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Hippie Hill, San Francisco...

Palo Alto campaign managers Eunice Wentworth and Bertha Gotrocks woke up on April 1st and decided that, although the national campaign has yet to be announced, it is high time to urge the fine people of the San Francisco Bay Area to support the next big ticket: Blue Cross for President, Sarah Palin for Vice-President in 2012....

Free Radio Santa Cruz celebrated 15 years of unlicensed, community supported radio on March 27th at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz. The night featured local musicians and brought together past and present station programmers, as well as other community members. In addition to the local musicians, Tom Lodge, a pirate radio legend and pioneer from England, spoke of the great days of Radio Caroline, which allowed for the British Invasion. Lodge recently penned a book called The S...

The Studio Space 34 Janis Way #H Scotts Valley, CA...

Porter Meadow at UC Santa Cruz (map) In past years, the UCSC police and administration have restricted access to campus by only allowing people with UCSC identification to drive onto campus. The best ways for getting onto campus and over to Porter Meadow are to take the bus or walk. Avoid trying to park on Empire Grade. Give yourselves plenty of time to get to Porter Meadow, it's worth it!! You are all invited....

Money is the subject of radio shows, marches, rallies, events, conferences, performances, and the theme of the upcoming anti-war march and rally....

This is the fourth in a series of profiles of activist and alternative media workers in the Bay Area by Indybay contributor Peter M. Featured in this installment is artist Favianna Rodriguez. She is shown below with a mural on a temporary wall at the Oakland Museum downtown. She is responsible for the mural—she organized many local artists to do panels for it, and she is standing by the panel she created....

The Raging Grannies are tired of being preyed on by big banks, so they decided to take action! 1 minute long video documentation of their adventure...

Pre-Convergence Rally in front of City Hall photos by E. Wentworth. Lyrics to Billionaires for Fee Hikes Song and chants. Top Photo: Billionaires on the steps of City Hall appear unfazed by student sign demanding Revolución....

When student activists chanted "less jails more schools", the Billionaires for Fee Hikes retorted with their own chant: "Fewer Schools, More Jails!" The Billionaires carried a sign that read: Need Money for Tuition? UC now accepts kidneys for payment....