Ralph Nader told the nation to support Rep. Conyers who is considering moving forward on impeachment hearings. Only people of his state can contact his DC office, emails are filtered.

Azadeh Moaveni
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Monday, March 14th at 7:30 p.m.
Capitola Book Cafe

UCSC Politics Department Colloquium series presents, Jules Boykoff, "Limiting Dissent: The Mechanisms of Suppression in the United States"

When: Tuesday, March 15th from 12:15 till 2pm
Where: Charles Merrill Lounge, UCSC

Did you know you can get to SFO by public transit, for just $10? This is only one example. Indeed, there are very few places you CAN'T get to by public transit. The problem is information. You'd need to contact three different transit agencies to plan a trip to the airport. The Metro Riders Union has a better answer: an easy, online transit guide geared to people who live in Santa Cruz.

Unlike a transit agency Web site, which only covers transit routes in one city or county, we are free to cover lots of different routes in lots of different places.

We hope that the site will grow and evolve. We plan to add leisure destinations like Big Sur, the North Coast, and the Napa Valley. (Bet you didn't know you could take transit to those places!) We also want to make the site more interactive. For now, you can post short questions, comments and suggestions to the public forum.

[ iridethebus.org | Paratransit Task Force ]

Pagesincolor.com now has a blog.

(Santa Cruz - 11 March, 2005) Local organizers and activists celebrate victory in their struggle against Yum!Brands/TacoBell in support of farmworkers.

Jose Padilla has once again obtained a writ of Habeas Corpus, and Donald Rumsfeld has been given another 45 days to produce the body. DOGSPOT has archived the recent decision by Judge Henry Floyd of South Carolina as a text file, along with related documents.

4 documentary shorts and a potluck
march for womens lives, nu una mas, red wings star spangled, brought to you by PMS MEDIA

pmsmedia.org

A few months after the Independent Media Center celebrated its fifth anniversary as a non-corporate resource for the open-publishing of news and information, about 150 IMCistas, mostly based in the US, gathered in Austin, Texas for IndyConference which took place February 18-20. The weekend included both formal and informal workshops, discussions, and skillshares with the goal of improving our effectiveness as a radical media network. There were also presentations from media activists Douglas Kelner, John Downing, Clemencia Rodríguez, and Amy Goodman.

Our discussions included themes such as Professionalism and Indymedia, Shortcomings and Potentials of IMC, The Geography Hurdle, Setting up an IMC at a Mass Mobilization, Blogging and Indymedia, IMC and Underserved Communities, and Race and Gender in Indymedia. Other workshops and skillshares included IMC Print Caucus, IMC Video Discussion, How to Do a Radio Show, and Documenting Resistance. A generous amount of time was dedicated to discussing Indymedia.us, an open-publishing website and a portal site syndicating news from local IMCs in the US. Before the Friday workshops began, we discussed how we would document the conference and coordinated our coverage efforts. We hope that you find the documentation useful and encourage your feedback about all aspects of the conference.

[ Austin Indymedia | Indymedia.us | Indymedia.us Syndication FAQ | John's Indyconference Dispatch | Indyconference Fosters Different Views ]