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Photo: The Trash Orchestra "Tunes Up" Before the Last Night Parade.
After months of "unplanning," the Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration took center stage on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2006. After the miserable year that was 2006, the event was a delightful counterpoint -- a truly joyful, creative and inspiring expression of community and the First Amendment....
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 4:38pm PST
DIY Last Night Parade Brings Community Together In the Streets
After months of "unplanning," the Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration took center stage on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2006. After the miserable year that was 2006, the event was a delightful counterpoint -- a truly joyful, creative and inspiring expression of community and the First Amendment....
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 2:37am PST
Last Night Photos
"We want to live in a world full of play and celebration, where self expression is a matter of course. Where one does not have to ask permission of authorities to realize one's dreams of adventure and possibility." From Last Night Flyer passed out prior to the parade....
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2007 11:56pm PST
New Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not Out" FREE SCREENING (1/6)
New Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not Out" Saturday January 6, 2007
7:30pm-9:00pm...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 8:35pm PST
Santa Cruz New Years Eve Peace March Marks 3000 Dead
The U.S. war casualties are approaching 3,000. We are tired of waiting!! Come out to the Santa Cruz DIY New Year's Eve parade and participate in a Silent Peace Walk contingent....
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 1:59pm PST
Do You Have Indymedia's Back?
Santa Cruz Indymedia has been at the forefront of progressive struggles on the Central Coast since its inception in 2001. Now, this all-volunteer community media resource needs your help. Do you have Indymedia's back?...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 1:05am PST
Free DVD showing: "History of Oil" & local alternative energy expert Joe Jordan
Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 11:11am PST
Santa Cruz Fair Garbage Rates Petition
The Santa Cruz Fair Garbage Rates petition seeks to make garbage rates in the City of Santa Cruz, CA., equitable, by changing the way by which a resident is charged for garbage pickup from a set, monthly rate to a pay-only-when-you-put-out-the-garbage rate....
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 7:00am PST
Manifiesto de la Ultima Noche
Last Night es una celebracion "hazlo tu mismo" del Ano Nuevo en Santa Cruz. Es un evento decentralizado, colectivo, espontaneo, abierto y publico.
Se reune detras del Saturn Cafe,
a la puesta del sol, 31 de diciembre.
Que vengan todos!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 11:23pm PST
Trash Orchestra PSA (audio/mpeg 8.2MB)
Using recycled food cans, hubcaps, barrels, sheet metal, and other discarded oddities, the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra is a bone-shaking, recycled ensemble – a marching percussion band - who show up invited or otherwise, to make a cacophony of noise and celebration at parties and protests. Trash Orchestra players held an instrument building workshop as a Free Skool class in early December, 2006. DJ D. Rail attended, and brings us this sound collage, which attempts to make sense of the discor...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 9:19am PST
QUALITY OF LIFE graffiti film comes to Santa Cruz 1/19
Shot on location in San Franciso's Mission District, the award-winning QUALITY OF LIFE tells an authentic and gripping story of two young graffiti writers whose friendship and lives unravel after they get arrested.
This is the Santa Cruz premiere at the Rio on Fri 1/19 at 8pm. The Filmmakers (both UCSC grads) will be in attendance with after-party afterwards at the Cardiff Lounge....
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 2:15pm PST
Protest at the San Jose Mexican Consulate on Dec 22nd
Our brothers and sisters in Oaxaca are still suffering repression from the Mexican government and mass incarceration of activists! Please join us in this very important protest!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 2006
MEXICAN CONSULATE in SAN JOSE - 540 North First St., San Jose, CA.
7AM (Yes, in the morning! The consulate's hours of operation are usually 8AM-3PM)
SAN FRANCISCO, SANTA CRUZ -- ALL COME TO SAN JOSE!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 12:05pm PST
Action Alert: Marina City Council to Vote on Dispensary Ban Tonight @6:30
WHEN: Tonight, December 19th 2006 6:30pm
WHERE: City Hall, City Council Chambers 211 Hillcrest Ave.Marina CA 93933
WHY: Patients will be allowed to speak for up to 3 minutes....
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 5:54pm PST
Last Night DIY Parade Returns in Full Force
When we ask permission to live our lives, to celebrate, to come together, to express dissent, we legitimate the power of institutions over us. We give up our power to make our own choices. We refuse to ask permission to be free....
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 3:32pm PST
Week of Winter Woe
Protests, meals, meetings, phone numbers, and other tools of transformation in the next few days for any and all who want them.
As the weather goes from cold to sub-freezing. With "shelter space" available for less than 10% of the Santa Cruz City homeless....
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 1:09pm PST
Bigotry on Parade: Scotts Valley City Council Passes Camping Ban
Scotts Valley City Council Chambers at 1 Civic Center Drive, Scotts Valley (off Scotts Valley Drive)....
Event Date: Wed, Dec 20, 2006 6:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 3:40pm PST
Thaw Out the Snowman: Demo and Meal Noon at City Attorney's Friday the 22nd
Gather and gobble at 333 Church St. Friday noon in front of the City Attorney's office (across from the City Council parking lot and down from the Civic Auditorium). The goal: to ask Barisone to recommend what the LA City Attorney and Police Chief have done--suspend sleeping ban tickets so people can sleep safely in some part of the city....
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 2:13pm PST
Last Night Un-Planning Meeting
Next Un-organizing meeting is Monday night...
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 10:41am PST
AUDIO: Scott Ritter and Jeff Cohen at Louden Nelson on 12-9-06.
SCOTT RITTER and JEFF COHEN spoke on Dec. 9 about the war and the media's role in creating it....
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 11:47pm PST
Scotts Valley Sleeping Ban Ordinance
New Scotts Valley Ordinance aginst sleeping on Public Property. There is one last meeting on Wed 20th at the Scotts Valley City Council for public input....
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 7:13pm PST