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Students & Workers charge institutional racism & sexism; Demand affirmative diversity 
On Tuesday, June 6, coalitions of students and workers charged UCSC with institutional racism and sexism, declaring that seemingly passive and apolitical administrative practices and policies as well as subtle forms of racism and sexism have the effects of producing inequality, particularly for communities of color. Students and workers demanded affirmative diversity, arguing that for diversity not to be empty rhetoric, UCSC would need to provide infrastructural support for student initated o...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 11:41am PDT
UCSC Charged With Disadvantaging Students, Faculty and Workers of Color 
On June 6th, UC Santa Cruz students and workers held multiple rallies and confronted Chancellor Denice Denton to demand affirmative diversity on campus. Workers and students are charging UCSC with active institutional racism and sexism by sustaining hidden systematic policies and practices that have the effect of disadvantaging students, faculty and workers of color. Affirmative diversity means actively working against the status quo of institutional racism and sexism at UCSC. The Diversity C...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 1:43am PDT
Recruiting Lives. Student documentary About Military Recruitment. (video/mpeg 27.6MB) This is a short documentary about military recruitment and counter-recruitment in colleges and high schools. About 6.5 minutes long in MP4 (QuickTime)....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:13pm PDT
Affirmative Diversity Talking Points STUDENTS AND WORKERS RALLY TO DEMAND AFFIRMATIVE DIVERSITY!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:05pm PDT
Students and Workers Rally to Demand Affirmative Diversity FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 6:17pm PDT
Reclaiming the Streets of Santa Cruz 
Invitations were distributed to Reclaim The Streets of Santa Cruz on June 3rd with a free street party for everyone. Slowly but surely, musicians, artists, chalkers, dancers, bikers, disc tossers, walkers and other party goers began arriving at Pearl Alley in anticipation of Saturday night's "experiment in spontaneous urban uprising."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 11:21pm PDT
Indynewswire Show: SC Reclaim the Streets Coverage (audio/mpeg 10.3MB) On June 3, about fifty people gathered in downtown Santa Cruz for a Reclaim the Streets Party. Madness and mayhem ensued. In this segment from The Indynewswire Show, we bring you some sounds and discussion on the event... TRT: 22:28...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 9:06pm PDT
Why you really should consider voting this Tuesday, even if you're an anarchist 
Santa Cruz County sits on the brink between some progressive breakthroughs or environmental degradation. At the county level, there will be a power vacuum when 3rd District Supervisor, Mardi Wormhoudt, leaves her seat. Will Santa Cruz follow a progressive, sustainable path or will it yield to the millions of dollars offered by developers and megamalls who have been licking their chops in anticipation of this moment? Cast your vote this TUESDAY, JUNE 6th.
(Image: Chris Krohn delivered f...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 6:06pm PDT
ART & CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH at Santa Cruz GDI (6/9) 
A 2005 film about the culture-jamming and billboard-liberation antics of Ron English. The modern day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture on canvas and directly on hundreds of pirated billboards....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 8:34am PDT
Five Days until Free Skool Deadline. 
Five Days until Free Skool Lummer Quarter Deadline....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 7:41am PDT
Moving Beyond Tolerance to Respect 
Recently I met several people I was extremely different than, philosophically, yet I had profound respect for them. I realized I was willing to forgive differences with them, I did not forgive in others I merely “tolerated.” Which is why I say maybe “respect” is about trust, about trusting a person’s judgment, having faith in their own competence, even if you don’t understand their choices. Where “tolerance” implies you feel you understand their situation better than the other person, so you ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 5:35pm PDT
Shakey Bones Brings the Ruckus to Freak Radio Santa Cruz 
I came across Shakey Bones playing music on Pacific Avenue and we arranged for a live in-studio performance on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101 fm. They were kicked out of the Santa Cruz Farmer's Market on Wednesday, but on Thursday the ruckus music of Shakey Bones was welcomed on Freak Radio, our renowned community pirate radio station. Shakey Bones formed in January of 2006 in Walnut Creek, a "boring suburban town in the east bay."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 5:10pm PDT
Counting Lives Lost, Making Tangible an Abstract Measure of Grief 
While traveling through Watsonville on June 1st, I came across a grid of four inch figures representing "every person who has died in Iraq since we invaded." The exhibition is at Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens and is part of the Pajaro Valley Arts Council exhibit, Sculpture IS, which is showing June 2nd through July 30th. Thirty-nine regional artists are showing over seventy pieces of work ranging from installation and performance art to a variety of sculptures that are kinetic, fu...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 2:59pm PDT
Shakey Bones: Live on FRSC (audio/mpeg 31.9MB) Shakey Bones performed live on 6/1/06 in the studios of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101 FM. The show was hosted by ~Bradley & Vinny. TRT: 69:45...
Posted: Sun, Jun 4, 2006 1:48pm PDT
Interview and Call-In to Bad Cop No Doughnut Host Ron Anicich Sunday June 4 11 AM PDT I will be interviewing Ron Anicich on Sunday June 4 at 11 AM PDT on Free Radio Santa Cruz. Ron hosts the richly informative Bad Cop No Doughnut show which airs every Thursday on Free Radio Santa Cruz. His Toronto studio was recently invaded by local police....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2006 8:57am PDT
AUDIO: Indynewswire Show: Memorial Day 2006 Relying on audio and text published on IMC websites, Indynewswire makes connections between everyday issues, affecting everyday people, living throughout the world. The Indynewswire Show airs on Mondays from 3:00 - 5:00 PM on Freak Radio Santa Cruz 101 FM, http://www.freakradio.org...
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 11:03pm PDT
FOOD NOT BOMBS Delicious community meal and free food for all! We serve 4 PM every Wednesday, under the magnolia trees at the Farmer's Market....
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 12:40pm PDT
RECLAIM THE STREETS! (6/3) Reclaim the Streets! Free street party for everyone!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2006 12:19pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/2/06 ¡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. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 4:02pm PDT
The Op-Ed Piece the Sentinel Wouldn't Print An endorsement for Chris Krohn for 3rd District Supervisor by the Berkeley Daily Planet's Executive Editor....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 2:42pm PDT
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