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Drum Circle and Food Not Bombs at Santa Cruz Farmers Market
The Wednesday afternoon of August 15th, 2007, seemed like a typical day at the Santa Cruz Farmers Market. Farmers, or their employees, were busy selling fruits and vegetables grown in the Monterey Bay Area, and throughout California. Meanwhile, customers of the market and other folks gathered in the parking lot alongside the market to share vegetarian food and enjoy the music of a community drum circle. Unfortunately, this traditional weekly community gathering has recently been repressed by ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2008 12:38am PST
2007 Census of Agriculture: 'Black Civic Participation' at our California State Capitol
California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists are urging our State and Federal agricultural leaders to showcase and highlight a focused outreach to ‘first time,’ ‘socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers’ to participate in the 2007 Census of Agriculture, nationwide. The statistical data from this effort will impact our nation for the next decade. If you know a farmer, rancher anywhere in the nation, make sure you remind them to participate, your health may depend upon it....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 6:00pm PST
Support for Evicted Market Drummers (1/9)
For the last two weeks police have evicted the market drum circle using the new 15-minute parking lot law. Join us in direct action against oppressive local laws and reclaim public space!...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 12:02pm PST
1/27 Forum: Labor, The WPA Proposals And The Fight For New Orleans and Katrina Survivors
The fight for a WPA project to rebuild New Orleans and Gulf public housing as well as re-opening
Charity Hospital which is the largest public hospital in Louisiana will be the focus of this forum.
Property speculators and developers are seeking to destroy all the public housing and use the
charity hospital for high priced condominiums instead of re-opening it for the people of
New Orleans. 65% of the people in New Orleans have no healthcare insurance and the
hospital is a vital instituti...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 10:15am PST
Tenant Victims of Foreclosure Fight for Water and the Right to Stay
Oakland tenant Kim Issac asks local realtor, Countrywide, to respect Oakland renter protection laws and pay their water bills....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 8:59am PST
Two jack asses respond to the Chronicle Editorial and the Hunters Point toxic clean up
When, both Mayor Gavin Newsom and Congressperson Nancy Pelosi respond vehemently to the Hunters Point Clean up - some nerve has been struck - and the fools are now exposed. I challenge any expert to address the Cumulative Pollution with the measly $82 million that will be spent by the U.S. Navy to do some minimal clean up. As I have been saying billions of dollars are needed to do a real clean up - of the Shipyard - that is a Superfund site....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 6:21am PST
Dr. Doris Rapp MD: Your Toxic World: A Wake Up Call
Rio Theater
Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2008 12:48am PST
Mayor Coonerty Dismissed Call for Homeless Shelter During LBAM Spraying
In spite of a City Council lawsuit, and various public statements, City Council members approached by homeless activists--Mayor Ryan Coonerty and Councilmember Tony Madrigal, have refused to commit themselves to providing emergency shelter for homeless people if and when LBAM spraying resumes. The word "homeless" apparently didn't enter into the after-midnight proposal by Councilmember Madrigal at the last Council meeting to establish a Task Force on the issue....
Posted: Sun, Jan 6, 2008 12:45pm PST
26th National Pesticide Forum - March 14-16 at UC Berkeley
Reclaiming
Our Healthy Future: Political change to protect the next generation,
the 26th National Pesticide Forum, will be held March 14-16, 2008 at the
University of California, Berkeley. This exciting event is convened by
Beyond Pesticides, Californians
for Pesticide Reform (CPR) and Pesticide
Action Network North America (PANNA)....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 7:20pm PST
NOT ONE MORE - WRAN Calls for Moratorium on Cellular Antennas and WiFi in Santa Cruz County
Please call, write and/or attend the Santa Cruz County Planning Commission Hearing on Wednesday, January 9, 2008, at 7:00pm.
701 Ocean Street, 5th Floor, Santa Cruz
Cell tower installation is planned by Metro PCS near Shoreline Middle School, Simpkins Family Swim Center and Schwann Lake Park on Ledyard Co. property, 1005 17th Ave, Santa Cruz. – There is an existing cell tower at Brommer & 17th....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 6:06pm PST
643 Documented Complaints after Aerial Pesticide Spraying
A Review of 643 Documented Complaints of Adverse Reactions
Following the CDFA’s Aerial Spraying of two Pesticides based on
Pheromones over Densely Populated Neighborhoods in Santa Cruz and
Monterey Counties in September, October and November 2007...
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 5:59pm PST
Older Homeless Man Reports Being Driven Out Into the Rain Friday
Craig Canada, a homeless blogger [http://www.palmspringsbum.com/blog/], reported yesterday by phone that during the heavy rain two SCPD officers drove him out from under the eaves of the flower shop on Cathcart between Pacific and Cedar Sts into the foul weather....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 1:59pm PST
California prepares massive cuts in response to budget crisis and economic woes
Saturday, January 5, 2008 :The growing economic crisis in the US and the collapse of the housing market is beginning to have major ramifications on state budgets throughout the country. Nowhere is the impact more acute than in California, where the state government, under the leadership of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is preparing for massive spending cuts over the next year....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 9:18am PST
Spineless Mayor Gavin Newsom - led by Diane and Nancy to build stadium on very toxic site
We have a spineless Mayor Gavin Newsom led by the Senile, Senator Diane Feinstein and Congressperson Nancy Pelosi - armed with $82 million trying to abate a site that really needs $2 Billion - is one of the ten worst polluted sites in the Nation - called Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Ripe with very serious, radiological woes. The community has NOT been consulted and the rogue policy makers - sneak in and out - have fake Press Conferences - and declare that indeed the stadium is needed for Bay...
Posted: Fri, Jan 4, 2008 3:06am PST
The California Nurses Association/NNOC statement about the death of Nataline Sarkisyan
California nurses group says insurer CIGNA has 'blood on their hands'
The family of a 17-year-old California girl who died after being initially denied payment for a liver transplant is suing the teen's insurance company, an attorney for the family said Friday.
Nataline Sarkisyan, who died Thursday night after her family removed her from life support, had been in a vegetative state for weeks due to complications following a bone marrow transplant. Insurer CIGNA HealthCare had first deni...
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:40am PST
Parking Lot Panic Law Used to Disperse Drummers
On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:37am PST
Is There Equal Justice Under the Law?
This is the first report I have written on the death of my friend, Pamela Kincaid, since August 18, 2007. I thought it was time to bring everyone up to date. The photo below is Paul, Kayla, and Pam in 2000....
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 10:36pm PST
California’s Historic RN-to-Patient Hospital Staffing Ratios Upgraded Again with New Year
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 : California’s historic safe hospital staffing law, achieved through years of advocacy by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, completes its phase-in period as ratios on several units were lowered on January 1, 2008 to meet state mandates for minimum safe care. Over the five year course of their phase-in, these ratios have revolutionized hospital care and improved patient safety by mandating that hospitals maintain minimum, specifi...
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 5:46pm PST
"I Heard That" -- Black Exodus from San Francisco
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 : 2008 promises to be hot in the City! The exodus of Blacks has become a major issue; so much so that Reverend Amos Brown, Senior Pastor Third Baptist Church, and President San Francisco NAACP called an emergency meeting on Sunday December 23, at the church to address the critical subject! Earlier last year, Mayor Gavin Newsom issued a press release that stated his concerns over the declining African American population in the City, appointed the African American Ou...
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 6:51am PST
Yes on 92 Student Conf. Call > Support Community Colleges
end of meeting a guess - call info further down...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 3:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 12:14am PST