During a one week period a couple of weeks ago, John Maurer was given four different citations by the Santa Cruz Police Department, including one for having a sign on his hat saying
"Fuck the Pigs (Police)" while panhandling. As this was the second citation for the same offense, he faces possible misdemeanor charges on the second infraction. In neither case was the offensive sign or language used while soliciting anyone for money.

As the City of Santa Cruz is poised to move the railing at the Costa Brava Planter on Pacific Ave., HUFF activists begin staffing informational tables, organizing protests, and have called for a boycott of the nearby Pacific Trading Company for its complicity in this attack on peaceful assembly.

29th Annual Santa Cruz PRIDE took place on Sunday June 1 to kick off a month of Pride and Celebration, Debuting GENDER FUNK COLLECTIVE!

Gender Funk is a new non-profit, social change organization that seeks to deconstruct the many socio-political inequalities that have over time been normalized in mainstream society to become acceptable simply due to their presistent presence and continual practices, such as classism, racism, ageism, hetero-normativity, assimilationist politics, economic globalization, environmental exploitation, etc.

Prepare for Sacramento!

On Sunday, June 1, there will be a skill-share and direct action training workshop at San Lorenzo Park starting at noon. Later that night at 8pm, there will be an outdoor film screening of Breaking the Spell.

Then on Thursday, June 5, from 6-9pm, there will be a Teach-In and Film Screening at the Live Oak Grange.

[ June 1st Events I June 5th Teach-In and Film Screening I WTO Agenda in Sacramento (.pdf) ]

This interview covers various issues regarding Sentinel editorial policy, the homeless in Santa Cruz, and free speech. It was done on Thursday, 5/28, from about 6:50-8:00 PM.

On May 30, between 60 and 80 cyclists were peacefully riding down California street when two motorcycle cops singled out a rider and cut off several other cyclists in the process. "Blue Beard" was pulled off his bike and chased across Bay street to the top of Neary Lagoon. When other cyclists arrived he was face down on the ground and badly injured.

...inspiring, motivating, a call for the courage to act. Neighborly, fear abating, delineating the causes of violence including our own dietary habits. 60's retro, vanquished communal hippie dreams, sober look at how our drug-dazed young minds let those assasinations scare us away from politics.

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[ Announcement I Dennis J. Kucinich I John Robbins I Marianne Williamson ]

Join a mass bike ride to Sacramento to protest privatization, globalization and genetic engineering!

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Critical Mass Bike Ride Friday, May 30
Meet at the Clocktower at 5 pm!

On Thursday afternoon, May 22, 2003, a group of activists set up a table (a “non-commercial display device� in Cityspeak) and proceeded to hand out flyers and circulated a petition opposing the City Manager’s plan to eliminate seating from the planter space in front of Costa Brava and the Pacific Trading Company. Assistant City Manager Martin Bernal (420-5010) says that unless a City Councilmember objects, the construction will begin June 6th.

Kathy Kelly and Wade Hudson, two activists who experienced firsthand, civilian injuries and deaths, as well as the destruction of homes, hospitals and marketplaces caused by the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Read what Metro Santa Cruz "didn't have room for."