[scimc-news] Santa Cruz Indymedia Update For September 10th 2009

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Santa Cruz Indymedia Update For Thursday September 10th 2009
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* Upcoming Events
* Sentencing for Jesse James Forrey on September 17th
* Watsonville's White Hawks
* A Little Bit of So Much Truth at the Beach Flats Community Garden
* Bilingual Radio Programming Comes Under Fire
* First Annual Dyke March in Watsonville
* Santa Cruz Memorial Bike Ride on August 16th
* Interview with Kevin Kumashiro of Center for Anti-Oppressive Education
* John Brown Childs on Education, Race, Inspiration, and Cooperation

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UPCOMING EVENTS

September 11th  8:00 PM: Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad - Guerilla Drive In
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/18/18616453.php

September 15th  7:00 PM: Food for Thought - Sept WILPF program
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/30/18620233.php

September 22nd  6:00 PM: Mabon Mystery Bike Ride
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/01/18620409.php

September 25th  6:00 PM: Stop the Repression! Fundraiser for Alex Sanchez: "Hijos de la Guerra" and Hip Hop Show
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/26/18619691.php

September 25th  8:00 PM: NETWORK - Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive In
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/28/18620038.php

September 26th 12:00 PM: WAMMfest VI - Love Grows Here - Santa Cruz
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/21/18611871.php

More Events On Santa Cruz Indymedia's Calendar:
http://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=60

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Sentencing for Jesse James Forrey on September 17th

Jesse James Forrey, 27, was arrested at the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, MN. After little and conflicting evidence from the prosecutor, a Minnesota jury convicted him on August 7th, 2009 of a felony charge of damage to property in the first degree. Jesse maintains his innocence and continues to fight the verdict. Jesse's sentencing is on September 17th. He faces a possibility of 1 year, and up to 5 years, in jail.

Read more
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/08/18621336.php

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Watsonville's White Hawks

Manuel Tzunum Aparicio published a photo essay of Watsoville's White Hawk Dancers.

View the photos
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/05/18620953.php

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A Little Bit of So Much Truth at the Beach Flats Community Garden

On Friday, September 11th, at 8pm in the Beach Flats Community Garden, the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive In presents A Little Bit of So Much Truth, the story of Oaxacan people taking control of the local media in the summer of 2006, in order to tell their own stories of struggle and action in the face of repression. 

Read more
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/05/18620929.php

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Bilingual Radio Programming Comes Under Fire

Informativo Pacifica, a half hour national and international newscast produced in Spanish by volunteers at Pacifica's KPFK radio station in Los Angeles, has been cut and rescheduled without warning. Instead of broadcasting Monday through Friday at 5:30am, the show was rescheduled to 9:00pm and only four days a week, Monday through Thursday. 

Read more and listen to audio
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/31/18620316.php

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First Annual Dyke March in Watsonville

Latinas and Lesbians and Allies (LyLyA) hosted the First Annual Dyke March in Watsonville on Saturday, August 22nd. Designed to give visibility to a community that many times is shrouded by homophobia, organizers said it would be a historic event. The event bagan with a rally at Watsonville Plaza.

Read more
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/18/18616525.php

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Santa Cruz Memorial Bike Ride on August 16th

August 7th, 2009 marks the two year anniversary of the death of John Myslin, a high school teacher who was run over by a truck at the intersection of Bay and Mission in Santa Cruz. Several months after his death, on April 8th, 2008, another experienced cyclist, Chris Rock, was run over and killed by a truck at the same intersection. A memorial bike ride took place on August 16th.

Read more and view photos
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/06/18614284.php

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Interview with Kevin Kumashiro of Center for Anti-Oppressive Education

On August 3rd, Kevin Kumashiro spoke with Teachers for Class War on Free Radio Santa Cruz about reframing education debates, politics of education and realities of classrooms from grade 2 through teacher training programs, looking at intersections of race and sexuality for youth, as well as Asian American experiences.

Read more and listen to the interview
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/05/18614268.php

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John Brown Childs on Education, Race, Inspiration, and Cooperation

John Brown Childs, a UCSC professor emeritus, author, scholar and educator, joined the Teachers for Class War radio show on Free Radio Santa Cruz for an hour of discussion on July 13th. Topics range from Katrina to Obama, UCSC politics to his namesake John Brown, and the civil rights movement of the sixties to contemporary issues facing Santa Cruz.

Read more and listen to the interview
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/18/18608700.php

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