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After Downing Street and CODEPINK Rock Santa Cruz (video/quicktime 47.5MB)
"Making Change / Creating Peace" was intended as an antidote for people who find themselves asking, "But what can I do about it??" Local Santa Cruz peace advocates invited Karen Meredith of Goldstar Families Speak Out, David Swanson of www.afterdowningstreet.org and Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK Women for Peace to talk about practical ways people can bring about urgently needed change in the leadership of this country and an end to war....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 11:54pm PST
Mayor Mathews Interview On FRSC Sunday 10 AM
HUFF, the Human Rights Organization, SAFE, and Housing Now! in Santa Cruz sent two letters to Mayor Cynthia Mathews urging fairer treatment and an end to repressive behavior at City Council. Instead of answering our phone calls and letter, Mathews agreed to meet. The meeting was taped and will be replayed 10 AM Sunday February 19 on Free Radio Santa Cruz. A shorter segment will be played on Thursday evening at 7:30 PM....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 10:50pm PST
Just Us Voicing Our Concerns to Santa Cruz's Public Safety Committee
On February 13th, Just Us and the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra held a press conference and rally to call attention to Santa Cruz Police Department spying and their investigation clearing themselves of any wrongdoing. Police Auditor Bob Aaronson's rejection of the results of the SCPD’s investigation of its own behavior set the tone for the meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the Santa Cruz City Council. The Committee stated that they were not going to make any decisions until they had a ch...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 9:54pm PST
EL ENEMIGO COMUN at special GDI showing (2/16)
El Enemigo Común (the Common Enemy): Austin Indymedia's New Documentary on Capitalism, Empire and Oaxacan Campesinos...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 8:23am PST
Santa Cruz "Spygate" on Free Radio Santa Cruz Thursday & Sunday
Selections from the "Delay is Okay" Santa Cruz City Council's Public Safety Committee meeting of Tuesday Feb. 13th and a subsequent interview by Police "Auditor" Bob Arenson will play and be up for discussion on Bathrobespierre's Broadsides at 101.1 FM Thursday 6:30-8 PM and during the Sunday Feb 18 9:30 AM - 1 PM show. Call in at 831-427-3772 and listen on the net at www.freakradio.org Shows archived at www.huffsantacruz.org....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 5:19pm PST
FSRN: SCPD Internal Probe of Surveillance Rejected (audio/mpeg 2.7MB)
Police in Santa Cruz, CA released a 600 page report Friday, detailing its internal probe of surveillance conducted on DIY New Year's parade meetings. City officials who initially praised the report as 'thorough and complete' are now backpedalling, and have authorized an independent investigation. FSRN's Vinny Lomabrdo has more....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:35am PST
Investigation Reveals More SCPD Spying
Auditor pans Internal Police Report; Details of Internal Investigation reveal pattern of abuses: spying on other first amendment activities, profiling innocent people, gathering bad intelligence
Aaronson, in a letter to Council circulated at Monday's Public Safety Committee, said the investigation "is incomplete and flawed for a very predictable reason."
download PDF
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/aaronson-letter.pdf...
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 10:21am PST
Making Change/Creating Peace! What Each of Us Can Do Today, Tomorrow, The Next Day... (2/15)
Making Change/Creating Peace!
What Each of Us Can Do Today, Tomorrow, the Next Day, the Day After
That, and.... to End the Iraq War and Remove the Neocons from Power!!
This is a rare chance to hear two of the foremost leaders in the peace
and justice movement today, giving each of us concrete ways that we
can TAKE ACTION NOW TO BRING THE WAR AND OCCUPATION IN IRAQ TO AN END,
REMOVE THE BUSH REGIME FROM POWER, AND RESTORE OUR DEMOCRACY!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 9:26am PST
'JUST US' Action to Respond to SCPD Internal Investigation
Say No! to police spying, to their flawed investigation, and to the SCPD hasty-assembled one-page policy that justifies their violations of your civil liberties....
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 5:05pm PST
UCSC Military Recruitment Debate Reportback
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, UCSC's Colleges 9 and 10 hosted a tightly-controlled debate on the issue of military recruitment. The two speakers were William Griffin, in charge of Army recruitment for the Monterey Bay area, and Mario Ramirez Hardy, a long-time counter-recruitment organizer and GI Rights Hotline counselor....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:32pm PST
Internal Investigation Reveals SCPD Out of Control
SCPD clears themselves of any wrongdoing in infiltrating parade planning meetings, justifies behavior, and adopts hastily-assembled one-page policy with no first amendment protections and paves way to spy on any group any time....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 1:41pm PST
UCSC Academic Senate releases Tent City Report that includes anonymous spy testimony
The USCS Academic Senate task force investigating the "Tent City" events released its report to the public today. The report implicates activist David Solnit and quotes a statement by an "unnamed individual who attended the workshop at the Resource Center for Nonviolence."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 8:45pm PST
Pentagon spy list classifies UC Santa Cruz anti-war protest as "credible threat"
A number of college students were thrust into the fray of a national debate on covert domestic spying programs over winter break when NBC news released a leaked internal U.S. Military document that classified several student-organized anti-war demonstrations as "suspicious incidents."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 7:36pm PST
CITY OF LOST CHILDREN at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In (2/10)
A lyrical, strange, and hypnotic sci-fi fairy tale. With a mad scientist who kidnaps children to steal their dreams, only a brave young girl and a kindhearted circus strongman can save them....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 9:08pm PST
Radical Folksingers Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery at 7pm before El Enemigo Común (2/16)
Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery are coming to town! They will be playing at the RCNV on February 16th at 7:00pm before El Enemigo Común, which will start at 8pm.
Ryan and Mark, from Riot-Folk! Records, will be doin' what they do best: playing hard-hitting anarchist folk music.
It's Not Just Bush (It's the System!)
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/itsnotjustbush.mp3...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 4:52pm PST
New Orleans: The American Disaster
A week-long series of panels and workshops examining the institutionalized disparities magnified by Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 7:49pm PST
Disaster Capitalism After Katrina (2/21)
"Come on Home" documentary video on Katrina reconstruction --- disaster capitalism in action!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 5:03pm PST
SCPD Police Spying Scandal - deputy chief leads investigation
Deputy Chief Vogel asked by City Council to investigate himself...
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 2:41pm PST
El Enemigo Común premiers in Santa Cruz (2/16)
Come to the Resource Center for Nonviolence for a viewing of the new film, El Enemigo Común (The Common Enemy) on Thursday, February 16th at 8:00pm.
Directed by Simon Sedillo - Director in Attendence
(Video Trailer and 3 Audio PSAs are Below!)...
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2006 12:37pm PST
Santa Cruz Indymedia Flyer and PSA
Front and Back 1/4 Sheet Flyer -- (2) .pdf -- print, copy and distribute
Audio PSA: with music and without music...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 6:21pm PST