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The first annual Santa Cruz County Book Fair takes place May 20, 2006. It should be a large gathering and there is still time to register for a booth....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 1:24pm PDT
After nationally syndicated columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin posted the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of three members of Students Against War, they received a flood of obscene and harassing messages from around the country, including death threats. When a liberal Web site, in retaliation, published Malkin's cell phone number and home address, a full-blown blog war ensued.
"I am now forced to remove one of my children from school and move my family," Malkin wrote Thursd...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 7:06am PDT
Can anyone from Santa Cruz provide the lowdown on the situation with KSCO radio, the Air America affiliate? I'm somewhat new to town, and I like to listen to about two shows on their network. With most commercial and NPR stations, you barely notice the effects of the local management, but this station has some quirks....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 7:22pm PDT
Below is a speech I gave in Watsonville, CA on April 17th 2006. I was invited to come down and speak by the Watsonville Brown Berets. Fred Hampton Jr. of the P.O.C.C. and Immortal Technique also represented HARD that day....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:43pm PDT
Capitalists sucking our money out of the black hole of technology....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 5:32pm PDT
Poll Workers Needed for June 2006 Election...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 1:43pm PDT
Photos & Audio (3 min 12 sec) of Nora Hochman and Victor Medina from the Working Alliance for a Just Economy (WAJE) as the group turned over thousands of signatures at City Hall to be verified in the ballot initiative process. If enough signatures qualify, the minimum wage hike will go before the voters in November....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:37pm PDT
On April 17th, 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets held the 6th annual Youth and Power. The theme was "Brown and Black Pride" and the event, held on a Monday night, brought together more than thousand people from 'Los Atzlan' to the Bay Area.
Below are nine (9) video segments of Immortal Technique speaking and performing at the 6th annual Youth and Power event organized by the Watsonville Brown Berets. Total time of all nice video segments is about 38 minutes.
In the first vid...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:07pm PDT
On April 17th, 2006, the Watsonville Brown Berets held the 6th annual Youth and Power. The theme was "Brown and Black Pride" and the event, held on a Monday night, brought together more than thousand people from 'Los Atzlan' to the Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 10:01pm PDT
Friends,
We wanted to send this excellent new article around that discusses Jeff's case. It appears in the latest edition of the Hartford Advocate.
Also, please don't forget to check out the resources we now have available for organizing an event for the Weekend of Resistance Against the Green Scare. Please help us spread the word about this important event!
http://www.freefreenow.org/june2006.htm
Thank you for all your support!
-Friends of Jeff Free Luers...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 6:43pm PDT
Sorry for the late notice, but we just got word that the city of
Seaside, CA is voting tonight on whether to adopt a 45-day moratorium
against permitting any dispensaries in the city....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 4:24pm PDT
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, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 3:43pm PDT
Teach-in at University of California, Santa Cruz
April 24, 2006, 10am-7pm
The Quarry...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 1:34am PDT
The Education for Sustainable Living Program is host its 3rd season of incredible lectures! Please come join us @ UCSC. All lectures are free!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 8:36pm PDT
This is an interview from Wedneday April 19 2006 in which Mara talks about recent SAW events and answers questions about what has been going in the anti-war community at UCSC....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 8:14pm PDT
The 5th annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival is jam packed this year with sixteen different events starting Thursday April 20, and ending May 1st, International Workers' Day. This year's festival includes the regional premier screening of Sir! No Sir! a film about rank-and-file GI resistance to the Vietnam War as well as Meeting Face to Face, a film partially funded by Reel Work which depicts the historic nationwide visit of Iraqi labor union leaders to the US in 2005. Highlights o...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 5:07pm PDT
In addition to counter-recruitment, SAW is engaged in a number of ongoing campaigns, one of which is having our university system end their management of the Los Alamos and Lawrence National Laboratories -- which between them are responsible for the research and development of every single nuclear weapon in the US stockpile. Considering that the Bush administration reportedly refuses to take the nuclear option off the table for a possible conflict with Iran, this campaign is as timely as it h...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 4:48pm PDT
Students Insist Counter-Recruitment Actions are Key to Ending the War
SANTA CRUZ, CA - Students Against War’s April 11th counter-recruitment protest at UC Santa Cruz was a small but concrete step towards ending the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq. It also demonstrated that violent and discriminatory employers are not welcome on our campus. Last Tuesday’s victory, which saw Army and National Guard recruiters flee in the face of a determined but peaceful protest of 150 students, facul...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 4:45pm PDT
The Department of Defense released documents confirming that the U.S. government conducted surveillance on gay groups, the military advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network announced Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 10:33pm PDT