Santa Cruz Last Night DIY Parade and Street Party
Hundreds marched in Santa Cruz on December 31st as part of the Last Night DIY Celebration while hundreds of spectators lined the sidewalks and cheered.
Hundreds marched in Santa Cruz on December 31st as part of the Last Night DIY Celebration while hundreds of spectators lined the sidewalks and cheered.
During my brief time on Science Hill, numerous people brought food to the tree-sitters, including Michael Urban, a professor of politics at UCSC.
Anti-corporate Xmas carols were performed in front of a busy credit union, the Capitola Mall, and “Traitor Joze.”
The parking lot and trees are slated to be replaced by a highly-controversial Biomedical Sciences building, the first project under the University’s plan to develop 120 acres of forest in order to accommodate 4,500 new students by 2020.
The Navy and other branches of the military wanted to avoid dealing with the Raging Grannies, so they, closed on December 15, 2007.
UC employees represented by AFSCME held statewide pickets at all five UC medical centers and 10 campuses.
Students at UCSC have been occupying redwood trees since November 7th on Science Hill, site of a proposed Biomedical Sciences facility.
Early in the morning of November 7th, activists opposed to UC Santa Cruz’s Long Range Development Plan launched a tree-sit in redwoods near Science Hill.
Angela Davis spoke about many topics, including growing up in Birmingham, Alabama during Jim Crow segregation.