5/6/05 -- Photos by MATT FITT -- Students and other members of the community toured parts of UCSC campus on Friday in order to raise awareness about military/weapons research being done at the university.

On Tuesday, May 10, the Student & Worker Coalition for Justice will be holding a "Hoedown for Clerical Wage Parity!" to bring awareness to fact that UC pays clericals at UC Santa Cruz 8-20% LESS than at campuses with comparable cost of living (i.e. at UC Berkeley), as if Santa Cruz was still a "rural campus" as it once was, with a low cost of living.

Mother's Day was orininally known as Mother's Day for Peace. It was started by Civil War women whose husbands and sons were killed in the Civil War

"In April, several hundred students at the University of California Santa Cruz marched against Army, Navy and Marine recruiters kicking them out of their annual job fair." - Mumia Abu-Jamal

"Harder and Harder to Recruit" (4:01)
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This is audio from the second panel and closing discussion from the Anarchism Now Conference that took place at UCSC's Oakes College on May 7.

(Total = 1 hour and 42 minutes / 34.2 MB)

Tuesday May 17, 7pm
SPACE FOR PEACE: Film Features Helen Caldicott, MD & Loring Wirbel, author of STAR WARS
Friends' Meeting House, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. Info - Jan Harwood, jahn (at) cruzio.com Sponsored by Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)

Lunchtime was one of the best parts of the Anarchism Now Conference which took place at UCSC's Oakes College on Saturday May 7. We ate healthy veggie sandwiches, looked at anarchist zines and talked in small groups about societal issues raised during the first part of the conference.

Tune in between 10:30am - 12noon for an interview with John S Hall of King Missle 3 only on Freak Radio Santa Cruz 101fm or www.freakradio.org

Camilo Mejia, the first US soldier to actively resist the Iraq War. He spoke in Santa Cruz on Wednesday, May 4th, at the Veteran's Memorial Building.

Audio: Listen to the Stream or Download the mp3

5/6/05: Complete with costumes and characters such as UC President Dynes and "Hans" of SNL fame, the march through Science Hill, organized by Students Against War (SAW)'s Demilitarization working group, highlighted UC's management of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore Labs, as well as the large amount of weapons research currently underway on UCSC's campus. Student 'weapons inspectors' stopped outside the new Baskin Engineering building before a die-in outside the Science and Engineering Library. The inspectors also marched silently through the library and passed out information about UCSC's connection to the war machine.

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