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Stop Santa Cruz Neo-Nazi Band the Highway Murderers from Performing in San Jose 
The Highway Murderers are a corny crypto-fascist butt rock band from Santa Cruz, California (they categorize their music as punk and thrash metal). Since the band’s formation in 2002, they have constantly been subject to criticism and resistance from the northern California music community for their consistently violent, misogynistic, and racist behavior. This has resulted in them generally being barred from performing at venues in their home town....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2017 11:43am PDT
City Council Must Take the Next Logical Step Toward Addressing Homelessness 
Creation of Task Force on Homelessness Remains a Good Idea...
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2017 9:56am PDT
Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart, Contrary to Assurances, Collaborates with ICE 
Evidence given to Sanctuary activists proves that Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart has been collaborating on “immigration-only” enforcement by ICE. Hart refuses to change the County Jail’s policies, which are voluntary....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2017 10:01pm PDT
Ohlone Indian Village is under attack 
Protests are taking place every morning 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the corners of Soquel Drive and Trout Gulch Road in Aptos California. Aptos Village was once an Indian Village!...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2017 5:11pm PDT
Santa Cruz NAMI to Host Deceitful D.J. Jaffe NAMI invites D.J. Jaffe to tout anosognosia, part of his Insane Consequences book tour....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2017 10:18am PDT
Every Vote Counts: A Look at the Santa Cruz County Elections Department 
The Grand Jury did an exhaustive investigation of the Santa Cruz County Elections Department. Despite claims of fraud nationally we found no such evidence here. We detail the protections that ensure the integrity of the voting process, and the impressive effort, dedication, and professionalism of our Elections Department....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2017 3:27pm PDT
New City Hall Restrictions Ambiguous and in Need of Clarity 
Questions About Legality Remain Unanswered...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2017 12:45pm PDT
Legal Settlement Halts Effort to Open 1 Million Acres in California to Oil Drilling, Fracking Agreement Preserves Moratorium on Leasing Public Lands to Oil Industry...
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2017 8:55am PDT
Homelessness: Our Failure As A Society 
While the City of Santa Cruz is statistically better than the County of Santa Cruz at providing low income housing, it is much worse in the way that it denigrates and criminalizes people who cannot afford the rents being offered....
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2017 12:30pm PDT
Photos and Community Agreements from The Afrikan/Black Student Alliance Reclamation of Kerr Hall at UCSC 
Photos sourced from friendly social media accounts in an effort to support The Afrikan/Black Student Alliance at UC Santa Cruz. May 2 and 3, 2017....
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2017 4:08pm PDT
Black Students at UC Santa Cruz Protest Hostile Campus 
We are pushing back against the language of “occupation” in recognition of the largely white-centric and fairly recent “Occupy Movement”. We are pushing back against the language of “occupation” in recognition of the very real settler occupations that are hxstorical and ongoing, such as the European colonization and occupation of “The Americas”, as well as the current context of occupation in Palestine. We move in solidarity with Black people all over the world who are occupied by liberalism ...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2017 1:42pm PDT
Students Occupy Main Administrative Building at UC Santa Cruz 
Students say they will not leave until demands from the Afrikan Black Student Alliance (A/BSA) are met....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2017 4:08pm PDT
May Day 2017 March in Santa Cruz 
A family that lives in the Beach Flats led the march with a child's sign proclaiming, "Fuera Trump! Viva La Raza! Viva Los Trabajadores!"...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2017 1:02pm PDT
Santa Cruz People's Climate March and Rally 
Climate Rally in the San Lorenzo Park and March thru downtown Santa Cruz, CA on Saturday 4-29-2017. I can't help but personally say, Trump's 100 days of doing nothing for the people or the planet!, but lining his and his cohorts pockets, as he has done all his life!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2017 5:33pm PDT
DAPL and The Wall - Santa Cruz City Council Votes Unanimously 
Tuesday 4-25-2017
Many Santa Cruz people turned out to build Trumps wall outside of Santa Cruz City Council Chambers before the council went on to vote unanimously to denounce Trump's wall on the Mexico and United States border. The council also voted not to invest in company's that may want to take part in the building of the wall! Inside the meeting, it was said by one person, that Bank Of The West had recently divested regarding DAPL....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 1:42pm PDT
The African Founding Father of California, a "Hidden Figure" to be discovered 
The "hidden figures" of California African American Heritage remains a difficult and challenging notion given the difficult journey towards freedom. Today, AB 783 (Weber) may find a way to begin to officially quantify and qualify on the record the profound contributions to the forward flow of humanity by people of African ancestry throughout the State of California....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2017 7:31am PDT
Granite Construction Will Not Bid on Trump's Wall 
According to an email to Santa Cruz City Councilmember Chris Krohn, Granite Construction will not be putting in a bid to build Trump’s wall.
Watsonville and Salinas Brown Berets say, "Fuck The Wall!"...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 7:04pm PDT
Groups Submit Comments to BLM's Request for Public Review of Oil and Gas Leasing and Development on Federal Lands 
On April 6, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Sierra Club submitted nearly 100 pages of comments (see PDF) on the Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment/Draft Environmental Impact Statement ("RMP"/"DEIS") for the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") Central Coast Field Office in Hollister. The Planning Area consists of about 6.8 million acres of public land which includes about 793,000 acres of Federal mineral estate in Fresno, Kings, Monterey and San Benito counties managed by the...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 3:58pm PDT
Santa Cruz City Council to Vote on Divesting from Trump’s Wall, DAPL Banks Resolutions 
Santa Cruz, California - Two highly anticipated divestment resolutions will come before the Santa Cruz City Council for a vote during its April 25 meeting. One resolution aims to divest the city from companies involved in the construction of President Donald Trump’s controversial US-Mexico border wall, while the other targets banks financing the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). If both pass, the city will divest funds from companies like Granite Construction who seek to construct the proposed b...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 3:48pm PDT
May 1: Shut It Down! 
5:00 am - Blockade and walkout of UCSC Campus
All morning - Autonomous actions across Santa Cruz
12 Noon - Rally at Main Gate UCSC Campus - High Street at Bay
1:30 pm - Rally at the downtown Post Office fence
2:30 pm - March to Beach Flats Community Center
3-6:00pm - Workshops and other activities in Beach Flats
6:30 pm - Outdoor party in Beach Flats...
Event Date: Mon, May 1, 2017 5:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 3:26pm PDT
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