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California State Senator Curren Price Introduces SR 31 to Observe Africa Day 2012 
Honorable Senator Curren Price continues to build bridges that will produce collaborative partnerships that increase California ~ Pan African Trade and Commerce throughout the African Diaspora. The 49th Anniversary of Africa Day 2012 has set a strong foundation. Throughout the State of California the California Black Agriculture Working Group is "restoring Agriculture as the foundation of our culture" in collaborative partnership with some of the leadership of the "Greatest Garden in the Wo...
Posted: Mon, May 28, 2012 9:21am PDT
Teach the Forest: LAFCO Upper Campus Development Meeting UCSC, Social Sciences 1 Room 414...
Event Date: Tue, May 29, 2012 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, May 27, 2012 2:55pm PDT
Davis Dozen Court Support! 
Yolo County Courthouse, Dept. 6
725 Court Street, Room 111
Woodland, CA 95695
map: http://goo.gl/maps/3pEM...
Event Date: Fri, Jun 1, 2012 1:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 25, 2012 4:48pm PDT
California Senate Resolution 31 ~ Africa Day 2012 
California Legislative Black Caucus Chair, Honorable Senator Curren Price has introduced SR 31, relative to celebrating Africa Day 2012. Exploring closer California, Africa Union and Pan African Dispora trade and commerce can provide job creation, technical education, career development and economic development. The 49th Anniversary of Africa Day celebrates an amazing journey of people of African ancestry in the Great State of California. Throughout the State of California the contribution...
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2012 9:23am PDT
UC Santa Cruz Palestinian Awareness Week 2012 
The Committee for Justice in Palestine invites you to join us for Palestinian Awareness Week 2012!
Palestinian Awareness Week is CJP’s annual springtime event series aimed at educating the UC Santa Cruz Campus Community about the Palestinian people and their struggle for human rights and self-determination. Our events this year include interactive displays every day in the quarry, with art shows, speaking panels, teach-ins, and spoken word/musical performances in the evenings. The Wall of...
Posted: Sun, May 20, 2012 11:24pm PDT
Protection of Natural Habitat Concerns Those at "Water, Desal and the UCSC Expansion" Talk 
On May 16, the Student Environmental Center at UC Santa Cruz hosted a talk at College Eight titled, "Water, Desal, and the UCSC Expansion". Rick Longinetti of Santa Cruz Desal Alternatives spoke, outlining the downsides of the proposed water desalination facility in Santa Cruz, and suggesting that one of the main forces behind the desal proposal has come from pressure exerted by UCSC. The university hopes to grow by developing 120-240 acres of the upper campus, which will require a dramatic i...
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2012 9:11pm PDT
Interview with UC's Eric Tejada & Dan Mogulof After UCPD Raid on Occupy the Farm: video 
It wasn't really an interview with UCPD spokesperson Eric Tejada and UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof, as they likely would not grant an individual interview with this reporter. It was an impromptu press conference held behind police lines after a heavily armed UC police department raided the Gill Tract to evict Occupy the Farm in the early morning. At the press conference, ABC7, NBC, KCBS and other corporate news outlets were present along with this Indybay reporter (full video below)...
Posted: Fri, May 18, 2012 12:35am PDT
Connecting The Dots, Charters, Corruption, Gulen & Privatization: Whistleblower Carroll 
Kathleen Carroll, an attorney and fired whistleblower at the California Commission For Teacher Credentialing was interviewed about the growing systemic corruption of private charters and other commercial interests who want to make public education a profit center for their businesses. She also discusses the Turkish Gulen controlled Magnolia school connection which has schools in California and is the largest chain of charter schools in the United States.
Finally she exposes the failure of Cal...
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2012 6:04am PDT
University of the Commons Launch Celebration Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia Street (@ 21st Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2012 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2012 10:41pm PDT
New Grand Jury Subpoenas Related to UC-Santa Cruz Investigation 
At least two individuals have been subpoenaed to a federal grand jury that appears to be investigating a 2008 fire at the home of an animal experimenter at the University of California, Santa Cruz....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2012 11:42am PDT
Occupy the Farm: Democracy for Land Grant Universities? Eric Holt Gimenez
May 08, 2012...
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2012 11:09pm PDT
Gill Tract occupation’s mission mirrors state public policy goals By Miguel Altieri and Claudia Carr
Tuesday, May 1, 2012...
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2012 11:05pm PDT
UCPD Locks Gate on Professor's Research; Farmers to Remediate Neglected Portions of Gill Tract 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2012 8:38am PDT
UC Files Lawsuit Against 14 Individuals Over Gill Tract Occupation 
Before 7am this morning, UC police arrived at the Gill Tract in Albany and swiftly placed concrete barriers at the vehicle entrances to prevent easy resupply for the Gill Tract Farm Collective. Those present were threatened with the use of "chemical agents and impact force" by UCPD. UC followed up later in the morning by filing a lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court against 14 individuals it says "conspired to cut locks, enter the property illegally and establish an illegal encampment"...
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2012 3:48pm PDT
Davis: Banker's Dozen Court Support: stand with us! 
Yolo County Courthouse, Dept. 9
213 Third Street
Woodland, CA 95695...
Event Date: Thu, May 10, 2012 8:30am PDT
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2012 11:18pm PDT
May Day in Santa Cruz: Creating an Ongoing Network of Solidarity 
May Day in downtown Santa Cruz this year saw a wide variety of community members coming together and rallying to honor the global struggles of the worker. The morning of May 1 saw students at UC Santa Cruz support AFSCME local 3299 union members at the university, and then later march downtown where a group of community members, populated largely with people active in Occupy Santa Cruz, met them on Mission Street after themselves marching up Pacific Avenue....
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2012 2:53am PDT
Occupy Oakland May Day Rally (audio/mpeg 28.5MB) Occupy Oakland held a rally at Oscar Grant Plaza around 7PM on May Day, after groups from earlier rallies marched in from various locations. Speakers spotlighted local and national problems related to labor, education, police violence, and immigration. (31 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2012 8:33pm PDT
Workers and Students Unite for May Day at UC Santa Cruz 
On May 1, workers and students at UC Santa Cruz celebrated International Workers' Day (also called May Day) with rallies, marches, and a visit to the office of UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal, where union members with AFSCME hoped to deliver their proposals to open new contracts. "I think we are on the brink of a revolution," commented one student during a discussion group at the afternoon rally at the base of campus. Another student followed with, "I think it has already started," referrin...
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2012 12:22pm PDT
ACLU California Conference & Lobby Day 2012, 4/15/12: audio & PDFs 
The ACLU of Northern California, ACLU of Southern California, and ACLU of San Diego came together as the "ACLU of California" for Conference & Lobby Day 2012 in Sacramento on April 15th and 16th. In various meeting rooms throughout the Holiday Inn at Sacramento Capitol Plaza, the ACLU held workshops on topics ranging from reforming the criminal justice system to removing barriers on reproductive health, from ending the death penalty to educational equity, from immigrant rights in the U.S. t...
Posted: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:27am PDT
May 1st, 2012 in Santa Cruz - International Workers’ Day 
An assembly of UC Santa Cruz students, workers and community members have planned a day of action in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street's call for a worldwide general strike and the historical significance of May 1st, International Workers Day.
Details also provided for events in downtown Santa Cruz, which begin at 4:30pm at the intersection of Pacific Avenue and Laurel Street....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2012 12:57am PDT
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