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I’m going to stay right here: The story of a Oaxacan movement prisoner 
Interview by: Hilaria Cruz
Translation: Joy Turlo
Dionisio had gone to the demonstration in Oaxaca on the 25th of November. After the demonstration he and his friend Juan de Dios went to get something to eat, during which time confrontations started up between demonstrators and the Federal Preventive Police (PFP). Upon leaving the restaurant, they headed toward the downtown area, which had become filled with tear gas and smoke. When they saw a woman and her children overcome by tear gas, ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 5:33pm PST
Wear White For Peace On New Year - Neighborhood Procession Santa Cruz Joins In to kick-off America500 Birthday Extravaganza (1507-2007) for planetary understanding.
Meet at Civic Center-City Hall on Center Street at NOON for motorcade tour of neighborhoods, handing out t-shirts and inviting residents to join in and WEAR WHITE FOR PEACE ON 2007 NEW YEAR....
Event Date: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 11:45am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 10:45am PST
Do You Have Indymedia's Back? Santa Cruz Indymedia has been at the forefront of progressive struggles on the Central Coast since its inception in 2001. Now, this all-volunteer community media resource needs your help. Do you have Indymedia's back?...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 1:05am PST
New Documentary Exposes Evangelical Hypocrisy/Bush War Crimes Real Christians Don't Choose War...
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 5:24pm PST
The Shortwave Report 12/29/06 ¡Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 5:01pm PST
Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to the Iraq War. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Av.
831-462-4415, or www.capitolabookcafe.com
Capitola Book Cafe is located in the "shopping" plaza next door to the 41st Ave Playhouse (movie theatre)...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 7:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 3:29pm PST
Free DVD showing: "History of Oil" & local alternative energy expert Joe Jordan Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 12:10pm PST
Free DVD showing: "History of Oil" & local alternative energy expert Joe Jordan Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 11:11am PST
Mass Demonstration in Washington DC on January 27 United for Peace and Justice (1500 organizations) is teaming with over 500 additional groups to march on Congress to insist the US get out of Iraq. Massive numbers are expected to rally and march around the Capital on January 27 at the start of a 3-day event....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2006 12:53pm PST
Everything is on Zapatista Time: Preparations 
Los Pueblos Zapatistas are preparing for their first Encounter with the Pueblos of the World, set for December 30 - January 2 in Oventik, Liberated Territory (Chiapas), Mexico....
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 10:22am PST
Santa Cruz Fair Garbage Rates Petition 
The Santa Cruz Fair Garbage Rates petition seeks to make garbage rates in the City of Santa Cruz, CA., equitable, by changing the way by which a resident is charged for garbage pickup from a set, monthly rate to a pay-only-when-you-put-out-the-garbage rate....
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 7:00am PST
Manifiesto de la Ultima Noche 
Last Night es una celebracion "hazlo tu mismo" del Ano Nuevo en Santa Cruz. Es un evento decentralizado, colectivo, espontaneo, abierto y publico.
Se reune detras del Saturn Cafe,
a la puesta del sol, 31 de diciembre.
Que vengan todos!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 11:23pm PST
Mexico City Solidarity with Oaxaca, Acteal and Atenco on December 22 
On December 22nd, 2006, hundreds of people came together in Mexico City to honor the peoples of Oaxaca, Acteal and Atenco during a global day of remembrance and solidarity. The demonstration was held at the Hemiciclo a Juárez in Mexico City's Historic Center where people spoke about Oaxaca and the demonstrations taking place around the world. There were musicians, memorials, stilt walkers and banners calling for liberation of political prisoners and an end to illegal detentions, an end to tor...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 9:11pm PST
Official Homeless Death Toll a new record at 42 
NOTE TO READER: Can readers think of another killer in Santa Cruz County which annually claims 42 souls an average of 30 years before their time? In 2005, only 8 cases of AIDS were diagnosed. Yet the AIDS crisis probably causes more concern for public officials than the death rate of homeless people. The STATE OF BEING HOMELESS causes death!! Being cold, tired, hungry, and unprotected along with psychological factors such as isolation and rejection, and the pressure of legal factors such as c...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 2:52pm PST
Last Night DIY Parade Saturn Cafe at Sunset...
Event Date: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 5:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 1:26pm PST
Trash Orchestra PSA (audio/mpeg 8.2MB) Using recycled food cans, hubcaps, barrels, sheet metal, and other discarded oddities, the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra is a bone-shaking, recycled ensemble – a marching percussion band - who show up invited or otherwise, to make a cacophony of noise and celebration at parties and protests. Trash Orchestra players held an instrument building workshop as a Free Skool class in early December, 2006. DJ D. Rail attended, and brings us this sound collage, which attempts to make sense of the discor...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 9:19am PST
QUALITY OF LIFE graffiti film - with UCSC alumni filmmakers Rio Theater, Santa Cruz (1205 Soquel Ave)...
Event Date: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 2:19pm PST
QUALITY OF LIFE graffiti film comes to Santa Cruz 1/19 Shot on location in San Franciso's Mission District, the award-winning QUALITY OF LIFE tells an authentic and gripping story of two young graffiti writers whose friendship and lives unravel after they get arrested.
This is the Santa Cruz premiere at the Rio on Fri 1/19 at 8pm. The Filmmakers (both UCSC grads) will be in attendance with after-party afterwards at the Cardiff Lounge....
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 2:15pm PST
Protest at the San Jose Mexican Consulate on Dec 22nd 
Our brothers and sisters in Oaxaca are still suffering repression from the Mexican government and mass incarceration of activists! Please join us in this very important protest!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 2006
MEXICAN CONSULATE in SAN JOSE - 540 North First St., San Jose, CA.
7AM (Yes, in the morning! The consulate's hours of operation are usually 8AM-3PM)
SAN FRANCISCO, SANTA CRUZ -- ALL COME TO SAN JOSE!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 12:05pm PST
Scotts Valley Banner Press Coverage of Eviction of Homeless From Felton Park Coverage in the Scotts Valley Banner Press about efforts to "clean up" Felton Covered Bridge Park (aka drive homeless users away). Notice how none of the homeless people affected are interviewed, the possibility that they might have a perspective on this that is different is ignored, and the mere fact of their presence is considered a "danger" (their absence automatically makes the park "safer")....
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2006 4:05pm PST
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