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Mike R's Anti-Campaign
We're not associated with any parties and don't advocate any candidates. Honestly, we don't even advocate voting. But IF you vote, for fuck sake don't vote for Mike....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 7:50pm PST
Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica to Vote on MMJ LLEP Initiatives on 11/7
it was hard for me to find the most recent article about this to post to indybay, but this article has links to the group that organized the initiative in each town....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 12:31pm PST
No on Measure G Campaign for Low Wages!
When we hear reports on raising the minimum wage in Santa Cruz to $9.25/hr, the opponents (such as Bookshop Santa Cruz, Goodwill Industries, the Seaside Company) claim it will "close businesses" "force business owners to cut health care benefits" and "hurt family-owned businesses." But has this happened in the cities where the minimum wage HAS been raised? What about the fate of workers who must try to pay for rent, food, and transportation in one of the most expensive counties in the count...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 12:07pm PST
Measure H will fund Police 4x more than fixing roads
This 1/4 cent sales tax increase proposal is hawked as a measure to repair potholes and damaged roads. But only 9% is earmarked for Public Works while 37% will go to the best-paid department in the City of Santa Cruz: the police...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 11:57am PST
Percy Schmeiser tour
Join Cal GE-Free coalition partner CCOF for GE-Free Education and Dialogue with Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with GE seed, and in turn was sued by Monsanto.
Speaking at five locations around the Bay Area in November!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 2:45am PST
25 Countries to Protest Iceland's Decision to Resume Commercial Whaling
More than two dozen countries are planning to launch a joint protest against Iceland for its decision to resume commercial whaling despite a worldwide moratorium, the French Foreign Ministry said Tuesday....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 10:06pm PST
Foreigners, journalists threatened in Oaxaca
One week after Brad Will´s death and five days after the military occupation of Oaxaca, the climate has worsened for foreigners, journalists, and indymedia correspondents. Today a local radio journalist was attacked in Santa Lucia, on his way to the site of Brad Will´s murder. Photos and an mp3 audio interview (3 min. 17 sec., in Spanish) follow....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 5:31pm PST
Two From Santa Cruz Join Mid East Delegation
Scott Kennedy, Coordinator of the Middle East Program of the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz has departed for Jerusalem, leading a two week delegation of 14 persons to Israel and the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Kennedy is co-leading the study tour with Miryam Rashid from the American Friends Service Committee/Quakers in Chicago. The delegation includes one other person from Santa Cruz, Ken Carlson and others from Los Gatos, CA, Ohio, Ontario, Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Ma...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 2:44pm PST
Federal Militarized Police Repelled From Ciudad Universitaria
The students who repelled the advance of federal troops near the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (UABJO) have been following the retreating federales and continuing to throw stones, while residents have come out of their homes to demonstrate their support for the APPO forces and the young people....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 7:46am PST
Political Killings in the Philippines, Film Screening at UC Santa Cruz (11/9)
In response to the rapidly increasing number of political killings perpetrated by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s regime, the Critical Filipina/o Studies Cluster of UCSC will be holding a special film screening at 6:30pm, Thursday, November 9th at Oakes Learning Center. Come and learn about what’s going in a country severely affected by U.S. imperialist interests....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 2:27am PST
"Downtown For All" protest tabling at Lulu Carpenter's postponed
Petitioning and flyering near Lulu Carpenter's, originally scheduled for 4-8 PM Friday November 3rd will be postponed on account of weather and organizing considerations....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 11:06pm PST
Tensions Rise: University Autonomy Violated as Radio is under seige
The Federal Government is trying to consolidate it´s power in Oaxaca, attacking the University Campus (a violation of its guaranteed autonomy) in order to remove its radio station from the air (at 1470 AM), which broadcasts the words of teachers, students, workers, the indigenous, and others the Mexican government wants silenced....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 5:38pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/3/06 ¡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, Cuba, China, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 5:37pm PST
Dia de l@s Muert@s en Oaxaca: Brad Will among many
Dia de los Muertos is a little different this year in Oaxaca, with fresh graves and a military occupation. The backlash is starting, after five months without the 'authorities.'...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 5:16pm PST
PFP and Army, Out of Oaxaca: Long live the resistance of the barricades!
The following message, "PFP and Army, out of Oaxaca," is an unofficial translation of the latest declaration by the Mexican Trotskyist LTS on the situation in Oaxaca.
I hope everyone has an opportunity to read Adolfo Gilly's excellent article, on the situation facing the people of Oaxaca and the complete inaction of Lopez Obrador and of the PRD, which the Infamous Vinnie just sent to us. That article appears after the first.
With regards,
--Yosef M...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 11:42am PST
FRSC: Oaxaca Solidarity, From New York to San Diego (audio/mpeg 14.4MB)
Two interviews with activists on both coasts doing solidarity work with the people and struggles of Oaxaca, Mexico....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 7:28pm PST
Free DVD showing & follow up discussion: "The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"
Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street, Room #6
Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 3:15pm PST
No on 85 Rally!
UC Santa Cruz - Quarry Plaza (in front of the bookstore)...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 1:56pm PST
Men are not "naturally violent"
"Testosterone poisoning" and "boys will be boys" are sayings that perpetuate the myth that men are "naturally violent." Men are rational beings and are responsible for their actions. Even if men were "naturally" prone to violence, they have free will and can choose whether or not to act out violent impulses. It takes a lifetime of trauma and abuse to make a man violent....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 8:13pm PST