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Long Range Resistance Press Conference (audio/mpeg 2.0MB) A press conference was held in the morning of November 7th to explain the newly launched tree-sit on Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz.
Audio: 4:24...
Posted: Fri, Nov 9, 2007 11:37am PST
CA Dept of Food and Agriculture starts blind guinea pig test over Santa Cruz The CA Dept of Food and Agriculture sent me an e-mail at 8AM November 9 to tell me that Checkmate spraying over Santa Cruz had already occurred on Nov 8....
Posted: Fri, Nov 9, 2007 10:32am PST
Thursday Night, Nov 8, at the No Borders Camp 
Greetings from Calexico/Mexicali where the first No Borders Camp at the US-Mexico border is taking place....
Posted: Fri, Nov 9, 2007 1:10am PST
cop watch: Brian Hughes at LRDP Protest 
UCSC Police Officer Brian Hughes was photographed acting overly violent in yet another UCSC protest. Seen here, in a photo by Phil Carter (City on a Hill Press), Hughes has his arm around the neck of a protester....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 11:18pm PST
Cop Watch Downtown Santa Cruz. November (video/x-ms-wmv 8.6MB) Cop Watch of arrests of any individual on the mall, homeless citations, instances of selective enforcement, police misconduct e, destruction of property. etc....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 9:01pm PST
An Incomplete History of Activism at UC Santa Cruz - Timeline 
The following timeline was included as part of my senior thesis for Feminist Studies, Spring 2007. For a better formatted version, including sources, see the attached PDF.
The full thesis can be obtained from the Feminist Studies Department. It includes:
I. Introduction
II. Situating UC Santa Cruz (history of the town and how the university fits in, some of which has been reprinted in the 2007 Disorientation Guide)
III. Timeline
IV. Gaps and Blind Spots
V. Trends
a. Faculty Firings...
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 8:39pm PST
Police Beaten Back as Tree Sitters and Others Occupy Space against UC Development Plans Anarchist analysis of protests on the 7th....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 8:34pm PST
11th of Every Month For 9/11 Truth Downtown Santa Cruz Clock Tower
corner of Water St / Mission St / North Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 11, 2007 1:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 6:55pm PST
UCSC LRDP Resistance Rally Audio and Photos (audio/mpeg 7.7MB) An audio file of the UCSC Long Range Resistance Rally on November 7th, 2007 on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Many speakers! Check it out!
Please note that I shrunk the size of this file greatly to make it easy to upload. If you want the LARGE version of this MP3 - which is much clearer and better-sounding - please email me.
And check out photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmatthew/sets/72157603001737530/...
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 3:51pm PST
UCSC students protest LRDP (photos and video) 
Students marching towards Science Hill to protest UCSC's LRDP....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 3:43pm PST
Police Brutalizing UCSC Students 
Police pepper-spray and club student demonstrators on November 7 2007...
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 3:39pm PST
More photographs of Science hill. 
Here are additional photographs of the police-activist struggle that took place on Science Hill in Santa Cruz yesterday. (Can some editor help me with the crazy indentation problems I'm having? I can't figure it out and it doesn't show up in my finished article. What the hell? I just need some indentations.)...
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:52pm PST
Struggle on Science Hill. 
Interview with activists, photographs of violence, and a short look at the LRDP brought to you by an unwillingly unemployed and thus angry independant journalist....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:28pm PST
Call in to pressure UCSC and police to respect protesters and students If you can't make it to the campus you can still help pressure UCSC to not maltreat protesters and students....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 11:21am PST
Come by and support the tree sitters! (UCSC Science hill) Come show your support for the tree sitters currently occupying redwoods at UCSC in opposition to the LRDP and its first project, the biomedical facility.
Come hang out and discuss the LRDP and get involved.
If you'd like, just bring by some snacks, water, non perishable foods, support letters anytime. Also, Tarps, Raingear and non perishable food donations would be of great help, bring 'em by if you got 'em....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 1:12am PST
Support The Tree Sitters on Science Hill Under The TreeSits on Science Hill, off of Mcglaughlin Dr. on UCSC...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 1:06am PST
Standoff with Police as Activists occupy redwoods to oppose UCSC Expansion Early Wednesday morning, activists opposed to UCSC's Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) launched a tree-sit in redwoods near Science Hill. UCSC plans to develop the occupied site into a new Biomedical Sciences Facility....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 4:12pm PST
Police Attack Students Protesting UCSC Development Plan BREAKING NEWS - Students protesting UC Santa Cruz's long-range development plan are under attack by police. At least a dozen students were pepper-sprayed, and police with "less than lethal" weapons are filling the campus. Two tree-sits on the site of proposed new development have been cordoned off by police, and at least one tree-sit supporter has been arrested....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 1:47pm PST
Tree Sitters!!! Imagine my surprise when I hop of the bus this morning to police cordoning off the parking lot directly outside the Physical Sciences Building ..... road rage in the parking lot??? It's not even 8 in the morning I think.... but NO it's better than that .... we have 2 platforms about 4 stories high in the red woods - activists protesting the LRDP!
CONTINUA ALUTA!!!!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 11:04am PST
UCSC Enviro-Puppet Manipulators Needed! today-11AM with Art & Rev Envoronmental puppets (a Giant dove, 8 ft butterflys and an old-growth puppet-Tree) need your help! They're migrating to the heart of UCSC (to the "Bay-Tree" Bookstore) for an anti-growth Demo-rally 11AM and March- 12noon. Help operate puppets- with Art & Revolution Convergence SC...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 10:02am PST
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