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Hundreds of people marched down Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2007, as part of the Last Night DIY Celebration while hundreds of spectators lined the sidewalks and cheered. The parade ended with a street party at the intersection of Cooper and Pacific that featured firedancers, lots of musicians, free hugs, unicyclists, a fire barrel, brazen square dancing, a pillow fight and much more!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 4, 2008 6:59pm PST
Hundreds of people marched down Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2007, as part of the Last Night DIY Celebration while hundreds of spectators lined the sidewalks and cheered. The Last Night DIY Parade and Street Party is a do-it-yourself, unpermited, decentralized, grassroots and open New Year's Eve celebration with a focus on self-reliance. It is not only a celebration, but a celebration of the power we all have when we gather together to make something happen....
Posted: Fri, Jan 4, 2008 5:46pm PST
On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:37am PST
We're here to help. We appear invited and uninvited at protests and celebrations, furors and fracases, anywhere there's a need to make a ruckus, to shout out and help right injustice, suffering, and oppression, to make a big noise to celebrate our victories and our losses....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 12:27am PST
Throughout the planning of this year's event, we asked ourselves every time we got together, lest we forget to think big and work to fulfill our dreams: What do we really want to see? What do we want this celebration to look like?...
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 12:21pm PST
Center for Urban Peace
2584 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704...
Event Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 9:30pm PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 28, 2007 5:18pm PST
STORMY LEATHER Presents Beauty's Lenses
A Bay Area Women of Color Photo Project's Photographic Exhibition
February 1st - March 28th, 2008
~Experience the tantalizing photographs of the Featured Photographers~
Andrew Morgan, Larry Utley, Refa One, and Darling Propaganda...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 5:04pm PST
After receiving standing ovations on Pacific Avenue and during the Christmas - Chanukah - Quanzaa - Solstice Celebration at the Friends' Meeting House, Santa Cruz Art and Revolution sang songs of holiday cheer and liberation in Capitola on December 22nd as part of their 8th Annual Post-WTO Anti-Corporate Xmas Caroling mini-tour. Anti-corporate Xmas carols were performed in front of a busy credit union, the Capitola Mall and "Traitor Joze." The familiar tunes with unfamiliar lyrics brought smi...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 12:55am PST
Monday, December 24, 2007 :Fifty years ago this year Viking Press published Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road. Today we will talk with City Lights Books' publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1953, Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, the first all-paperbound bookshop in the country. Two years later he launched the City Lights publishing house. Both institutions are still running half of a century later. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Mon, Dec 24, 2007 8:57am PST
Start at sunset at Saturn Cafe parking lot....
Event Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2007 5:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 1:16pm PST
On Wednesday December 12th 2007, Sharon Delgado read selections from her new book "Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith led resistance to Corporate Globalization" at the Capitola Book Cafe. Delgado is a former organizer with the Resource Center for Nonviolence, a Reverend of Earth Justice Ministries, and a global justice activist. Sharon walked us through portions of her book, and some of the ideas and philosophies behind her resistance to Corporate Globalization. This file is an un-edited r...
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 7:36pm PST
On January 13th, 2008 from 10 am - 3pm, Trash Mash-Up will be a part of Department of Children, Youth and Their Families Family Appreciation Day. Drop by the San Francisco Environment EcoCenter to support this community effort and find a new way with old objects for yourself. The San Francisco EcoCenter is located at 11 Grove Street....
Posted: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 2:31pm PST
Join us for our 2nd gathering.
Plenty of room, just bring your necessities!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 3:28pm PST
A celebration of the bicycle community. A party! A feast! A chance to participate in Santa Cruz's historic First Annual Lighted Bike Parade! An opportunity to speak out about the rights and needs of cyclists! A way to remind our new mayor who cares about what....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 2:51pm PST
The Movement for unconditional Amnesty would like to invite you to its Political-Cultural event support of immigrants and defending their rights....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 11:52am PST
Jason King, Mia Hamel, and Dylan Avery are at the forefront of the 9/11 Truth Movement, creating art, film, actions to overcome media censorship and inspire people to challenge the official lies which have been used to launch wars, and attack fundamental human rights. The show will look at the upcoming Tea Parties for 9/11 Truth and the evolution of Loose Change - Final Cut which will be premiering December 12th and 15th in Oakland and San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Dec 6, 2007 10:55am PST
Margaret Hudson’s studio at 1946 E Swift....
Event Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 5:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 4:05pm PST
AK Press Warehouse
674-A 23rd Street, Oakland 94612
Between MLK and San Pablo, a 10 minute walk from 19th Street Bart....
Event Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2007 4:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 3, 2007 12:10pm PST
The celebration is not merely a party, but a celebration of the power that we all have when we gather together to make something happen. Not just a street party, but a party to reclaim our streets.
Decentralized celebration still refuses permission to bring spontaneous parade to Santa Cruz streets...
Posted: Mon, Dec 3, 2007 12:05pm PST








