from the Beach Flats. The demonstration, which ended in the Beach Flats, was part of the international workers day celebrations popularly known as May Day. The M.I.R.A. Coalition, Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance, at UCSC organized students and workers in the march against the current inhumane situation undocumented immigrants are facing and to demand the fo...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 1:23am PDT
Unidad en Watsonville 
Unity is not measured in quantities, but in will and determination....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 12:13am PDT
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