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Highlights from UC Regents Protest at UCSC 
Much has been said and written about the UC Regents protest at UCSC on Wednesday, Oct. 18. These photos aren't meant to explain the situation in full, but to fill in some gaps in coverage and highlight some of the most interesting and inspiring moments....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 1:06am PDT
Victims of Violence: When UC Police Attack 
If you've taken a glance at the corporate press' headlines recently, you'd see something like this: "UC Santa Cruz Protest Turns Violent," or, my favorite, "Police Break Up Violent Protest at UC Regents Meeting." The mainstream media blatently suggests that it was the students - the protesters - that were violent. Yet, to have violence you have to have victims. 'cus if nothing or no one was hurt, how can you claim that any crime has been committed?
If you look at Wednesday's (Oct. 18, 200...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 8:20pm PDT
Weeping Wednesday: A Protest Against the UC Regents 
The first big protests of the 2006-2007 school year at UC Santa Cruz took place on October 18th, 2006, the day the UC Regents came to visit campus. It had been five years since all 26 UC Regents came to UCSC. During the second demonstration of the day by hundreds of students outside the new Humanities Building at Cowell College, police pushed, swung and jabbed with their batons before taking three students hostage and hurling streams of pepper spray directly into the eyes of demonstrators....
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Stop the Killings! A Series of Events Addressing Political Repression in the Philippines This is an announcement for a series of events designed to both raise consciousness about political repression in the Philippines and build organizations in the US to help fight it....
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 4:27pm PDT
Students and Workers (Re)United for Justice! 
On October 18th, AFSCME workers and students at UC Santa Cruz held a rally in the Baytree Plaza and then marched to the base of campus calling on UC President Dynes to release funds promised by the California Legislature to low-paid UC workers. AFSCME workers and students are also demanding wages comparable to those of neighboring colleges and universities where people are paid up to 30% more for doing the same amount or less work.
At the base of campus, people immediately marched into the...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 2:06pm PDT
Summary of Events: UCSC Protests Regents Visit With misinformation rampant about the protest of the UC Regents visit to UC Santa Cruz, here's one student activist's attempt to provide one perspective of the story...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 12:56am PDT
Vanpool to Defeat Pombo "Day of Action" Day of Action is in Pleasanton at Civic Park, 100 Main Street.
Van from Santa Cruz leaves from the parking lot next to the Calvary Episcopal Church, 532 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 28, 2006 8:30am PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:49pm PDT
AFSCME and Friends March for Wage Parity, Justice 
At noon on Wednesday, October 18, 2006, members of AFSCME 3299 and their supporters marched from the Bay Tree Plaza to the base of campus, where a roving picket line was held, followed by a rally. The workers have been engaged in a year-long struggle to receive wages similiar to those of neighboring colleges and universities where people can make up to 30% more for the same (or less) work. Over the summer, the California State Assembly passed legislation funding these wage increases, yet UC P...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 4:59pm PDT
Free Skool Santa Cruz DISTRO DAY Thousands of Free Skool Winter Quarter 2006 calendars will be ready for
distribution by next Wednesday, October 25!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 2:06pm PDT
Raise The Minimum Wage, Yes On Measure G! Yes on G!
No on Cynthia Matthews, Mike Rotkin, and Lynn Robinson!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 11:53am PDT
Strike is On at Hartnell in Salinas! The Hartnell Faculty Association is striking. They have deplorable conditions and comparatively low wages and poor contracts. Let's get out and support them! An injury to one is an injury to all!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 10:33am PDT
From the Oaxaca Commune, we´re still waiting... 
10.20.06 update from the Oaxaca Commune; with fotos from Canal 9, the central Zócalo, and the streets of Oaxaca City, with audio interview with a Oaxacan teacher in three parts, and a beautiful poem, read by a nine-year old boy, the child of a political prisoner here in Oaxaca....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 9:02am PDT
Students Hold Speak-Out for Visiting Regents, Police Give Response 
UCSC students held a protest against various UC policies and practices when the Regents visited the campus on Wednesday. Police tried to force their way through the crowd, but eventually pulled back, pepper spraying the crowd and arresting three. Protestors wouldn't leave until the arrested persons were released....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 5:36am PDT
Grim Pictures from UC Regents Protest at UCSC 
Santa Cruz students were confronted by police as they attempted to voice concerns about many heated issues of UC policy, during a protest at a regents meeting. Here are a few photographs taken from the front lines of the Santa Cruz protest against the UC Regents, hopefully they will provide a clearer account of what actually happened during the chaos....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 2:03am PDT
Wanted! Ronald McDonald: National Day of Action in support of CIW McD's on Mission St. & Laurent St.
(b/w Bay St. and Laurel St., large streets)
*close to the site of the last major CIW rally: Taco Bell...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2006 3:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 7:26pm PDT
Union to Protest at Quail Lodge UNION TO PROTEST AT QUAIL LODGE
WHILE UNION REACHES NEW AGREEMENT AT MONTEREY BEACH RESORT...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 4:55pm PDT
Stand by to mobilize for possible strike action in Salinas 
Monterey Bay CLC: Stand in Solidarity!
Update will be posted tomorrow....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 4:42pm PDT
The Hemporium, LLC... Medical Marijuana Conviction Overturned The 6th District Court of Appeals reverses conviction of medical marijuana caregiver and patient Roger Mentch. Defendant was denied a CAREGIVERS defense and the jury given wrong instructions....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 10:36am PDT
Why We're Here and What We're Fighting For (on the UC Regents protest) The following text was extracted from a flyer passed out at the UC Regents protest today, Oct. 18, 2006, by the organizers of the action. As the media misinformation about the demonstration hits the community, it's important for all of us to know the concerns that the students and workers were demanding be addressed....
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 11:36pm PDT
Rally and March to protest Regents at UCSC! BAYTREE PLAZA
UCSC...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 2:45pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 8:18pm PDT
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