A few images from last week's medical marijuana demo at the town clock.

Coinciding with our 100th anniversary, the IWW is pleased to announce its new and improved website! Our site now includes dynamic news content, IWW member log-ins, IWW news content that can be syndicated, RSS / XML feeds, live RSS / XML links, member forums, an events calendar, and much more. All of our old site content is also featured here, mostly in the familiar locations.

On Thursday, June 16th at 7:30 p.m., Aaron Glantz, an independent, unembedded reporter with Free Speech Radio News, will be at the Capitola Book Cafe to give a talk, and read from his new book, titled, "How America Lost Iraq." This is not the happy story of liberating Iraq and replacing dictatorship with democracy President Bush and the mainstream American media would have us believe.

Capitola Book Cafe is located at 1475 41st Avenue Capitola, CA 95010. Event starts at 7:30 p.m.

An interview with Daniel Alejandrez, founder of Barrios Unidos.

Some 16,500 clerical workers at the University of California's nine state campuses, began a three-day strike June 13, to demand higher pay. The Coalition of University Employees, or CUE, is unaffiliated with other unions, and consists largely of women and people of color. Ninety-four percent of its members voted to strike after talks reached an impasse this spring. Vinny Lombardo reports from Santa Cruz, where 150 people held a lunch time rally. Audio

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[ 3-Day CUE Statewide Strike of UC June 13-15 || Coalition of University Employees (CUE) ]

Some 16,500 clerical workers at the University of California's nine state campuses, began a three-day strike June 13, to demand higher pay. The Coalition of University Employees, or CUE, is unaffiliated with other unions, and consists largely of women and people of color. Ninety-four percent of its members voted to strike after talks reached an impasse this spring. Vinny Lombardo reports from Santa Cruz, where 150 people held a lunch time rally.

The Brown Berets are part of the historical struggle of resistance of the Chicano community. Founded in 1967 by youth in the barrios of East Los Angeles, they organized to fight against police harassment, social injustice and poor education. Influenced by the legacy of this orgnization, a group of Watsonville students decided to reactivate the Brown Berets in 1994. The Watsonville Brown Berets are one of the most active local youth organizations fighting for progressive change and barrio peace.

Despite a bit of scheduling confusion, about a dozen young people organized a leaflet action on June 12, to encourage a boycott of Urban Outfitters. They're upset that company CEO Richard Hayne, is a major contributor to the Republican Party, and one of the most conservative members of the entire US Senate Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum.

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family and that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, the right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution." - Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), Associated Press, 04-22-03

Audio: Rockin' the Boat: Youth Boycott of Urban Outfitters! II Photos: Think Urban Outfitters is Gay Friendly? Think Again!

An informal youth group, dubbed Dances with Kittens, organized a leaflet action on June 12, to encourage a boycott of Urban Outfitters. Vinny Lombardo reports.

Monday, June 13, was day one of the three day Coalition of University Employees (CUE) strike against the Univeristy of California.