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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
Community Forum on Measure G (9/27)
Wednesday, September 27
6:30-9:00 p.m.
University Inn, 611 Ocean Street
(Reception from 6:30-7 PM and the Forum from 7-9 PM)...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 12:58pm PDT
Immortal Technique- "Stop the Raids & Strengthen the Community" (9/30)
WHAT: ORGANIZING MEETING & EDUCATIONAL FORUM
WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 2006
WHERE: CABRILLO COLLEGE WATSONVILLE CENTER, 318 Union St. (by plaza), in Watsonville
TIME: 2pm-6pm...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 12:50pm PDT
Desalination and War Profiteering in the City of Santa Cruz
The City of Santa Cruz has entered into an arrangement with a global engineering firm, Camp Dresser and Mckee, to build a trial desalination plant on the Westside of Santa Cruz. The company in question is a global engineering firm with contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan and which has an unsavory history of bribing public officials. Desalination has a very poor economic and environmental track record, but the city has nevertheless signed a multi-million dollar contract with this firm....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 12:24pm PDT
Immortal Technique- "STOP THE RAIDS & STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNITY"
Cabrillo College
318 Union Street (on the main plaza)
Watsonville, CA 95076...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 8:52am PDT
Caravan/Prague
Guerrilla Drive-In Bicycle Movie Night
Fair Ave and the train tracks (westside, Santa Cruz)...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 6:45pm PDT
SC: SF Mime Troupe in San Lorenzo Park Sat+Sun
San Lorenzo Park Address: 137 Dakota Street...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 2:53pm PDT
Pastors for Peace and Veceremos Brigade Report Back on recent trips to Cuba!
Watsonville Cabrillo Center Annex Room
318 Union Street, Watsonville, CA 95076, phone: 831-477-5100...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 2:48pm PDT
Solidarity with WATSONVILLE!!!
We in the state of Connecticut are faced with the same situation as Watsonville: federal raids and deportations of immigrant workers. Congratulations on a successful action!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 2:02pm PDT
Know Your Rights & Surviving Police Encounters Workshop (9/30)
Involved in radical projects such as we are, we are all subject to police repression. Knowing your "rights" is just one tool in our arsenal. You may be surprised that what you thought you knew, you don't. And better to learn now than from behind the reinforced glass or bars of a jail cell....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 10:09am PDT
Know Your Rights & Surviving Police Encounters Workshop
Louden Nelson Community Park
downtown off Laurel...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 10:02am PDT
FRSC: Declaration of Peace Die-in Demonstration (audio/mpeg 6.4MB)
Audio of Declaration of Peace Die-in Demonstration held in front of the downtown
post office where 60+ people came out to a nonviolent "die-in” to honor Iraqis and American servicemen and women killed in Iraq and call for an end to the killing....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 6:52am PDT
voices contra la migra watson (audio/mpeg 5.3MB)
The voices of the folks who participated in the protest of la migra in Watsonville on Sunday September 24th...
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 1:00am PDT
KSCO Employees Hosed Down
Monday, September 25, 2006 5:30 PM --- 4 KSCO EMPLOYEES ARE BEING HOSED DOWN AS A PRECAUTION AFTER SOME WHITE POWDER WAS DISCOVERED IN MAIL ADDRESSED TO THE RADIO STATION. THE AREA AROUND THE STATION, INCLUDING THE PARKING LOT IN FRONT AND A SECTION OF PORTOLA DRIVE ARE BLOCKED OFF TO THE PUBLIC. CARS ARE BEING DETOURED AROUND THE AREA, AS HAZMAT INVESTIGATORS WAIT FOR IDENTIFICATION OF THE WHITE POWDER. IN THE EVENT IT PROVES TO BE ANTHRAX THE AREA COULD BE SEALED OFF INDEFINITELY. BUT OFFIC...
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 11:55pm PDT
ICE Go Home! Justice for All
A protest against "Operation Return To Sender" took place in the Watsonville Plaza on September 24th. Cars honked in support as people lined Main Street holding signs calling for a world without borders, dignity for workers, black and brown unity and solidarity with immigrants. A circle was formed and people from Watsonville discussed how the community has been affected by immigration raids. Watsonville city council candidate Mireya Gomez and councilman Manuel Bersamin, Santa Cruz city counci...
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 11:23pm PDT
revolutionary sister drops knowledge (audio/mpeg 3.1MB)
listen to our companera talk about the local issue facing our central coast community, immigration raids....
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 11:19pm PDT