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Roe is overturned -- Protests Today, near you This morning, the Supreme Court formally overturned Roe v. Wade. Protests, which had been scheduled for awhile all over the country for "Decision Day", will now be taking place later today....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2022 9:43am PDT
Free Leonard Peltier Santa Cruz 6-20-2022 
The benefit was held at The Spot and was sponsored by Barrios Unidos and The American Indian Movement and others....
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2022 12:11pm PDT
Koffee Klatch Flyers Fighting Planned Benchlands July Sweep 
For three mornings, activists tabled at City Hall circulating petitions and flyers demanding City Manager Matt Huffaker reverse his plan to sweep the 300-400 people in the Benchlands in July. Some of the flyers distributed are reprinted below....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 9:32pm PDT
Challenging Colonialism: Telling & Teaching the Truth of the California Missions 
Supplement to s01e01: This recording is from the second half of a panel entitled “Telling the Truth of the California Missions,” which was part of the Telling and Teaching the Truth of the California Missions event, held on August 27, 2021, preceding the Mission Bell removal. 40:30...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2022 7:50am PDT
Petition: Repeal the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance 
Santa Cruz Cares is calling on all our neighbors to take a stand against the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance (OVO)!
Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/repeal-the-oversized-vehicle-ordinance...
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2022 11:37pm PDT
Koffee Klatch Against Cold Hearts at City Hall HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) wants to encourage those outside and their supporters to provide a true narrative that exposes the unjustified and exaggerated claims of City officials led by City Manager Matt Huffaker, With help from Food Not Bombs and other good samaritans, we'll be providing coffee and sweet rolls in the morning for 3-days next week (June 6-8) and perhaps beyond.....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2022 12:49pm PDT
City of Santa Cruz Vehicles Torched in Opposition to Homeless Sweeps 
Multiple city vehicles were set on fire and destroyed at a maintenance yard at Harvey West Park in Santa Cruz on June 2. Graffiti left at the scene read, "Leave Homeless Alone!!" and "Stop Sweeping!"...
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2022 1:37pm PDT
Petition: Keep the UCSC Bike Shuttle 
Preserve the bike shuttle service at UC Santa Cruz! Re-establish the pre-COVID bike shuttle schedule!
Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/keep-the-ucsc-bike-shuttle...
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2022 8:24am PDT
California YIMBY Contributes $126K to Elect YIMBY Staffer Jon Wizard to State Assembly 
Pro-luxury development group California YIMBY has contributed over $126K to elect Jon Wizard, a paid staffer with YIMBY Action. Wizard is running for State Assembly in District 30 in the June 7 primary election. California YIMBY furthers a legislative agenda that favors supply-side market-rate housing production, and the profit of developers, over social equity. The contributions in support of Wizard are the largest campaign expenditures ever made by California YIMBY, and they represent a lar...
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2022 4:21pm PDT
Monterey Rallies for Reproductive Rights 
Beautiful, historic Colton Hall was the setting for an event in Monterey that drew supporters on a day of action that may well go down in history. It was built in 1849 to be a public school and town meeting hall....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2022 5:21am PDT
Soupstock 2022 - 42nd Anniversary of the Founding of Food Not Bombs 
San Lorenzo Park - Duck Island
137 Dakota Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Sun, May 22, 2022 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2022 1:23pm PDT
Resisting Two Wars: The Threatened Nuclear Holocaust & The Attack on the Unhoused 
A brief protest at the Town Clock Sunday (5-8) against U.S, escalation of the war in Ukraine drew a handful of dedicated activists from older times and other places....
Posted: Mon, May 9, 2022 12:51pm PDT
SCPD Discloses Military Equipment Inventory in Accordance with AB 481 
California State Assembly Bill 481 requires local jurisdictions to adopt a military equipment use policy (via ordinance) prior to purchasing, raising funds for, or acquiring military equipment. The Santa Cruz City Council will craft its military equipment use policy during the evening session of the April 26 meeting. As part of the process, the Santa Cruz Police Department has supplied the council with its current military equipment inventory. (see list below)....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2022 12:35am PDT
Normalizing Nuclear War and Predicting Global Food Shortages 
(Photo of my grandfather and me on Easter Sunday at my parent’s home in Yorktown, Virginia 1959)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2022 9:13am PDT
University of California Campuses Rally in Support of UC-wide “UC Green New Deal” 
Students, faculty, and staff who are part of the UC Green New Deal Coalition, along with members of environmental organizations, campus Sustainability Offices, and concerned individuals on all ten UC campuses, conceived of the idea of an “Intercampus Earth Day” to draw inspiration from each other and to share resources and events that promote more climate awareness and climate action. Nine UC campuses are rallying on Earth Day to promote climate action. Several campuses, in addition to their...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2022 1:56pm PDT
Triple Trouble Tuesday: Trio of Terrible Items Scars Council Agenda Bad news for buskers, street vendors, and rv-dwellers hits the City Council agenda Tuesday April 12th on items 24, 30, and 31 in yet another "public not wanted" Zoomed meeting....
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2022 11:27pm PDT
Testing the Waters for Another Koffee Klatch 
With the increased sweeps against those outside in Santa Cruz, HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) is checking out unhoused and sympathizer support for a regular daytime presence at City Council offices to lobby the Council for some fundamental policy changes.The regular gathering would include coffee and munchables as we seek to speak to the unspeakable....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2022 9:45pm PDT
Coastal California Sunflower Is Latest Endangered Species Act Success 
EUREKA, Calif., March 30, 2022 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the Endangered Species Act status of beach layia, a small sunflower that grows only in California’s coastal dunes, reclassifying it from endangered to threatened. The change is due to reduced impacts from offroad vehicles, grazing, and development throughout much of the species’ range....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2022 1:45pm PDT
Tabling Downtown Takes on Two Insane Wars 
Yesterday a small cadre of HUFFsters set up a table downtown to solicit and spread opinion on the War Against the Poor and the War in Ukraine.. We called our table the Vigil Against Two Wars. We opposed the NATO-provoked war criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine.and the sweep-em-out-of-sight authority now claimed by the City Manager Matt Huffaker...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2022 9:07pm PDT
At Window on the Bay, Demonstrators Demand Peace in Ukraine 
More than 60 people gathered on Sunday, March 6th at Window on the Bay in Monterey, CA to stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine as they face the terror of war with Russia....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2022 9:54pm PST