On May 6, California Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity (C.A.P.S.) screened a documentary about Jeffrey "Free" Luers at the Next Door in Santa Cruz.

Audio from the film. (34:36 minutes / 11.9 MB)

05-04-05 -- Photos by MATT FITT -- On Wednesday evening, war resister Camilo Mejia spoke to a full house at the Santa Cruz Veterans' Hall.

The lie that the United States invaded Iraq to bring freedom and democracy not just to Iraq but, as it turns out, to the whole world, is tremendously useful—because we can first expose it as a lie and then we can join with Iraqis to try to make it true. So it disturbs me that a lot of progressives are afraid to use the language of democracy now that George W. Bush is using it. We are somehow giving up on the most powerful emancipatory ideas ever created, of self-determination, liberation and democracy.

The Necessity of Constitutional Democracy to our Security

It was a slow month compared to November, March, and a frigid January.