Report on The Poor People's Moral Action Congress and the founding of the Committee to Re-establish the National Union of the Homeless 
Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed Jun 26, 2019 5:00PM
Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:08PM
Is New City Manager Tina Friend Bringing an Anti-Homeless Agenda to Scotts Valley? 
Without public input, freshly hired City Manager Tina Friend has drafted the City of Scotts Valley's political position on Assembly Bill 516, a state bill which would amend the California vehicle code to extend the amount of time before local authorities may legally tow a vehicle parked in public, and would also prevent the sale of vehicles after they are impounded to cover towing expenses. The bill is seen as a much needed protection for low income residents in the state; having a vehicle to...
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 5:39PM
Amidst Puerto Rico Financial Crisis, Island Religious Leaders Call for Global Debt Relief San Juan, Puerto Rico - Last week, Archbishop Roberto González—the leader of the Archdiocese of San Juan, the Secretary General of the Puerto Rico Bible Society—Reverend Heriberto Martínez and the island's Catholic Charities head, Reverend Enrique Camacho released a statement urging solidarity with countries wrestling with debt crisis and economic challenges....
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 3:20PM
ICE raids targeting migrant families slated to start Sunday in major U.S. cities 
ICE will raid family homes across the country on Sunday, June 23rd. If you witness a raid in progress or other ICE movements, document what you see. Call a legal support hotline immediately....
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 2:17PM
“Never Again” Means Act Now 
As the national conversation escalates around what to appropriately call the detention centers at the southern border, the humanitarian crisis continues.
Here are tangible actions the local Santa Cruz community can take to protest America's immigration policies and support relief efforts at the border....
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:28PM
90,000 Comments Submitted Opposing Plan for New Drilling and Fracking on Public Lands 
Monday, June 10 marked the end of the second and final public comment period on the Trump administration’s plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate across the central coast region to new oil drilling and fracking. The 45 day period, which opened with the release of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, a study of the impacts that fracking would have on in the lease plan area, was the shortest allowed by the Nat...
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:55PM
Indigenous Activist from Chile Sofia Painiqueo Visits the RCNV 
Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Mon Jul 1, 2019 4:00PM
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:18PM
Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County: July Meeting 
Santa Cruz Downtown Library - Upstairs Meeting Room
224 Church Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed Jul 10, 2019 6:00PM
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:02PM
Archbishop, Evangelical Leader and Head of Catholic Charities Call for Puerto Rico Pension San Juan, Puerto Rico - Archbishop Roberto González, the Secretary General of the Puerto Rico Bible Society Reverend Heriberto Martínez and the island's Catholic Charities head, Reverend Enrique Camacho released a statement calling for support of pension agreements and debt and disaster relief for the island on Friday....
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 3:37PM
Amah Mutsun Announce Removal of El Camino Real “Mission Bell” from UCSC Campus 
On Friday June 21 at 9:30am, representatives of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and the UC Santa Cruz administration will assemble on campus with interested community members to witness the removal of the El Camino Real bell marker....
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 3:06PM
The Radical Zine Reading and Art Show Night 
Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri Jun 28, 2019 6:00PM
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 1:14PM
Pesticide Use Remains Near Record High in California, State Data Shows 
Sacramento, CA, June 13, 2019: Pesticide use in California topped two hundred million pounds for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data just released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Included in this total are increases in use of the brain-damaging organophosphate insecticide chlorpyrifos, the soil fumigant chloropicrin, and the cancer-causing fungicides chlorothalonil and mancozeb. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s blockbuster herbicide Roundup,...
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:54PM
Santa Cruz Homeless Advocates Push Back Against Vigilante Comments 
In response to an acute period of anti-homeless vigilante comments being left on social media in Santa Cruz, homeless advocates took screen captures of the statements and displayed them for the public to see during the public comment period of the Santa Cruz City Council meeting on May 28. The violent and threatening comments were made in response to posts containing photos that identified different homeless individuals and recreational vehicles in the Facebook group "Santa Cruz Looks Like SH...
Posted: Sun Jun 9, 2019 5:59PM
Family Member Believes Man who Died in Police Custody was Denied Proper Medical Care 
On June 1, 40-year-old Kevin Allen died while in custody of the Santa Cruz Police. A SCPD press release states officers were responding to a report that a man had fallen to the ground near Water Street and River Street in Santa Cruz when they found and took Kevin Allen into custody and transported him to jail, claiming he was intoxicated. Once at the jail, medical staff there determined Allen would need to be taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead after suffering cardiac issues o...
Posted: Wed Jun 5, 2019 4:32PM
Support Syringe Services: Board of Supervisors Meeting 
701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:30PM
Posted: Sat Jun 1, 2019 6:21PM
Disaster Relief Fails to Pass House of Representatives for Third Time The disaster relief bill with support for Puerto Rico fails for a third time. Eric Lecompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA, responded....
Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 2:05PM
Raising Some Issues at Oral Communications 
Continued delay and inaction on providing homeless shelter and services (to say nothing of civil rights) for homeless folks was the silent part of yesterday's Santa Cruz City Council agenda. Several of us raised issues at Oral Communications...
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 10:16AM
Sign Our Petition to Stop Oil Drilling on Mt. Diablo and Everywhere 
The federal Bureau of Land Management’s recently released “Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement for Oil and Gas Leasing and Development” would open up public lands to oil and gas development in eleven California counties—Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Stanislaus. Approximately 725,000 acres on the Central Coast and in the Bay Area would be made available for new l...
Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 10:00AM
Strawberry & Justice Festival 2019 
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn
UC Santa Cruz 1156 High St, Santa Cruz,...
Event Date: Tue Jun 4, 2019 4:00PM
Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 4:52PM
Join Us on the Picket Line: Janus of Santa Cruz 
200 7th Ave, Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Thu May 30, 2019 2:00PM
Posted: Sat May 25, 2019 4:44PM