Malik Rahim, a longtime community activist in New Orleans and SF, spoke in SF about the situation in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
A rally was held at UCSC to raise awareness about the sweatshop-made uniforms purchased for dinning hall workers and the sweatshop-made UCSC apparel.
On October 3, 2005, a community support rally for Head Start workers was held in front of the Santa Cruz County Community Counseling Center (SCCCC). The rally was followed by a board of trustees meeting where the workers asked the board to approve a fair contract.
We marched a few blocks to the KFC on Mission St. to call attention to KFC's cruelty to animals.
The event was a way for Shreveport, Bogalousa and New Orleans, Louisiana to say "Thank You" to Santa Cruz community members.
A community yard sale benefiting survivors of Hurricane Katrina took place at the United Methodist Church in Santa Cruz.
On Tuesday September 27, 2005, I went to the Santa Cruz Metro Center because I heard that the bus drivers were on strike.
About 100 people who are "sickened by the killing, torture, and costs of the illegal and immoral war in Iraq" held an anti-war demonstration in Santa Cruz.
We headed to Reliant Arena to find out more information about Katrina survivors being transferred from the Arena to Fort Chaffee, a military base in Arkansas.