On Thursday afternoon, May 22, 2003, a group of activists set up a table (a “non-commercial display device� in Cityspeak) and proceeded to hand out flyers and circulated a petition opposing the City Manager’s plan to eliminate seating from the planter space in front of Costa Brava and the Pacific Trading Company. Assistant City Manager Martin Bernal (420-5010) says that unless a City Councilmember objects, the construction will begin June 6th.

On October 4, Malik Rahim, a longtime community activist in New Orleans and San Francisco, spoke at the Women's Building in San Francisco about the situation in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the disastrous response by the Bush administration and other government agencies. Malik, who lives in the Algiers community of New Orleans, discussed the grassroots community relief and rebuilding efforts underway through the Common Ground collective. (39:39 minutes)

Audio: Malik - download the mp3 or download the torrent

As part of a national anti-sweatshop campaign taking place at over 40 colleges and universities in the U.S., students and workers from UC Santa Cruz held a rally and march to demand that UCSC apparel no longer be produced in sweatshops.

The marchers, a few of whom had family members currently working in sweatshops overseas or have had personal experiences themselves, initially educated the many passerbys in busy Baytree Plaza before marching to the Chancellor's office where a list of demands was presented to an administrative representative. The administration's follow-through will be closely watched.

The Bush Regime continues to find new ways to loot HUD
programs, and the fear exists that under the guise of
Katrina relief, new HUD programs and new waivers to
administer existing HUD programs may end up being a
death knell to the nations existing housing programs.

---Fema & HUD Funding To Assist Katrina's Evacuees
Housing Needs With New Program---

Pressure mounting from around the country to release
emergency funding to local Public Housing Authorities
to assist Katrina's evacuees, has finally gotten the
Bush Regime's attention.

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