The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a longtime crusader for civil rights and nonviolent solutions throughout the world, will be the keynote speaker at UCSC's annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation at 7 p.m. on January 21 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.

The KSBW Channel's 11 PM news broadcast on the 18th showed just a few seconds of aerial footage of the San Francisco Peace March, and mentioned that "more than 10,000" people attended. The following is an e-mail interchange between myself and the News Director.

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3 WINTER 2003 WORKSHOPS ON THE DRAFT & G.I. RIGHTS

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3/1 9am-2pm: Preparing to be a Conscientious Objector

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A Brief Look at the some of the articles by the newspapers distributed in Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, and San Luis Obispo Counties

Open to the public.

No, you do not need to read the book before you attend.

Arrested for "obstructing justice" simply for getting out of my car while legally parked in a public parking lot after being stopped for a "fix-it" ticket.

One week ago, SCPD made a press release announcing a "DUI checkpoint" to be in operation this Saturday Jan18th at Ocean and Water from 9p to 1a.

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To Barbara Williams, opposing the war is a health
care issue. The Santa Cruz nurse and California
Nurses Association leader plans to march Saturday
to show how the war would put an additional stress
on the nation’s hospitals.
“If there’s retaliation, (our hospitals) are totally
unprepared to deal with that,” said Williams, 57, who
hasn’t protested a military action since the Vietnam
War. “I know. I work in the emergency room every
day.”