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Ugly Mug Prom right around the corner.
July 8th
Starts at 7pm goes 'till midnight
location: Ugly Mug Coffee house
4640 Soquel Drive
Soquel, CA...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 10:34pm PDT
May Critical Mass in Santa Cruz and a Look Back
The Santa Cruz Critical Mass Bike Ride on May 26th included riding on West Cliff, through the Beach Flats and past the guarded Boardwalk....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 12:36am PDT
Santa Cruz Critical Mass PSA (audio/mpeg 714.7KB)
Radio PSA for Santa Cruz's monthly Critical Mass Bike Ride!
45 seconds.
Enjoy the ride!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:59pm PDT
Last Rights Parade and Protest (7/5)
Working within the system is not working. A protest against the city's failure to resolve the Police Spying Scandal. Join us for a sorrowful funeral parade for our first amendment rights and right to privacy....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 8:23am PDT
Peacetalks: Interview with Dr. Ann Lopez NAFTA and Immigration (audio/mpeg 35.6MB)
Interview with Dr. Ann Lopez on NAFTA and the effects on Immigration and the environment....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:30am PDT
Arana Gulch to be Paved?
The serene isolation and beauty of Arana Gulch is threatened by two miles of Eight foot wide paved trails and a suspension bridge over hagemann gulch....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:03pm PDT
Denton's Death
What are people's thoughts about the suicide of Denice Denton?...
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 8:16am PDT
David Bacon: Children of NAFTA (audio/mpeg 27.5MB)
For over fifteen years, David Bacon has been a documentary photographer, covering labor movements, immigration, and international politics. His background as a labor organizer with UFW, UEW, ILGW, and other unions, gives Bacon a unique perspective on migration, and the struggle for worker's rights. David Bacon spoke on Friday, June 23 in Watsonville, about his recent book, The Children of NAFTA. TRT- 29:58...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 4:54pm PDT
Indynewswire: SC Activists Gear Up for Caravan to Cuba (audio/mpeg 27.4MB)
Over the weekend of June 24 and 25, about a dozen Santa Cruz activists busied themselves at the Live Oak Grange sorting medical suppilies, soaps, books, pens, and automotive parts among other items, as part of the Pastors for Peace 2006 Cuba Friend-Shipment Caravan. I spoke with a number of them as they made preparations for the trip....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 3:34pm PDT
Policy Spying Scandal Policy Speak Out Tonight (6/27)
Come express your frustration with the Police Spying Policy process at tonight's City Council Meeting...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 3:18pm PDT
Santa Cruz Caravanistas On A Human Rights Mission To Cuba
On June 24, peace and human rights activists spent their day at the Live Oak Grange preparing the Santa Cruz contingent of this years Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba. This is the 17th year our fellow community members have challenged the travel ban to Cuba as well as the inhumane embargo on Cuba by our government. Volunteers did a quality inspection of donated supplies before loading them onto the dontated Ambulance, former Police SWAT wagon, and Peace Mobile. Other people put their handpri...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Reportback of Santa Cruz Police Spying Policy Process
Weak severely-limited half-baked policy on police spying on peaceful groups likely to be proposed....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 2:36pm PDT
2,500 U.S. Troops Killed... And Counting
On June 16th, US Veterans For Peace, Methodists United For Peace and other individuals held a vigil in Santa Cruz to mark 2,500 U.S. troops killed in Iraq and countless dead Iraqis. People held banners and peace flags in front of the town clock before marching down Pacific Avenue. We were joined mid-march by Hare Krishnas that had been chanting and dancing on the corner of Soquel. The march paused at Laurel and Pacific before returning to the plaza by the post office for a final peace circle....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 8:41pm PDT
Memorial Service for Jay (Zalmo/Buck) BloomBecker (6/25)
Come join us in honoring Jay’s memory!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 12:19am PDT
FRSC: Peacetalks: Moratorium on GE crops in Santa Cruz County (audio/mpeg 20.7MB)
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Arty Mangan from the Santa Cruz County Genetic Engineering Subcommittee about the recent unanimous vote of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to accept the Subcommittee recommendation of a Precautionary Moratorium on the planting and production of GE crops in Santa Cruz County....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 2:00pm PDT
FRSC: Peacetalks, Green Scare Interview with Marco Rossi (audio/mpeg 26.2MB)
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Marco Rossi of the Olympia Civil Liberties Resource about the "Green Scare" and the government crackdown on the ELF and ALF. The Olympia Civil Liberties Resource is an organization working to defend the civil liberties of all citizens, particularly activists exercising their constitutional rights....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 1:08pm PDT
Powdering The Crooked Nose of The City's Anti-Homeless Panhandling Law
The Santa Cruz City Council did a "quick fix" on an obscure section of its really bad panhandling law on May 23rd and June 13th. Instead of giving the whole panhandling law the civil liberties and common sense overhaul it needs, the Rotkin City Council chaired by Mayor "Two Minutes" Mathews cut short public discussion and rubberstamp City Attorney Barisone's settlement. More legal challenges and more city money will probably be going to pay City Attorney Barisone's questionable defense of h...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 2:12pm PDT
Indynewswire: UCSC Diversity Coalition Rails Administrators (audio/mpeg 18.8MB)
Segment from The Indynewswire Show covering June 6th student demo for diversity in student and faculty retention at UCSC campus.
20:33...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 6:32pm PDT
OVER THE EDGE at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In (6/23)
This 1979 film pits bored, aimless, white middle-class suburban kids (including a very young Matt Dillon) trapped in a hellish planned community against parents and police concerned about the "youth problem." Intelligent, honest, and with attention to detail, filled with a feeling of teen-age frustration and paranoia. This film is a funeral service held at the graveside of the suburban dream....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 9:02am PDT