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Alert: Beach Flats Community Garden Threatened 
The Beach Flats Community Garden is being threatened with closure. Locals who've farmed there for fifteen years arrived last week and saw a notice saying they should turn in their keys by the end of March. Audio recorded March 24th is translated and transcribed below....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 10:53pm PDT
Sustainable Water Cycles Workshop in Santa Cruz 4/4-4/6 2008 Sustainable Water Workshop:
Methods for Saving Water, Time, and Money
April 4-6 in Soquel, CA
Taught by local Ecological Designers Heather Coburn Flores, Ken Foster, Lizandro Salazar and Lydia Neilsen....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 4:21pm PDT
Traffic School For Bikes - An Editorial Santa Cruz, California has just begun a traffic school for "errant" bicyclists.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_8676416
Perhaps it's too early to venture an opinion on this but my instinct says this is a really stupid idea. Why? Well, for one thing, the reasons bicyclists get cited for traffic violations in the first place only makes sense if you accept the premise that roads are mainly for automobiles and bicycles are an equivalent technology....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 10:46am PDT
Life Denied: Nurses, Family of Sick Teen March on Health Insurance Company Tuesday Monday, March 24, 2008 : 17- year-old boy needs cancer treatment, PacifiCare denies Registered nurses, friends and concerned community members will join the family of Nick Colombo marching on the corporate offices of health insurance giant PacifiCare in Orange County this Tuesday to protest the denial of a life-saving cancer treatment for the 17-year-old, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) announces....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 8:05am PDT
Huge Walkout by 4,000 Sutter RNs - A Dramatic Stand for Improved Patient Care 10-Day Strike Underway Across Bay Area
Friday, March 21, 2008 : Some 4,000 registered nurses began a 10-day walkout Friday at 10 Bay Area hospitals operated by the Sutter Health chain in a dramatic protest over patient care conditions. More than 95 percent of the RNs struck the hospitals. Guaranteeing safe RN staffing at all times – especially ensuring that Sutter RNs are able to take rest breaks and meals -- is one of several key patient safety issues that is at the center of the dispute....
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2008 11:12am PDT
ChevWrong M15 Part Two 
Part two of three sets of pictures from March 15 2008, at the Richmond Chevron actions....
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2008 9:22am PDT
Calhoun Targets the Homeless 
Fresno City Council member Brian Calhoun is targeting homeless people with another unnecessary “quality of life” ordinance. Calhoun wants to stop homeless people from asking for money on street medians. In his introduction to the ordinance, Calhoun writes that “Fresno Police records will show that the panhandlers are most often alcoholics, drug addicts or have mental health issues.”...
Posted: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 5:46pm PDT
Modesto Anarcho Discussion Forum (3/29) 
Calling ALL participants that have previously been involved in Modesto Anarcho actions or events.........This assembly isn’t just limited to these selected projects on this flier. These are just some mentioned. What we would like to see is other radical-anarcho like minded individuals to bring their idea’s to the table. What would you like to see happen in Modesto (surrounding area’s)? What is needed? Do you feel left out or ignored? Modesto Anarcho is yours as much as ours! Please come join ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 10:57am PDT
ChevWrong M19 '08 part one 
Part One - more action pics from the DASW Richmond Chevron Refinery action on March ....
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 11:27pm PDT
Bay Area Nurses Prepare for 10-day Strike Against Sutter Health Over Patient Safety and Understaffing Wednesday, March 19, 2008 : Schedule of Events4,000 registered nurses from eight Bay Area hospitals are preparing for a 10-day strike beginning this Friday against the Sutter Health chain, over serious and ongoing problems with patient care, medical redlining, and healthcare for nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee reports. A schedule of events follows. Media events are underlined; details will be sent out each day: Thursday March 20, 2 p.m....
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 8:12am PDT
CNA: Saving St. Luke's Hospital as an Acute-care Facility Wednesday, March 19, 2008 : The California Nurses Association today announces that they will participate in the Blue Ribbon Panel on the future of St. Luke’s Hospital, with the exclusive goal of maintaining acute care services at the facility. Participation in this panel is part of CNA's ongoing campaign to save St....
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 8:11am PDT
Landlords Funding Prop. 98 Have History of Mistreating Tenants Wednesday, March 19, 2008 : Wealthy apartment and mobile home park owners spent millions to get Proposition 98 on the June 2008 ballot. Prop 98 is a deceptive scheme that would wipe out rent control and eliminate important renter protections like laws requiring the fair return of deposits. Prop 98 is the worst kind of special interest proposition there is: It benefits a few wealthy landlords at the expense of millions of Californians....
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 8:06am PDT
“Yes on 98” Group Insults Tenants; Calls Elected Officials “Terrorists” To learn about Proposition 98’s agenda, look no further than Dan Faller, President and Founder of the American Owner’s Association (AOA) – the largest landlord group in California....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2008 4:29pm PDT
Nurses Organize in Fresno 
Registered nurses at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno announced today that a large majority of the hospital’s Rns have signed cards indicating they want union representation by the state’s premier nurses’ organization, the California Nurses Association....
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2008 9:54pm PDT
Challenging Chevron: From the Bay to Iraq (audio/mpeg 5.2MB) Chevron is the third largest company in the US…seventh largest in the world. Last year, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company- also known as Conoco Phillips- made over $18 billion in profits – the highest amount ever made in it's nearly 130 year history. According to the Dept of Energy, Chevron has been refining oil from Iraq at its Richmond refinery since the war began. On Saturday, activists blockaded a Chevron refinery in Northern California, the first MOVE in a week of actions designed to "br...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2008 3:13pm PDT
Hundreds Protest Pollution, War and Global Warming at Chevron in Richmond 
Hundreds of people protested in Richmond on March 15th, 2008, to demand that Chevron stop stealing oil around the world while polluting our communities. The actions were in solidarity with the peoples, plants and animals of Ecuador, Nigeria, Burma, Iraq, Alberta and every other community exploited and poisoned by Chevron (Texaco, Unocal, etc!)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2008 1:59pm PDT
No War No Warming Protest at Richmond Chevron Refinery (video/quicktime 50.3MB) Hundreds of people protested in Richmond on March 15th, 2008, to demand that Chevron stop stealing oil around the world while polluting our communities. The actions were in solidarity with the peoples, plants and animals of Ecuador, Nigeria, Burma, Iraq, Alberta and every other community exploited and poisoned by Chevron (Texaco, Unocal, etc!)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2008 12:53pm PDT
Ban the Box in Oakland! Speak out for equal employment opportunity for city jobs! Frank Ogawa Plaza, in front of Oakland City Hall
(14th and Broadway)...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 9:27pm PDT
A Plaintiffs LBAM Explanation As a former resident of Santa Cruz and a plaintiff against the Federal Government because of the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) spraying which took place there, I'd like to clarify a couple issues regarding how and why this program came about....
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2008 10:48am PDT
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