An antiwar rally was held at the Oakland docks to mark the fourth anniversary of the Oakland police attack on protesters, longshoremen and journalists.
A protest targeting Sam Farr, Representative for the 17th Congressional District, was held at the Santa Cruz County Building.
Hundreds of people came together in Mexico City to honor the peoples of Oaxaca, Acteal and Atenco during a global day of remembrance and solidarity.
Through an observational approach to social documentation, Baggage calls upon people to reconsider the bags they carry and what it means to “have too much stuff” a phrase sung by Erykah Badu in Bag Lady.
In response to the Zapatista call for global solidarity with the people of Oaxaca, about 40 students and workers rallied and marched at UC Santa Cruz.
Activists played music and held signs calling on McDonald’s to support justice for farmworkers.
The first big protests of the 2006-2007 school year at UC Santa Cruz took place on October 18, 2006, the day the UC Regents came to visit campus.
AFSCME workers and students at UC Santa Cruz held a rally in the Baytree Plaza and then marched to the base of campus.
Al Rojas of Sacramento and Fernando Mendoza from the Peoples Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) spoke to a packed house in Watsonville.