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Speak Out on the Ferguson Uprising at San José State University
Gabe at San José State University On September 18, students at San José State University in California held a speak out and report back on the recent uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri following the...
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Frank Alvarado Sr. Speaks Out Against Salinas Police; Declares “There Will Be...
Angelica Garza, Frank Alvarado’s Sister: “Police Should Not Police Themselves” At an October 1 press conference in front of Salinas City Hall, family members of Frank Alvarado reacted to the Salinas...
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Watsonville Police Sponsor Annual Peace and Unity March
The annual Watsonville Peace and Unity March took place on Saturday, November 1, 2014. This year, for the first time since the initial event in 1994, the Watsonville Police Department was given a...
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Thousands Unite and March in East Oakland to Reclaim King’s Legacy
Power concedes nothing without a demand. -Frederick Douglas A weekend of direct actions, teach-ins, politically charged cultural events and marches throughout the Bay Area culminated with a Jobs and...
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Hundreds March for Freedom at Cages Kill Rally in Santa Cruz
Demonstrators shout in solidarity with prisoners at the Santa Cruz County Jail. At least 6 people have died in the Santa Cruz County Jail since August 2012 while in the hands of the Sheriff’s...
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New Cannabis Prohibitions in Santa Cruz County
On March 24, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 before an overflowing room to ban the cultivation of cannabis in all unincorporated territories of the county, with limited...
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Santa Cruz Supports Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement
Willow Katz of Sin Barras speaks outside the Santa Cruz Post Office about Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement. Over 14,000 people in California prisons, and 80,000 in the United...
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Supervisors Leopold and Friend Propose Cannabis Cultivation Choices Committee
Cannabis in Santa Cruz County At the June 23, 2015, meeting of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, representatives John Leopold and Zach Friend proposed the formation of a “Cannabis Cultivation...
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Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Officers Raid San Lorenzo Valley Cannabis Gardens
A cutdown cannabis plant in San Lorenzo Valley. On the morning of Friday, August 14, dozens of residents of Boulder Creek gathered in a downtown coffeeshop in response to police raids of medical...
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Unpermitted Blue Boxes Appear Overnight on Pacific Avenue
An unpermitted blue box at the corner of Pacific and Soquel Avenues is marked with spray paint. On August 24, 2015, things were just a little bit different as the day began on Pacific Avenue in...
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2016 Cannabis Initiatives in California
In the state of California, there are numerous cannabis related initiatives that are currently active measures hoping to land a spot on the November 8, 2016, ballot. In an effort to help people keep...
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Boycott Driscoll’s Action in Watsonville
[ Gloria Gracida, speaking on behalf of the Alliance of National, State and Municipal Organizations for Social Justice based in San Quintín, Baja California, informs shoppers at Mi Pueblo Market in...
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A View of Salinas Chinatown
[ View of Chinatown, in the background on the other side of the tracks, from the Monterey Street Parking Garage on E. Market Street in Salinas. ] Salinas Chinatown, a six block, twenty-nine acre...
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Hundreds March for Beach Flats Community Garden
[ Photo: Marciano “Chango” Cruz (left) is a founder of the Beach Flats Community Garden. Cruz marches with Beach Flats Gardeners, including Don Emilio Martinez Castañeda (center) who has been...
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Boycott Driscoll’s Action at Whole Foods Market in Santa Cruz
[ A customer enters a Whole Foods Market in Santa Cruz holding a flyer that says, “Don’t Buy Driscoll’s: Respect The Families Who Grow Your Food.” ] On the afternoon of Friday, February 26,...
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Message from San Quintín to the United States: Boycott Driscoll’s
[ Driscoll’s Headquarters. 345 Westridge Drive in Watsonville, California. ] Driscoll’s, with headquarters at 345 Westridge Drive in Watsonville, California, is the world’s largest berry distributor...
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UC Santa Cruz Terminates Historic Stevenson Coffee House
[ Lya Aghaseyedjavadi works the counter at Stevenson Coffee House. January 12, 2016. Photo by Raine Villa. ] At UC Santa Cruz, a shift to UC Dining across campus is being perceived as part of a plan to...
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In Memory of Louis LaFortune, Compassionate Peace Activist
[ Louis LaFortune, a volunteer with Guitars not Guns and many other causes, plays guitar at a peace rally on August 2, 2015 in front of the Collateral Damage statue in Santa Cruz to commemorate the...
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Boycott Driscoll’s West Coast Tour at Driscoll’s HQ in Watsonville
[ Women amplify the call for a global boycott of Driscoll’s berries at Driscoll’s headquarters in Watsonville, California. March 31, 2016. Photos by Bradley Allen. ] March 31 is the birthday of Cesar...
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Boycott Driscoll’s Outreach on Watsonville’s Main Street
[ Emmanuel Ballesteros of the Watsonville Brown Berets, standing on the median of Main Street in Watsonville, California, holds a sign above his head declaring, “Respect the Farmworkers. Boycott...
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