On Wednesday, May 14, John "Splitting the Sky" Hill and Craig Rosebraugh will be speaking at UCSC's Charles E. Merill Lounge from 5:30 - 7:30 on Native Sovereignty, reevaluating the anti-war movement, and prospects for revolution in America.

Splitting the Sky - Speaking on Native Sovereignty
From a backround of orphanages and boarding schools, Splitting the Sky emerged as a principled leader of the Attica prison rebellion at the age of ninteen, and later became a major figure with the American Indian Movement. He was founder of the League of Indigenous Sovereign Nations of the Western Hemisphere, has been involved in numerous armed standoffs with the Canadian and US authorities, and after decades of poverty, imprisonment, and repression, he continues to agitate for Native sovereignty and prisoners rights.

Craig Rosebraugh - "Reevaluating the Anti-War Movement"
Former spokesperson of the underground Earth Liberation Front. Long time proponent for direct action tactics to defend the earth, animals, and people.

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Come All Bikers and Petroleum-Free Riders!
Critical Mass in the Streets of Santa Cruz.
Meet at the Clocktower at 5PM on Friday, April 25!




It has been far too long since we in Santa Cruz have shown those with whom we share this place, that a culture that continues to hold Capitol as God, that exploits fossil fuels in spite of the clear connection with ecological collapse, is a culture of pathology. We oppose this not with speeches from ivory towers in the theoretical sky, but with Direct Actions of Non-Compliance.

LET'S TAKE THE STREETS ON THE 25TH OF APRIL!

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April 15th, tax day. Hundreds of Santa Cruz residents filed into the post office to send off their tax forms, and Art and Revolution, along with other students and community member, were there to meet them.

Dressed as skeletons, continental soldiers, women covered in lace and blood, Bechtel and Halliburton and Uncle Sam, clad fully in American stripes with a huge $ sign on his back and oil containers chained to his feet and hands, they certainly upped the ante on paying their national dues.

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More than a thousand farm workers and supporters marched down the streets of east Salinas Sunday with United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez to celebrate the life of Cesar Chavez and to highlight the need to improve working conditions for farm workers
The march brought together more than a thousand people calling for better wages for farm workers and drivers licenses for immigrants, while highlighting the value of nonviolence in light of the war on Iraq.

Chavez's first major foray into the Salinas Valley began in 1970, when he led a strike by 10,000 Central Coast lettuce and vegetable workers protesting "sweetheart" pacts between growers and the Teamsters Union.

[ Article and Photos I Cesar Chavez Stamp Dedication on May 2 ]

Sunday, March 23, is the 4th day of action in response to War on Iraq. The Iraq Action Network will host a NonViolence Training for Direct Action at 5:00pm at the Resource Center for Nonviolence (515 Broadway at Ocean). There will be an Iraq Action Network (IAN) Spokes Council meeting at 7:00pm, also at the RCNV.

[ Article by Iraq Action Network I Iraq Action Network - Calendar ]

On a holiday stroll this Columbus Day morning, as I was ruminating in disgust about the national glorification of a cold-blooded killer, I was surprised and then pleased as I came upon a defaced Santa Cruz Mission. The Mission, a foremost landmark of genocide in the county. Beneath the austere whiteness of the plaster, its walls are sullied with the blood of the native people who once lived here - enslaved, diseased, and exterminated by the thousands in the name of the white man's God.
I walked around the building to get a better look. The plaster walls had been spraypainted and windows were smashed in. Here are a couple pictures.

Regular Wednesday Protest in Felton

Deficiencies of Our Current Federal System, continued

The Free Skool Winter Quarter teacher registration deadline is coming up October 15th. If you wish to teach a class, we'll need some concrete information from you before then. Winter Quarter runs Nov 1 to Jan 31.

Santa Cruz Animal Services will begin a door to door search for unlicensed companion animals in an effort to obtain lost funding.