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On April 22nd, Earth Day 2012, hundreds of environmental and food sovereignty activists marched from the Earth Day rally at Ohlone Park in Berkeley to the Gill Tract at the intersection of San Pablo and Marin Avenues in Albany. These 10 acres contain the last best farmland in the urbanized East Bay, but the University of California intends to sell much of it to private developers so that a shopping center with a Whole Foods grocery store and a parking lot can be built. Immediately upon arriva...

In downtown Santa Cruz on April 20, LGBQT community members from the Diversity Center's Youth Program and their family members and allies held a "Breaking the Silence" rally in front of the Del Mar Theatre before a showing of the film "Bully". People held signs and shared stories. There was a group shout out, and many involved with the youth program wore tape x'd over their mouths to both symbolize the silencing effect of bullying on the LGBQT youth community, as well as to be an expression o...

The “Banker's Dozen” were served with arrest notices one month after the U.S. Bank on UC Davis campus closed its doors for good, following weeks of protests against the university's privatization, its collusion with corporate profiteers, and the banks' role in increasing student costs and student debt. Twelve people are now threatened with 11 years each in jail and one million dollars in fines for a conspiracy to sit down. Privatization and austerity continue, more unpopular than ever. The un...

TASK FORCE REPORT CONDEMNS UNIVERSITY POLICE FOR PEPPER SPRAYING PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS AT UC DAVIS ON NOVEMBER 18, 2011. CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATORS PLAN ON HOLDING UC DAVIS OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE AND DEVELOPING GREATER OVERSIGHT ON UC CAMPUS POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM STATEWIDE...

Downtown Watsonville City Plaza...

On March 1, hundreds of students at the University of California Santa Cruz, with the aid of local community members, built a tent university at the base of campus as a part a coordinated day of Occupy Education actions statewide. A general strike with regards to the main campus was also planned, and students blocked both entrances to the university and effectively shutdown UCSC for approximately 16 hours. In the words of one UC police officer that day, "students have taken control of the cam...

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Legend has it that the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz was designed by a prison architect who, in response to student riots at UC Berkeley, created a campus grid without a central point. Lacking a major quad or lawn, demonstrations would be dispersed to the individual colleges, defused and controlled. While this legend is certainly not true – UCSC was conceived of as an experiment in “human-scale” education whose existence was to challenge the dehumanizing size of state uni...

The overwhelming, disproportionate show of force by several hundred CHP officers and others to repress the students and Occupy activists was typical of the repression by the National Security State that is taking place in the U.S. today. Photo of cops on the West Steps of the State Capitol courtesy of WSWS....

On March 3rd, the Student Environmental Center at UCSC hosted the 11th Annual Campus Earth Summit in the College 9/10 Multipurpose Room at UC Santa Cruz. This year's Campus Earth Summit included student-led workshops on a wide-variety of subjects, live performances by the North Pacific String Band and spoken word poets, keynote talks by Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane and Eric Holt-Giménez of Food First, organizations doing outreach and delicious vegetarian food....