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Indynewswire: South Central Farm Update (audio/mpeg 11.6MB)
Interview with Watsonville Brown Beret organizer, Jen, who has been taking part in the encampment outside the gate of the South Central Farm in LA. The 14 acre urban garden was forcibly evicted on June 13 after a long struggle to save the farm and buy back the land. Jen discusses some of the history of the South Central Farm, and updates us on the current situation. TRT- 12:39...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 4:31pm PDT
Indynewswire: SC Activists Gear Up for Caravan to Cuba (audio/mpeg 27.4MB)
Over the weekend of June 24 and 25, about a dozen Santa Cruz activists busied themselves at the Live Oak Grange sorting medical suppilies, soaps, books, pens, and automotive parts among other items, as part of the Pastors for Peace 2006 Cuba Friend-Shipment Caravan. I spoke with a number of them as they made preparations for the trip....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 3:34pm PDT
Policy Spying Scandal Policy Speak Out Tonight (6/27)
Come express your frustration with the Police Spying Policy process at tonight's City Council Meeting...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 3:18pm PDT
PEACE CD benefits VFP in their anti-war efforts (video/x-ms-wmv 0.0KB)
Take Me Home is a locally produced sampler of peace songs from 13 different Country/Folk/Rock artists,including Jesse Colin Young and Country Joe McDonald. 100% of the net proceeds goes to Veterans for Peace to support their anti-war campaigns. You can listen to all the tracks and read more about it at http://www.ardensgarden.org. It can be ordered there as well.
I have posted a link to a 3 1/2 minute WMV video clip of the title track....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 12:11pm PDT
Directions to Earth First! rendezvous
This years rendezvous will be in SW Virginia, July 3-10...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 11:48pm PDT
Dark Secrets
Veterans Memorial Building
840 Front Street
Santa Cruz, CA
(near the clock tower downtown)...
Event Date: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 11:43pm PDT
Santa Cruz Caravanistas On A Human Rights Mission To Cuba
On June 24, peace and human rights activists spent their day at the Live Oak Grange preparing the Santa Cruz contingent of this years Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba. This is the 17th year our fellow community members have challenged the travel ban to Cuba as well as the inhumane embargo on Cuba by our government. Volunteers did a quality inspection of donated supplies before loading them onto the dontated Ambulance, former Police SWAT wagon, and Peace Mobile. Other people put their handpri...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Networking: Portals for medical care
Chimpy W. Bushitler's friends exploit the elderly on the Internet....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 6:59pm PDT
Santa Cruz: Critical Mass Bike Ride!
meet at the clocktower on pacific and water
converge at 5, begin riding at 5:30pm...
Event Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 11:42pm PDT
"Americans for Chavez" launched
We would like to announce the launching of the "Americans for Chavez" project by Bolivarian Circle 'Chief Tierra Blanca' in Denver, Colorado and its website found online at: http://www.americans-for-chavez.com...
Posted: Sun, Jun 25, 2006 2:32pm PDT
Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos stands up for women
Mexican police raped Mexican women. Subcommandante Marcos is outraged and demands justice for the raped women....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 9:56pm PDT
BREAKING NEWS: UCSC chancellor Denton dies in suicide leap In San Francisco
Embattled UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton died today after jumping from the 44th floor of a San Francisco building, authorities said....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 6:25pm PDT
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor jumps to her death
Denice Dee Denton, the controversial chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, allegedly jumped to her death Saturday from the 44th floor of a San Francisco apartment building, the medical examiner's office confirmed....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 3:56pm PDT
Ugly Mug Prom
Heres the details:
July 8th
Starts at 7pm goes 'till midnight
location: Ugly Mug Coffee house
4640 Soquel Drive
Soquel, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 7:28pm PDT
Wireless World: Lifestyle now for boaters
Chimpy W. Von Bushitler's friends eat caviar and drive motor boats....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 1:35pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/23/06 ¡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, Spain, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 4:23pm PDT
Reportback of Santa Cruz Police Spying Policy Process
Weak severely-limited half-baked policy on police spying on peaceful groups likely to be proposed....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 2:36pm PDT
data theft huge and wholesale, and oth crimes ... - and - ... waves ...
the unprecedented physical theft of personal data by a U.S. intelligence operation to populate Total Information Awareness (TIA) surveillance databases...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 9:03pm PDT
2,500 U.S. Troops Killed... And Counting
On June 16th, US Veterans For Peace, Methodists United For Peace and other individuals held a vigil in Santa Cruz to mark 2,500 U.S. troops killed in Iraq and countless dead Iraqis. People held banners and peace flags in front of the town clock before marching down Pacific Avenue. We were joined mid-march by Hare Krishnas that had been chanting and dancing on the corner of Soquel. The march paused at Laurel and Pacific before returning to the plaza by the post office for a final peace circle....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 8:41pm PDT
Memorial Service for Jay (Zalmo/Buck) BloomBecker (6/25)
Come join us in honoring Jay’s memory!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 12:19am PDT