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On October 18, over 300 people gathered at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium for UCSC’s “No Place Like Home” forum. The event revealed the results of months of research by UCSC students into how the local housing crisis is impacting Santa Cruz residents. As part of the study, hundreds of members of our union took part in surveys and interviews with students....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 2:59pm PDT
School district has ignored bigotry and racial hostility for years...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 2:40pm PDT
Liberty Project OKed as Officials Seek to Expand Offshore Leasing, Relax Drilling Safety Rules...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 2:25pm PDT
Appleton Event Lounge, 410 Rodriguez St., Downtown Watsonville...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2018 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 2:12pm PDT
Santa Cruz Downtown Library - Upstairs Meeting Room
224 Church Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2018 6:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 1:49pm PDT
the guy running for office in this pimc article went to santa clara uni
so people might find his oregon antics interesting...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 1:29pm PDT
A day after we share food with over 200 people, the Post Office adds a permanent iron fence to keep out those without housing. This after announcing the closing of the River Street city run camp and the fencing off of the parks and closing toilets. Still the city and county take in $3.3 million for homeless assistance....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 1:11pm PDT
Panelists Engage in Robust Discussion on Police Practises...
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 12:40pm PDT
Yanomami indigenous people in Venezuela and Brazil are dying from a devastating measles outbreak which is sweeping through their communities.
Survival has been sounding the alarm about the deadly epidemic, but this urgent humanitarian crisis is getting worse. Many more Yanomami are sick and dying....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 8:20am PDT
By GetUp! - An explosive 4Corners report
https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/big-guns/10406306?t=joADGu8Xy&utm_campaign=4Corners
has revealed how our gun laws are being steadily eroded by a cashed-up gun lobby.1
These laws have kept our communities safe for decades — likely preventing 16 mass shootings since the tragedies of Port Arthur.2 **And whenever our gun laws are weakened, people pay for it with their lives.**...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 11:51pm PDT
Activists Say Repeated Animal Cruelty Reports Ignored By Authorities...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 9:30pm PDT
...media coup in Berkeley w/ loss of No Lies Radio cub reporter Vic Sadot...and as w/ oil war whistle blower Dr. David Kelly's bloodless death scene...same for Vince Foster...whose killer Brett just sat on the US Supreme Court...(57 min.)...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 8:02pm PDT
the American Youth Hostel
312 Mason St.
San Francisco
(meet in the lobby)...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2018 9:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 5:44pm PDT
This rally featured SF politicians, immigrant lawyers and other advocates and immigrants speaking out against the Trump Administration policy of separating children from parents at the border (80 minutes)...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 5:12pm PDT
Gather at Powell St. BART Station in San Francisco...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 23, 2018 11:45am PST
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 3:58pm PDT
Twenty five thousand AFSCME 3299 workers at UC went on a three day strike against outsourcing, privatization and attacks on wages and pensions. They were joined on the picket lines at UCSF by CWA UPTE technical workers who are also without a contract and face outsourcing and privatization of their pension plan. This picket was on the first day of the three day strike on October 21, 2018...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 3:26pm PDT
Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater rim
500 14th St., Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 28, 2018 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 3:15pm PDT
Tents around Lake Merritt were rigged with lights to send a message to the city of Oakland last night. Nearby, a message was projected onto the Henry J Kaiser convention center expressing the sentiment of unhoused folks facing eviction: We Aren't Moving, Homeless Here to Stay!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 10:57am PDT
Puerto Rico's oversight board reviews a new plan on economic growth and debt payments to the island's creditors in San Juan today....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 10:15am PDT
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck, Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 10, 2018 4:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 8:19am PDT