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California: Voting Rights Restored for those in Jail on Felonies
The authorities often lie, so many people don't know, but people convicted of felonies have a right to vote. The only exceptions are if they are on parole from a state or federal prison or are in a state or federal prison. All inmates, included those convicted of felonies, doing time in county jails or on probation from a county jail have the right to vote. -Steven Argue...
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2007 7:49am PST
WILPF meeting - how corporations subvert democracy
Friends’ Meeting House, 225 Rooney Street (off the Morrissey exit), Santa Cruz....
Event Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 10:44pm PST
STOP THE DUES TO UGSOA
This website was developed to help educate UGSOA members on How to Stop the Dues to UGSOA....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 10:44am PST
Rage, Resistance, Work: Images from Oventic
A handful of fotos from the Encuentro in Oventic focused on the presentations of the EZLN on topics like health, education, autonomy in government, defense of the land......
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 10:32am PST
Art, Dance, Beauty: Images from Oventic
A handful of fotos from the Encuentro in Oventic focused on the public art, natural beauty, and music and dance that marked four days in the mountains. Two videos at the end show traditional songs played by Zapatista Musicos....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 9:38am PST
Even More - DIY Last Night Parade Brings Community Together In the Streets
Photo: The Great Morgani, Red Light and Ping Pong Ball Edition
After months of "unplanning," the Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration took center stage on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2006. After the miserable year that was 2006, the event was a delightful counterpoint -- a truly joyful, creative and inspiring expression of community and the First Amendment....
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 11:27pm PST
More - DIY Last Night Parade Brings Community Together In the Streets
Photo: The Trash Orchestra "Tunes Up" Before the Last Night Parade.
After months of "unplanning," the Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration took center stage on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2006. After the miserable year that was 2006, the event was a delightful counterpoint -- a truly joyful, creative and inspiring expression of community and the First Amendment....
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 4:38pm PST
Author Peter Lafuer: "Mission Rejected: Soldiers say no to war!"
Capitola Book Cafe
1475 41st Av. (in the shopping plaza next door to the movie theatre)...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 4, 2007 7:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 1:49pm PST
Brazilian Oil: Patriots and Treasonous ones...
Patriots are the ones that fight in the party of Tiradentes, being the others, the followers of Joaquin Silvério dos Reis, who was a treasonous one to the "inconfidentes"*, allowing that Tiradentes was imprisoned, hanged and cut in pieces by the Portuguese....
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 8:16am PST
DIY Last Night Parade Brings Community Together In the Streets
After months of "unplanning," the Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration took center stage on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on December 31st, 2006. After the miserable year that was 2006, the event was a delightful counterpoint -- a truly joyful, creative and inspiring expression of community and the First Amendment....
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 2:37am PST
Last Night Photos
"We want to live in a world full of play and celebration, where self expression is a matter of course. Where one does not have to ask permission of authorities to realize one's dreams of adventure and possibility." From Last Night Flyer passed out prior to the parade....
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2007 11:56pm PST
Democrats Waffling On Iraq War
Only days and weeks before the November 2006 Mid-Term Elections Democrats nationwide took hard line positions against the Iraq War; many Democrats were predicting the possibility of ending America’s involvement within 4 to 6 months into the new year, others predicting by the end of 2007; now less than 60 days since the elections most Democrats are projecting that American involvement could extend well into 2008 or beyond....
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2007 11:49am PST
“Pariah State”: Meeting with the Prime Minister of Palestine
Scott Kennedy of the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz describes the rare experience of entering the Gaza Strip in November 2006 and even rarer meeting with the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, during the economic boycott of Gaza led by the United States and the military siege by Israel. Kennedy and Haniyeh on 11/18/06 at the Prime Ministers office in Gaza City, Gaza. (below)...
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2007 12:49am PST
New Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not Out" FREE SCREENING (1/6)
New Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not Out" Saturday January 6, 2007
7:30pm-9:00pm...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 8:35pm PST
“Five killed in clashes in West Bank and Gaza”: Language and the crimes we permit
Kennedy describes the ways in which language masks what is actually going on in Palestine -- specifically, the devastation of the Gaza Strip as the result of a US led economic blockade and Israeli siege. Based on a visit to Gaza in November 2006....
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 7:47pm PST
New Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not Out" FREE SCREENING
Resouce Center for NonViolence
515 Broadway st Santa Cruz (cross st. Ocean st.)...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 6, 2007 7:30pm PST
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 6:30pm PST
La Otra Educacion: Zapatista Schools
Day two of the Encuentro between the EZLN and International Civil Society began with a workshop on the Other Education, the schools that educate children in the Autonomous zones where the Zapatista Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Councils of Good Government) provide social services. The last cold morning (of 2006) saw a crowd of observers and participants packed into Oventic's classroom to hear representatives of the five caracoles (+/- districts) discuss their reasons for autonomous schools, their ...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 2:06pm PST
Selective Justice and the Execution of Saddam Hussein
The transformation of Saddam Hussein from ally to enemy...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 7:10am PST
Audio from the Encuentro: Zapatistas Welcome Visitors (audio/mpeg 519.4KB)
Audio from Day 1 of the Encuentro of the Zapatista Community with the Global Community. To listen live, go to http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/ for streaming audio of the conference....
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 4:59pm PST
Santa Cruz New Years Eve Peace March Marks 3000 Dead
The U.S. war casualties are approaching 3,000. We are tired of waiting!! Come out to the Santa Cruz DIY New Year's Eve parade and participate in a Silent Peace Walk contingent....
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 1:59pm PST