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LA PEÑA CULTURAL DE WATSONVILLE! fundraiser for South Central Farmers (5/19) 
Since 1992, the 14 acres of property located at 41st and Alameda Streets in Los Angeles have been used as a community garden or farm. The land has been divided into 360 plots and is believed to be one of the largest urban gardens in the country....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 11:49am PDT
BEIJING BICYCLE and PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA (5/19) 
A special showing: two amazing films with two great local organizations. Three, I guess, if you count us....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 8:46am PDT
Online Petition: Oppose the Parking Lot Panic Law To: Santa Cruz City Council...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 12:01am PDT
MBCLC's Political Endorsements Read Central Coast labor's recommendations for the election....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 11:25pm PDT
Petition Against Parking Garage Paranoia & Update The Cabrillo Student Body President and the Head of the Cabrillo Democrats testified at the last City Council meeting against the Public Works Department's latest shutdown of public space. The law to ban everyone (but especially homeless people) from parking garages entirely, and limit motorists to fifteen minutes, passed City Council on May 9th 6-1, and comes back for a final reading on May 23rd....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 10:45pm PDT
Protest May 20, 2006 at Vandenberg Space Command 
Guest speakers: Que Keju of the Marshall Islands
Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange and CodePink
Bill Mitchell of Gold Star Families for Peace...
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 10:17pm PDT
Students to Protest Militarism and Lack of Democracy at May 18th Regents Meeting FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 15, 2006...
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 9:07pm PDT
Director of First Amendment Foundation in Santa Cruz 5/16 Kit Gage, director of the Committee Against Repressive Legislation and the First Amendment Foundation will be speaking in Santa Cruz at 7 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House this Tuesday. She is an expert on freedom of speech issues. This is one event you won't want to miss!...
Posted: Sun, May 14, 2006 5:32pm PDT
Young, queer Latina leader comes full circle 
In 1998, I was one of four people to receive a Queer Youth Leadership Award for my activism around gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning (queer) issues. I was not out to my family as a lesbian yet and, while I was not in my mom's custody, I remember my fear about the possibly of her finding out....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 11:02pm PDT
Parking Garage Paranoia Law Stalls Again The Parking Lot Trespass Law as Amended and its Final Passage Again Delayed Until the Next City Council Meeting on May 23rd. It will probably happen at another hard-to-attend afternoon session....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 5:03pm PDT
Controversial Comedy 
One year I was doing a song called “Vasectomy,” and I decided to make it a circus on stage. The signer was signing crazy stuff, like “Vasectomy, just like a navel orange, I’ve been freed, it’s all juice, and there’s no seed! Vasectomy, what a vas deferens it would be!” And the sign for vasectomy was this sort of scissor snipping right at the groin, which was entertaining, as well. But then I brought Hacki Ginda (http://www.hackifun.com/) into the mix, to do some miming of the song too. Hacki ...
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 4:28pm PDT
Santa Cruz County Food Forum Saturday Do you eat food? If you had a say, how would you change the way food is grown, processed, distributed and prepared? Please join us at the 2nd Santa Cruz County Food Forum to move toward a more sustainable and socially just food system....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 10:31am PDT
"Wars will Cease When We Refuse to Fight” Dan Tsahor speaks 5/16/06 Dan Tsahor is a former Israeli soldier in the Nahal infantry regiment.
Tsahor refused to serve in the occupied Palestinian Territory and was
imprisoned in 2003. He is a founding member of the new
Israeli-Palestinian peace group “Combatants for Peace,” formed by
former Palestinian fighters and soldiers from the Israeli army....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 9:59pm PDT
Rights During a Police Encounter 
A handbill in English on Rights During Police Encounters. Print out the handbill and make it available in our communities....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 10:03pm PDT
Santa Cruz Caravan To Cuba Offers Travel Scholarships Santa Cruz Caravan To Cuba Offers Travel Scholarships...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 1:51pm PDT
Sus Derechos Durante un Encuentro con la Policía 
A handbill in Spanish on Rights During Police Encounters. Print out the handbill and make it available in our Spanish-speaking communities. Also included is the English version of same....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 12:17pm PDT
Mother's (and Others) Say No to War! - 5/12 
Solidarity action with the National CODEPINK Mother's Day for Peace this Friday at the Military Recruitment Center on 41st Avenue this Friday. STOP THE NEXT WAR NOW!...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 11:49am PDT
Tonight at SC Film Festival - SOMA, Refuseniks (5/9) 
Tonight, May 9, there will be a showing of SOMA: Anarchist Therapy along with Refuseniks, the story of young men in Israel refuse to serve in government-mandated military service. Check them out! The films start at 5:00 p.m. at the Attic in downtown Santa Cruz....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 11:32am PDT
Parking Lot Panic at City Council Tuesday May 9th The Fifteen Minute Trespass Law has its final reading as item #17 on the afternoon agenda at Santa Cruz City Council Tuesday May 9th. A protest with food and frolicking will precede the Council rubberstamp at 2:30 PM. Item #17 on the City Council agenda will come up sometime after 3 PM (anywhere from half an hour to several hours)....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 9:42pm PDT
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