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Indynewswire: CA's Lethal Injection Protocol Scrutinized (audio/mpeg 9.1MB)
A four day long hearing at US District Court in San Jose, CA, last week, examined California's lethal injection protocol. Indynewswire's Vinny Lombardo was there and brings us this story....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 6:19pm PDT
Car Free Day Bike Ride
On Friday, September 22nd, a group of about 30 velorutionaries rode through downtown Santa Cruz, parking lots, parks, secret paths, up and down hills sporting green ribbons, plants, and dresses in celebration of World Car Free Day....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 4:09pm PDT
YOUTH AND POWER 2006!
301 heller drive, PORTER COLLEGE UCSC....
Event Date: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 2:40pm PDT
El Teatro Campesino - "What Are You Doing Tonight?"
El Teatro Campesino
705 4th St
San Juan Bautista, CA
(831) 623-2444...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 1:24pm PDT
Cops brutally attack Human Rights Fest in uptown Charlotte, NC
Suddenly dozens of cops charged into the crowd, jumping on people and using tasers on some. One person was beaten by several cops....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 7:56am PDT
Powerless judges: Are we entering America's darkest hour?
During the Nazi occupation of European countries in WW Two, judges and courts practically without protest applied occupation measures, even in cases where it was contrary to existing positive law. All were silent and continued, even after the assassination of judges in Amsterdam....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 7:43am PDT
Long Live the Oaxaca Commune!
It is that this heroic struggle puts on the agenda the seizure of state power, and how to completely resolve the demands of the great majority of the people. For this we must fight for the fall of URO and for the formation of a provisional government of the APPO and the other worker, peasant, and poor people's organizations of the state of Oaxaca.
(Picture: From the battles that took control of the streets in the beginnings of the Oaxaca commune.)...
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:31pm PDT
Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack
September 30, 2006 - Information provided below is from Nancy Davies, who is based in Oaxaca and writes frequently on the situation there for Narco News. While the threat of a mass attack has seemed to always be in the air, the situation in recent days has really escalated. Now an attack seems imminent.
APPEAL FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AID
The word I have now is that there are about 5,000 men wearing army uniforms who are not army, but police, culled from other states like Vercruz and ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:12pm PDT
Speak OUT! Against War and Racism
Quarry Plaza at UC Santa Cruz
Directions to Quarry Plaza:
http://maps.ucsc.edu/cdquarry.html...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 11:22am PDT
Catalyst Invites Another
For the third time in as many years, the Catalyst nightclub has invited an unrepentant advocate of violence against queer people ("BOOM BYE BYE IN A BATTY BOY HEAD, RUDE BOY NO PROMOTE THEM NASTY MAN THEM HAFI DEAD" -- Buju Banton) to perform on it's stage - prompting outrage and protest by Santa Cruz's queer community....
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:48am PDT
Protest Murder Music Singer Buju Banton's Appearance at the Catalyst
Sidewalk in front of the Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave. in downtown Santa Cruz....
Event Date: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 1:13am PDT
Future Climate and Environmental Change in California: A Climate Modeler's View
La Feliz Room at the Seymour Center,
West Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 2:32pm PDT
Peace Protest at Vandenberg Space Command
front gate of Vandenberg
(accross from Vandenberg middle shcool where you can park)
Santa Barbara County...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 7, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 1:24pm PDT
Santa Cruz Community Meeting and Debate On Desalination
Quaker Meeting House,
225 Rooney Street...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 11:05am PDT
La Peña in Watsonville
Brown Beret Office
406 Main St., behind Ritmo Latino
Watson...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 8:15pm PDT
FSRN: California Hearing Focuses on Lethal Injections (audio/mpeg 3.9MB)
Many condemned inmates have argued that lethal injection violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. That is subject of a four-day long hearing in San Jose, California, where federal Judge Jeremy Fogel is presiding. Executions in California have been postponed since February, when Fogel ordered the state's lethal injection gudelines, Procedure 770, be scrutinized. FSRN’s Vinny Lombardo reports from the hearing. TRT: 4:12...
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:18pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/29/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 5:03pm PDT
Frederick Street Park and Neighborhood update and PETITION DRIVE
Developers are moving forward with a plan for 170 Frederick St., current site of Kingdom Hall, to build a high density, 3-story project that that would fundamentally alter the park and neighborhood. Petition drive launching. Public hearing coming up....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 10:37am PDT
Fall lecture series at the Seymour Center will focus on global climate change
UCSC's Marine Discovery center will host several lectures on various topics within the subject of climate change....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 5:30pm PDT
Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour Reading
TBA. Please check www.poetrybus.com for updated event location and time. Thanks!...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 2:11pm PDT