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Banned and Blue at the Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue in front of Mayor Ryan Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz workplace and family business....
Event Date: Sun, Dec 2, 2007 2:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 11:37am PST
9 AM Sunday 11- 18 UCSC Instructor Franklin Williams Tackles Hypocrisy at the HSC Kresge course instructor Franklin Williams puts his class to work doing community service work. For some time, sitting on the HSC Board of Directors, Franklin kept a close eye on gthe Homeless Servics Center (HSC). In this in-studio interview he exposes health, safety, and candor problems that the Board continues to ignore. 9 AM on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM and www.freakradio.org . Call in: 831-427-3772....
Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2007 9:42pm PST
Crippled Measure K ("Lowest Priority Enforcement Marijuana by SCPD") meets 6 PM today The much battered, delayed, and diluted Measure K Commission meets today (Wednesday November 14th) at City Hall in the Planning Department Conference Room (Room 107 of the City Hall Annex--the building next door to City Hall towards Mission St....
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2007 4:24pm PST
Sleeping Ban Debate – Broadcasted on Community TV. Voices of the Village (video/x-ms-wmv 48.8MB) Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty, Civil Rights Attorney Kate Wells and local ACLU representative Don Zimmerman debate the Sleeping Ban live with call-ins and public questions....
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2007 3:28pm PST
The Homeless & LBAM Spraying: Accounts from the Community on Free Radio Thursday 6-8 PM Interviews with plaintiffs and victims of the Light Brown Apple Moth "Checkmate" pesticide spraying will be aired Thursday 11-15 at various points between 6 and 8 PM. Call-in at 427-3772 to comment or add your experience.
Particular focus: the City's failure to provide for emergency shelter for the most vulnerable population: homeless people....
Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 4:15am PST
Coonerty Watch on the Sidewalk Downtown and Sleeping Ban Debate on Community TV Sunday Balloting on SCPD Racial/Class Profiling Continues Downtown Today in Front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz at 2 PM at 1520 Pacific Avenue. Tonight at 7 PM on Community TV's Voices from the Village Live! Louis La Fortune hosts a discussion (debate?) on the Santa Cruz City Sleeping Ban (MC 6.36.010a) between Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty, ACLU attorney Don Zimmerman, and Sleeping Ban Lawsuit lawyer Kate Wells on Channel 27....
Posted: Sun, Nov 11, 2007 5:43am PST
Waiting for Tony Madrigal On Sunday afternoon Councilmember Madrigal set up a table on Pacific Avenue in front of O'Neill's sports shop and began distributing gauze masks as protection against the LBAM Checkmate spraying (a publicity device, presumably rather than real protection).
When I asked him whether he'd support emergency shelter measures to protect the homeless during the nighttime spraying, he was evasive and seemed uncomfortable. Rowland Morin forwarded me their e-mail exchange below....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 2:46am PST
Local Medical Marijuana Provider Gets a Year in the Pen--Call Bob Lee and Ask Why! The Sentinel reports today that Edwin Hoey got a yar in jail for being caught with 100 pounds of pot and $500,000 in cash in a storage locker. According to the story he was adamant it was for medical marijuana. Prosecutor Bob Lee is using the toxic theory that any marijuana club or seller is illegal unless he is a close caregiver. Unless people speak out about this, we can expect an expansion and continuation of the Drug War here, probably to keep his government grants rolling in....
Posted: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 3:12pm PDT
Halloween Copwatch Meet in front of the Pacific Coffee Roasting Company on Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz between Soquel and Cooper Sts....
Event Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 11:51am PDT
Copwatch the New Order Downtown Halloween Night Copwatchers will gather at the Coffee Roasting Company downtown on or slightly before 8 PM Wednesday October 31st to monitor police and take reports of excessive police exuberance....
