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textWhy I Didn't Strike On March 14th 2006 by Helbard
On March 14th I decided to do something I had never done and never expected to do. I walked through strike lines and worked while all my co-workers spend the entire day, sometimes in heavy rain, fighting fo a better contract. But, I had to disagree with my union....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 10:09am PST
imageSEIU Strike Rally Shakes SC County Building
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by josh sonnenfeld
After 6 months of working without a contract and County administrators' attack on workers' salaries and health care, the 1,800-strong SEIU 415 went on strike on March 14. Pickets were set up all across the county - from Santa Cruz to Watsonville - yet the highlight of the day was a mid-afternoon rally at the County Building where, after reportedly marching through 5 stories of the building, hundreds of workers danced in the streets to old school hits and more by SEIU's own DJ. With solidarity...
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 3:23am PST
textSanta Cruz County Workers’ Strike: A Success by From SEIU415.org
From http://www.seiu415.org/chapters/county/contract/StrikeSuccess.htm...
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 2:31am PST
imageMidwest Immigrants and Allies Pour into Chicago Against HR4437
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by chicago and santa cruz
On Friday, March 10, 2006, downtown Chicago saw a pro-immigrant march estimated at tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people, all rousing opposition against the infamous anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner Bill. Protesters carried hand-lettered signs saying "No Human Being is Illegal," "George Washington Was An Immigrant," "We are America," "My Mexican immigrant son died in Iraq," "I'm a dishwasher-not a criminal," and "Don't d...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 5:34pm PST
imageSTAY TUNED FOR YOUTH AND POWER 2006
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by BROWN BERETS
YOUTH AND POWER APRIL 17TH IN WATSONVILLE, CA....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 12:56pm PST
text!!!!!March For Immigrant Rights This Friday in Santa Cruz!!!!! by FIGHT THE HR4437 COALITION
!!!!MARCH FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS THIS FRIDAY!!!!! DENOUNCE HR4437!!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 11:53am PST
imageGadabout Film Festival at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In
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by Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In
The Gadabout is a nationally touring film festival that screens a program of 20+ international short films. Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for filmmaking....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 11:18pm PST
imageSTRIKE Support!!! Tue. 3/14 Join SEIU 415 picket lines
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by via list
The strike is on! Your action is requested to support 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers who are striking on Tuesday, 14 March. Please forward this message to co-workers and progressive email lists so we can spread the word about this ONE DAY action....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 8:46pm PST
textCounty Workers Appeal for Equal Treatment by Kaleo Kaluhiwa
This week, Santa Cruz county workers will strike for 1 day. There will likely be a longer strike after March 27th if the Board of Supervisors does not show more leadership. We are the 1,800 people who work to serve the health, safety and quality of life of this community. We are public health nurses, road maintenance workers, social workers, computer operators, secretaries, child support workers, lifeguards and much more. The last thing we want is to be out on strike rather than servin...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 8:28pm PST
textNo Poor in the Parking Garages! (3/16) by Robert Norse
Downtown Commission to Consider New Anti-Homeless Law Parking Lots & Garages to be Off-Limits to the Poor! Speak Out and Chow Down ! OUR FREE FOOD AND YOUR FREE SPEECH 7:45 AM Thursday 3-16 City Hall 809 Center St....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 7:44pm PST
audioSanta Cruz Ballot Initiative for Sensible Marijuana Policy (audio/mpeg 3.0MB) by Vinny Lombardo
Petitioners are gathering signatures around Santa Cruz, to qualify a ballot initiative that would de-emphasize marijuana prosecutions. Reporter-At-Large Vinny Lombardo has the details... TRT: 3:15...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 12:16pm PST
textUC SweatFree Coalition stages sit-in at the Office of the President by Sara
On Friday, March 10, 17 students from 5 UC campuses (San Diego, Riverside, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and Davis) participated in a mini-sit-in at the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). Lasting about an hour, we staged the sit-in to protest the lack of action taken by President Dynes to enforce our university's Code of Conduct for Trademark Licensees and cut contracts with Coca-Cola....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 8:50pm PST
textSEIU 415 emergency strike solidarity alert - action requested by Monterey Bay Central Labor Council (repost)
Your action is requested to support 1,800 Santa Cruz County workers preparing to strike this week. Please forward this message to co-workers and progressive email lists. In addition to the action requested below, please contact your local union leadership to ask them to take action as well....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 6:39pm PST
textThe Project, March 2006 by The Project Collective
The Project is a monthly radical newpaper for the UCSC campus and Santa Cruz Community. It is run is a non-hierarchical fashion mainly by UCSC students, with an emphasis in anti-capitalism and local activism aimed at democratizing the university system. The purpose of this newspaper collective is to document and inspire strategic radical actions that are relevant to local, regional, and global socioeconomic justice. We believe independent media plays a crucial role in facilitating dialogue,...
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 3:58pm PST
imageUC Sweat-Free Coalition Crashes UCOP
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by Jalal
Students from UCSD, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, UCB and UCD crashed UCOP to meet President Dynes in person and demand an end to the use of sweatshops to produce UC apparel and uniforms. Students occupied the president's hallways for one hour. We were promised a meeting with Dynes and then later chose to leave the building once we were satisfied....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 11:35am PST
imageEl sistema universitario del estado de California está agonizando
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by Rafael Gomez
Manifestación por parte de los estudiantes, trabajadores, profesores y miembros de la comunidad solicitando fondos para el sistema universitario del estado de California....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:55am PST
textHippies Make the Best Bureaucrats: The Realities of Recruiting at UCSC by Kate Flanagan
The Project March 2006 page 8 Counter-Recruitment is one of the best tools of the anti-war movement. Around the country, activists are engaging in providing alternative information to potential recruits, and engaging in protests and civil disobedience to stop recruitment. At UCSC, military recruiters only come around during the schools’ two annual career fairs. At the past two, students have prevented recruitment: last spring by surrounding the fair en masse and demanding that the...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:51pm PST
textEaT MY RUBBER MoTHAFUCKA! by Bicycle Bandit
The Project March 2006 page 11 About a year ago, I was riding down High St on my bike. It had been a standard day at work and I was eager to get home when I spotted the big yellow Hummer barreling towards me. My stomach turned – I’d seen this miserable oil-sucking bastard before and had always wanted to give him a piece of my mind. Well, here was my chance, I could yell something like “Bourgeois fascist pig!” or “Eco-Terrorist!” which at 30 mph would sound like “BOO-FACO-IIG!!!” My other...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:41pm PST
textSave Our Languages by Dominique Biello, Andrew Hodgdon
The Project March 2006 page 5 Why Are We Here Again? The Fight to Save Languages Continues and UCSC Students Rally to Prioritize Languages...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:31pm PST
textUCSC Students Expose the Naked Truth of UC’s Use of Sweatshops by Ryan Couture
The Project March 2006 page 4 On Wednesday March 2, activists working to end UC support and exploitation of sweatshop labor organized at the base of the UCSC campus to present “The Naked Truth: UC uses sweatshops”. Stripping down to just their cardboard skivvies, activists protested at the East entrance intersection to chants and signs calling for the UC adoption of a policy that will ensure the manufacturing of its apparel in researched, unionized factories. Drawing media and administ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:27pm PST
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