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Rent Hikes and Unrest at UCSC's Family Student Housing Tenants at UCSC's Family Student Housing, already paying outrageous rents to live there, face another huge rent increase in a year of financial crisis....
Posted: Sat, Mar 28, 2009 11:16am PDT
CDFA May Have Underestimated Toxic Danger of LBAM Pesticides By One Million Times or More March 24, 2009 Santa Cruz, California
Evaluating the health effects of past and future pesticides applied on and around people to combat the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM), three state agencies concluded the potential danger was low because they incorrectly divided instead of multiplying. In their analysis, the agencies divided by the thousands of acres sprayed, when they should have multiplied by the same number of thousands. If only 1,000 acres were involved, the peoples' exposure was a...
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 9:05am PDT
AIG, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Others…The Circle of Financial Life No one can deny the ever-mounting debt being foisted upon every US Citizen by our government in an attempt to bail out failing businesses. The bailout seems to be making its rounds, keeping worthless business inside a protective circle....
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 8:06am PDT
April Uprising Strategy Paper Announcement Recently many infoshops and radical spaces have been sent the April Uprising newspaper from SDAC laying out the strategy for the IMF and World Bank demos. If you would like some to distro please e-mail us at selfdescribedanarchist@riseup.net. We'll be visiting Baltimore, NYC and a few other places to make sure they get all over the country....
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 7:14am PDT
Local Print Shop Censors Zines Alphagraphics, local print shop objects to content of zines made by prisoners and refuses to copy them...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 6:47pm PDT
Survey about Poverty and Homelessness This is the last weekly survey as submitted to the Cournalist. They have discontinued paying authors and have also apparently discontinued publishing my surveys....
Posted: Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:42pm PDT
4 accused of animal rights threats appear in court Four animal rights activists are due to appear in federal court in San Jose Thursday on charges of threatening professors who use animals in biomedical research.
The two men and two women were arrested on Feb. 19 and 20 on charges of violating the U.S. Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006 by threatening professors from the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2007 and 2008....
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 8:05am PDT
Amnesty International Lobby Days Amnesty International USA Lobby Days...
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2009 7:16pm PDT
Curtis Reliford vs. Starbucks Curtis Reliford and his Follow Your Heart Action Network sued Starbucks for slander after the Starbucks manager tried to have Curtis arrested for panhandling....
Posted: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 11:06pm PDT
The Bio-Nano-Info Tech Revolution article/letter to the chancellor of ucsc and members of the UC Santa Cruz community urging the need to build an EARTH Center at UC Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat, Mar 14, 2009 2:56pm PDT
No Constiutional Rights in Santa Cruz Court for the Pro Per Litigant Santa Cruz Court Ignores Constitutional Rights...
Posted: Sat, Mar 14, 2009 5:37am PDT
PVUSD Board attacks Class Size Reduction, votes to lay off hundreds The Pajaro Valley Unified School District board of trustees approved Thursday night a budget that closes a $14 million dollar deficit. The cuts eliminate Class Size Reduction in Kindergarten and 3rd grade (eliminating 50 teacher positions from the elementary schools), slash funding for nurses, custodians, aides, and counselors, but leave top-level administrators' contracts untouched....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:13am PST
Sonic booms occurred near Los Angeles and Santa Cruz Newswire reports of ground shaking sonic booms have come in from the Orange County area south of Los Angeles yesterday (March 2), and this morning in the Monterey Bay/Los Altos region (March 3). Sonic booms occur when an object exceeds the speed of sound. Fast special aircraft operated by the military or NASA have historically caused many cases of sonic booms, but there has been no public admission or explanation offered by local military bases today. http://www.sky-flash.com/boom.htm...
Posted: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 4:58pm PST
Can alternative energy effectively replace fossil fuels? Oil is running out and coal burning is cooking the planet. The Obama administration just passed a stimulus bill with billions in it for alternative energy development. The question that remains is whether or not wind, solar and other renewables can actually provide for current energy needs.
Many experts argue that renewable energy energy can effectively replace fossil fuels, while others have taken the current energy crisis as an opportunity to promote increased use of nuclear power and 'cle...
Posted: Tue, Mar 3, 2009 8:27pm PST
Free Skool Spring 2009 Calendar Available! The Free Skool Spring 2009 calendar is out! The best place to pick them up is at the SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave....
Posted: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 2:52pm PST
Take Action: Community Activists in Chiapas Face Harassment and Intimidation Human rights and community leaders in Mexico continue to experience threats - including death threats. They ask for help from global activists to protect their lives and their community work....
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:12am PST
Unwanted Raid yet again on Medical Marijuana Update on Roger Mentch and the Hemporium...
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2009 1:22pm PST
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