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Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (Film Screening 9/1) The film shows the issue of immigration into the U.S. from the perspective of the undocumented worker...
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 12:57pm PDT
Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra Sundown Performance & Practice (8/19) 
We dream of marching in a percussion band made of trash – a bone-shaking recycled orchestra – a superhero sonic force of resistance to be reckoned with....
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 4:11pm PDT
Mid-Summer Mystery Ride: Mad Max on a Bike! (8/19) 
Friday August 18th, the Mid-summer Mystery Ride rides again! This week's theme is "Beyond Bike Dome," a post-apocalyptic (think Mad Max trilogy) journey through some intersting sites of urban decay in Santa Cruz....
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 2:29pm PDT
FRSC: Russ Rankin of Good Riddance (audio/mpeg 30.8MB) Interview with Russ Rankin lead vocalist of Santa Cruz based punk band Good Riddance talks about the band, political influences, Activism and Punk rock and their new album "My Republic"...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 7:20am PDT
Medical Marijuana Forum Thursday; Roger Mentch on Trial Again Hemporium Medical Marijuana provider Roger Mentch is on trial again; Mentch's attorney, Ben Rice, will be speaking about medical marijuana on Thursday at the County Building...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 12:23am PDT
DIRTY DANCING at Santa Cruz GDI (8/18) 
Yes, here it is. GDIs most recent controversial movie choice. Come for the 80's film nostalgia (in a 50's setting), big hair, class conflict, teen girl's fantasy, and hot dancing stay for the intermission dance party!...
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 10:02pm PDT
Amnesty International Vigil for a Ceasefire in Israel and Lebanon 
On August 7th, local Amnesty International (AI) members organized an emergency ceasefire vigil at Lighthouse Point on the westside of Santa Cruz. The vigil, which coincided with vigils in more than 30 countries, called for a ceasefire in Israel and Lebanon, all governments to stop the supply of arms to the conflict and solidarity with the victims and survivors from both sides of this conflict. AI asked people to respect the nonpartisan tone of the vigil while other people felt AI should have ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 8:28pm PDT
Shame on Israel, Shame on US, Stop the Bombings! 
On August 4th, advocates of peace and justice gathered on the corner of Front and Water Streets in downtown Santa Cruz to denounce US backed Israeli mass murder of Lebanese and Palestinians. At least twice as many people demonstrated at the clock tower in support of Israel. Members of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), ANSWER Youth & Student and UCSC Students Against War (SAW) called for a, "Shame on Israel! Stop the bombing!" demonstration while the Santa Cruz Chapter of Stand W...
Posted: Sat, Aug 12, 2006 1:56am PDT
New Distribution Point for Street Spirit (Justice News and Homeless Blues) Newspaper New Street Spirit newspaper distribution point in City of Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat, Aug 12, 2006 12:04am PDT
FCC Agent, Poodles McGhee, Takes Over Freak Radio (audio/mpeg 3.4MB) Poodles McGhee, FCC field agent from Chicago, took over the controls of Freak Radio Santa Cruz, and offered listeners an inside look at the bizarre double life of a pirate buster. 3:42...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 10:59pm PDT
8/14 Screening of Soma: An Anarchist Therapy in Watsonville 
Documentary screening:
Soma: An Anarchist Therapy
8/14/2006 - Monday
7pm
www.brownberets.info
18 W Lake Ave, Watsonville, CA 95076
the film maker, Nick from Houston Indymedia will be present to do a Q & A and a workshop...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 12:19pm PDT
Creating Peace at Lockheed Martin in Bonny Doon on Nagasaki Day 
On August 9th, Nagasaki Day, 11 civilian weapons inspectors drove up Empire Grade Road and marched the last 1/2 mile to the gates of Lockheed Martin where the public road ends. The Santa Cruz Weapons Inspection Team (SCWIT) led the march marking the annihilation and devastation delivered to the people, animals and plants of Nagasaki, Japan, targeted on August 9th, 1945, by nuclear bombs far less powerful than the ones Lockheed Martin presently manufactures. The nonviolent action included the ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 4:27am PDT
Lockheed Martin in Bonny Doon Says No to Water Testing Lockheed Martin has declined a request by CCALM (Community Concerned About Lockheed Martin) to drill test wells to monitor ground water quality at their Bonny Doon facility at the end of Empire Grade. Lockheed continues to assert that there is nothing for local residents to worry about, although they have no records of disposal practices at the facility prior to 1984, leaving 26 years of missing information on waste disposal operations in effect before regulated mandatory environmental accoun...
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 9:30pm PDT
Pirates on the Streets (8/11) 
How are we going to get folks out of their cars and onto a sustainable bike? Every Friday this summer we have fun rides starting from various locations. Last week included a family, a recumbent and other community members. Get that bike out of the garage and meet some new bike friends....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 3:42pm PDT
The History of the Future Sat Aug 12th Noon 
A playful exercise in living our future sponsored by Free Skool Santa Cruz...
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 7:55am PDT
Arnold Schwarzenegger Un-Welcomed to Salinas High 
On August 8th, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was un-welcomed to Salinas High School by members of the American Federation of Teachers, Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, Watsonville Brown Berets and other demonstrators. With an escort of police in cruisers and on motorcycles, Schwarzenegger's vehicle drove past a group of protesters and into a back entrance of Salinas High. Police quickly locked out the people who, in the theory of US Democracy, are supposed to be represented by the Governo...
Posted: Wed, Aug 9, 2006 2:32am PDT
Iraqi War Memorial in Santa Cruz on Hiroshima Day 
On August 6th, members of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship of Santa Cruz used the Hiroshima Day anniversary to draw attention to the casualties of the war in Iraq. All day at the corner of Center and Lincoln Streets, the group displayed a three foot tall, hundred foot long, scroll listing 40,000 names of Iraqi civilians killed in the war. There was also a pair of booths created which listed the names, photos, and brief stories, of over 2,000 US and coalition soldiers who also died in the war....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 8:20pm PDT
WIN: Protesters Challenge "The Terminator's" Education Policies (audio/mpeg 1.1MB) California protesters at Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign photo op at Salinas High School, Tuesday, were out to terminate the terminator. Vinny Lombardo takes us there....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 7:54pm PDT
Weapons Inspection Team Dismantles the Bomb 
On August 6th, the Santa Cruz Weapons Inspection Team (SCWIT) dismantled a Trident II D5 nuclear submarine missile during a skit on the Pacific Garden Mall to mark the 61st anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. A 4,400 acre Lockheed Martin facility at the end of Empire Grade in Bonny Doon manufactures and tests Contained Detonating Fuses (CDFs) for the Trident II D5 nuclear submarine missile. This is the third year that SCWIT has organized activities commemorating the nuclear ...
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 1:54am PDT
Protest Schwarzenegger in Salinas Salinas High School
726 South Main Street
Salinas, California 93901...
Event Date: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 7:18pm PDT
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