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Free Skool Santa Cruz DISTRO DAY II (11/8) You are invited to pick up a Winter 2006 Free Skool Calendar or help pass 'em out at the Farmer's Market this Wednesday, November 8 starting at 4pm. Take 'em to your friends, leave them at the places you hang out, give one to your mom! You can also leave them in our awesome new DIY calendar boxes posted around town (see locations below)....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 12:06pm PST
Common Vision Tour Featuring Human, Arjun, Guardians, Rocker T and Jah Warrior Shelter 
Common Vision, the good people who are planting fruit trees and teaching percussion to school children throughout the state, are partway through their recycled-veggie-oil-powered benefit tour.
Please get out and support these incredible people... and have a great time rocking to some reggae sounds....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 5:54pm PST
Political Killings in the Philippines, Film Screening at UC Santa Cruz (11/9) 
In response to the rapidly increasing number of political killings perpetrated by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s regime, the Critical Filipina/o Studies Cluster of UCSC will be holding a special film screening at 6:30pm, Thursday, November 9th at Oakes Learning Center. Come and learn about what’s going in a country severely affected by U.S. imperialist interests....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 2:27am PST
School Beat: Supporting Public Education in the Voting Booth Election day, this year falling on Tuesday November 7th, is once again an extremely signification day for San Francisco's public schools. Voters will drastically shape the physical and political context of our school system as they select a Governor, San Francisco Board of Education members, and decide whether or not we will have sufficient funds to repair our school structures as legally mandated. Starting at the top, Schwarzenegger is once again donning the mantle of the education governor....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 8:49am PST
Children, culture, borders, and the future. 
Simple fun and serious issues: A Halloween Carnival, a small thing in a complex world, helps build a bridge of success for students and community....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 5:00pm PST
NorCal Zapatista Solidarity With Oaxaca! Networking Zapatista Solidarity throughout NorCal regions. The crisis in Oaxaca requires additional direct action to draw media attention to the abuse of the people of Oaxaca by police thugs....
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 5:00pm PST
Free Skool Santa Cruz Winter Quarter Begins Free Skool Santa Cruz Winter Quarter begins next Wednesday!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 29, 2006 5:57pm PST
Practical Activism Conference at UCSC Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room
University of California, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 28, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 2:52am PDT
Lt. Governor Candidate Wants Free Education By 2009 The plan Alexander is presenting will unfold over the next three years; first, students will receive a 35 percent reduction in college tuition fees by 2007, by 2008 students will receive an additional 20 percent reduction on fees, and by 2009 all state colleges and universities will offer free education....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:54pm PDT
10/26: Educator Happy Hour with ACLU-NC Educator Happy Hour for Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 9:45pm PDT
5-Week Digital Filmmaking Class Starting Soon: MAKE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY!!! 
MAKE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY in only 5 weeks at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 2:46pm PDT
Regents Meeting (Short Video) Video repost from YouTube. The description: "UCSC Regents locked in a building surrounded by students." It's a 22 second long clip from the craziest moment of the day....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 3:22am PDT
Highlights from UC Regents Protest at UCSC 
Much has been said and written about the UC Regents protest at UCSC on Wednesday, Oct. 18. These photos aren't meant to explain the situation in full, but to fill in some gaps in coverage and highlight some of the most interesting and inspiring moments....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 1:06am PDT
Victims of Violence: When UC Police Attack 
If you've taken a glance at the corporate press' headlines recently, you'd see something like this: "UC Santa Cruz Protest Turns Violent," or, my favorite, "Police Break Up Violent Protest at UC Regents Meeting." The mainstream media blatently suggests that it was the students - the protesters - that were violent. Yet, to have violence you have to have victims. 'cus if nothing or no one was hurt, how can you claim that any crime has been committed?
If you look at Wednesday's (Oct. 18, 200...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 8:20pm PDT
Weeping Wednesday: A Protest Against the UC Regents 
The first big protests of the 2006-2007 school year at UC Santa Cruz took place on October 18th, 2006, the day the UC Regents came to visit campus. It had been five years since all 26 UC Regents came to UCSC. During the second demonstration of the day by hundreds of students outside the new Humanities Building at Cowell College, police pushed, swung and jabbed with their batons before taking three students hostage and hurling streams of pepper spray directly into the eyes of demonstrators....
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Stop the Killings! A Series of Events Addressing Political Repression in the Philippines This is an announcement for a series of events designed to both raise consciousness about political repression in the Philippines and build organizations in the US to help fight it....
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 4:27pm PDT
Students and Workers (Re)United for Justice! 
On October 18th, AFSCME workers and students at UC Santa Cruz held a rally in the Baytree Plaza and then marched to the base of campus calling on UC President Dynes to release funds promised by the California Legislature to low-paid UC workers. AFSCME workers and students are also demanding wages comparable to those of neighboring colleges and universities where people are paid up to 30% more for doing the same amount or less work.
At the base of campus, people immediately marched into the...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 2:06pm PDT
Summary of Events: UCSC Protests Regents Visit With misinformation rampant about the protest of the UC Regents visit to UC Santa Cruz, here's one student activist's attempt to provide one perspective of the story...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 12:56am PDT
AFSCME and Friends March for Wage Parity, Justice 
At noon on Wednesday, October 18, 2006, members of AFSCME 3299 and their supporters marched from the Bay Tree Plaza to the base of campus, where a roving picket line was held, followed by a rally. The workers have been engaged in a year-long struggle to receive wages similiar to those of neighboring colleges and universities where people can make up to 30% more for the same (or less) work. Over the summer, the California State Assembly passed legislation funding these wage increases, yet UC P...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 4:59pm PDT
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