Posted in Education, Environment, Police on Nov 13th, 2007
Students at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) have been occupying spaces high up in redwood trees and on the ground since November 7th on Science Hill, site of a proposed Biomedical Sciences facility. The space below the redwoods is transforming from a parking lot into a temporary autonomous zone. Meetings are events take [...]
Posted in Animal Rights, Audio, Education, Environment, Police on Nov 7th, 2007
UCSC Students Launch Tree-Sit at Site of Controversial Biomedical Sciences Building
Early in the morning of Wednesday, November 7th, activists opposed to UC Santa Cruz’s Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) launched a tree-sit in redwoods near Science Hill. UCSC plans to develop the occupied site into a new Biomedical Sciences Facility.
One person was arrested by [...]
Posted in Education, Environment, Globalization, Police on Oct 18th, 2006
The first big protests of the 2006-2007 school year at UC Santa Cruz took place on October 18th, 2006, the day the UC Regents came to visit campus. It had been five years since all 26 UC Regents came to UCSC. During the second demonstration of the day by hundreds of students outside the [...]
Posted in Police on Jul 5th, 2006
On July 5th, Santa Cruz activists protested against the city’s failure to resolve the Santa Cruz Police Department spying scandal. Instead of taking steps to protect civil rights, the Santa Cruz City Council and SCPD have worked together to approve policies filled with blatant first amendment violations. The SCPD have not only been cleared of [...]
Auxiliary Police on Hunger Strike in Mexico City
ARTICULO por Adriana
FOTOS por Braulio
TRADUCCION por Adriana y Braulio
28 Julio, 2005 - Bernardo, Guillermo y Miguel, son tres de cinco Expolicías Auxiliares del D.F. (México). Desde hace 23 días ellos viven en un campamento hecho de lonas y camas de unicel, en la plancha del Zócalo capitalino frente [...]
Posted in Globalization, Police, Video on Jun 25th, 2005
On the evening of June 25, several hundred people took to the streets of downtown Palo Alto to march against war, empire and capitalism.
I really wonder how much money the police state spent before and during this march in downtown Palo Alto… Palo Alto police were joined by police from many other agencies, including [...]
