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30th San Francisco Free Folk Festival, June 24 & 25 WHAT: The San Francisco Free Folk Festival will be held Saturday, June 24th through Sunday, June 25th. Activities run from noon until around 11pm both Saturday and Sunday. As the name suggests, all festival events are free, and features folk, blues, new acoustic and international music.
In addition to performances by nationally recognized performers and favorite local artists, there are hands-on music and dance workshops, International Dance on Saturday and Contra Dance on Sunday, specia...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 7:35pm PDT
A Small Taste of Santa Cruz Organizing for May Day 2006 
Many businesses will be closed on Monday, May 1st, as Santa Cruz prepares for a May Day work stike and consumer boycott. No Work, No School, No Buying, No Selling. UC Santa Cruz will be shut down from 6:00am to at least 12:00pm when UCSC students march to downtown Santa Cruz and join up with a demonstration starting in the Beach Flats....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 2:30am PDT
Sarandon: I had death threats for opposing war Film actress Susan Sarandon has revealed how she felt isolated and frightened by death threats and verbal attacks after she criticised US policy in Iraq....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 9:26pm PDT
Werkshop Museum art space - May '06 Calendar and Information 
Here's a PDF of the April/May 2006 calendar for the newly opened art/community/infoshop space(s) in downtown Santa Cruz, the Werkshop Museum and the Galley, presented by the Playing in Sand collective. Follow the PDF link below to view.
Here's some of the text from the calendar:...
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 1:31pm PDT
New Thriller Highlights Post-9/11 Paranoia About Arabs NEW YORK, April29 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Highlighting the US paranoia about Arabs and Muslims after the9 /11 attacks, a new movie has been screened at a New York film festival with a clear message to the world: "stop portraying Arabs and Muslims as terrorists."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 9:47am PDT
Films for Social + Political Change, April 29 at Kabuki 
"The Revolution, Now Playing: Film as a Tool for Social and Political Change"
Part of the the SFIFF's panel series with Ian Inaba, founder, Guerilla News Network, Annalee Newitz, writer, techsploitation.com and Adam Werbach, president, Ironweed Films and more !
Saturday, April 29, 2:00 pm at Kabuki Theater...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 5:29pm PDT
Call to action: Not in our Name, Not in our Honor! Please join the Bay Area Indigenous Community as they join in protest of the racist mural dedication at Gaylords in Oakland....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 5:08pm PDT
Peace Takes Courage Cindy writes about her admiration for a 15-year-young peace activist named Ava Lowery from Alabama....
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 6:36pm PDT
THREE STATES to vote on forwarding REAL impeachment bills that require US House votes author: Constitutionalist
....your own state's legislators can introduce
Impeachment Proceedings against Bush
immediately as a State Legislature Joint
Resolution, that then goes on to be a preferred
bill, meaning that it automatically takes
precedence over all other bills then in Congress!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 1:28pm PDT
Free Speech Versus Peace Disturbance: A Conflict of Law 
Most people do not realize there is an area of law called “Conflict of Law.” Laws conflict and this is a specialty area in law, which navigates around laws that hit each other head on in conflict. I live in the swirling world of the “Conflict of Law” between Free Speech and Peace Disturbance/Obscenity Laws. I have been arrested, ticketed and/or charged with property rule violations for obscenity and peace disturbance for busking (or street performing) since 1978, including 8 peace disturbance...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 12:02pm PDT
A LESSON OF ANTI-OPPRESSION PUBLIC ART FOR THE MURALIST ROCKY BAIRD Dear muralist Rocky Baird: Take a deep breath, listen carefully to those who disagree with your mural, be greatful, and finally, take some reflection before doing what you can still do: Apologize to the local Native community, modify the mural in a way that accommodates the views of a wider audience, and better educate yourself about what Native and non-Native protesters want you to know. This would be a way to be accountable for your commitment to anti-oppressive public art, in particular de...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 11:57am PDT
Rev Billy Rapture Interruptus Tour: Santa Cruz Revival! FRIDAY 
Here's a little something right up your alley for this Friday. You may remember when Guerilla Drive-In hosted Reverend Billy and showed Night of the Iguana under the Soquel Ave bridge. A night of redemption! Salvation! Jubilation! Changelujah, children!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 11:10am PDT
Neil Young’s “Let’s Impeach the President” Lyrics “Let’s Impeach the President”...
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 2:59pm PDT
I'M THE DECIDER, Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo New song: http://decider.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
I am me and Rummy's he, Iraq is free and we are all together
See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see how I lie
I'm Lying......
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 1:38pm PDT
LOOSE CHANGE 911 - May 2nd at Grand Lake Theater 
What explains the World Trade Center Building 7’s strange collapse? And, why wasn’t there any mention of it in the Official 9/11 Commission Report?
Why did the FBI confiscate surveillance cameras videos that could confirm what hit the pentagon? And, why haven’t they been released?
Why where there no plane intercepts when there was ample time to do so by air defense? Were there stand down orders?
These and other troublesome questions will be explored in the much talked about new doc...
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 4:04pm PDT
Carta de las Visitadoras a San Pantaleón Motivadas por la defensa del comisario Maigret del espacio ético de Charo la prostituta, las Visitadoras del Pantaleón de Vargas Llosa acuden a San Pantaleón para implorar a éste una alianza que por una parte legitime el espacio ético de las peticionarias y que por otra parte garantice al santo el éxito de la lucha del mismo en la reducción del impacto de la degradación de la ética en la actualidad...
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 10:27am PDT
'Coco' monologues break taboos in Beirut Taboo-breaking play ‘Hakeh Neswan’ takes Lebanese theatre by storm with sold-out performances, rave reviews....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 9:07am PDT
Peoples Park Celebration Today: 11 am - 5 pm (not 11 pm!!) Come celebrate 37 years of Peoples Park! The calendar item which says 11 pm to 5 am is incorrect!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 8:20am PDT
Santa Cruz County Book Fair, May 20 
The first annual Santa Cruz County Book Fair takes place May 20, 2006. It should be a large gathering and there is still time to register for a booth....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 1:24pm PDT
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