Through legal maneuvering, big business interests are attempting to shut out the poor from New Orleans and grab the land that was their home. The time to speak up is NOW.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors agreed last Tuesday to allow the County Clerk, Gail Pellerin, to enter into contract negotiations with Sequoia Voting Systems, a recently purchased subsidiary of Smartmatic, Inc. which is a Florida-registered, Venezuelan-owned, company. Pellerin recommended a blended system using Sequoia optical scanners and one Sequoia Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting system with voter-verified paper audit trail in each polling place.

In an otherwise ho-hum primary election, the campaign of socialist, feminist, bus-driving unionist Linda Averill stood out like the Space Needle on the Seattle horizon. Latest returns show that Averill’s second run as a Freedom Socialist Party candidate scored an impressive 18 percent, (nearly 16,000 votes), placing third in a four-way race for Seattle City Council Position #4.

Thanks to many of you voting no doubt as well as a growing amount of support in Oregon, Jeff 'Free' Luers won the category of "Best Activist" in the Eugene Weekly's Best of 2005 issue last week.

The Washington, DC, grand jury of US Attorney Fitzgerald will obtain indictments in the outing of CIA's Valerie Plame sometime this week, sources say, and one could be George Bush's closest advisor, Karl Rove.....In Alexandria, VA, the grand jury of Paul McNulty, investigating Israeli espionage against the US, has indicted a neocon Pentagon analyst, Larry Franklin and continues its work.....With these and other probable indictments, there will be trials that will EXPOSE FIXED INTELLIGENCE and ISRAELI MANIPULATION that pushed us into war.....Also, Italian officials promise to request in coming weeks the extradition of CIA man Bob Lady, a key figure in the IRAQ BETRAYAL. See how these events are converging.

"Not one more death, not one more dollar for war!"

As of January 1st, 2006, we will be opening our doors at 703 B Pacific Avenue, just south of Laurel St. The Bicycle Church is expanding from
roughly 200 to 1000 square feet!

With indictments IMMINENT, the White HOuse has ordered the covert assassination of any dissident who has incriminating evidence against the administration.

On Thursday, October 20, the Filipino Student Association (FSA) at UC Santa Cruz held a vigil to honor Filipino Veteranos from World War II by fighting for the benefits that they deserve.

Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos served under the United States in World War II, many of them receiving prestigious medals. While promised benefits by U.S. President Roosevelt, the U.S. Government refuses to acknowledge their contributions. Many of these Veteranos have since died, but an estimated 7,000 live in the U.S. and over 30,000 in the Philippines.

Thursday's vigil was part of a national day of awareness sponsored by Student Action for Veterans Equity (SAVE). The day was "part of an ongoing campaign to 'paint the nation brown', stressing the awareness of the Brown Ribbon Campaign; an education and action campaign dedicated to the fight for Full Equity only and nothing less, through the passages of H.R. 302 and S. 146"

Quoted from the vigil announcement:
santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php