[scimc-news] This month in Santa Cruz... Distribute Widely

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Dear Santa Cruz Indymedia community,

This awesome compilation of Santa Cruz events and links is courtesy of
danielsan.

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Greetings / Saludos~

Don't want to repeat work others are doing--just to amplify it--so here
goes a partial list of what's going on right now in Santa Cruz,
California.

If you wanna see what's up further north in the Bay. check out
http://indybay.org/calendar/ It's a PACKED month of activies, for anyone
looking for opportunites to learn or to each, to listen or to speak your
mind, for ways to get involved in your community, I just gotta list all
the great events going on in the next couple weeks. Please try to attend
some of these gatherings!!

Most of the info is at these sights:

http://www.santacruz.indymedia.org
http://www.reelwork.org
http://ucsc.tentstate.com
http://www.radicalendar.org/calendar/index.php?view=month&group=SC-IMC

Monday, April 18

Tent State established at UCSC: March from Baytree
Plaza at 12 to begin class at ucsc.tentstate.com
Monday evening campers will maintain the campus
through the night. Classes and activities continue all
week.
Tent State calendar posted at ucsc.tentstate.com

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Tuesday April 19

Watsonville Counter Recruitment Rally
9:30 am-12:15 Watsonville Vets Hall
Brown Berets organizing two day event to educate youth
about alternatives to Military Enlistement

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Wenesday April 20
Counter Recuitement Rally day 2--same as above
new brown beret chapter forming in Santa Cruz: email
brownberets at msn.com

Denim Day is an international symbol day of protest
against harmful attitudes about rape in response to an
Italian Supreme Court decision, which overturned a
rape conviction because the victim wore jeans. The
Italian Court justices reasoned that the victim must
have helped her attacker remove her jeans, because
they believed that without the victims help removing
the jeans would be impossible.  To the Justices this
implied consent. April is sexual assault awareness
month.
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Student WALKOUT for education 12 noon
Student walkout and march from UCSC and any other
campus to

2pm Rally at the County Buildings
Water and Ocean St., Santa Cruz

Join students, parents, and teachers from public
schools and educational organizations in solidarity
against the budget cuts. Students will be walking out
of school, beginning at 12pm

-Actions will also be taking place in the Bay Area,
Los Angeles, and San Diego-.
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TENT STATE ACTIVITIES CONTINUE
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Youth Speaks Brave New Voices event
April 20-23 San Francisco
www.youthspeaks.org
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7:30 PM Public Hearing on Poverty in Santa Cruz
County, for Community Action Board
@ Louden Nelson
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9 pm-11 "Self Defense 101" on Free Radio Santa Cruz
will feature organizers and participants from the
ReelWork filmfestival, speaking about labor history,
May Day, the IWW, and some of the films being shown
during the week  April 24 to May 1.

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Thursday April 21

12-1 Solidarity Rally with workers of Sunshine Villa,
a retirement home that has been actively undermining
workers and unions organizing for better labor
conditions for caretakers and nursing staff. Rally
12-1 at the foot of the Santa Cruz Wharf.
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"Strange Fruit" with talk by Angela Davis
7 PM Del Mar Theatre
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Issac Saney will also be showing his new film, African
Stalingrad, about
Cuba's role in Angola and it's contribution to the
freedom of Southern Africa. The
presentation and film will be at the Live Oak Grange
(1900 17th Avenue) at 7pm
Thursday, April 21.

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Friday April 22

"Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place"
a film followed by discussion with filmmaker
Saul Landau
Friday April 22, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Friends Meeting House
225 Rooney Street (at Morrissey Blvd.)

-------Tent State Activities continue

Free Skool Santa Cruz classes continue, including a
6-9 Open Source Software/Computer skillshare at
Barrios Unidos on Soquel (every friday 6-9)

Youth Poetry Slam Festival Continues:
8 PM Concert in SF: deadprez @ the Grand Regency
Theatre
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Saturday April 23rd Free Radio Santa Cruz 10th
Anniversary Party 429-8064 Info
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Sunday April 24th
is Mumia Abu Jamal's 51st Birthday.

The ReelWork Film festival kicks off with the Yes Men
12-2 at the Nick
check out the whole week's schedule at
http://reelwork.org/schedule2005.htm

It's also a full moon
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ONE MORE WEEK BELOW-> THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON I WANT
TO SPREAD THE WORD


Monday the 25th

7:30 PM
EarthVisionFilmFest	Benefit event
"Monumental" is the story of David Brower,a true
American legend who inspired the environmental
movement and transformed the Sierra club into a
national political force. This event benefits the
upcoming EarthVision environmental film festival.
At the Attic	931 Pacific Ave
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Tuesday the 26th
12 noon "Emancipation Betrayed" Book talk/signing at
Cafe Revolucion at UCSC, College 10
On Election Day,1920,thousands of Black
Floridians braved Ku Klux Klan violence,
and attempted to vote.This talk will focus on the
contested and incomplete nature of
emancipation in the United States.
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Wednesday the 27th is a day of action in DC on Cuba
Policy. Stay tuned to Free Radio Santa Cruz for more
information.
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Thursday the 28th
 Paul Buhle who will be in town to do a reading and
book signing for his new book,
Wobblies, A Graphic History
downtown at Sin Fronteras book store,
from 5 to 6:30 PM

he's also doing a reading and talk at College 8 Red
Room, the same day at noon to 1:30 on the 28th.
Legendary labor folklorist Archie Green will be a
respondent along with an activist from AFSCME. At 1:30
we will watch film maker Anne Fischel's new film on
the Centralia Massacre.

Thursday evening you may take a casual stroll from
Paul's Sin Fronteras event over to the Del Mar to see
Naomi Klein's "The Take" at 7:00. Featured speakers
include Cecilia Sainz and Ernesto
"Lalo" Paret, activists in the Movement of Recovered
Factories in Argentina.

You may find an updated schedule for the 4th annual
May Day Labor Film Festival,  "Reel Work" at:
www.reelwork.org
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Friday April 29th is a Critical Mass Radio Network
coordinated broadcast, with Free Radio Santa Cruz
101.1 FM participating once again.

It is also a Critical Mass Bike Ride, meeting at the
SC Clock at the usual time?

Open Source Software workshop at Barrios, 6-9
santacruz.freeskool.org

Reel Work films at  Cabrillo College Watsonville
Center including "Since Salazar"

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Saturday April 30

Free Self Defense skillshare in San Lorenzo Park,
12-2, brought to you by the free skool

MST Film Screening TBA

Sunday MAY 1st
IS INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY
workers day parade starts 1 PM
from SC Town Clock
Check reelwork.org for full schedule.

ALSO Cinco de Mayo festival in Davenport
Live music, great food, beautiul views. celebrate
Cinco de Mayo with small town authentic feel instead
of corporate party atmosphere. Call 425-8115 for more
information. Organized by the Davenport Resource
Service Center.

Overwhelmed yet? Sorry for any duplicate posts. Thanks
for reading.
Thanks (more) for coming to these events.

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http://www.freakradio.org

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