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Posner Sets Office Hours for Input Around Street Performer & Other Pacific Avenue Stuff After some delay Micah Posner has agreed to be in his office 11 AM to noon every Friday to hear take input on the new (goes into effect December 25th) "Performer Pens" law. He asks that folks call in advance if they're planning to come in on his office line at 831-420-5028. For this Friday only, Posner says he'll be in the office at 3:30 PM. Lest there be any confusion or false hopes raised, Posner is not promising (or likely) to introduce changes to the ordinance or even speak out pub...
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2014 8:58am PST
Council Moves to Shut Down "Shame" Protest; Excludes Public; Jettisons Agenda Every single speaker opposed the acquisition of a new armored police vehicle at the afternoon City Council meeting. When two speakers turned their backs on the Council, outgoing Mayor Robinson made arrest threats, further heightening the tension in the room. At one point the Council left the room, leaving the community to organize its own meeting. They shortly returned, quickly voted in the police vehicle, without giving a clear answers to questions about the deadline requirement, addition...
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2014 10:29pm PST
Inequality Under the Law Time to Reexamine Ourselves as a Community...
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2014 1:45pm PST
Free Radio Santa Cruz Announces September Activist of the Month almost as late as our rent announcement of activist of the month sept....
Posted: Fri, Dec 5, 2014 1:34am PST
SCPD No Disclosure of When People were PepperSprayed, Choked, Tasered, Gun-Bullied or Shot In August of this year, the SCPD forwarded me its Policy 300, covering Use of Force. They also refused to respond to the substantive part of my request detailing when and where they drew their guns, shot their guns, used their tasers, initiated choke holds, used their clubs or pepper-sprayed. City Council's "Public Safety" Committee has been spending its time wagging its tail behind the "Homeless Are Criminals" Public Safety Task Force and, as far as I know ignored this important issues th...
Posted: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 1:10pm PST
Lawsuit Launched Against Offshore Fracking in California's Santa Barbara Channel SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Interior Department for violating three federal laws by rubber-stamping offshore fracking in California’s Santa Barbara Channel without evaluating its polluting effects on coastal communities or blue whales, sea otters and other marine wildlife....
Posted: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 12:16pm PST
Thirty years on from Bhopal disaster: Still fighting for justice On the night of 2nd December, 1984, toxic gas had leaked from a factory run by Union Carbide India Ltd spreading fumes over a large residential area in Bhopal....
Posted: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 3:15pm PST
Santa Cruz Veterans Group Revives Thanksgiving Meal For Homeless Community Back to the Future...
Posted: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 1:13pm PST
Havasupai Tribe, Conservation Coalition Will Defend Grand Canyon From Uranium Industry GRAND CANYON, Ariz.— The Havasupai tribe and conservation groups will fight appeals filed on November 25 by two mining lobbying groups challenging a ruling by Arizona U.S. District Court Judge David G. Campbell that upheld a ban on new uranium mining claims on about one million acres adjacent to Grand Canyon....
Posted: Sat, Nov 29, 2014 2:48pm PST
Fuck the Regents and Fuck Jerry Brown Too The alternative to tuition hikes proposed by Jerry Brown, the governor of California, is to turn the UCs into 3-year degree granting institutions. He wants to fire tenured faculty and lecturers and replace them with chat rooms for the profit of millionaire Stanford graduates in Silicon Valley. Online education may be a fine supplement to classroom learning, but only someone as clueless as Brown, who has never set foot in a classroom as an educator, could think that it might replace the type o...
Posted: Mon, Nov 24, 2014 2:57pm PST
Details Murky in Officer Involved Shooting in Seaside The Monterey County Weekly is reporting that a man was killed on Laguna Street in Seaside by Seaside Police on November 22. According to the Weekly, "a source who asked to remain anonymous confirms the man, who was taken by ambulance to Natividad Medical Center, had died."...
Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 3:49am PST
From Cairo: Letter of Solidarity with the Occupations at Santa Cruz and Berkeley! A lovely solidarity letter from comrades in Egypt!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 1:05am PST
Study: Airline Fuel Efficiency Grounded as Profits Soar SAN FRANCISCO— As 24 million Americans prepare for Thanksgiving air travel, a new analysis reveals that U.S. domestic airlines showed no improvement in fuel efficiency last year, highlighting the urgent need for the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the industry’s rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions....
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 11:31am PST
Internet freedom faces new attack as China seeks to shape global web rules The Chinese government’s increasing efforts to influence global cyberspace rules is a further sign that internet freedom is under a sustained attack, said Amnesty International, ahead of China’s first World Internet Conference....
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 5:40pm PST
CUCFA statement on UC’s planned tuition increases The Council of UC Faculty Associations holds Governor Jerry Brown’s slashing of public higher education responsible for UC President Napolitano’s recent proposal to budget for 5% tuition increases every year for the next 5 years. Raising tuition is not the solution. There is a better way: provide California students and their families high quality, affordable higher education, as defined by the California Master Plan for Higher Education. The reality is that Governor Brown has not been willin...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 5:13pm PST
Restore Sidewalk Space For All; End the "One Hour of Free Speech and Get Going" Rule Item #10 on the 2:30 PM Santa Cruz City Council Agenda finalizes an ordinance which requires all performers, vendors, tablers and solicitors to restrict themselves to less than 2% of the Pacific Avenue sidewalk. Setting up these small static “performance pens” is abusive and unnecessary. Instead, end the "Forbidden Zones." They take up more than 99% of the total sidewalk area on Pacific Avenue—and more in other business districts. End the virtual Ban on traditional innocent Santa Cruz activi...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 2:12pm PST
RVs Need Safe Spaces, Not More Restrictions An Open Letter to the City of Santa Cruz Transportation and Public Works Commission...
Posted: Mon, Nov 17, 2014 12:07pm PST
"Get Out" Anti-Homeless Law...With Phony "Appeal" Process at Afternoon Council 11-18 City Council is set to exponentially expand a "Stay from Parks and Other Public Areas" law passed last year (MC 13,08.100). This law allows immediate Stay-Away orders from all parks and many other public areas (for one day). This happends at the whim of a police officer or ranger once an infraction of any kind is issued. Infractions have mainly been issued to homeless people for such "crimes" as sleeping, being in a park after dark, and smoking--500 Stay-Away orders in the last year. The ...
Posted: Sat, Nov 15, 2014 12:54pm PST
A Simple Question of Right and Wrong Stay Away Ordinance Simply Wrong in Any Form...
Posted: Fri, Nov 14, 2014 7:27pm PST
Eastern Ukraine: Both sides responsible for indiscriminate attacks The killing of a schoolboy and an 18-year-old during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday highlights a larger pattern of indiscriminate attacks which could amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said today....
Posted: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 3:40pm PST
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