Three cheers to the spook who exposed Bush.

You can watch a live video stream of teleSUR, a media collaboration between Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, and Uruguay, twenty four hours a day at www.telesurtv.net/.

On Saturday, December 31, 2005, thousands of people celebrated the new year with a Do-It-Yourself Last Night Santa Cruz parade. Hundreds of ordinary folks, freaks, clowns, fire dancers, samba drummers, punks, pirates, artists, zombies, marching bands, moms, dads, kids, trash musicians, art cars, bikers and boaters began to gather at the Saturn Cafe parking lot at 5pm. After a bunch of drumming, juggling and poi dancing in the parking lot, the parade went up Pacific Ave and ended at the intersection of Pacific Ave, Front St and Mission St.

Undercover Officers Spying on Grassroots Santa Cruz New Year's Parade Meetings

It is an outrage that the Santa Cruz Government has been found to be infiltrating legal political activities in Santa Cruz through its police department.

Tune in to the Critical Mass Radio Network, Saturday December 31st.

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But of course, the kinds of folks who push an ideology that required the expulsion of three-quarters-of-a-million Palestinians from their lands, and then lied about it, claiming there had been no such persons to begin with (as with Golda Meir’s infamous quip), can’t be expected to place a very high premium on truth. -- Tim Wise, anti-racist, anti-Zionist, Jewish-American activist, essayist & public speaker

Homeless activists from a number of groups responded to Mayor Mathews first (and last) full Council meeting of her term with the following letter, which was e-mailed to her Friday December 30th. The Mayor's willingness to answer questions and open records is particularly significant given today's exposure (in the Sentinel) of illegitimate undercover SCPD surveillance of the Last Night festivities.

Recently (Dec 2005) approximately 6 people were arrested in connection with alleged arsons and environmental activism (resulting in property damage) in the Pacific NW (portland.indymedia.org). I have said we needed to “support� them, and people have written me asking why I am asking people support “terrorists.� The media and the government have used the word “eco-terrorist� to brand these people, throwing out that touted but rarely used maxim of “innocent until proven guilty.� These people who are charged with these crimes, themselves, do not call themselves, or identify as, “eco-terrorists.� I do not know why or who started this concept that using inflammatory words in the mainstream media was “impartiality in reporting� or even blind justice, but I find the use of “eco-terrorists� in the coverage of this case to be very egregious, and frankly, irresponsible.