On May 15, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) organized an anti-war informational walk down Pacific Ave in Santa Cruz. WILPF and supporters gathered at the Town Clock and walked down both sides of the Pacific Avenue sidewalks while handing out leaflets about The Cost of War.

Take Back The Night marches are held internationally in all parts of the world.  Thursday, May 19th 2005 join together to raise awareness about violence against women and to reclaim the night as a safe space. 6 PM rally at Baytree Plaza on UCSC Campus.

Women and Walmart – Local and Global: a film and panel discussion sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission

The 12th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival: "Disrupting Borders: Seeing Silences and Imagining Trans-Formations"

Fri-Sun, April 22-24, 2005

This year's film festival will explore the possibilities of seeing silences and imagining trans-formations as a disruption of borders--borders of the family, violence, survival, race and nationality, history and memory, immigration and queerness.

Focus on histories and present formations of the intersection of anarchism and feminism, interview with Kate of the Anarcha.org oral history project. Four segments, one half-hour each