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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Project
March 2006
page 4
Worker exploitation at the foundation of western capitalism has never gone unchecked. From slave ship mutiny, to the implementation of the weekend and child labor laws won by early labor unions, to the victory of AFSCME workers for a better contract from the UC last April, labor has always found new ways to influence the decision-making bodies that impede their progress towards fair, safe, and dignified employment. Even in the wake of major social victorie...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:22pm PST
Page 3 of The Project
March, 2006
Borders work to divide human kind. The United States government has encouraged this division by building three tangible barriers in the form of fences over the last decade. H.R.4337 will only criminalizes immigrants but it also takes away their human rights. The DREAM Act will allow respite from HR 4437 as a reward for military service....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 6:46pm PST
Gather at 5 pm on Friday, March 17 in front of the Santa Cruz County Building located at 701 Ocean St. for a rally against HR 4437. March will leave the County Building at 6pm, and end at the Beach Flats Community Center, located at 133 Leibrandt Ave, for a vigil with testimonials and street theater from the immigrant community....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 12:57pm PST
On March 8th, International Women's Day, Dianne Patterson and Kelle Greene were special guests of The Feminist Radio Collective on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 12:44pm PST
Law enforcement in Santa Cruz, CA this week, launched a 24-hour, Spanish language hotline for day laborers to anonymously report abusive employers. FSRN reporter Vinny Lombardo has more.
3:10 (Lede included)...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 2:20pm PST
Benifit Concert with David Rovics & Attila the Stockbroker Monday March 13th 8pm at the Sacred Grove 924 Pacific ave also performing is Sean Burns....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 10:59am PST
CSU Monterey Bay holds a funeral mass for their livlihoods while the final Presidential candidate is being introduced...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 7:30pm PST
Don't miss this incredible opportunity to hear Faiza Al-Araji, Scott Ritter, Pablo Paredes and Fernando Suarez
SAT. AFTERNOON MARCH 25th 2:30PM VETS HALL
Donation at the door to fund Iraqi Women Tour, Global Exchange and more!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 5:06pm PST
On March 8, more than 100 students held a rally outside the UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate's quarterly meeting to demand the prioritization of the language program at the university. They expressed frusteration over lucrative salaries and perks for top-administrators, and excessive amounts of money going towards war in Iraq, while students and workers are told there is a 'budget crisis' that requires cuts to needed programs.
Wednesday's 'Save Our Languages' rally marks a second consecutive ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 4:33am PST
INTERNATIONAL GUEST SPEAKER
Andreia Borges Ferreira,
Brazilian Land Activist
The MST is the largest social movement in Latin America, with an estimated 2 million members organized in 23 of Brazil's 27 states....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 4:48pm PST