In a Reclaim The Streets action, The Saturn Cafe (celebrating an anniversary), Downtown For All, Art & Revolution, Coalition for a Community Commons, Food Not Bombs, the Santa Cruz Peace Coalition, and HUFF marched from the clocktower to police headquarters and from there to a Progressive Coalition City Council candidate forum at Louden Nelson.

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Photos from Santa Cruz Contingent of Million Marijuana March!

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Guerrilla theater troop Santa Cruz Art & Revolution performed 3 runs of a 10 minute skit on US involvement in Somalia and Afghanistan tonight across from the Cinema 9 theater on Pacific Ave, around 6pm. Free popcorn was made available to the audience. Visiting Aussie street performer and uranium mining activist Diva Dingo also warmed the crowd up with her flamboyant costume and attitude while giving an expert bullwhip demonstration, before introducing each run of the skit. Meanwhile, informational flyers were passed out to the crowd across the street in front of the Cinema 9, presenting an alternate perspective on the story behind the movie "Black Hawk Down".

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Several non-Muslims in Santa Cruz County are fasting in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan and other Muslims during Ramadan. Fasters include members of the Santa Cruz Friends Meeting (Quakers), United Methodists, Vietnam veterans, Santa Cruz Peace Coalition members, and other peace activists.

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Rebecca Hall, an attorney and PhD candidate at UCSC posted anti-war material in the Santa Cruz community. Shortly thereafter, the Santa Cruz Police Department impounded her car in the early morning hours of November 13, 2001.

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Hoping someone out there might be interested in my new Web site on power, politics, and social change. It includes documents on national and local power structures as well as an updated photo essay on the Bohemian Grove and suggestions on new directions for progressive social change.

www.whorulesamerica.net

G.William Domhoff
University of California, Santa Cruz

report from the occupied west bank of new orleans
18 sept 2005
algiers
occupied west bank
louisiana
usa

Update: 11:00am CST; Thursday September 22.

COMMON GROUND IS PREPARING FOR EMERGENCY RELIEF OPERATIONS.

An evening of righteous reggae to benefit two local organizations working to make our world better.

Deficiencies of Our Current Federal System, continued