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Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack
September 30, 2006 - Information provided below is from Nancy Davies, who is based in Oaxaca and writes frequently on the situation there for Narco News. While the threat of a mass attack has seemed to always be in the air, the situation in recent days has really escalated. Now an attack seems imminent.
APPEAL FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AID
The word I have now is that there are about 5,000 men wearing army uniforms who are not army, but police, culled from other states like Vercruz and ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:12pm PDT
Speak OUT! Against War and Racism
Quarry Plaza at UC Santa Cruz
Directions to Quarry Plaza:
http://maps.ucsc.edu/cdquarry.html...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 11:22am PDT
Catalyst Invites Another
For the third time in as many years, the Catalyst nightclub has invited an unrepentant advocate of violence against queer people ("BOOM BYE BYE IN A BATTY BOY HEAD, RUDE BOY NO PROMOTE THEM NASTY MAN THEM HAFI DEAD" -- Buju Banton) to perform on it's stage - prompting outrage and protest by Santa Cruz's queer community....
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:48am PDT
Protest Murder Music Singer Buju Banton's Appearance at the Catalyst
Sidewalk in front of the Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave. in downtown Santa Cruz....
Event Date: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:13am PDT
Future Climate and Environmental Change in California: A Climate Modeler's View
La Feliz Room at the Seymour Center,
West Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 2:32pm PDT
Peace Protest at Vandenberg Space Command
front gate of Vandenberg
(accross from Vandenberg middle shcool where you can park)
Santa Barbara County...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 7, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 1:24pm PDT
Santa Cruz Community Meeting and Debate On Desalination
Quaker Meeting House,
225 Rooney Street...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 11:05am PDT
La Peña in Watsonville
Brown Beret Office
406 Main St., behind Ritmo Latino
Watson...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 8:15pm PDT
FSRN: California Hearing Focuses on Lethal Injections (audio/mpeg 3.9MB)
Many condemned inmates have argued that lethal injection violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. That is subject of a four-day long hearing in San Jose, California, where federal Judge Jeremy Fogel is presiding. Executions in California have been postponed since February, when Fogel ordered the state's lethal injection gudelines, Procedure 770, be scrutinized. FSRN’s Vinny Lombardo reports from the hearing. TRT: 4:12...
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:18pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/29/06 ¡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. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 5:03pm PDT
Frederick Street Park and Neighborhood update and PETITION DRIVE
Developers are moving forward with a plan for 170 Frederick St., current site of Kingdom Hall, to build a high density, 3-story project that that would fundamentally alter the park and neighborhood. Petition drive launching. Public hearing coming up....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 10:37am PDT
Fall lecture series at the Seymour Center will focus on global climate change
UCSC's Marine Discovery center will host several lectures on various topics within the subject of climate change....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 5:30pm PDT
Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour Reading
TBA. Please check www.poetrybus.com for updated event location and time. Thanks!...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 2:11pm PDT
Community Forum on Measure G (9/27)
Wednesday, September 27
6:30-9:00 p.m.
University Inn, 611 Ocean Street
(Reception from 6:30-7 PM and the Forum from 7-9 PM)...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 12:58pm PDT
Immortal Technique- "Stop the Raids & Strengthen the Community" (9/30)
WHAT: ORGANIZING MEETING & EDUCATIONAL FORUM
WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 2006
WHERE: CABRILLO COLLEGE WATSONVILLE CENTER, 318 Union St. (by plaza), in Watsonville
TIME: 2pm-6pm...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 12:50pm PDT
Desalination and War Profiteering in the City of Santa Cruz
The City of Santa Cruz has entered into an arrangement with a global engineering firm, Camp Dresser and Mckee, to build a trial desalination plant on the Westside of Santa Cruz. The company in question is a global engineering firm with contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan and which has an unsavory history of bribing public officials. Desalination has a very poor economic and environmental track record, but the city has nevertheless signed a multi-million dollar contract with this firm....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 12:24pm PDT
Immortal Technique- "STOP THE RAIDS & STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNITY"
Cabrillo College
318 Union Street (on the main plaza)
Watsonville, CA 95076...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 8:52am PDT
Caravan/Prague
Guerrilla Drive-In Bicycle Movie Night
Fair Ave and the train tracks (westside, Santa Cruz)...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 6:45pm PDT
SC: SF Mime Troupe in San Lorenzo Park Sat+Sun
San Lorenzo Park Address: 137 Dakota Street...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 2:53pm PDT