400 copies of Fault Lines, the Newspaper of the SF Bay Area Independent Media Center, have been delivered to Santa Cruz. More than 125 copies have been distributed at various locations in downtown Santa Cruz, and many more will go out in the coming days.

Oral Communications 7 PM Tuesday October 26 City Hall; Take a Look at the Rogues Gallery of Incumbents Before the November 2nd Election; Join a Protest there.

Plastic Bag Distribution for Homeless Use Wednesday or Thursday To Be Announced

UCSC Kreske Town Hall Candidate Forum 8 PM Thursday October 28 Norse and Brune urge you to Dump the Incumbents

Plus some tips from HUFF writer Becky Johnson on how to use ordinary plastic garbage bags in town that has no shelter for 95% of its homeless and lots of idle cops.

Santa Cruz Radio Access Movement (SCRAM) is acting autonomously and in support of Free Radio Santa Cruz (FRSC).

SCRAM was created to liberate the airwaves for the people of Santa Cruz. Our first action has been the liberation of 101.1 FM for Santa Cruz and neighboring communities. SCRAM is broadcasting Free Radio Santa Cruz's web stream 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

SCRAM encourages other people to take action! Free the airwaves by broadcasting alternative media sources such as Free Radio Santa Cruz. If you can't hear SCRAM where you live, then start a Radio Access Movement in your community.

He sure needs 'em. You need flash to help.

Q.: What's more scary than the prospect of Bush in the White House for four more years?
A.: Having Dick Cheney, the puppet monster, right behind him.

For more details about why the most frightening being in American political history insists on hanging around and giving us the willies, read on. (But you might want to check under your bed first.)

Jacksonville Oregon - Riot clad and ready, the police allowed President Bush to dine in the middle of his own personal crisis... Use of police violence shown.

Since April 21 2004 Mordechai Vanunu has been pleading for his freedom to leave Israel along with telling the Israeli government , and anyone else who will listen: 1. He told the truth about nuclear weapons 2. He has no more secrets to tell.

Come to a day long conference at UCSC dedicated to exploring tools for local and global change. The day includes workshops, speakers, tabling by community and campus organizations, food, student art, and spoken word performances.

Registration begins at 10 AM, workshops are held from 11:45 to 3:00, and tabling continues until 5:00. Everyone is welcome and the entire day is free.

[ Practical Activism 2004 ]

On Wednesday, November 10th at 12 pm, representatives of AFSCME, the union that represents low-wage service workers at UC Santa Cruz will be bargaining for a fair contract in the Bay Tree Bookstore on the UCSC campus. Workers, students and community members will be demonstrating in the Quarry Plaza outside the bookstore in solidarity with the workers and their demand for a just contract.

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