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Bicyclist Killed at Intersection of Bay and Mission
From the People Power website: Another Cyclist Killed at Bay and Mission: Take back Mission Street 5pm April 9th...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 8:34am PDT
Junta para el Jardin Comunitario de la Playa-Beach Flats Community Garden Meeting
El Jardin Comunitario de la Playa-hacia el final de la calle Raymond
Beach Flats Community Garden-towards the end of Raymond St....
Event Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:46pm PDT
Cuba Caravan & Oaxaca Film Event
Office of the Watsonville Brown Berets
408 Main Street
Watsonville, CA 95076...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 10:27pm PDT
Reel Work for the Environment (5/3)
Saturday, May 3, 4 PM
“REEL WORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT" Vegetarian Potluck, Music & Films: "A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions From Curitiba, Brazil" & Sierra Club films about solar, wind power, biodiesel & community gardens. Speakers: Maria Vaz & Giovanni Vaz Del Bello (Filmmakers), Jeffrey Smedberg (Recycling Coordinator), Dr. Peter Weiss ("The Singing Scientist" & UCSC Professor in Atmospheric Climate Change), Ray Newkirk (President of Pacific Biofuel), Catalina Siri (Founder of "Sprouting...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 5:39pm PDT
Free film screening of INCIDENT AT OGLALA - the Leonard Peltier Story
Big Yellow House
742 N. Branciforte
Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 3:28pm PDT
Guerilla Midnight Movie: REPO MAN (4/11)
The return of Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 2:43pm PDT
Moving Because of LBAM Spray - California’s Refugee Problem
Have You Moved Or Are You Planning To Move If CDFA Aerially Sprays in 2008?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 11:18pm PDT
Santa Cruz Wells Fargo Paint Bombed
Santa Cruz Wells Fargo Paint Bombed...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 12:24pm PDT
Plan Presented at Second Meeting to Save the Beach Flats Community Garden
The second public meeting to save the Beach Flats Community Garden took place on April 3rd. At the meeting, the gardeners put forward a plan for the garden to be managed by the gardeners. Reyna Ruiz of the Beach Flats Community Center said that the plan was something that she could work with and present to the Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation as well as the Seaside Company which claims ownership over the land. The gardeners asked Brent, a supportive neighbor of the garden, to accompany Re...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 8:06pm PDT
UCSF, AFSCME action March 3
AFSCME workers rallied in front of the UCSF medical center on March 3rd....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 1:18pm PDT
Oaxaca Today: paz sin justicia (4/9)
On Wednesday, April 9th, at the Resource Center for Nonviolence at 7pm, filmmaker Simón Sedillo will lead a bilingual multi-media workshop / presentation that will include scene selections from three films, "El Enemigo Común" (2005), "El Machete" (2007) and "Paz Sin Justicia" (2008), in order to illustrate neoliberal atrocities and community based resistance to them in Oaxaca, Mexico....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:46pm PDT
7th Annual Reelwork Film Festival 2008
The 7th annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival is jam packed this year with seventeen different events starting April 25th, and ending May 11th. From its inception, Reel Work has brought together award-winning documentary film producers, workers, activists, students and the public with the goal of increasing community awareness of the central role of work in our lives, to discuss economic and global justice issues and to bring alive the history and culture of the labor movement in the U...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:10pm PDT
Aerial Spray Violates 23 Human Rights
Aerial Spray Program Imposed by CDFA May Violate Human Rights and Incur Liabilities
A detailed outline of 23 international human rights violations...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:13am PDT
PeaceTalks: Upcoming Candidate Forums for State Assembly & County Supervisor (audio/mpeg 8.5MB)
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Micah Posner, Director of People Power, about the upcoming candidate forums for State Assembly and County Supervisor....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:30am PDT
Cleaning, Weeding and Tilling in the Beach Flats
At the March 27th meeting to discuss the Beach Flats Community Garden, Reyna Ruiz of the Beach Flats Community Center passed out flyers encouraging people to "spend the day outside making the neighborhood beautiful" by participating in a Community Clean-Up (Día De Limpieza en La Comunidad) on March 29th. Some people lent a hand or two by picking up trash throughout the neighborhood and other folks gave their time to beautify the Beach Flats Community Garden. Everything was going really well u...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 1:50am PDT
Labor Complaints point to Human Rights Abuses at Lakeside Organics
Public complaints made against the Watsonville-based Lakeside Organics corporation point to systemic human rights abuses by the Lakeside Organics corporation. These complaints serve as a reminder that organic certification often does always take into consideration abusive labor conditions....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 11:46pm PDT
Police Raid D-Q University: Eighteen Students, Elders and Supporters Arrested
On March 31st, César Chávez Day, the Yolo County Sheriff's Department raided the buildings at Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl, also known as D-Q University....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 11:10pm PDT
Si, Se Puede! UFW Endorses Bill Monning for Assembly
UFW Endorses Bill Monning for 27th Assembly District: President Arturo Rodriguez chooses Chavez' birthday to make the announcement. Bill Monning was legal counsel for the UFW during its hey day....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 1:16pm PDT
Sheriff Visits DQU; Elders, Students and Supporters Prepare for Possible Raid
On Sunday, March 30th, a group of about 15 people drove from Santa Cruz to DQU in support of DQU students, elders, land and future generations. At 7:38pm, a Yolo County Sheriff drove onto the property of DQU and then left after about a minute. It is very rare for a Sheriff to drive onto DQU....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 10:42pm PDT
Initial Meeting to Save the Beach Flats Community Garden / Primer Reunion Para Salvar El Jardín Comunitario de la Playa
On March 27th, a meeting was convened at the Beach Flats Community Garden to preserve the special community space and support it's gardeners. The well-attended meeting was a discussion between various concerned parties, including Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Superintendent Carol Scurich, Reyna Ruiz from the Beach Flats Community Center, about a dozen community gardeners, neighbors and other local supporters. Translation between English and Spanish was important, though there were time...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 10:09pm PDT