LOCAL News :: Environment & Food : Poverty & Urban Development
Huge Success In Santa Cruz Referendum Drive!
01 Apr 2005
(Updated)
by
California CoastWatcher
Following the success of the community organizing and signature gathering for the referendum petition against the Coast Hotel project in Santa Cruz, the hotel owners conducted a detailed phone survey in Santa Cruz and learned that not only the hotel, but all the people and politicians associated with it were terrifically unpopular. Following the survey, the hotel pulled the plug on the project and the community is now free to plan for their future without having to pay for a huge hotel hugging the beach.
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LOCAL News :: Globalization & Capitalism : Government & Elections : Labor & Economics
Charles Schwab Dogged By Social Security Proponents
01 Apr 2005
(Updated)
by
Hiraeth
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LOCAL News :: Education & Youth
Details for the the 24-Hour Emergency Read-In to Save Salinas Libraries
01 Apr 2005
(Updated)
by
my friend sal
SATURDAY β SUNDAY, APRIL 2 β 3 1 pm β 1 pm
SALINAS: HISTORIC 24-HOUR EMERGENCY READ-IN!
Cesar Chavez Public Library, 615 Williams Road, Salinas
Then, at 1 pm Sunday, we will join Cesar Chavez Holiday Celebrations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government & Elections : Peace & War
Bush Administration May Have ''Lost'' Billion Dollar Settlement for Gulf War Vets
For the past 3 years, the Bush administration has been fighting to nullify a
judgement in favor of Gulf War veterans who were tortured in the Abu Ghraib prison when it was still run by Saddam Hussein. The money for this judgement was to come from assets of the Iraqi government that have been frozen. This is only a small part of the
9 billion dollars that dissappeared on the watch of
L. Paul Bremer while he managed the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
What has happened to the money and what excuse does the Bush administration have for the absurd arguement it has taken all the way to the supreme court?
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LOCAL News :: Health & Drugs
City Bureaucrats Shut Down Only Medical Marijuana Club Under Rotkin's Law
01 Apr 2005
by
Robert Norse
Just hours after a favorable article about Santa Cruz's new medical marijuana co-op, the Pacific Coast Cooperative, saw print in the Good Times, city bureaucrats moved to close down the City's only open medical marijuana club.
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News :: Arts & Culture
To ALL RW READERS: Change is in the air
We are excited to announce that on May 1st 2005 we will be
changing the name of the RW/OR to
REVOLUTION.
We believe this name change more fully reflects our
revolutionary communist ideology and politics, and the enriched
vision of a tribune of the people that has been pioneered by
RCP Chairman Bob Avakian.
This May 1st will mark the end of 25 years of the
Revolutionary Worker/Obrero Revolucionario!
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LOCAL Announcement :: Education & Youth
Action Tuesday to Kick Military Recruiters Out of UCSC!
01 Apr 2005
by
UCSC Counter-Recruitment
On Tuesday, April 5th, recruiters from the U.S. military will be at the Last Chance Job & Internship Fair at UCSC. However, the tradition of resistance continues - please join us for a march against discrimination and the war machine.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights
Wendy Campbell: "A Wannabe Film-maker"
01 Apr 2005
by
Wendy Campbell
I am always having to set the record straight...
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The Outrageous Statements of Ward Churchill
31 Mar 2005
by
Steven Argue
An apologist for the mass murder of working class people at the World Trade Center is Ward Churchill.
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