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May Day Strike for Immigrant Rights at UC Santa Cruz
On Monday, May 1st, International Workers Day, students and workers at UC Santa Cruz walked picket lines at the base of campus and west entrance to support the rights of immigrants and all people. In the United States, grassroots organizers of May Day 2006 called for a day of, "No Work, No School, No Buying, No Selling" to help illustrate the critical role that migrants play in the United States and global economy....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 10:32pm PDT
FSRN: May Day Headlines from UCSC and Watsonville (audio/mpeg 753.1KB)
A coalition of students and workers at UC Santa Cruz began demonstrating at 6AM on May Day to demand amnesty and dignity for undocumented immigrants. Vinny Lombardo reports....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 7:11pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from Bakersfeild cops preventing march grabing marchers (audio/mpeg 1.3MB)
Two Calls from Bakersfeild where cops are preventing march and start arresting. caller was aperently grabbed by cops....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:42pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from the marches San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 1.1MB)
Callins to Free radio Santa Cruz from San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz including Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Payso and FRSC programmers Sandino and Danielsan....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 1:41pm PDT
May Day Picket at UCSC (audio/mpeg 7.3MB)
Interviews from the early morning May Day pickets at UCSC.
Entrivista con Andres Campos, un trabajadora servicio comida a UCSC. Interview with Andres Campos, a campus dining hall worker. Translation by Rebecca Valenzuela....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 10:31am PDT
Fighting the Power - Meet the Brown Berets (audio/mpeg 30.9MB)
One thing that we should note about the Bay Area, is that it’s the home of political activism and movements. As the Immigration debate rages on, we should note the increased visibility of the Watsonville Brown Berets. The Berets of course have a long and rich history that date back to the 1960s. But like their comrads in the Black Panther, they saw their influence and ranks dimisnished by the Cointel-pro tactics of the FBI. (33:47 minutes)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 11:54am PDT
Rev Billy Tour Pics and Audio
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir have been touring the Bay Area since Thursday, performing and staging actions in Oakland, Sebastopol, Santa Cruz, Petaluma and San Francisco. Tonight they perform at the Victoria Theatre at 8pm in the Mission district. Here are some pics and audio from the tour...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 10:14am PDT
A Small Taste of Santa Cruz Organizing for May Day 2006
Many businesses will be closed on Monday, May 1st, as Santa Cruz prepares for a May Day work stike and consumer boycott. No Work, No School, No Buying, No Selling. UC Santa Cruz will be shut down from 6:00am to at least 12:00pm when UCSC students march to downtown Santa Cruz and join up with a demonstration starting in the Beach Flats....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 2:30am PDT
Critical Mass Bike Ride Rolls the Boardwalk
On Friday, April 29th, a large mass of bikers and a young girl with a scooter, took to the streets of Santa Cruz to celebrate Critical Mass, the bike ride which takes place the last Friday of each month all around the world....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 12:04am PDT
Pamphlet for MayDay (bilingual)
The pamphlet attached below was created by members of the no borders network and deletetheborder.org for outreach during Mayday actions and beyond. It is bilingual and includes a space to promote local events and resources....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 5:29pm PDT
Food Forum - May 13
Saturday, May 13 event to discuss the future of the food system in Santa Cruz County and build a network to accomplish our goals. 10AM to 5:30 PM at the Live Oak Grange....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 4:43pm PDT
Werkshop Museum art space - May '06 Calendar and Information
Here's a PDF of the April/May 2006 calendar for the newly opened art/community/infoshop space(s) in downtown Santa Cruz, the Werkshop Museum and the Galley, presented by the Playing in Sand collective. Follow the PDF link below to view.
Here's some of the text from the calendar:...
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 1:31pm PDT
Chicana Author Sandra Cisneros to Recieve First Gloria E. Anzaldua Distinguished Lecture Award (4/30
The Chicana/o Latina/o Research Center at UC Santa Cruz (CLRC) is pleased to announce its first annual Gloria E. Anzaldúa Distinguished Lecture Award Ceremony. Noted Chicana author and MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient Sandra Cisneros will accept the award and read from her work at 5pm on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at Watsonville’s Mello Center for the Performing Arts....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 12:49pm PDT
Help Distribute Radical Bilingual May Day Pamplet
Individuals involved with Arizona Indymedia, San Diego Indymedia and Delete the Border produced this bilingual pamplet, providing a radical analysis between May Day and pro-immigrant actions. Please distribute widely. It is an 11'' x 17'' pdf that is easy to print and fold. You can include local details in the document before you print it....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 1:14am PDT
Meet The Third District Supervisor Candidates - 4/30
On Sunday, April 30th, Voices from the Village will host a candidate forum for the Third District County Supervisor seat. The show will air at 7:00 p.m.on Community Television....
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 6:08pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 4/28/06 ¡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, Apr 27, 2006 4:16pm PDT
Free Speech Versus Peace Disturbance: A Conflict of Law
Most people do not realize there is an area of law called “Conflict of Law.” Laws conflict and this is a specialty area in law, which navigates around laws that hit each other head on in conflict. I live in the swirling world of the “Conflict of Law” between Free Speech and Peace Disturbance/Obscenity Laws. I have been arrested, ticketed and/or charged with property rule violations for obscenity and peace disturbance for busking (or street performing) since 1978, including 8 peace disturbance...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 12:02pm PDT