A Beach Flats Mural Celebration took place on September 9 at the corner of Beach and Park just below Santa Cruz's well known Giant Dipper roller coaster. The Beach Flats Mural Project was always meant to be more than a finished mural. It was meant to be a process that brought together people of all ages, all backgrounds and skills, in a community project.

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Mas que pintura en una pared el proyecto del mural siempre lo comenzamos con la idea de que fuera un proyecto comun. Nuestro mural ha involucrado a personas de todas edades, origines y destrezas en un proyecto comun.

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I will never again look at an orchid in the way I did prior to reading Robert David Clark's novel, "Flowers of the Dinh Ba Forest." A fictional story about the Vietnam War, the plot oscillates between the American soldiers and the Viet Cong, and the villagers who were caught in between those two warring sides. Full of eloquent beauty, alongside guttural words that can only repulse, but ring true, the book made me laugh and cry several times. As is often the case with Vietnam stories, borne of experience only the Vets truly can understand, the book exemplified how often Vets knew in war, that there, "everything meant more than it ever would back home."

Critical Mass Radio Network airs this friday 9-24 streamed live on Freak Radio Santa Cruz 101fm or check out www.criticalmassradio.net
FRSC segment will air 2pm-4pm

Go Beyond Voting on November 3rd. Join Code Blue, a group of Bay Area health care activists, in actions highlighting healthcare not warfare.

I am writing to personally encourage Indymedia.org users to send a message to the leadership in Washington that it is time to chart a new course for US nuclear policy using our online advocacy tools available through the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Turn the Tide Campaign. The goals of the Campaign are to educate the public and promote advocacy of US nuclear policies that will provide security for the US and the world.

Those who claim that Israel does not allow freedom of the press, should consider how journalists are treated in the Palestinian Authority. While Israel has the largest number of media outlets in the mideast (3rd largest in the world after New York City and London) and explicit rights of freedom of press guaranteed under Israeli law, not a word of copy, or radio broadcast, or television show is allowed unless government authorities in the PA give the okay. And they DON'T give the okay if the news is critical of Arafat.

This short article by Khaled Abu Toameh documents the case of a journalist who has fled the PA with his family after receiving death threats from one of the groups under Arafat's wing.

The call for proposals for the National Conference on Organized Resistance on February 3rd through February 6th, 2005, in Washington, DC!