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Relevant protests vs. petty arguments Why not put one's energy into changing something that is a real and genuine injustice rather than antagonizing local politicians and police officers through petty disputes?...
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 7:19pm PST
Police Surveillance at the Farmers Market Drum Circle 
Perched in the stairwell of the UCSC extension building, Santa Cruz police were filming the drum circle and Food Not Bombs at the Farmers' Market on Wednesday, Jan 30, presumably with regards to the new "15 minute parking lot rule". The filming was interrupted when a revolutionary war era citizen who holds the belief that people should still have rights (the right to peaceably assemble) began waving a "Don't Tread On Me" flag in front of the camera. Here is a group of photographs....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 2:48pm PST
Farmer's Market Drum Report Back Report of ongoing campaign by Santa Cruz police to silence the Farmer's Market Drum Circle, a decade-old tradition....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 11:29am PST
Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative Works to Collect Signatures Thursday, January 31, 2008 : With the deadline to qualify in a mere four days, affordable housing activists are feverishly working to collect 7,168 signatures to put the Bayview Affordable Housing Initiative on the June ballot. As the Florida-based Lennar Corporation – with active funding from allies in the Newsom Administration – spends a fortune to qualify its Bayview initiative on the same ballot, a rag-tag army led by Supervisor Chris Daly is hoping to force a real dialogue on the future ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 7:57am PST
Birth Control Price Crisis Continues Thursday, January 31, 2008 : As the birth control pricing crisis continues, advocates for affordable contraceptives push for action on corrective legislation. Birth control that once cost $5 to $10 per month now sell for $40 to $50, reports the News and Observer....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 7:52am PST
At the University of California, Low Pay for Workers, Big Bucks for CEOs Wednesday, January 30, 2008 : Several thousand patient care workers at University of California (UC) medical centers and thousands of other UC service workers are paid significantly less than workers at other hospitals and universities in the state. But top executives recently pocketed big raises and bonuses, according to a new report....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 7:17am PST
UNICEF report: Infant mortality rates still high Wednesday, January 30, 2008 :Nearly 10 million children under five died worldwide in 2006, according to a new report. That is a daily rate of 26,000 deaths. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has used the latest data available (2006) on the under-five mortality rate for every country in the world. The rate is expressed as the number of children dying before their fifth birthday per 1,000 live births....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 7:05am PST
2nd Annual Sacramento Food Not Bombs Benefit! (2/23) 
Half the proceeds go to Political Prisoner Eric Mcdavid who's currently in Sacto County Jail....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 5:46pm PST
Valentine's Retreat for Activists |Meditation as Relationship. Relationship as Meditation. 
Meditation as Relationship. Relationship as Meditation, a Valentine’s daylong retreat for activists, allies & agents of social change, led by dharma teacher, author and activist angel Kyodo williams.
When asked "what is meditation?" I always say, "One word: relationship. It is simply 'being with.' The power of this profound and radical practice of being with ourselves, and by extension, others, can be neither fully
expressed, nor underestimated."
— Rev. angel Kyodo williams...
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 5:37pm PST
The Passing of Pip Starr - Australian Activist Documentary Filmmaker 
Pip Starr, documentary maker, video activist and great companion, passed away on Tuesday the 22nd of January 2008. Pip had worked closely within the activism community for 10 years as an independent journalist, reporter, and film maker who documented anti-nuclear, climate change, globalisation, indigenous and many more movements largely in Australia and the Pacific....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 8:14am PST
US home foreclosures rise by 75 percent in 2007 Wednesday, January 30, 2008 :Nearly 1.3 million homes—or more than one percent of all US households—were in some phase of foreclosure in 2007, according to year-end data released Tuesday by RealtyTrac, an online real estate marketer. The number of homes receiving default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions rose by 75 percent between 2006 and 2007, the web site reported, with foreclosure filings reaching 215,749 last month, up 97 percent from the previous December....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 7:10am PST
Toxic Terror in San Francisco - a clarion call to those that harm our children and elders. The Final Call - a national newspaper of the Nation of Islam (NOI) - has exposed Lennar and the other crooks for all the adverse impacts to the Bayview community. The article does justice and addresses all the factors. Shame, on the so called local SF papers for NOT taking a stand. As usual the SF Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Congressperson Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Diane Feinstein - have NOT said a word - about the testing of ONE single child and elder. Where is the Moral Compas...
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 6:29am PST
$50,000 Sunday Stroll on the Westside Railroad Tracks 
On January 27th, People Power, an advocate for human-powered transportation in Santa Cruz County, hosted a walk along the rail corridor in Santa Cruz in response to recent threats by Union Pacific to fine "trespassers" up to $2,000. The walk in the rain, which brought out more than two dozen people, featured local historian Ross Gibson who included information on the past and possible future of rail transportation in Santa Cruz County. The Sunday stroll began at Swift Street on the Westside o...
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 1:52am PST
Kidneys 'removed from poor Indians at gunpoint' Tuesday, January 29, 2008 : Police at India's airports are on the alert for a doctor accused of masterminding an illegal organ transplant ring that harvested more than 500 kidneys from itinerant labourers for wealthy patients. Some donors say they were tricked into taking part and forced at gunpoint to have the operation....
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:55pm PST
Political violence strains Lebanese healthcare system Tuesday, January 29, 2008 : Lebanon's emergency and medical services are being stretched as they respond to the increasing incidents of political violence in the politically deadlocked country. A massive car bomb explosion at 10 a.m. on January 25 underneath a busy highway leading into Beirut killed a senior police officer and four others, wounding at least 30 people....
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:44pm PST
Bush Accused Of Playing Shell Game Over AIDS Funding Tuesday, January 29, 2008 :(Washington) President Bush in his final State of the Union address called for an additional $30 billion over the next five years to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa - an amount AIDS activists say is less than he has already pledged and far less than what is needed. "Our Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is treating 1.4 million people....
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:42pm PST
Ohio Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Abortion Records Case Tuesday, January 29, 2008 : The Ohio Supreme Court refused this week to consider whether or not the parents of a teenager who obtained an abortion without their consent have a right to the medical records of other minors from the Planned Parenthood clinic. The 4-3 decision upholds the ruling of the state’s 1st District Court o......
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:41pm PST
Medical supplies in Gaza running low JERUSALEM, 28 January (IRIN) - The Israeli-imposed restrictions on imports to the Gaza Strip are threatening the lives of vulnerable patients, the Oxfam aid agency has said. "Oxfam International is gravely concerned about the life and safety of the civilian population residing in the Gaza Strip," Oxfam's director said in a statement on 25 January....
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:30pm PST
Kathleen Newman & Barbara Ehrenreich: Bush Has Ignored the Working Poor and Failed to Address Growing Economic Inequality Tuesday, January 29, 2008 :During last night's State of the Union, President Bush pushed for Congress to approve a $150 billion economic stimulus. Newman and Ehrenreich examine how Bush's plan fails to help most homeowners facing foreclosures and fails to expand benefits for the poor such as unemployment insurance or food stamp allotment....
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:28pm PST
ACLU Urges House Committee to Support ADA Restoration Act Tuesday, January 29, 2008 : Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded the House Committee on Education and Labor for holding a hearing on H.R. 3195, the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Restoration Act.The original ADA passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 1990 and was heralded by Republican and Democratic leaders as the "emancipation proclamation" for people with disabilities....
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 5:26pm PST
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