Newsitem List
The transformation of Saddam Hussein from ally to enemy...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 7:10am PST
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
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
Interview by: Hilaria Cruz
Translation: Joy Turlo
Dionisio had gone to the demonstration in Oaxaca on the 25th of November. After the demonstration he and his friend Juan de Dios went to get something to eat, during which time confrontations started up between demonstrators and the Federal Preventive Police (PFP). Upon leaving the restaurant, they headed toward the downtown area, which had become filled with tear gas and smoke. When they saw a woman and her children overcome by tear gas, ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 5:33pm PST
Santa Cruz Joins In to kick-off America500 Birthday Extravaganza (1507-2007) for planetary understanding.
Meet at Civic Center-City Hall on Center Street at NOON for motorcade tour of neighborhoods, handing out t-shirts and inviting residents to join in and WEAR WHITE FOR PEACE ON 2007 NEW YEAR....
Event Date: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 11:45am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 10:45am PST
Santa Cruz Indymedia has been at the forefront of progressive struggles on the Central Coast since its inception in 2001. Now, this all-volunteer community media resource needs your help. Do you have Indymedia's back?...
Posted: Fri, Dec 29, 2006 1:05am PST
Real Christians Don't Choose War...
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 5:24pm PST
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. Netherlands, Russia, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 5:01pm PST
Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Av.
831-462-4415, or www.capitolabookcafe.com
Capitola Book Cafe is located in the "shopping" plaza next door to the 41st Ave Playhouse (movie theatre)...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 7:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 3:29pm PST
Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 12:10pm PST
Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 11:11am PST
United for Peace and Justice (1500 organizations) is teaming with over 500 additional groups to march on Congress to insist the US get out of Iraq. Massive numbers are expected to rally and march around the Capital on January 27 at the start of a 3-day event....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2006 12:53pm PST
Los Pueblos Zapatistas are preparing for their first Encounter with the Pueblos of the World, set for December 30 - January 2 in Oventik, Liberated Territory (Chiapas), Mexico....
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 10:22am PST
The Santa Cruz Fair Garbage Rates petition seeks to make garbage rates in the City of Santa Cruz, CA., equitable, by changing the way by which a resident is charged for garbage pickup from a set, monthly rate to a pay-only-when-you-put-out-the-garbage rate....
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 7:00am PST
Last Night es una celebracion "hazlo tu mismo" del Ano Nuevo en Santa Cruz. Es un evento decentralizado, colectivo, espontaneo, abierto y publico.
Se reune detras del Saturn Cafe,
a la puesta del sol, 31 de diciembre.
Que vengan todos!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 11:23pm PST
On December 22nd, 2006, hundreds of people came together in Mexico City to honor the peoples of Oaxaca, Acteal and Atenco during a global day of remembrance and solidarity. The demonstration was held at the Hemiciclo a Juárez in Mexico City's Historic Center where people spoke about Oaxaca and the demonstrations taking place around the world. There were musicians, memorials, stilt walkers and banners calling for liberation of political prisoners and an end to illegal detentions, an end to tor...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 9:11pm PST
NOTE TO READER: Can readers think of another killer in Santa Cruz County which annually claims 42 souls an average of 30 years before their time? In 2005, only 8 cases of AIDS were diagnosed. Yet the AIDS crisis probably causes more concern for public officials than the death rate of homeless people. The STATE OF BEING HOMELESS causes death!! Being cold, tired, hungry, and unprotected along with psychological factors such as isolation and rejection, and the pressure of legal factors such as c...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 2:52pm PST
Saturn Cafe at Sunset...
Event Date: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 5:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 1:26pm PST
Using recycled food cans, hubcaps, barrels, sheet metal, and other discarded oddities, the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra is a bone-shaking, recycled ensemble – a marching percussion band - who show up invited or otherwise, to make a cacophony of noise and celebration at parties and protests. Trash Orchestra players held an instrument building workshop as a Free Skool class in early December, 2006. DJ D. Rail attended, and brings us this sound collage, which attempts to make sense of the discor...
Posted: Sat, Dec 23, 2006 9:19am PST
Rio Theater, Santa Cruz (1205 Soquel Ave)...
Event Date: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2006 2:19pm PST