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Iraq Moratorium community meeting
Resource Center for Non-Violence
515 Broadway
Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 2:33pm PDT
GUANTÁNAMO: pictures from home
Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, UCSC...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 11:04am PDT
Contract Victory for UAW 2865 Members
1.) *New Contract Highlights*
2.) *Contract Ratification Vote*: When and Where You Can Vote to Ratify the New Contract
3.) *Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act*: Contact Your Representative NOW and Support Strong Protections Against ALL Employment Discrimination...
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 12:11am PDT
Mad Cow Slam at The Tannery
Tannery Arts Center
1040 River Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 9:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 10:27pm PDT
De la resistencia a la construcción de estados plurinacionales
El 12 de octubre, desde cada territorio, cada comunidad, cada pueblo de nuestro Abya Yala, un solo grito hará estremecer el mundo para decir. Estamos vivos y volvemos a construir nuestros destinos....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 2:53pm PDT
Ban on Public Assemblies in Public Parking Lots at City Council Next Tuesday
Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's latest attack on the Constitution is a new local law. It will expand a bad law passed last year to ban lingering in a city parking garage. Coonerty's expansion will ban all those not parking a car or auto from all downtown city parking garages and now all downtown city parking lots. It will be coming to City Council for a first reading on the afternoon of Tuesday October 9th. soon after 3 PM. No more Food Not Bombs or Drum Circles on Wednesday. Cars, yes. hum...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 11:21am PDT
Mad Cow Slam at The Tannery this Fri 10/5
There were a few freaks who frequented the SC Poetry Slam...regulars. Well they have joined forces and have decided to stage a verbal hugging fest. They are here to assault your senses with cuddly puffy puffs that titillate and inspire. D Scott, Shimmy, Matt Jones, and Elliott Kuhn are joining as one savage poetic beast to form the boy band of boy bands, Slow Children ( www.slowchildrencollective.com)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:51pm PDT
Bookshop Santa Cruz Demo
Photos of the educational leafleting, picketting, by HRO and HUFF, and Know Your Rights street theather by DYI in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz, kicking of the first day of Homies for the Homeless Camping Ban Sleep-Out on Aug. 12, 07 at Santa Cruz City Hall. A protest that was to last only one night with hopes of talking with Mayor Riley. The mayor refused to meet with the protesters, changing her appointment process to exclude them. The protesters persisted for six nights before police fo...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 3:11pm PDT
Public hearing on aerial BIOCHEMICAL pesticide spraying
Simpkins Family Swim Center, 979 17th Ave., Live Oak...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:48am PDT
An Open Letter to The Shit Smearers
Smearing shit all over publicly accessible restrooms is stupid, politically counterproductive, and unethical, among many other adjectives. Don't do it. Quit it. Now....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 8:38pm PDT
Students Against War (SAW) meeting
Conference Rooms Above the Baytree Bookstore
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 5:44pm PDT
Professor Catherine Waldby: The Biopolitics of Reproduction
Humanities 1, room 210
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 10:33am PDT
Trash Orchestra Parades to Mime Troupe's Making a Killing
On September 23rd, the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra led a noisy parade to the San Francisco Mime Troupe performance of Making a Killing, Building a New Iraq. In the style of a cacerolazo, parade-goers beat on makeshift drums and tambourines while marching as a metallic cacophony from Laurel Street up Pacific Avenue and across the river to San Lorenzo Park. The parade lacked a clear message and was appreciated by many people walking and photographing on Pacific Avenue. A focus of the Trash Orche...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 9:38pm PDT
UAW, UC Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract
*GAINS MADE IN KEY AREAS*
Congratulations everyone! After bargaining around the clock for three days, our bargaining team and the UC administration signed a tentative agreement earlier this morning. This contract places us at the forefront of the academic student employee labor movement with regard to issues such as childcare, workload protections, non-discrimination protections, and leaves....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 9:15pm PDT
Contaminated Courts? The Strange Case of Craig Canada, Homeless Medical Marijuana Patient
Homeless blogger and medical marijuana patient Craig Canada thought he'd won a historic victory in the Santa Cruz Superior court of Judge Denine Guy when she found him not guilty of "sleeping outside" because of his need to use medical marijuana. Two months later she reversed herself without explanation. Who got to her?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 4:33pm PDT
Light Brown Apple Moth -LBAM Facts
You will be sprayed with a biochemical pesticide for 6 nights 11/4-11/9 several times a year until 2010. The focus is over residential areas....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 10:57am PDT
Leslie Feinberg: Reception, Talk, and Book Signing
UCSC Women’s Center@ Cardiff House...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 11:30am PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 9:17am PDT
Of Bans and Bookshops - An Open Letter
An open letter to Ryan Coonerty and Bookshop Santa Cruz management in response to their banning of Becky Johnson and Bernard Klitzner from Bookshop Santa Cruz....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 1:08am PDT
CIW Florida Tour hits the road!
If it's Fall, it must be time for the CIW's annual "Mini-Tour," a Campaign for Fair Food tradition since 2001....
Posted: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 9:41pm PDT
2007-2008 Disorientation Guide
This Guide is:
- An introduction to issues that affect our campus and communities
- An attempt to strengthen local activists
- A call for direct action and radical change for social justice
It includes:
- Articles by students/activists
- Radical campus history
- Tools for rockin’ the boat
- And even sex advice!!!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 12:35pm PDT