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Four California Foothill Yellow-legged Frog Populations Protected Under Endangered Species Act
SACRAMENTO, Calif., August 28, 2023 — In response to a Center for Biological Diversity petition and lawsuits, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected four populations of foothill yellow-legged frogs in California under the Endangered Species Act. The protected frog populations are in the southern Sierra Nevada foothills, North Feather River, Central Coast and South Coast....
Posted: Mon, Aug 28, 2023 11:15am PDT
Return of the Santa Cruz Street Shit Sheet
Absent for nearly fifteen years, the Santa Cruz Street Shit Sheet is back with issue #170. The Shit Sheet published pretty frequently in the late 80s and early 90s, and sporadically since in the early 2000s. Whether it will continue to regularly appear is still an uncertain and open question, but here is a contemporary sample of the kind of news and views it covers....
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2023 9:43pm PDT
Violence, Sweeps, and Seizure--Escalating SCPD Policy
In spite of court decisions and massive COVID-era appropriations as well as decades of protests and petitions, police have continued and seem to be escalating "drive 'em out of town" sweeps with new cruelties and illegalities. Yesterday at the Mime Troupe, I passed out a flyer denouncing unusually explicit and recent threats, seizures, and citations attacking each encampment as it arises....
Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2023 12:16pm PDT
San Francisco Mime Troupe - Interview with Daniel Savio (audio/mpeg 85.0MB)
Interview with SF Mime Troupe musical director Daniel Savio...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2023 8:57am PDT
Initiative for March Ballot Needs Signatures and Signature Gatherers
Over the last year many of you have asked what you can do to help citizens regain a voice and some control over the massive developments planned for our town in the next few months and years. Well, here it is: WE HAVE A PETITION ON THE STREETS right now called Housing For People - Not Unaffordable Luxury Towers....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2023 10:04am PDT
California Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Over Monterey Oil, Gas Drilling Restrictions
Residents to Rally at Local Courthouse in Support of Measure Z...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2023 12:58pm PDT
East Meadow Update 5/15/23
There has been a significant new development in the long-running struggle over SHW and the East Meadow: a month after the UCSC administration got the Regents to approve a proposal that was supposed to make the project immune to litigation, a group (not EMAC) filed suit not only to invalidate that action, but also to bar UCSC from proceeding with the project until all pending litigation has been resolved. We of course cannot predict how this latest litigation by others will play out, but it i...
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2023 6:37pm PDT
Stop the Pogonip Sweeps
Santa Cruz City Council Meeting
809 Center St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, May 9, 2023 2:15pm PDT
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2023 3:39pm PDT
Soupstock 2023
Duck Pond Stage, San Lorenzo Park (137 Dakota Ave), Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sun, Jun 4, 2023 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2023 10:29am PDT
The Population of Santa Cruz Declined, According to State Report
The population of Santa Cruz County shrank in 2022, according to a report released by the State of California Department of Finance on Monday. The total population of the county dropped to an estimated 262,051 at the beginning of 2023, down from 264,912 at the beginning of 2022, which is a loss of 2,861 people, or a 1.1% decline. County by county, Santa Cruz experienced the fourth largest population decrease in the state in 2022. The report also included housing stock data. In 2022, Santa Cru...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2023 8:27am PDT
Santa Cruz: Protest March to Fight For Abortion Access
Santa Cruz City Hall
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA, 95060...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 15, 2023 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2023 2:52pm PDT
Monterey: Bigger Than Roe! Protest Against Ruling to Ban Abortion Pill
Window on the Bay Park
717 Del Monte Avenue
Monterey, CA, 93940...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 15, 2023 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2023 6:10pm PDT
April Fools Day March to End Homelessness
One of the agenda items at the weekly Food Not Bombs meeting was that morning’s Lookout story “In the Public Interest: A new law-and-order approach to homelessness in Santa Cruz?”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2023 10:17am PDT
Pajaro Farmworkers, Class, Climate & Justice With Pamela Sexton & Elon Ortez
Thousands of farmworkers and their families are fighting for survival after a flood and dangerous health and safety conditions....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2023 7:44am PDT
East Meadow Update 3/17/23
On March 15 and 16, 2023 the UC Regents took up UCSC’s latest proposal for Student Housing West. With almost no deliberation they approved the proposal unanimously....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2023 6:30pm PDT
The Pajaro Levee Break, Immigrants, Labor & Climate Crisis With PVFT1936's Pamela Sexton
PVFT Local 1936 Delegate Pamela Beth Sexton adult education teacher talks about the effect of the broken levee on the immigrant farmworker community, systemic racism and the role these farmworkers play in our economy....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 7:56pm PDT
Mayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion (video/mp4 165.0MB)
At the March 14th meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council, Mayor Fred Keeley introduced a surprise motion targeting homeless residents who panhandle on traffic medians (watch video below). Keeley's motion was not included anywhere in the meeting's agenda packet, he spontaneously inserted it into an unrelated vote on item #15, which concerned bicycle safety improvements and the removal of automobile parking on Laurel Street. Keeley stated the motion as follows: "Add additional direction that th...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 8:06am PDT
Food Not Bombs Will Not Be Silenced
A global war is boiling in the back kitchen with the noisy rattling of a brass kettle on a gas stove left unattended. Millions of us stand at the register discovering our food stamps have diminished leaving our families with half full bellies as the banks of the exploiters slide into insolvency promising to take us all down with them....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2023 7:16pm PDT
East Meadow Update 3/12/23
There is a major new development in the long and tangled story of Student Housing West with its reckless proposal to develop the East Meadow. The University has just asked the UC Regents for approval of a new approach to building and financing the project. SHW would now no longer be a public-private partnership and would be funded with bonds issued by the University. Most distressing, the East Meadow would be placed on a fast track, constructed and financed independently of the rest. If the R...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2023 6:27pm PDT