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Mayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion (video/mp4 165.0MB) At the March 14th meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council, Mayor Fred Keeley introduced a surprise motion targeting homeless residents who panhandle on traffic medians (watch video below). Keeley's motion was not included anywhere in the meeting's agenda packet, he spontaneously inserted it into an unrelated vote on item #15, which concerned bicycle safety improvements and the removal of automobile parking on Laurel Street. Keeley stated the motion as follows: "Add additional direction that th...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 8:06am PDT
Food Not Bombs Will Not Be Silenced 
A global war is boiling in the back kitchen with the noisy rattling of a brass kettle on a gas stove left unattended. Millions of us stand at the register discovering our food stamps have diminished leaving our families with half full bellies as the banks of the exploiters slide into insolvency promising to take us all down with them....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2023 7:16pm PDT
East Meadow Update 3/12/23 
There is a major new development in the long and tangled story of Student Housing West with its reckless proposal to develop the East Meadow. The University has just asked the UC Regents for approval of a new approach to building and financing the project. SHW would now no longer be a public-private partnership and would be funded with bonds issued by the University. Most distressing, the East Meadow would be placed on a fast track, constructed and financed independently of the rest. If the R...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2023 6:27pm PDT
Forcing the Homeless of Santa Cruz into the Harsh Torrents of the Atmospheric River 
A Special Kind of Cruelty...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2023 1:01pm PDT
Activist Leads Fight to Stop Harassment of Vehicular Residents In an extensive and well-documented article on LookOut, activist Reggie Meisler published his research and activism to defend the rights of those in vehicles being harassed by police. Cops have been threatening and ticketing for signs not permitted by the Costal Commission....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2023 5:00pm PST
Food Not Bombs announces Meals-at-City-Hall today after top cop bans Lot #10 serving Harsh rainy weather, the City's failure to provide adequate 24-hour Warming Center facility, and the Chief Escalante's recent ban on serving in the protected parking garage #10 have prompted the free survival food service to move to City Hall today and likely during future rainy days until reasonable alternatives are allowed....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2023 8:56am PST
We Demand Santa Cruz City and County Officials Open 24 Hour Emergency Shelters Now! 
Protect the Homeless from the Ravages of the Atmospheric River...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 12:51pm PST
East Meadow Update 
February 13, 2023 - The East Meadow remains intact – no bulldozers in sight. What is less immediately evident, however, is why that is so. Why has an administration so hell-bent on destroying the meadow been unable to do so?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2023 10:19pm PST
Follow-Up Protest Questions for Tuesday February 7th 11 AM 
A second protest is slated for the Mountain Community Resource Center after a woman videoing the midnight eviction of a homeless man for "trespass" was arrested, brutalized, and faces a year in jail and $1000 fine....
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2023 8:10pm PST
Stop Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center Driving Homeless Out Into the Rain 
Charges of cruel, discriminatory, and unnecessary evictions of unhoused folks into survival-threatening weather at Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center have prompted this protest. Two fliers describe the situation and ask the community to respond....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2023 11:26am PST
RV Human Rights Activists Challenges Santa Cruz City Police Violations Reggie Meisler, civil liberties defender of unhoused rights, is waiting for an answer to his January 9th letter to Santa Cruz City Manager Matt Huffaker, Mayor Fred Keeley, Police Chief Rudy Escalante, and the S.C. City Council. Meisler calls for Huffaker to direct his SCPD to stop harassing and uprooting those whose vehicles are their shelter by misusing the "abandoned vehicle" tagging law....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 7:07pm PST
Santa Cruz City Mangler Closes Civic Auditorium Shelter Yesterday, City Manager Matt Huffaker sent me his first-ever e-mail in response to my denunciation of the closing of the Civic Auditorium Emergency Shelter as torrential rains approach....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2023 2:28pm PST
Keith McHenry, Co-founder of “Food Not Bombs” Global Movement, Arrested Today 
December 27, 2022 - Keith McHenry, the co-founder of the global movement “Food Not Bombs” was arrested today and is in jail now....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2022 5:45pm PST
Santa Cruz Homeless Death List for 2023: Follow-Up 
Two public ceremonies were held December 21st where the names of the unhoused dead for the year (some of them) were read. My response was the attached flyer, reprinted in the Serf City Times, suggesting some obvious but likely to be ignored remedies to ward off the 2023 deaths list. Also attached is the Homeless Persons Health Project/County report....
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2022 10:52am PST
Alwa Gordon Celebrates Release of Debut Album “Thanks for Waiting” with Hometown Show 
Alwa Gordon Celebrates Release of Debut Album “Thanks for Waiting” with
Hometown Santa Cruz County Vibes at Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz Recording Studios...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2022 4:34pm PST
Legal Agreement Blocks Oil Drilling on 725,000 Acres of California Central Coast 
MARINA, Calif., December 6, 2022 — A federal judge approved an agreement today to suspend new oil and gas leasing across more than 725,000 acres of public lands in California’s Central Coast and the Bay Area. The legal agreement was reached by conservation groups, Monterey County, Santa Cruz County and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 11:58am PST
Correcting the Story: San Lorenzo Benchlands Demolition to begin 9 AM on Tuesday 10-25 Contrary to what was posted in Jessica York's recent Sentinel Story, the time of the Tuesday October 25th demolition of the next--to-the-last segment of the San Lorenzo Benchlands Survival Camp will be at 9 AM not at noon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 23, 2022 6:41pm PDT
Santa Cruz City Workers Commence First Strike in City’s History 
Santa Cruz City workers represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521 commenced the first strike in the history of the city today. Essential City workers are demanding concrete commitments to equity and an end to unfair labor practices. Picket lines have been established at various locations in the City of Santa Cruz, including city hall, municipal wharf, wastewater treatment plant, water treatment plant, and corporation yard. The ULP Strike will continue Tuesday, Octo...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2022 12:22pm PDT
SEIU Strike to Impact City Services in Santa Cruz 
City of Santa Cruz workers represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521 are scheduled to begin an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike starting Monday, October 17, at city hall. The ULP Strike will continue Tuesday, October 18 through Friday, October 21 at various locations, including city hall, wastewater treatment plant, water treatment plant, and corporation yard. Union leaders will hold a press conference at Santa Cruz City Hall on Monday, October 17 at 9 AM, and t...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2022 11:05am PDT
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