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US-Mexico Workers Solidarity March & Action On 3/5/17 For Driscoll's Agricultural Work 
Mexican and US trade unionists, youth and human rights advocates rallied on both sides of the border in San Ysidro and Tijuana in opposition to union busting, NAFTA and the racist wall and ICE attacks on Latinos and immigrant workers....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2017 8:33pm PST
SCPD/ICE Plot Thickens: Chief Vogel Admits ICE Agent Embedded in SCPD 
Sanctuary Ordinance Vote Passes Santa Cruz City Council...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 3:45pm PST
Trump proposes massive budget cuts while his family profits from section 8 tenants If the extreme right-wing Trump administrations scheme to grab $54 billion from our nation’s non-defense programs occurs, thousands of children, veterans, the chronically ill, elderly, blind, disabled and low-income families will become homeless in the Bay Area!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 8:29am PST
Santa Cruz Raid Scandal Underscores Need for CA Values Act 
In response to recent revelations that ICE lied to local officials in Santa Cruz regarding recent raids, the following organizations - ACLU of California, Advancing Justice - California, the California Immigrant Policy Center, and PICO California - issued the statement below:...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2017 4:39am PST
Santa Cruz Police Cooperate with ICE on Militarized Immigration Raids (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) As reported and documented by Santa Cruz Indymedia, the Santa Cruz Police Department cooperated with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to carryout militarized immigration sweeps in Santa Cruz County....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 8:22pm PST
New Western Monarch and Milkweed Website Launched 
The Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper will facilitate the study and conservation of the monarch butterfly in western states....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2017 4:39pm PST
Activists Protest Hewlett Packard Enterprise Profiteering from Racist Policies in Israel-Palestine and the U.S. 
A coalition of social justice activists demonstrated against Hewlett Packard Enterprise outside the annual RSA cyber-security conference in San Francisco. HPE enables and profits from Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and from racist immigration and incarceration policies in the United States....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 9:51am PST
Raids on Santa Cruz Immigrant Communities Cause Severe Damage Eyewitness and on-the-ground accounts from those directly affected by the recent pre-dawn raids launched by Department of Homeland Security and Santa Cruz Police Department on Monday, February 13 2017....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2017 1:51am PST
Highly Militarized ICE Raids on California's Central Coast 
Immigrant communities across the country are on edge after federal immigration agents arrested over 600 people in the past week in the largest raids since Donald Trump became president. Raids were reported in at least 11 states, including California, New York, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2017 5:56pm PST
Trump's elite cabinet poised to wage class warfare Trump rode into office as a populist for the working class; however his nominees are neoconservative politicos who intend to wage war on the middle class; can what happened to Detroit expand nationwide? Why people must unify and act quickly...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 4:58pm PST
Marchers Hit Up 8 Banks Funding DAPL in Palo Alto 
Rocking Palo Alto's downtown shopping and banking hub, protestors took the message "Defund DAPL" to eight banks that help fund the Dakota Access Pipeline today....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2017 9:23pm PST
Monarch Butterfly Population Drops by Nearly One-third 
Iconic Butterfly Has Declined by More Than 80 Percent in Recent Decades...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2017 3:26pm PST
GOP leader threatens Berkeley protesters for protesting at Cal Berkeley In response to the February 1st protest in Berkeley against the assault on sanctuary campuses, a day later, GOP leader Dan Adamini, Secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party in Michigan promoted the idea that we need another Kent State massacre to bring an end to protests at Cal Berkeley!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2017 9:45pm PST
Thousands Protest Trump's Muslim Ban at San Francisco International Airport 
On January 28, 2017, thousands of people gathered at airports in the United States to protest President Donald Trump's executive order returning refugees and other visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries. According to various sources, more than 2,000 people were at the protest at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York City with other protests appearing at airports around the U.S....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2017 12:32am PST
Everything You Need to Know About Milo and the Alt-Right in Berkeley 
Milo Yiannopoulos is a 32 year man who has managed to gain wealth and fame off being an internet troll while mainstreaming the rise of the so-called ‘Alt-Right’ along with anti-feminist, anti-trans, and anti-Muslim beliefs....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2017 10:44am PST
What Milo and the Alt-Right get wrong about the Free Speech Movement A speaking event by Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley was cancelled last night after a protest erupted outside the Student Union. Yiannopoulos was scheduled to appear at the Pauley Ballroom, inside the building. Milo and his supporters have claimed that the protest and the cancellation was counter to the values of Free Speech. The Alt-Right have tried to identify their movement as an extension, or modern incarnation, of the Free Speech movement. Milo's supporters have invoked Mario Savio's...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 5:45pm PST
Bay Area Teachers, Parents & Public Education Supporters Rally Against Trump Appointment of Betsy DeVos 
Hundreds of teachers, parents and supporters of public education rallied in Oakland on January 31, 2017 against the appointment by Trump of Betsy DeVos...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2017 8:58pm PST
Narratives from the J28 SFO Protests 
If you had told me two months ago that the SF International Airport would be shut down by hundreds of liberals chanting “no borders, no nations,” — I would have thought you had completely lost your grip on reality....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 12:38pm PST
Afrikan Black Coalition Pushes UC to Terminate $475 Million Worth of Wells Fargo Contracts 
The UC’s decision to discontinue $475 million worth of contracts and line of credit comes on the heels of several cities and states terminating their relationships with a bank that has caused great harm to our communities....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 1:09am PST
Israel is no Democracy: A letter to Jimmy Panetta A letter I sent to Jimmy Panetta regarding his his recent vote for HR 11, the non-binding resolution opposing UN sanctions of Israel. I filled my letter with eye witness information from my recent trip to Palestine to try to explain the subterfuge around the claim that Israel is a Democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2017 9:32pm PST
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