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Alleged public safety advocate misrepresents herself and her organizations 
On October 22nd, 2015, Take Back Santa Cruz held a so called “Public Safety Forum” headlining "well known Public Safety Advocate” Lynne Brown. Looking into Ms. Brown and her organizations indicate she is profiting off misrepresentations....
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 11:10pm PST
Desal Alternatives Endorses Water Supply Advisory Committee Recommendations On November 1, Santa Cruz Desal Alternatives issued a statement in support of the Water Supply Advisory Committee recommendations. Important dates: Nov 10th, 7pm, City Council study session on WSAC recommendations; Nov 24th, City Council action on the recommendations....
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 2:11pm PST
Passion and Progress at County Cannabis Committee Meeting 
At the 6th meeting of the Santa Cruz County Cannabis Cultivation Choices Committee (C4) all thirteen appointees expressed agreement that their focus should be on establishing an acceptable local licensing scheme to permit commercial cannabis cultivation....
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 2:00pm PST
Nice try, Pope Francis, but to many, Junipero Serra is no saint 
“On all the 21 missions along the coast here our people were enslaved, they were beaten, they were tortured, our women were raped. It was forced labor and a forced religion. There’s nothing saintly about the… atrocities on our culture, on our people.” - Anthony Morales, Chief Redblood of the Gabrielino Tongva Band of Mission Indians...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 1:17pm PST
Temperatures drop at the 17th Freedom Sleepers Community Sleepout 
Freedom Sleepers hold down campout 17 at city hall, while police and council discuss public safety...
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 3:57pm PST
Free Breakfast - Support Blue Box 2 Outside the Superior Court of California
701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 1:54pm PST
California State University Faculty Votes to Authorize Strike Members of the California Faculty Association on the 23 campuses of the California State University voted “Yes by over 94% percent” to authorize a strike, CFA President Jennifer Eagan announced today at a news conference....
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 1:46pm PST
Crucial Beach Flats Garden meeting with City Nueva Vista Community Center
133 Leibrant Ave, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 11:50am PST
Action needed now to prevent Garden plots from being destroyed 
An appeal for action to save a portion of the Beach Flats Community Garden from destruction. The Seaside Company has plans to take part of the garden for other uses unless the City intervenes by November 13....
Posted: Sat, Oct 31, 2015 4:02pm PDT
EPA to Ban Dangerous Pesticide Chlorpyrifos Children, communities and workers to benefit from long overdue phaseout of neurotoxic agricultural chemical, the subject of Salinas Valley studies....
Posted: Sat, Oct 31, 2015 1:50pm PDT
Mayor Lane's Latest--and the Activist Responses On his facebook page several days ago, Mayor Don Lane posted a lengthy lament regarding homeless services and city abuses against the poor. Though the words "civil rights", "human rights", "civil liberties", and/or "criminalization of the poor" tellingly do not appear). Several activists--we call ourselves Freedom Sleepers--have been sleeping out one night a week suffering klieg lights, security guard surveillance and SCPD citations. Something the Mayor declines to mention I've ignored...
Posted: Sat, Oct 31, 2015 1:14am PDT
17th Sleep Out Supports Safe Sidewalk Sleeping In the forbidden zone outside City Council in the supposedly "public space" around City Hall in the "Courtyard" area near the sidewalk across from the Main Library at 807 Center St.
The event begins around 6 PM and goes until 7 AM or 8 AM the following Wednesday....
Event Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 6:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 10:22pm PDT
Calls for Removal of Salinas Police Chief Continue at Police Brutality Day Protest 
To mark the National Day of Protest Against Brutality, community members in Salinas rallied in front of city hall on October 22, where the family members of Jose Velasco, Frank Alvarado, and Angel Ruiz all spoke. Ruiz and Alvarado were among five unarmed Latino men killed in separate incidents in 2014 during encounters with the Salinas Police Department. Velasco was severley beaten by a group of Salinas police officers in 2015. Individuals held signs in front of city hall and joined in severa...
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 6:58pm PDT
California State University Faculty Conclude Strike Authorization Vote Yesterday, members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) at the 23 campuses of the California State University system concluded a statewide vote on whether or not to authorize union leadership to call a strike if contract negotiations with management fail to result in a fair deal....
Posted: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 1:45pm PDT
Comment Period on Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Priorities Closes Oct. 30 
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of National Marine Sanctuaries is soliciting public and stakeholder comment on a management plan review for Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, located off the Central California coast. This is the first step in a process that could result in changes in how the sanctuary manages and protects its resources. All comments must be submitted to NOAA by close of business on October 30, 2015....
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 7:23pm PDT
Beach Flats Garden and Homeless Shelter on the city council agenda 
On Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7PM, Mayor Don Lane, Councilmember Cynthia Chase, and I will be presenting a proposal to the City Council to direct staff to negotiate to buy the Beach Flats Garden Park. You are invited to join a march to the City Council from the Garden at 5:30PM. The garden is located on the 300 block of Raymond St. near the corner with 3rd St....
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 4:34pm PDT
#FreeTio 
On the morning of Oct 21st, ICE raided family homes in Monterey County by pretending to be local police, including wearing jackets that said "POLICE" on them, knocking on people's doors pretending that they just wanted to ask some questions, and then arresting them without any warrants. These #ICELies are representative of Monterey County's participation in ICE's infamous PEP program that views any undocumented person who has been racially profiled or made a mistake to be disposable. Two of t...
Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2015 5:18pm PDT
March to City Hall to Support Beach Flats Community Garden Raymond and 3rd Streets, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2015 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2015 7:38am PDT
California Moves to Keep Whales Out of Crab Gear 
OAKLAND, Calif.— A state-convened working group is recommending a series of important initial steps toward reducing whale entanglements in crab gear in California, including more monitoring and retrieval of lost fishing gear. The Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group was convened in September after the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups found that whale entanglements in 2014 and 2015 had reached historic highs....
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2015 3:42pm PDT
Letter of Support: Preservation of the Beach Flats Community Garden 
We, the undersigned Santa Cruz County organizations and businesses, wish to bring to your attention our urgent concerns regarding the fate of the Beach Flats Community Garden. We have learned that the Seaside Company does not intend to renew the City’s lease on the land when it expires on November 13th, and plans instead to remove the majority of the garden space in order to convert it for other Company uses beginning December 1st....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 11:38pm PDT
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