Local Dems Say City Council Candidate Renée Golder was a Registered Republican Until 2018 
Local Democrats have checked official voting records and are reporting that Santa Cruz City Council recall candidate Renée Golder was a registered Republican until April of 2018. They say voting records indicate Golder registered as a Republican in 2000 and voted in multiple primary elections as a Republican, until she switched her party affiliation to Democratic in 2018. Presently, Golder is running as a "pro-recall" Santa Cruz City Council candidate against Progressives in the March 2020 el...
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:14PM
We have our dignity even if we don't have housing 
Santa Cruz City Hall, 809 Center St, Santa Cruz, California...
Event Date: Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:00PM
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:50AM
The Obligation to Accept Shelter? 
Resource Center For Nonviolence
612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Wed Jan 29, 2020 4:30PM
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:44AM
A Civil Libertarian Looks at Facial Recognition Technology 
City to Consider Ordinance Banning Facial Recognition...
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:02PM
Needles and Tasers: City of Santa Cruz Public Safety Committee Meeting 
Santa Cruz City Council Chambers
809 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:30PM
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 7:35PM
Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Santa Cruz) 
Santa Cruz Town Clock, tri-intersection of Water Street, Front Street, N. Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Sat Jan 25, 2020 4:00PM
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:48AM
Global Day of Protest: No War with Iran! (Monterey) 
Window on the Bay, 717 Del Monte Ave at Camino El Estero, Monterey, CA 93940...
Event Date: Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:00PM
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:21AM
What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Do? Chief Andy Mills is pushing a series of cruel civil rights violations against those without housing and is sponsoring the MLK March in Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:53AM
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals 
LOS ANGELES, January 14, 2020 — Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today challenging the last step in the administration’s plan to allow oil drilling and fracking on more than 1 million acres of public lands and minerals in Central California....
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:20PM
City Council Votes 6-1 to Approve $235K SCPD Taser Purchase (video/mp4 308.9MB) On January 14, the Santa Cruz City Council City Council Voted 6-1 to approve a $235K Taser purchase request from Santa Cruz Police to re-outfit the entire department with new Taser guns. (Video: Taser discussion from the January 14, 2020 Santa Cruz City Council meeting.)...
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:40PM
Sign Making Party for Women’s March Monterey 
Open Ground Studios, 1230 Fremont Blvd, Seaside, CA 93955...
Event Date: Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:00PM
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:44PM
SCPD's $235K Taser Purchase Request is Back on City Council's Agenda 
A request from Santa Cruz Police to approve a $235k Taser purchase, in order to re-outfit the entire department with new Taser guns, is back on the consent agenda for the January 14 Santa Cruz City Council meeting, after being sent to the City of Santa Cruz Public Safety Committee on December 2 for discussion. The use of Tasers by police is a topic of concern for those advocating against police brutality, who want the weapons either banned altogether, or at minimum classified the same as othe...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:25PM
No War With Iran! Protest in Monterey 
Window On The Bay / Monterey Waterfront Park, intersection of Del Monte Ave and Camino El Estero, Monterey, CA...
Event Date: Thu Jan 9, 2020 4:00PM
Posted: Tue Jan 7, 2020 6:14PM
No War With Iran! Nationwide Protest (Santa Cruz) 
Clock Tower, Water Street and N. Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Thu Jan 9, 2020 5:00PM
Posted: Tue Jan 7, 2020 6:01PM
No War On Iran (Santa Cruz) 
Town Clock, Pacific Avenue and Water Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat Jan 4, 2020 3:30PM
Posted: Sat Jan 4, 2020 4:31AM
Monterey Protest: No War on Iran! U.S. Out of Iraq! 
Window On The Bay / Monterey Waterfront Park, Del Monte Ave, Monterey, California 93940...
Event Date: Sat Jan 4, 2020 4:00PM
Posted: Fri Jan 3, 2020 9:35PM
Additional Context Behind Photo of City Council Candidate Renee Golder Dressed as a Native American 
A newly discovered social media post provides additional context behind the photo of Santa Cruz City Council replacement candidate Renee Golder and her husband Mike Golder dressed up as Native Americans with their children at a party. The party appears to have been planned with a Native American theme; a public message on social media to Heidi Rhodes, the host of the party, from her father states: "Happy Birthday Sweetie, I got my Injun' outfit!" Her response was: "See ya tonight Chief" (see ...
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:02PM
Protest Against ICE in Santa Cruz 
The Clock Tower, intersection of Pacific Ave. & Water St., Santa Cruz, California 95060...
Event Date: Fri Jan 3, 2020 4:00PM
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 10:56AM
Winter Shelter Suggestions for Community Action 
Here's the flyer version of a regularly updated series of suggestions I make when announcing my twice-weekly netcast show on Free Radio Santa Cruz at freakradio.org. The shows are archived as audible files at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html with content summarized at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/ ....
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 8:15PM
Court: Trump Administration Unlawfully OK’d Longline Fishing Off California 
OAKLAND, Calif., December 21, 2019 — A federal district court has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to adequately analyze threats to critically endangered leatherback sea turtles when it allowed longline fishing off California. The Trump administration violated the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in failing to consider the best available science on impacts to leatherbacks....
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:37PM