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Strongly Biased Public Safety Survey The Mayor's Public Safety Task Force has come up with a survey that they'd like you to fill out.
But that survey is loaded with inappropriate, imprecise, unprofessional, and inflammatory
language that enables blame instead of real solutions....
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 11:29am PDT
Solidarity with #direngeziparki and the people of Turkey In Istanbul, there is evidence of tear gas coming from at least two U.S. companies— Defense Technology (Casper, WY) and Nonlethal Technologies (Homer, PA)— and one Brazilian company, Condor Non-Lethal Technologies (Rio de Janeiro)....
Posted: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 1:13am PDT
Anonymous Operation Turkey Anonymous Operation Turkey - Press Release...
Posted: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 3:07pm PDT
Bradley Manning and the First 1000 Days Manning Supporters Asked to Step In and Up...
Posted: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 10:27am PDT
Mayor Cuts Off Comment in Consent Agenda Crackdown; Brown Act Complaint Rejected At Tuesday's afternoon City Council meeting (5-28), Mayor Bryant adopted a new repressive procedure which seemed to be made up on the spot to silence me as I opposed the Council's unanimous move to cut the number of Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women meetings in half. The cutback was bad enough by itself, but along the way, Bryant's new procedures if followed in the future gag speakers by setting new rules for public comment on Consent Agenda items...
Posted: Sat, Jun 1, 2013 10:49pm PDT
PoP dEFECT RADIO: Bob Brozman Musical Memorial Tribute Part 1 Part one of a two-part musical memorial to the late guitarist, ethnomusicologist, anarchist, steel guitar innovator, instrumental wizard and Santa Cruz local Bob Brozman who died on April 23rd 2013....
Posted: Sat, Jun 1, 2013 12:05pm PDT
Local ACLU Issues Letter of Support for AB 5 The Homeless Bill of Rights ACLU Urges Restoration of "Quality of Life" Provisions...
Posted: Wed, May 29, 2013 4:36pm PDT
Government Sponsored Needle Exchange Asks Much - Offers Little Still Missing the Point...
Posted: Sun, May 26, 2013 6:16pm PDT
Interview with SC Clean Team founder TJ Magallanes Fourth generation Santa Cruzan TJ Magallanes knows all to well about groupthink, bullying and the problems that can develop when one expresses their thoughts within a community group. He has run several Santa Cruz community oriented Facebook pages, which have enjoyed various levels of success...and failure. He has tapped into the power of social media, and has used it to enact positive changes within our community. He started Santa Cruz’s own Clean Team in response to piles of needles and ton...
Posted: Wed, May 22, 2013 11:18pm PDT
ACLU Chair Closes Monthly Boad of Directors Meeting, Homeless Issues Off the Agenda Last night the local ACLU, long notorious for its refusal to join other ACLU's across the state in supporting the trampled rights of local homeless people, underlined its authoritarian process by excluding members of the public (including ACLU members) from its Board meeting. Though Chair Peter Gelblum was the voice demanding that everyone leave, the rest of the Board remained silent, and "activist" Steve Pleich insisted that prior willingness to have members of the public present was only ...
Posted: Tue, May 21, 2013 11:55am PDT
California Trust Act Moves Forward Trust and Equal Protection Under the Law...
Posted: Sun, May 19, 2013 2:50pm PDT
Worldwide Monsanto Protest MAY 25-Rally for Real Food!! MAY 25-Rally for Real Food!! MAY 25-Rally for Real Food!!...
Posted: Tue, May 14, 2013 8:22am PDT
Desal Advocacy and Conflict of Interest - Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District Last week at the so-called special joint study session, the City of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District rolled out their advocacy campaign to build political and public acceptance for the desal EIR study and approval of the regional desal plant.
All eyes are now on Santa Cruz , which should be considered the litmus test for the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary’s desal future. If the Santa Cruz “expandable” regional desal plant is approved, then desal industry leaders can easily pursue bu...
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2013 10:02pm PDT
Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself Sin Barras Asking the Right Questions...
Posted: Sat, May 11, 2013 1:12am PDT
Police having sex in a duty vehicle According to the prosecution, fife to ten sex acts was committed with one (i.e. one like single) woman during about eight months. Acts were commited in a duty car and at least part of these action were done during a routine working day. /1-3/...
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2013 3:48pm PDT
Ministry discovery - "Salmons do not vote" The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Finland have found out the fact that salmons do not vote. Jarper Pääkkönen told he secretly taped the salmon concersation he had in The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Finland. "Several sourced warned, that they (in the ministry) can distort/twist stories...". Does one has to be either a police and a lawyer to succeed in Finland as The Wiesenthal Center know?...
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2013 9:49am PDT
Public Hysteria Task Force Has 1st Meeting Tonight 6 PM Tony Hill Room Civic Auditorium SC The "Public Safety" Task Force, hand-picked by Mayor Hillary Bryant, has its first meeting tonight at 6 PM in the small Tony Hill sideroom at the Civic Auditorium on Church St. across from City Council chambers. According to staff person Scott Collins, the meeting will not be televised, though he intends to bring a small audio recorder. The room accommodates a much smaller number of people than the City Council chambers across the street or the main Civic auditorium assembly room in the sa...
Posted: Tue, May 7, 2013 9:24am PDT
Santa Cruz Desal EIR Detached From Reality? On Tuesday, May 7 at 7 PM, the Santa Cruz City Council will hold a special study session about the Regional Seawater Desal Project Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) which is expected to be released next week....
Posted: Fri, May 3, 2013 12:29pm PDT
The Fall of Personal Privacy from Great Height Government Sponsored Invasion of Privacy...
Posted: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 11:13am PDT
Gabriel Jumped by Homeless Haters near Cabrillo College Wednesday I received a phone call yesterday from a formerly homeless man, now a Cabrillo student named Gabriel. He gave the following report of being beaten Wednesday 4-24 near Cabrillo College as he headed for class. Subsequently he checked in with the Cabrillo Health Clinic, but was reluctant to contact the police, having heard from other formerly homeless people that police declined to investigate such incidents. He mentioned the case of a guy named Zack, whose picture was prominently posted on Face...
Posted: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 11:50am PDT
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