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calendarStop the Pogonip Sweeps
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by Keith McHenry
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
calendarSoupstock 2023
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by Food Not Bombs
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
imageThe Population of Santa Cruz Declined, According to State Report
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by Santa Cruz News
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
calendarSanta Cruz: Protest March to Fight For Abortion Access
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by Women's March moblization website
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
calendarMonterey: Bigger Than Roe! Protest Against Ruling to Ban Abortion Pill
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by Women's March Monterey
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
imageApril Fools Day March to End Homelessness
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by Keith McHenry
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
imagePajaro Farmworkers, Class, Climate & Justice With Pamela Sexton & Elon Ortez
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by Labor Video Project
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
imageEast Meadow Update 3/17/23
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by East Meadow Action Committee (EMAC)
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
imageThe Pajaro Levee Break, Immigrants, Labor & Climate Crisis With PVFT1936's Pamela Sexton
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by Labor Video Project
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
videoMayor Keeley Targets the Homeless with Surprise Traffic Median Motion (video/mp4 165.0MB) by Santa Cruz News
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
imageFood Not Bombs Will Not Be Silenced
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by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry
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
imageEast Meadow Update 3/12/23
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by East Meadow Action Committee (EMAC)
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
imageForcing the Homeless of Santa Cruz into the Harsh Torrents of the Atmospheric River
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by Keith McHenry
A Special Kind of Cruelty...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2023 1:01pm PDT
textActivist Leads Fight to Stop Harassment of Vehicular Residents by Reggie Meisler (posted by Norse)
In an extensive and well-documented article on LookOut, activist Reggie Meisler published his research and activism to defend the rights of those in vehicles being harassed by police. Cops have been threatening and ticketing for signs not permitted by the Costal Commission....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2023 5:00pm PST
textFood Not Bombs announces Meals-at-City-Hall today after top cop bans Lot #10 serving by Keith McHenry (posted by Norse)
Harsh rainy weather, the City's failure to provide adequate 24-hour Warming Center facility, and the Chief Escalante's recent ban on serving in the protected parking garage #10 have prompted the free survival food service to move to City Hall today and likely during future rainy days until reasonable alternatives are allowed....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2023 8:56am PST
imageWe Demand Santa Cruz City and County Officials Open 24 Hour Emergency Shelters Now!
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by Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs
Protect the Homeless from the Ravages of the Atmospheric River...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 12:51pm PST
imageEast Meadow Update
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by East Meadow Action Committee (EMAC)
February 13, 2023 - The East Meadow remains intact – no bulldozers in sight. What is less immediately evident, however, is why that is so. Why has an administration so hell-bent on destroying the meadow been unable to do so?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2023 10:19pm PST
imageFollow-Up Protest Questions for Tuesday February 7th 11 AM
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by Robert Norse (for HUFF)
A second protest is slated for the Mountain Community Resource Center after a woman videoing the midnight eviction of a homeless man for "trespass" was arrested, brutalized, and faces a year in jail and $1000 fine....
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2023 8:10pm PST
documentStop Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center Driving Homeless Out Into the Rain
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by Robert Norse
Charges of cruel, discriminatory, and unnecessary evictions of unhoused folks into survival-threatening weather at Felton's Mountain Community Resource Center have prompted this protest. Two fliers describe the situation and ask the community to respond....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2023 11:26am PST
textRV Human Rights Activists Challenges Santa Cruz City Police Violations by Reggie Meisler (posted by Norse)
Reggie Meisler, civil liberties defender of unhoused rights, is waiting for an answer to his January 9th letter to Santa Cruz City Manager Matt Huffaker, Mayor Fred Keeley, Police Chief Rudy Escalante, and the S.C. City Council. Meisler calls for Huffaker to direct his SCPD to stop harassing and uprooting those whose vehicles are their shelter by misusing the "abandoned vehicle" tagging law....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 7:07pm PST
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