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Santa Cruz Indymedia Newsletter June 15, 2005

by Santa Cruz Indymedia volunteers (scimc [at] indymedia.org)
SANTA CRUZ INDYMEDIA UPDATE, JUNE 15, 2005
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SANTA CRUZ INDYMEDIA UPDATE, JUNE 15, 2005
http://santacruz.indymedia.org

News and events currently featured as of Wednesday, June 15:


UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday 7:30pm Aaron Glantz: How America Lost Iraq
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17921/index.php

Friday 12pm Rally and Vigil at the Sentinel
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17901/index.php

June 25: March Against War, Empire, & Capitalism in Downtown Palo Alto
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17888/index.php

July 6-8: West Coast Anti-Capitalist Convergence and March (July 8)
against the G8
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17927/index.php


Please visit this link for more event listings!
http://www.radicalendar.org/group/SC-IMC

PUBLISH UPCOMING EVENTS on the SC-IMC Calendar!
http://www.radicalendar.org/calendar/SC-IMC/all/new/index.php



UC CLERICALS STAGE THREE DAY STRIKE

Some 16,500 clerical workers at the University of California's nine state campuses, began a three-day strike June 13, to demand higher pay. The Coalition of University Employees, or CUE, is unaffiliated with other unions, and consists largely of women and people of color. Ninety-four percent of its members voted to strike after talks reached an impasse this spring. Vinny Lombardo reports from Santa Cruz, where 150 people held a lunch time rally.
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17138/index.php


WATSONVILLE BROWN BERETS CONTINUE MESSAGE OF RADICAL ACTIVISM

The Brown Berets are part of the historical struggle of resistance of the Chicano community. Founded in 1967 by youth in the barrios of East Los Angeles, they organized to fight against police harassment, social injustice and poor education. Influenced by the legacy of this orgnization, a group of Watsonville students decided to reactivate the Brown Berets in 1994. The Watsonville Brown Berets are one of the most active local youth organizations fighting for progressive change and barrio peace.
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17137/index.php


YOUTH BOYCOTT URBAN OUTFITTERS

Despite a bit of scheduling confusion, about a dozen young people organized a leaflet action on June 12, to encourage a boycott of Urban Outfitters. They're upset that company CEO Richard Hayne, is a major contributor to the Republican Party, and specifically to Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum, one of the most rabidly anti-gay US Senators.

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family and that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, the right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution." - Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), Associated Press, 04-22-03
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17136/index.php


NO ON X - SANTA CRUZ UTILITY TAX HITS POOR PEOPLE

In a vote-by-mail election set for August, 2005, Santa Cruz residents will be asked to approve another utility tax. Of all the things to tax, essentials are the worst possible choice. Whether you're rich or poor, you still have to flush the toilet.

The proposed 3 to 12% utility tax comes on top of a 7% utility tax and is made worse by a massive, multi-year, 124% increase in city water rates, not to mention a backward water pricing scheme that already has small users paying up to 580% more per gallon than big users.

As usual, Santa Cruz City Council calls itself progressive but doesn't behave that way. Please join me in voting no on Measure X.
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17135/index.php


VIGIL AT LOCKHEED MARTIN IN BONNY DOON

Local Activists Protest Their Neighbor, the World's Largest Weapons Contractor

Early on the morning of Thursday, June 9, a small group of peace activists assembled in Bonny Doon, CA outside the main gate of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest weapons contractor. Located behind a wrought iron gate and barbed wire fences on 4,400 acres of pristine woodlands in rural Santa Cruz County, sits the sprawling complex of wherehouses, and labortories, which are used to test components and subsystems of the US Navy's Trident II missile. Vinny Lombardo reports.
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17133/index.php


DIRTY SANTA CRUZ SECRETS: HANGING ON THE WATER ST. BRIDGE

For many of today's youth, the only Santa Cruz they've known is the Santa Cruz of progressivism, surfing and the university. But it wasn't too long ago that Santa Cruz, much like other cities of California, was a hotbed of vigilante violence fueled by vehement racism and encouraged by the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Extreme forms of violence and repression of the indigenous peoples, mestizos, and the local Chinese community were heavily used in creating what we now know as Santa Cruz.

On Sunday, a group of students decided to spend a few hours at the Water St. bridge, where Francisco Arias and Jose Chamales were lynched in 1877. With a RIP sign and plenty of flyers, they made sure the community, at least for a few hours, did not forget its origins.
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17132/index.php


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