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Refections from one of the many organizers of the Rally and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Action at the Military Recruitment Center in Capitola on June 26th!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 2:21pm PDT
Following up on three prior interviews with Commission for the Prevention of Violence Co-Founder & UCSC Rape Prevention Educatior Gillian Greensite, Greensite will debate former Santa Cruz Mayor and Public Safety Committee member Mike Rotkin on whether City Council and the City Manager are covering up bad SCPD work on rape....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:02pm PDT
The Saga Continues... we are told that public records will be held hostage unless we pay up....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 2:19pm PDT
... apparently, the Sentinel doesn't want to reveal who has been laid off. Here is the list....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 4:34pm PDT
I answer the critiques of the Editor and OpEd piece in a recent Sentinel article, with examples from my own experiece and that of others I have worked with....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:56pm PDT
On June 26, protestors converged on the Military Recruitment Center in Capitola "to end the war in Iraq now, and to work for a future of peace and justice for all beings, in all places." The Capitola recruiting offices for the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy are staffed by pompous and deceitful representatives of the the world's largest and wealthiest terrorist organization. The recruiters seem to believe the lies and exaggerations they repeat ad nauseum....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 11:51pm PDT
Here are some more pictures from today's protest at the recruitment offices in Capitola....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:25pm PDT
Photos from Raging Grannies Action...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 7:32pm PDT
Peace advocates gathered on 41st Avenue in Capitola on Tuesday, June 26th to protest the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; the recent troop surge, which has resulted in greater casualities, not fewer; and the recruitment of at-risk youth by military recruiters, many of whom use lies and manipulation in order to get people to sign up. Ten people engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience and were arrested by Capitola Police when they stayed in front of the Army recruiting office doors when a...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 7:24pm PDT
Television, RFID chips, Nanotechnology, Automobiles, GMOs, cloned meat, cell phones....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 1:21pm PDT
SAN FRANCISCO – A Muslim teenager who was ordered by a school monitor to take off a headscarf she wore for religious reasons returned to classes after school officials apologized to the family....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:19am PDT
Ok friends! The Free Skool Summer 2007 calendar is out! It is not yet on the website, but you can get a copy at the usual spots around town: Cafe Perg, the downtown library, bookshop santa cruz, the bagelry, kresge co-op, the sacred grove and the bike church!
There are 50 exciting classes, from ninja skills to internet cloak and dagger to animal tracking....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 1:27pm PDT
Back again on Thursday May 28th at 6 PM on 101.1 FM (also www.freakradio.org) is chapter 3 of Gillian Greensite's critique of Rape Denied in Santa Cruz--the SCPD/City Council's "Spare the Tourists" response.
Phone in as before at 831-427-3772....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 2:47pm PDT
Santa Cruz Sentinel article gives false hope to residents....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:49am PDT
The Middle East Program of the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz is sending 60 new basketball uniforms to the De La Salle Community Center in Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 11:41pm PDT
Humanity for Homeless helping with donations to keep Monday night feeding alive. Help comes!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 11:56am PDT
Low income nursing center closing due to bankruptcy, greed, poor care, and a faulty system....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 11:31am PDT
in front of the Military Recruitment Center, 2121 41st Ave and Clares Street, near the Capitola Mall - across from KFC!!!!!...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 12:19pm PDT
Attorney Osha Neumanan activist with the Suitcase Clinic of Berkeley, a former member of Berkeley's Police Review Commission (himself assaulted by police), an artist whose mural appears at Telegraph and Haste Aves. near People's Park, and a community activist for the homeless will speak about Mayor Bates's "Public Commons for Everyone [but the Homeless]" Initiative on 101.1 FM 7 PM Thursday....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 10:49pm PDT
A day after students and workers held a protest outside administrative offices, the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) rehired Crown custodian and AFSCME 3299 member Angela Ruiz. Ruiz was fired on April 9 for attending a union-sponsored protest against UC President Robert Dynes, even though she had received excellent evaluations and the protest was during her lunch hour.
Angela's re-hiring marks the 3rd victory in the past month for activists at UCSC. On May 22, AFSCME and the Stu...
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 8:06pm PDT








