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Friday Evening Family Vigil for Peace
Town Clock Park, corner of Water and North Pacific, in Santa Cruz - across from the main post office...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2006 5:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 7:10pm PST
Close the SOA! This weekend: Converge on Fort Benning, Georgia
November 17-19, 2006: Vigil and Nonviolent Direct Action to Close the SOA!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 4:18pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/17/06 ¡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. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 3:54pm PST
LULU Carpenters Protest / Boycott
On November 10, 2006, members of HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom) tabled near LULU carpenters due to an incident with Shane Maxfield, a terminally ill man, verbally threatened and abused by the owner Manthri Srinath....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 8:58am PST
Musical Mystery Ride this Friday
All you Musicans and Rhythmic Riders come on out! We ride to make music, we make music to ride....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 12:22am PST
Sleeping Ban Petitioning and Boycott Bigotry Tabling Downtown
On the sidewalk near Lulu Carpenters in Santa Cruz (1545 Pacific Ave.)...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2006 4:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 10:19pm PST
Why Did The Cops Attack Us? (11/16)
UCSC, Oaxaca, Palestine...
Thursday, November 16
8:30pm
Porter Room 148
UC Santa Cruz...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 8:56pm PST
"They [Monsanto] tried to do everything to destroy us" (audio/mpeg 42.6MB)
On Monday, November 13, Percy Schmeiser, a canola farmer from Canada, spoke at the Live Oak Grange in Santa Cruz about being the victim of Monsanto harassment and lawsuits after his fields were contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO canola. If you ever doubted the dangers of Genetically Modified seeds and corporate control over our food supply, Percy’s story is sure to convince you. Audio: [46:29] mp3 at 42.6 MB...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 1:24pm PST
Bill Monning Talk and meeting
Friends’ Meeting House, 225 Rooney Street (off the Morrissey exit), Santa Cruz. Free....
Event Date: Tue, Nov 21, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 7:31pm PST
Benefit for political prisoner Andy Stepanian (11/16)
Thursday November 16th:
Benefit for political prisoner Andy Stepanian
*Blackbird RAUM
*For The Fucking Kids
+ a vegan bake sale
+ prisoner letter writing
+ informational tables
and more...
6:00PM @ the Kresge Co-op on UCSC...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 12:11am PST
Struggle for Immigrant Rights Continues
Student Organizer from Columbia University to Speak on Struggle Against Minutemen...
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 8:33pm PST
Network of Spiritual Progressives Post-Election Celebration
In the Library Room of First Congregational Church, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz....
Event Date: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 6:51pm PST
Message from the Student & Youth Conference in Oaxaca
A statement from the 2nd National Student & Youth Conference, held November 11th 2006 at the Autonomous University of Oaxaca - Benito Juarez
Palabra del 2do Encuentro Nacional Estudiantil y Juvenil efectuado el 11 de Noviembre 2006 en la UABJO....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 3:41pm PST
Regulating Free Speech Through Place and Time
As a street performer for almost 30 years now, I can give you endless examples of “free speech” thefts, on public streets, via governmental/public agencies working on the pressure of merchants to either monitor the political contents of street performances or to stop competing free markets on the street. Once the government can regulate the TIME AND PLACE OF FREE SPEECH, it is NO LONGER FREE SPEECH. The “time and place” factor” effectively and constructively ELIMINATES free speech. And that i...
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 3:03pm PST
Alternative and Fair Trade Holiday Gift and Craft Fair.
First Congregational Church
900 High Santa Cruz, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 12:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 11:52pm PST
Alternative and Fair Trade Holiday Gift and Craft Fair.
First Congregational Church
900 High St. Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2006 9:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 11:49pm PST
Despite U.S. Threats, Voters Return Sandinistas To Power
The Sandinista revolution, upon coming to power in 1979, confiscated the land that had been held by the Somoza family and some of his closet cronies and redistributed it to the poor that worked it partly through establishing collectively run state farms. The Sandinistas also made literacy and healthcare a priority. Easily treated diseases that Somoza let kill and maim, such as polio, were vaccinated against and eliminated. Teaching everyone to read and write became a priority in the country...
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 10:29pm PST
Help bring pressure to Portland's killer cops and raise National awareness for Police Acco
James P. Chasse Jr. was a quiet peaceful and lawful schizophrenic living a quiet life in Portland Oregon reading comic books and listening to music until September 17, 2006 when he was brutally beaten to death by the Portland Police a few blocks from his home. Your help is requested to raise national awareness of this senseless homicide and national concern for police accountability....
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 4:21pm PST
Planning Meeting For Ethanol Fuel Tuesday at Louden Nelson, 7pm (11/14)
Come out to a meeting Tuesday evening, November 14th and learn about efforts underway to open the first ethanol fueling station in California....
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2006 5:25pm PST
Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapella Speaking Monday 7pm at Live Oak Grange (11/13)
Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapella - speaking presentation and strategic dialogue on
genetic engineering in agriculture....
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2006 5:18pm PST