Hundreds of students rallied at the two entrances to the UC Santa Cruz campus, shutting them down for several hours. The demonstration was in conjunction with statewide actions against a 32% increase in undergraduate student fees.
350.org reports that on October 24, people in 181 countries came together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history.
A dance party thumped on the night of September 30 at the occupied Graduate Student Commons and Bay Tree Plaza at UC Santa Cruz.
"The situation at the university has become untenable."
On September 24, students, faculty, staff and alumni at UC schools participated in a day of coordinated walkouts and rallies in defense of public education.
People Power! is leading the call to create a bicycle boulevard on King Street.
Local residents demonstrated in front of the Chevron in Santa Cruz to oppose a plan to open the Central Coast to new drilling for the first time in 40 years.
The AETA is being used for the first time since its passage by Congress in 2006 to do exactly what civil rights advocates feared it would do – criminalize activities protected by the First Amendment of the U.S.
On July 3, a busy pre-holiday afternoon in downtown Santa Cruz, numerous stores were displaying a declaration printed by local homeless rights advocates.