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Seeking PUBLIC COMMENT on the Salinan Tribe's petition for federal recognition as an American Indian tribe. The deadline for comments is March 5, 2025....
Posted: Sat, Feb 8, 2025 12:39pm PST
Community Members Will Assemble and Address the Vistra Moss Landing BESS Facility Failure and Fire...
Posted: Fri, Feb 7, 2025 9:13pm PST
Full Title: Community Organization Conducts Surface Sampling for Heavy Metals Following Moss Landing Battery Storage Facility Fire...
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2025 2:21pm PST
San Francisco, Calif. Jan. 30, 2025— Following efforts by hundreds of volunteers and partners to count overwintering monarch butterflies in California, the 28th annual Western Monarch Count has reported a peak population of just 9,119 butterflies this winter. This is the second lowest overwintering population ever recorded since tracking began in 1997 and coincides with monarch butterflies being proposed for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Thu, Jan 30, 2025 8:54pm PST
WorkWeek and Labor Video Project covers the series of fires at massive battery plants in Moss Landing that have poisoned thousands of workers and residents. Resident and researcher Donna Gilmore talks about the serious design problems of these batteries that prevent the companies from stopping fires at the dangerous facilities. She reports that over 100,000 batteries have caught fire....
Posted: Wed, Jan 29, 2025 12:13pm PST
The largest police sweep I have witnessed on Coral Street and the area around the Housing Matters homeless shelter. The State of California gave Santa Cruz a $4 million Homeless Encampment Resolution Grant to make clear the area. It is going to be 40 degrees tonight and many of these people lost most or all of their survival gear. Someone is likely to die of the cold this evening as a direct result of this sweep....
Posted: Mon, Jan 27, 2025 11:57pm PST
MOSS LANDING, Calif. — Research scientists at San José State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) have detected unusually high concentrations of heavy-metal nanoparticles in marsh soils at Elkhorn Slough Reserve following the recent fire at the nearby Vistra Power Plant's lithium-ion battery storage facility....
Posted: Mon, Jan 27, 2025 4:17pm PST
IMMEDIATE ACTION ITEM: We need Volunteers!
TIME SENSITIVE! THIS ACTION IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 1/25 & 1/26!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 24, 2025 3:04pm PST
Monterey, Calif., January 17, 2025 – Workers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium launched a campaign to unionize their workplace this week and are seeking representation through AFSCME Council 57....
Posted: Tue, Jan 21, 2025 7:32pm PST
Nine years ago today, on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 2016, the Monterey County/Salinas Homeless Union was formed out of a battle to defend the residents of that city's largest encampment....
Posted: Mon, Jan 20, 2025 11:05am PST
The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) January 16 public hearing in Salinas on its draft regulation of cancer-causing 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) was interrupted by more than a dozen protesters surrounding the podium in a mock “die-in”, while teenagers unfurled large bilingual banners saying “DPR is racist!” and the crowd of over 100 chanted “DPR, you can’t hide; we can see your racist side!”...
Posted: Sun, Jan 19, 2025 6:34pm PST
Prunedale Grange #388, 17882 Moro Rd, Salinas...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 20, 2025 6:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 19, 2025 1:39pm PST
The Pico Blanco property follows Eagle Peak Rancheria, adding 327 acres, including old-growth redwoods and 1.3 miles of the Little Sur River, to tribal ownership...
Posted: Sat, Jan 18, 2025 1:06pm PST
A petition to halt the establishment of battery storage facilities in Santa Cruz County has been created.
Please sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-establishment-of-battery-storage-facilities-in-santa-cruz-county...
Posted: Sat, Jan 18, 2025 10:35am PST
Employees of the Monterey Bay Aquarium are forming their union! Monterey Bay Aquarium Workers United stands together to create a better future for our colleagues, our animals, and our ocean. We believe it is time to ensure fair and equitable pay, comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, and a culture of safety, transparency, and inclusion. By forming our union with AFSCME Council 57, we are uniting to build a workplace that reflects the Aquarium’s core values of equity, integrity and ho...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2025 1:57am PST
𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.
Anyone who thinks that Democrats are somehow "progressive" needs to consider the votes supporting genocide and Netanyahu by California representatives 𝐂𝐢𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬, 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚, 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐬 from among the 𝟒𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 nationwide who voted to try to suppress the International Criminal Court. See: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20257
𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐞 opposes the International Criminal Court and has condemned the ICC's effort ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2025 5:22pm PST
Mass deportation of undocumented farm workers, as promised, will devastate California agriculture....
Posted: Thu, Jan 2, 2025 3:43pm PST
This flyer provides an opportunity for community members, both housed and unhoused to report abusive police and social service behavior towards the homeless....
Posted: Wed, Jan 1, 2025 9:47pm PST
As tradition dictates, folks had options to go to two Homeless Memorials--one on December 20th at the Portuguese Hall run by Housing Matters, the second at the Clock under rainy skies organized by Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs....
Posted: Mon, Dec 30, 2024 3:09pm PST
Sign and Share this Petition! Join Us in Calling on UC Santa Cruz Jewish Studies to Drop All Funding and Ties to the Helen Diller Foundation!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 17, 2024 8:53pm PST