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On Wednesday March 15th, over one hundred activists congregated at Dennis the Menace Park in Monterey to voice their opinion on the new HR4437 bill that had just passed in the House of Representatives and is now on its way to the Senate. The activists included students, community members, Brown Berets, veterans, and children. After a rally at the park, the demonstrators marched to Downtown Monterey (Alvarado Street) to tell the general public how they felt. As the protest moved towards downtown the number of demonstrators increased as they found more supporters to their cause. At one point the demonstration blocked one lane of the road as the demonstrators took to the street. Read more

Multimedia of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101fm benefit and 11 year celebration featuring David Rovics and Attila the Stockbroker performing to a full house recorded LIVE at the Sacred Grove on 03-13-06.

Audio and Photos: Part One || Part Two || Part Three

Free Radio Santa Cruz has been on the air for over eleven years without a license. FRSC broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, in defiance of federal regulations.

Los politicos quieren cerrar o privatizar el Centro Medico de Natividad. Esto afectara a los residentes de bajos ingresos y sin ningun acesso a seguro medico. Por la insistencia de la comunidad del Condado de Monterey, la Mesa de Supervisores tendra su primer foro publico en Salinas para volverlos mas responsables por sus decisiones. El foro va a ser el 15 de Marzo a las 6:00pm en el edificio administrativo del Condado de Monterey en Salinas. mas informacion

Politicians are looking at closing or privatizing Natividad Medical Center. This will be a drastic loss to the entire community and especially low income residents and those without access to health care. Upon the community’s insistence, the board of supervisors will be holding its first official public forum in Salinas to be held accountable for their decisions. The forum will take place on March 15th at 6:00pm at the Monterey County Administrative Building in Salinas. Read more

More than five hundred people joined rallies and marches against HR 4437 in Santa Cruz on March 17th. The rally started at the Santa Cruz County Building and then marched to Beach Flats Park, with the community running out of their homes and into the streets throughout the night. People then left the Beach Flats, headed up Pacific Avenue, and back to the County Building for a final rally of the night.

HR 4437 would make it a felony offense to be in the U.S. without proper documentation. This would push undocumented immigrants further underground, and increase the potential for exploitation by employers. This bill would also criminalize nurses, teachers, clergy, social workers, and anyone else who aids, assists, or otherwise has regular contact with undocumented immigrants. (protest announcement).

reportbacks: Por que somos emigrantes, Por que somos ilegales, si señor. || Report from Friday's Marches and Rallies in Santa Cruz
photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
audio: Speakers from Santa Cruz Rally Against HR 4437
observations: Sentinel has no online coverage of Friday's March for Immigrant Rights in Santa Cruz || undercover cops at immigrant rights march?

The Santa Cruz March follows a pro-immigrant march in Chicago estimated at hundreds of thousands of people and rumored to be the biggest march in Chicago's history, and a regional immigrant walk-out in Philadelphia, amongst many actions nation-wide.

see also: 100+ Take to the Streets in Monterey in Oposition to HR 4437 and Indybay's Immigrant Rights Page

The Project is a monthly radical newpaper for the UCSC campus and Santa Cruz Community. It is run is a non-hierarchical fashion mainly by UCSC students, with an emphasis in anti-capitalism and local activism aimed at democratizing the university system.

The March 2006 edition of The Project features the following stories: Derribemos Las Fronteras || UCSC Students Expose the Naked Truth about UC's Use of Sweatshops || The Struggle Continues: UCSC Custodians Demand Wage Parity || Save Our Languages || Nonviolence, Power, and Liberation || Hippies Make the Best Bureaucrats: The Realities of Recruiting at UCSC || Dying to Avoid Rape in Iraq || Civil War? Sectarian Tensions and Occupation in Iraq || EaT My RUBBER MoTHAFUCKA! || Human Sex Trafficking: Another Side of Immigration

Previous Issues : The Project: February 2006 || The Project: Spring Insurrection || Special Issue of The Project for Statewide Strikes at UC on April 14th || UC Administrators Rolling in Money - the PROJECT March 2005 || The Project has been Digitized (Feb. 2005)

1,800 Santa Cruz County workers have launched a one-day strike against a Board of Supervisors which they say, "so far refuses to provide wages comparable to that of comparable workers in comparable counties." Their struggle is the same struggle facing all working families in our communities -- farm and food processing workers fighting for decent pay and basic human rights, UC workers fighting for pay parity, Ralph's employees fighting the company's scheme to de-unionize their workplace, Natividad workers fighting the privatization of the Monterey County Hospital, hotel workers rising up to fight for a living wage -- and this strike will be an opportunity to build our solidarity across the Central Coast. Read more to support the strike

see also: County Workers Appeal for Equal Treatment || SEIU 415 emergency strike solidarity alert - action requested

strike coverage: Santa Cruz County Workers’ Strike: A Success || SEIU Strike Rally Shakes SC County Building || Why I Didn't Strike On March 14th 2006 || SEIU 415 Workers Strike and Rally at the Santa Cruz County Building || Santa Cruz County Workers Strike Cripples Services for a Day

Students from UCSD, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, UCB and UCD crashed UCOP to meet President Dynes in person and demand an end to the use of sweatshops to produce UC apparel and uniforms. Students occupied the president's hallways for one hour. They were promised a meeting with Dynes and then later chose to leave the building once they were satisfied. Read more and view photos

see also: UC SweatFree Coalition stages sit-in at the Office of the President

previous coverage: Students Strip for Sweat-Free UC || UCSC students fight for sweatshop free apparel || Creative Activism Raises Issues at Denton's Investiture Friday || Students and Workers Demand a Sweat-Free UC