(12 Feb, 2005) A number of people protested in front of the KFC on Mission Street on Saturday afternoon in order to raise public awareness of the exceptionally cruel conditions that chickens routinely endure.

On February 9, the Santa Cruz-based organization Education Rising will convene a discussion panel at UC Santa Cruz: "Myths and Realities of the California Education Crisis: A Panel on Public Education." The panel will feature experts on various aspects of the California public education system, including teachers, activists, students, and policymakers. Come learn about the injustices that characterize California's political situation, as well as how you can be a part of a movement to claim a more just, democratic, and empowering future for our state.

There is an institution near you complicit in mountain range removal coal mining. A coal company, an electric utility, a government office, a bank, a lobbying firm.

This is a call for a simultaneous day of action against mountain range removal across Appalachia, the US and the world. Be as loud as you can in protest of watershed destruction!

Critical Mass is not an organization, it's an unorganized coincidence. It's a movement... of bicycles, in the streets.

The Critical Massers in Santa Cruz meet up at about 5:30 at the Town Clock the last Friday of every month.

In January, bikepower put out the following call for revolutions in the streets, "Come on the Critical Mass monthly bike ride! reclaim your street and your city from the automorphs, its time for a party ride!"

Just when you thought global warming was really bad, it looks even worse. A global summit of world scientists is meeting in Exeter, England this week and they are alarmed at the picture they see emerging of seeminly irreversible global warming.