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In response to an endless stream of tickets from police and rangers for illegal sleeping, Santa Cruz homeless people are now engaged in an ongoing protest against the sleeping ban. In the early morning of August 16th, over 30 people were sleeping on the hard bricks at City Hall. People have slept at City Hall, 809 Center Street, every night since August 12th to visualize their lack of a place to legally sleep. There are no plans to end the protest until people are allowed to legally sleep som...

A persistent sleep-at-night, protest-during the day, assembly in front of Santa Cruz City Hall goes into its fourth night tonight Wednesday August 15th. Support, publicity, and solidarity are earnestly requested....

Santa Cruz City Hall was the most recent location to be transformed into an outdoor movie theater by the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In collective and guests. On August 12th, the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In and Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom (HUFF) presented a special screening of Sir! No Sir!, David Zeiger's documentary chronicling the largely forgotten anti-war activities of American GIs and other members of the military during the Vietnam era. The screening was one of many activ...

On August 9th, I cautiously rode my bicycle to the intersection of Bay and Mission Streets. I was at this intersection two days ago for a memorial to John Myslin, however those of us there were unaware of his identity at that time. We now know that Mr. Myslin was loved by his students at Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz where he was a devoted teacher of history, his favorite subject. John Myslin's younger brother Robert commented online that he will remember John as "a teacher, a bro...

August 6, 2007 Our union bargaining team met with the UC Administration Thursday and Friday, July 27 and 28. We had productive exchanges over several important topics. However, much more progress is needed for us to achieve our goal of getting a strong new contract by September 30 (the expiration date of the current contract). We made progress in strengthening our non-discrimination rights; the administration’s latest proposal was responsive to ours, including protections against discri...

In our on-going efforts to fight the downtown police state, Free Skool Santa Cruz teachers will be helping to abolish the Santa Cruz sleeping ban. On Sunday, we are offering a Know Your Rights workshop in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz....

On Tuesday, August 7, a cyclist was killed at the busy intersection of Bay and Mission Streets in Santa Cruz when he was hit by a semi truck making a right hand turn. Word of the tragedy spread fast and a vigil was organized and started at 6pm. Many people, bike activists, daily bike commuters and witnesses of the accident, came to the vigil and paid respects, some held signs, some brought flowers....

8-7-07 A cyclist was run over and killed by a semi-truck turning right onto Bay towards campus from the westward lane of Mission Street. I was able to take these photos as I encountered this scene on my way to the UC Santa Cruz campus via bicycle, along the Bay Street bicycle lane. Bay street was blocked off and traffic was backed up on Mission. The body had already been removed, but the pool of blood is visible here. One can judge the configuration of the vehicles in the intersection h...

The Street Shit Sheet is an occasional screed masquerading as a homeless newsletter written largely by Robert Norse. Past issues are available in hard copie in the Main Santa Cruz Library and as scattered pages on www.huffsantacruz.org....

Typically, the set of folks running the Guerilla-drive in movie series in Santa Cruz uses a white building wall by the train tracks next to a winery near Safeway during the summer, and the inside Bike church during the winter series. Movies are shown every two weeks, and they select from a solicited list of films which are arty, funny, old blockbusters which aged badly and allow reinterpretation, and so on. They usually have about 5 short films at the start....