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¿Qué cambios le gustaría ver en el Medioambiente Natural para el año 2010? Ecology Action se ha asociado con la United Way de Santa Cruz para establecer metas para el medioambiente natural para el Proyecto de Evaluación de la Comunidad, un programa diseñado para establecer metas basadas en las inquietudes de la población sobre una amplia gama de cuestiones y registrar su progreso....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 2:54pm PDT
What changes would you like to see in the Natural Environment in SC County by 2010? Ecology Action of Santa Cruz is doing a community survey to assess our goals for improvements in our Natural Environment over the next 5 years. We are seeking input from all community members either by attending one of our focus groups or by completing our online survey....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 2:37pm PDT
In Remembrance: April 5, 2005 
Just over a year ago, on April 5, 2005, Students Against War organized over 300 students to kick military recruiters (and the CA Dept. of Corrections, randomly) out of a campus job fair. It was a starting point for many things on the UC Santa Cruz campus. It was the first major event in a whole Spring of radical actions that shook the school, as it was the first opportunity for many students to realize their own power. The protest also landed the students on a list of "credible threats&q...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 3:36am PDT
Bersamin: Brown Berets Were "Thin Brown Line" That Kept The Peace Watsonville's Mayor Pro Tempore Manuel Bersamin writes a brilliant defense of and praise for student demonstrators and Brown Berets. This ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and is the most progressive and intelligent article I think I've ever read from that paper....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 10:43pm PDT
Anti-Homeless "Parking Lot Peril" Law at Council 3 PM 4-11 Ignoring public requests for a thorough examination of alternatives, lacking substantiation that there's a "crime wave" downtown, reversing decades of Santa Cruz traditional use, directly targeting the homeless, but impacting every member of the community, Councilmember Coonerty's "Fifteen Minute Trespass" law will slide through City Council Tuesday Aprill 11th shortly after 3 PM. Be there to give them some indigestion as they chew up and swallow public spaces and human r...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:48am PDT
SAW to protest Military Recruiters on April 11 SAW will protest military recruitment and the Iraq war on April 11. Protest is at McHenry Library, starting at 9AM. This event comes after April 5, 2005's counter-recruitment action for which SAW was labeled a "credible threat" by the Pentagon and the October 18, 2005 Queer kiss-in. This year SAW approached the Administration with some reasonable suggestions as to how a peaceful protest can occur without disrupting the rest of the career fair. These suggestions have not been adopted...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 9:30pm PDT
Thousands of Students March and Rally in Watsonville for Immigrant Rights 
On Friday, March 31st, thousands of students from local schools, including Watsonville High, Pajaro Valley High, Aptos High and Renaissance High, marched and rallied against HR 4437 in Watsonville.
In anticipation of the walkout, both Pajaro Valley High and Watsonville High decided to close their school doors in an effort to keep students safe.
Here are some photos from the march from St. Patricks Church to the Watsonville Plaza, Mayor Antonio Rivas and Vice-Mayor Manuel Quintero Bersa...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 1:51pm PDT
No School: Rally in Watsonville for Immigrant Rights (audio/mpeg 17.8MB) On Friday, March 31st, thousands of students from local schools, including Watsonville High, Pajaro Valley High, Aptos High and Renaissance High, marched and rallied against HR 4437 in Watsonville.
In anticipation of the walkout, both Pajaro Valley High and Watsonville High decided to close their school doors in an effort to keep students safe.
The following three bilingual audio mp3s were recorded on Friday, March 31st. The first mp3 is from the rally in the Watsonville Plaza and star...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 1:20pm PDT
interview with Faiza Al Araji and son Raed Jarrar (audio/mpeg 27.7MB) Interview with bloggers Faiza and Raed, who are visiting from Iraq. Their goal is to let Americans know what Iriaqis are experienceing and how we can help. Visit their journals at afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com and raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 12:30pm PDT
Visiting Iraqi Independent Journalist Has A Withdrawl Plan Today, Iraqi journalists, Raed Jarrar and his mother, Faiza Al-Araji, will present a talk at the LOUDEN NELSON CENTER in Santa Cruz. Mr. Jarrar, who writes a weblog known as "Raed in the Middle" has outlined a plan for withdrawl from Iraq. Read an Iraqi's perspectives on occupation and national sovereignty....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 12:58am PDT
280 High School Students attend Student Initiated Outreach Programs (4/7) PRESS ADVISORY...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 9:24pm PDT
The Bizarro Baloney Show tours SF Bay Area & West Coast (audio/mpeg 7.9MB) Cartoonist Dan Piraro tours a multitude of cities to benefit PETA and Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:35pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/7/06 ¡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, Apr 6, 2006 4:13pm PDT
The Man Made Plagues In 1992 I walked into the University of North Dakota Library to do some research of Congressional documents. I remember quite well the bitter cold of -40 below 0 and wind chills that would freeze you to the bone with some speed. However this cold is a warm summer day at the beach, in comparison to the documents I found....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 1:46pm PDT
No yellow ribbons from this ex-marine We can and should support troops-to-be, but do so before they become troops. We should post a warning sign, and disclaimer, in all recruiting stations. Prospective enlistees should be told that their new employer will not be the Department of Defense, but the Department of War; and that their service will not be in the defense of freedom and democracy, but in the building of an empire for America's powerful elite. And that their countrymen, for all the yellow ribbons and pseudo-patriotic talk...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 12:24pm PDT
Submissions for an Anthology on the 1960s Calling all young activists to publish your thoughts on the 1960s!!!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 11:49pm PDT
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at Santa Cruz GDI (4/7) 
Implacable rabble-rouser Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to an asylum and inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse Mildred Ratched. A blistering attack on American society, that is at once exceptionally emotional and eternally uplifting....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:57am PDT
Homeland Security Official Arrested For Luring Minors On the Internet 
Homeland Security official caught in child porn sting....a.k.a. It's Times Like These I Especially Appreciate The Police and Prisons!! Yet another reason why we need a system of firm checks and balances in all forms of government. Kudos to this Police Dept. that was not intimidated to take on Homeland Security: the President's personal security force who have the guts to issue "security memos" even though they always seem to have their head up their ass. According to many account...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 12:45am PDT
Breakthrough Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gasses Sacramento -- A landmark plan for reducing greenhouse gases in California beginning in five years moved forward Monday with the backing of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders. ****Will five years from now be too late?****...
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 7:56pm PDT
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