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 11:50am PDT
Council Kills Public Space in the Parking Lots It will now be illegal to hang out (i.e. trespass) in any of the city's 20 downtown public parking lots. This amounts to at least 5 square blocks of previously accessible public space. If you are parking or retrieving a car or bike, you will have 15 minutes to do so, but it will be illegal to sit in and stay near your car (for more than 15 minutes). There is no requirement that police warn you before ticketing you....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 10:24pm PDT
Last Chance to Stop the Parking Lot Panic Law Santa Cruz City Council Chambers at 809 Center St....
Event Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 8:50am PDT
Mayor to Back Public Assembly Ban in Parking Lots; Interview Replayed 10-18 FRSC 6:15 PM In an interview Wednesday, Mayor Reilly announced her intention to cast the deciding vote to make it illegal to assemble, linger, or hang out in the 20 downtown surface parking lots. Those parking vehicles or bikes will have 15 minutes to come and go. She, Madrigal, Coonerty, Robinson, and Mathews voted to make all parking lots forbidden zones except for city workers and those with written permits....
Posted: Thu, Oct 18, 2007 3:11pm PDT
"No Loitering" & "Ban on Gatherings" in Public Downtown Parking Lots Update Last Tuesday, City Council passed its First Reading of Vice-Mayor Coonerty's expansion of last year's "No Trespassing in Public Parking Garages and Lots" law. If given final passage on Tuesday October 23rd, the law will go into effect on November 22nd, making it illegal to linger in any of 9 square blocks downtown. It's already illegal to linger in 4 of those 9 square blocks. Waiting in or with your car or bike beyond 15 minutes will also become illegal. The citation will cost $124 or mor...
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 5:48am PDT
Harassment of Homeless in RVs, a Letter from Donna Deiss Donna Deiss, founder of LIVE (Living in Vehicles Excellently), has been organizing homeless folks whose affordable housing is their car, van, or RV. She previously created TRUSC (Tenants Rights Union of Santa Cruz). Some of her prior articles include:...
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2007 1:40pm PDT
Gutted and Depleted Measure K Commission Meets Tonight 6 PM (10/8) The "Lowest Enforcement Priority" for Marijuana Initiative created Measure K last year with a 63% yes vote from the City. City Council sued the proponents to weaken its enforcement; City Manager has recommended cutting back its meetings. It meets tonight at City Hall 6 PM in City Council chambers. Show up and speak up!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2007 1:02pm PDT
Police Abuse Downtown? Vote Tomorrow at the BS (Bookshop Santa Cruz) protest 2 PM 10-7 Selective Enforcement and Profiling Downtown? VOTE at our special PROTEST BALLOT BOX in front of the Coonerty Bookshop Santa Cruz. You can't vote on Vice-Mayor Coonerty's Public Assembly Ban in Public Parking Lots law coming up Tuesday 3 PM at City Hall. You can VOTE here! Fight Coonerty's Sleeping Ban, his Public Assembly Ban, and his father's Sitting Ban (passed 1994). Hold up on purchases at his store until the Vice-Mayor gives some straight answers to the Sleeping Ban lawsuit. Supp...
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 10:17pm PDT
Ban on Public Assemblies in Public Parking Lots at City Council Next Tuesday Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's latest attack on the Constitution is a new local law. It will expand a bad law passed last year to ban lingering in a city parking garage. Coonerty's expansion will ban all those not parking a car or auto from all downtown city parking garages and now all downtown city parking lots. It will be coming to City Council for a first reading on the afternoon of Tuesday October 9th. soon after 3 PM. No more Food Not Bombs or Drum Circles on Wednesday. Cars, yes. hum...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 11:21am PDT
An Open Letter to The Shit Smearers Smearing shit all over publicly accessible restrooms is stupid, politically counterproductive, and unethical, among many other adjectives. Don't do it. Quit it. Now....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 8:38pm PDT
Contaminated Courts? The Strange Case of Craig Canada, Homeless Medical Marijuana Patient 
Homeless blogger and medical marijuana patient Craig Canada thought he'd won a historic victory in the Santa Cruz Superior court of Judge Denine Guy when she found him not guilty of "sleeping outside" because of his need to use medical marijuana. Two months later she reversed herself without explanation. Who got to her?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 4:33pm PDT