On April 11, Will Parrish, an organizer with Tent University Santa Cruz (TUSC), joined me in the Free Radio Santa Cruz, 101.fm studio for a live-on-air interview. TUSC will take place April 18-22 at the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus. (27:33)

On April 1, Mike Farrell shared some of his feelings about the closing of the Salinas Libraries during the 24-Hour Read-In which took place at the Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas. Mike also read some of his favorite quotes and passages from books. We hear words from great authors and activists such as Cesar Chavez and John Steinbeck as well as Maya Angelou on the life and death of Ossie Davis. Mike also read important words about racism and dissent written by Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice. (12:43 minutes / 5.8 MB)

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From April 18th-22nd, hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and community members will gather and camp at the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus and construct a tent encampment, thus uniting UC Santa Cruz with its greater municipal
district and empowering both communities toward re-aligning the university’s practices more wholly with the values of education, democracy and transcommunality.

On April 1, I spoke with Peter Kwiek of the Salinas Action League. Peter has been a core activist in the struggle to Save the Libraries in Salinas. (9 minutes / 4 MB)

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"We'll call it From Salinas to Sacramento, the reading continues."

Stay tuned for the next chapter, when library-lovers from Salinas and beyond take our weapon of choice, books, to Sacramento to read to the governor. If you can join us, meet on Tuesday, April 12 at noon on the Capitol steps, books in hand.

For more info, call 415-575-5555 or email politics (at) redshift.com.