Interview w/ Paul Watson on the Farley Mowat describing recent seal slaughter in Canada.

UPDATE FROM RUTGERS TENT STATE... As Tent State protests enter their fifth day, key organizers show how to achieve "mainstream" legitimacy: brown-nose the adminstration, defend fascist counter-protesters and be as politically ineffective as possible. Here's the inside story...

The more letters she gets, the more she will have to listen to us.

UCSC, April 18, 2005: An inappropriate, overwhelming and brutal police attack was the University response to a disciplined nonviolent student appeal and action on behalf of a humanized education.

As I type this, a loose coalition of students and workers are gathering on the steps of the courthouse in Santa Cruz County after a successful march through town. Several causes have united to demand a re-alignment of priorities in government spending. They arrived at the courthouse at 1:30 for a rally. Here is a rush post of photos and videos to be followed soon with complete coverage.

4-19-05 -- photos by Matt Fitt -- Tent University (TUSC), at the base of UC Santa Cruz, continued on Tuesday with seminars, discussions, food, and more. TUSC will continue through Friday, April 22.

Elizabeth Irwin, the PR representative for the UCSC administration spoke to a KION reporter in the wee hours of April 19th, following the arrest of 19 UCSC students at Tent University when they sat down together in a tent, linking arms and refused to leave after the 8PM “free speech� time had ended. Police also ripped down several tents which had been assembled for less than an hour.

Photos taken at Tent Univeristy Santa Cruz on the evening of April 18.

Photos taken at Tent Univeristy Santa Cruz on the evening of April 18.

Photos taken at Tent Univeristy Santa Cruz in the afternoon and evening of April 18.