UCSC's Academic Senate held it's winter quarter meeting today, voting overwhelmingly for a resolution opposing "unilateral US Military intervention in Iraq". The vote was 58-0 with two members of the senate abstaining. The resolution was drafted by the UCSC student peace coalition, Standing United for Peace. On November 12th, the UCSC Student Union Assembly passed a similar resolution, and the Santa Cruz city council was the first city to pass a resolution opposing the war.

Resolution Against U.S. Military Intervention in Iraq

Hundreds of Santa Cruz residents joined Sunday's massive march in San Francisco aimed at stopping the Bush Administration's war on Iraq. Over 200,000 people marched in solidarity with millions of people in over 600 cities all over the world on Saturday in an international day of action to stop the war. It's wonderful," said a resident of Santa Cruz when asked about the size of the march. "For the first time ever, the mainstream media have to recognize us!"

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Approximately 6,000 people in Santa Cruz joined millions of others in cities around the globe calling for a peaceful resolution to the crisis with Iraq. Listen to a short collage of some of their voices reading aloud the messages written on their placards. Read reports from participants [ 1 - 2 ]. Listen to this interview with Sam Farr on the steps of the County Building. Publish your text, photography, audio, and video here on Santa Cruz Indymedia.

[ Photos of March | Photos of Rally | Photos from County Building ]

With one email, poet Sam Hamill has revitalized the anti-war movement in American poetry circles. But thanks belong to First Lady, Laura Bush. She invited Hamill to a February 12 White House symposium called - Poetry: The American Voice. Hamill's reply was an email to his friends. He urged them to send him poems of protest against the Bush Administrations's Iraq war policy. On February 10, Hamill appeared at Cabrillo College, in Aptos, CA.

[ Audio | Day of Poetry Against War | Poetry Santa Cruz ]

Santa Cruz Peace Coalition has organized a Central Coast March and Rally for Peace on Saturday, February 15, from 11:00am until 5:00pm. Converge at the County Building at 11:00am. At noon there will be a march followed by a rally at Mission Plaza Park. February 15 is an International Day of Action involving millions of people from all around the globe, and folks from all over the Monterey Bay region will have the opportunity to stand up and speak out for peace, and show collective resistance to the Bush Administration's drive toward mass destruction in Iraq.

[ SCPC Press Release | Peace Friday and More!! | Letter to SCPC ]

"October 18th, 2005 - UCSC Students Against War (SAW) organized a nonviolent rally and Queer Kiss-in against the presence of military recruiters on the UC Santa Cruz campus.

About forty students participated in a Queer Kiss-in in protest of the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell� policy. The Queer Kiss-in was staged in front of the military’s tables during the march and rally. From inside the fair, kissers were able to effectively block access to military recruiters without shutting down the entire career fair."

santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18812/index.php

The following photos are from the rally outside and from when students involved in the Queer Kiss-In jubilantly emerged from the job fair.

Is Santa Cruz going to have a protest on Nov. 2nd? for the World Can't Wait event?
www.worldcantwait.org/

San Francisco denied a permit recently.
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James Reston, author of the letter transcribed below, might not be entirely happy about it's release today. Edward S Herman of FAIR described him in a 1996 retrospective as "The Insider's Journalist in the Service of Empire". Certainly his career was a mixed one, rich with accolades but laced with a dangerous excess of sympathy for the insiders who fed him his stories. Is this the tradition that provided us the tainted gifts of Judith Miller? In any case, these pages were lying around as pictures in the archives in Urbana, Illinois and I consider it a public service to render them as text.

Among the people gathered to protest Bush, was Tim, John and Aaron, three members of Iraq Veterans Against the War. I had the chance to speak with Tim, John and Aaron as well as David, Sue and Rachel. Listen to the interviews to hear all of them call for an end to the War in Iraq, and much more.