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Santa Cruz Regional Transporation Commission Votes To Widen Hwy 1, Others Vow To Fight It
Photo: As good as it gets. The view from a highway isn't the best, but this view of Highway 1 from the Capitola Road Bridge captures the beautiful tree line that has defined the community for decades.
Despite a large public outcry against the move, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission voted to pursue funding for three local Highway 1 expansion projects. The three projects were brought to the new SCCRTC on their first meeting, January 11th, 2007....
Posted: Fri, Jan 12, 2007 2:49am PST
Wanted! Ronald McDonald: Santa Cruz Solidarity with the CIW
'the year that was' in the struggle for fair food...
On October 29, 2006, allies of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers demonstrated in front of the McDonald's on Mission Street / Highway 1 in Santa Cruz, California during coordinated days of actions and solidarity with the CIW. Activists played music, held signs calling on McDonald's to support justice for farmworkers and also delivered a signed letter to the Manager at McDonald's. You can learn about the Student Farmworker Alliance, CIW a...
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 11:25pm PST
Back from Iraq: Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail
Wednesday, January 24, 7-9pm, Cowell Dining Hall, UC Santa Cruz - FREE!...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 10:26pm PST
Emergency Rally Against the Troop Increase Thurs Night
Rally at the Town Clock Tower
Downtown Clocktower (in Santa Cruz) - corner of Water and Pacific
Thursday, Jan 11 2007
6:00 PM - 7PM...
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 9:47pm PST
UC Santa Cruz Administration Sabotages Student-Run Career Event
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 09, 2007...
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 12:17pm PST
More Police Punishing the Poor in the Pogonip
City Council is posed to rubberstamp another police state expansion of power giving NIMBY (Not-in-my-backyard) bureaucrats a green light, funds, and weapons against the poor....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 1:58am PST
Free Skool Radio News: Winter 2006 (audio/mpeg 25.6MB)
The student reporters of Radio Journalism 101 present, Free Skool Radio News, a collection of reports, interviews and sounds from just a handful of the dozens of classes and workshops offered through Free Skool Santa Cruz. We'll hear about the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, Improv Contact Dance, Spanish Conversation, Tray Boarding, the Punk Sewing Circle and more. This program is the final project of Radio Journalism 101, Free Skool class on the basics of broadcast news production, facilitated ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 10:48am PST
BATTLE OF ALGIERS at Guerilla Drive-In (1/12)
As you know by now, we are still showing guerilla films -- indoors for the wet and chilly winter -- at the bike church downtown. They are monthly, and since we haven't posted the winter series yet to the website, you'll just have to come to this week's movie to get a printed schedule for your fridge. See you there!...
Posted: Sun, Jan 7, 2007 3:09pm PST
Letter to a Young Marine, Days before His Deployment to Iraq
This is an open letter I wrote to the son of one of my best friends after I heard he was being deployed to the Iraq War. As the author of Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq, I felt obligated to make sure he knew his alternatives and to do all I could to dissuade him from boarding the outbound plane. I failed, but perhaps publishing the letter may influence others....
Posted: Sun, Jan 7, 2007 8:52am PST
"Behind Every Terrorist There Is a Bush" (1/8)
This is an announcement about an event at the Louden Nelson Center on Monday, Jan. 8....
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2007 8:19am PST
Even More - DIY Last Night Parade Brings Community Together In the Streets
Photo: The Great Morgani, Red Light and Ping Pong Ball Edition
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 11:27pm PST
More - DIY Last Night Parade Brings Community Together In the Streets
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