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Se Necesita Maestros de Free Skool ¿Tienes unas habilidades y conocimien-tos únicos? ¿Quieres compartir lo que sabes en una manera interactiva y no autoritaria? ¿Te gusta aprender en un ambiente informal?...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 12:35pm PST
Herbal First Aid and Emergency Medicine Courses 
Want to be prepared in the case of an emergency? Do you prefer to use natural remedies? The American School of Herbalism will be offering a five week course in Herbal First Aid and Emergency Medicine, starting Wednesday evening, February 28th....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 12:20pm PST
Free Skool Teachers Needed Spring Quarter runs March 1st to May 31st. The Free Skool Spring Quarter teacher registration deadline is coming up February 10th. If you are interested in teaching a class or would like to help, contact us today....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 10:48am PST
Tactical Ice Cream Unit 
The Center for Tactical Magic will be crusing into Santa Cruz with the Tactical Ice Cream Unit. The TICU is a mobile community command center that looks like the unlikely bastard love-child of an ice cream truck and a SWAT van......
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 11:45pm PST
AUDIO: Benefit for The COUP at Moe's Alley on 1-21-07 
This is a recording made by yours truly of the live improv jam band formed by members both past and current of Sambada, Mr. Free, Ozomatli, The COUP, and Sila and the Afrofunk experience. This was an all star line up of musicians and MC's with a common cause of helping The COUP after their tragic bus accident.
See http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/124008.shtml for more info on the bus accident and its effects on the band....
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 1:58pm PST
Santa Cruz: A Pro-Choice City (audio/mpeg 1.8MB) The Santa Cruz City Council has passed a resolution declaring Santa Cruz a pro-choice city. The resolution-passed last night-is part of a larger Pro-Choice Cities Campaign, aimed at getting California and major U.S. cities to support pro-choice. The resolution came just days after the Walk for Life West Coast abortion opponents rallied in San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:12pm PST
Melanie Phillips, In Her Own Words 
On Jan. 23, a diverse group of about 30 students protested a speech by British bigot Melanie Phillips at UC Santa Cruz. The protest, primarily organized through the internet, drew attention to Phillips' hate speech and ensured that she was held accountable for her statements. The flyer below was passed around before the event, while the attached double-sided fact sheet was passed out to attendees....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:57pm PST
Standoff at La Vie Restaurant 
A man blockaded himself inside La Vie restaurant this morning sometime around 9am and remained inside for many hours....
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:20pm PST
Another Letter to Santa Cruz Vice-Mayor Coonerty about the City's Sleeping Ban In continuing correspondence with attorney, bookseller, and vice-mayor Ryan Coonerty, HUFF and three other homeless civil rights organization sent the following letter to him, asking for clarification of his support for the City's MC 6.36.010a, banning homeless outdoor and vehicular sleeping from 11 PM to 8:30 AM....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 9:23pm PST
Know Your Rights & Resist the Police State Workshop (1/24) Keep yourself safe from police repression. Detentions, arrest, searches, interrogation, jail, warrants, and police infiltration....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 1:50pm PST
First Thoughts Toward Homeless Resistance Originally a comment on an earlier article about City Council's throwing $700 Gs at Dannette Shoemaker's Parks and Recreation anti-homeless policing, I think Tim's thoughts on what homeless people and their housed supporters can do this winter to resist the War Against the Poor are worth a separate posting and may spark some interesting discussion....
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 9:06pm PST
Carmel Hotel Workers Win Struggle for Better Contract UNION MEMBERS RATIFY QUAIL LODGE CONTRACT...
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:08pm PST
SAW Response to Job Fair Cancellation January 18, 2007
Dear friends in the UC Santa Cruz community,...
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 9:23pm PST
Monterey County MMJ Action Alert I have recently heard from the Monterey County
Department of Health that they are ready to implement
the statewide medical marijuana ID card program,
however they're holding off pending YOUR input....
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 12:29pm PST
Juan Cole to speak in Santa Cruz and Stockton (SF Cancelled) ......
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 8:45am PST
Playground PlayAround Ride (1/19) 
Ride against the Playground Bully! Demand your fair turn on the Slide! Playtime is Petro-War-Free!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 7:55pm PST
Free Skool Two-Year Anniversary 
You are invited to our quarterly potluck picnic. Students, teachers, organizers, and folk from the community get together for a fun day in the park....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 9:08am PST
Cultivate a Welcoming Community, against ICE Raids and Discrimination! 
A wide range of actions and community organizations exist in order to maintain a welcoming community in the face of ICE raids and an imperial federal government. The MigraWatch Justice Network of the Monterey Bay area, Viernes Cultural, and La Peña are a few of the events and organizations that promote a welcoming, strong, anti-discriminatory, public space for those of us who value and manifest the diversity of our community....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 6:01am PST
"Free Speech" Versus the Military Members of the military have never had the right to free speech. Believe it or not, this isn't because of student protesters. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), enlistees are specifically denied their 1st Amendment Rights. Take Lt. Ehren Watada, an Army officer opposed to the war in Iraq, for example. He's currently being court-martialled for "making public remarks disparaging his chain of command," i.e. saying that he believes Bush lied to us and the war in Iraq is illegal. H...
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 1:47am PST
Cowell's Beach Protest: Out of Iraq! 
Saturday was a beautiful day to spend at Cowell's Beach where over one hundred people turned out to protest the growing war in Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2007 6:32pm PST
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