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Rideshare to La

2008-06-29T00:50:16Z

a friend of mine is driving to La on Sunday and is looking for a someone to share gas
if you are interested or know someone who might be contact Nick for more information
http://people.tribe.net/inspeyere

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No Bubbles?

2008-06-23T05:57:30Z

So I know that there is no Hacki Sack Playing and Chalk Writing on Pacific. But I also hear that there is now bubble blowing? Wtf? I do say WTF? or in Australian WTF Mate?

I live in the land of Neanderthols but I could go downtown footbaging and blowing bubbles in front of the cops and they would just say Whats Up Mate?

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Santa Cruz is on Fire

2008-06-23T05:52:04Z

Updated 12:50 p.m.

Firefighters say the 2,400-acre wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, along Summit Road, could grow to 10,000 acres. Strong winds and dense vegetation are complicating efforts to slow the fire's spread.

Hundreds have been evacuated from Summit Road (north of Mount Madonna County Park), Eureka Canyon and nearby areas. At least 20 structures have been burned. No injuries have been reported.

"Our main priority is evacuations, getting people out safely," said Chris Morgan, a fire prevention specialist. "Then we can start working the perimeter of the fire."

The fire, which has been burning since about 5:30 a.m., is raging in an area between Uvas County Park and Mount Madonna County Park, mostly on the Santa Cruz County side of Summit Road.

Controlling the Summit Fire is anticipated to take days and the size of the blaze is expected to grow to more than 5,000 acres by the end of today, according to Cal Fire.

Cal Fire says 600 firefighters are battling the blaze with an estimated 2,000 expected to be on the fire line soon.

The fire has burned past Eureka Canyon in the Corralitos area, according to Cal Fire. Fire officials are not saying what caused the fire, though they think they know what the cause is. It started off Summit Road just off Loma Chiquita at 5:30 a.m. Just before 1 p.m. fire officials ordered a mandatory evacuation of the Buzzard Lagoon area near Corralitos. There are no reported injuries.

Story continued at link: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9345706

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visiting Santa Cruz 6/28 - who wants to camp at red white and Blue with me?

2008-06-23T00:47:11Z

I grew up in SJ and spent all my teen years in Santa Cruz. now Im coming back for the weekend and really want to just pitch a tent at red white and blue and chill with some cool people.

Anyone want to join? Its really just an overnight camping trip.

hit me up.

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War, INC. tonight and this weekend at the Del Mar!!!!

2008-06-13T23:57:04Z

John Cusack's latest project War, INC. is showing tonight and this weekend at the Del Mar!
Written by Mark Leyner, John Cusack and Jeremy Pikser, War, INC. is a satire about what's happening in Iraq.
This is an indie movie that has been growing and getting more and more theaters because of US, the people, since John Cusack started this by getting people to go and know about it through his Myspace page
http://myspace.com/johncusack

When I first learned about it, thanks to another Tribe member, I contacted the Del Mar right away, hoping they would accept to show it!!!!!
AND IT WORKED!!!!

Get your friends and network to go see it this weekend in Santa Cruz and let everybody know it's playing in the Bay area as well!!!!!!
http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=67460
Lots of cities do not have it yetttt!
It's up to us to get our theaters to do it!!!!
We can do it!
Meanwhile, I'm going on Sunday it seems like!!!!
See ya there I hope!!!!
S.

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Another fire in the hills

2008-06-12T19:23:58Z

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9554156

Fire burning up Bonny Dune.

Positive thoughts to all affected...

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Judge Maldonado: "The Relevance of Nuremberg to Bush Policies"

2008-06-09T18:09:21Z

“The Relevance of Nuremberg to Bush Policies”

Presented by

The Honorable Albert H. Maldonado

Judge

Superior Court of California, Monterey County

In this talk, you will learn about the Bush Administration’s Interrogation Procedures on the battlefield and in prisons—a conflict with the Geneva Conventions, United Nations Charter, and Nuremberg Trials—an intercession by the United States Supreme Court. Judge Maldonado believes that judgment at Nuremberg in 1947 is highly relevant to American policy on torture, Geneva Convention, and International Law.

3pm – 5pm
Sunday, June 15th
490 Aguajito Road in Carmel

East side of Hwy 1 @ the PG/PB/Hwy 68 exit

Unitarian Universalist Church (www.uucmp.org)

There will be a question & answer period. Snacks provided. This is a no-cost event.
Please remain after the program to share your interests on peace matters.
Join others who share your desire to create a more peaceful world.

Sponsored by the Peace Coalition of Monterey County

www.peacemonterey.org

Community Meetings are held on 3rd Sundays, every other month. All are welcome.

For more information, contact Karen Araujo at LetsBePeace@cs.com

PEACE COALITION OF MONTEREY COUNTY:

MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

African-Americans Against US Intervention
Barrios Unidos of Salinas
Carmel Valley Women's Network
Code Pink – Monterey/Seaside
Continuing the Peace Dialogue
Democracy Unlimited
Green Party, Monterey County
Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area
Libertarians for Peace
Monterey Bay Central Labor Council
Monterey County Citizens for Middle East Peace
Monterey County Democrats
Monterey Cuba Friendship Coalition
Monterey Peace & Justice Center
National Lawyers Guild, Monterey County Chapter
Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Monterey Peninsula Friends Meeting
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Monterey County
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Monterey Bay
Salinas Action League
Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula, Social Justice Committee
United Nations Ass./USA of Monterey County
Veterans for Peace, “John Steinbeck IV Chapter” of Monterey County
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - Monterey County Branch

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lookin for a home in santa cruz

2008-06-09T03:36:27Z

for just me. a small space where i could heal and do my teaching work. in or around santa cruz. please let me know of any ideas! thanks!

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Re: election tomorrow -IMPORTANT

2008-06-03T16:34:54Z

Message From Attorney Kate Wells:

To those concerned:

I urge you all to vote for Steven Wright for Superior Court Judge in tomorrow's election. His opponent, Ari Symons, a life-long Republican who suddenly changed her registration to Democrat at the beginning of her campaign, has been declared unqualified to be a judge by the relevant state judicial commission (she appealed the designation and was again found to be unqualified.) She is also a prosecutor in the D.A.'s office and we already have way too many ex-prosecutors on the bench. Wright was the preferred candidate by 75 % of his fellow attorneys; he was found qualified by the state commission; he is a defense attorney and he is a fair-minded, competent and compassionate person. I have personally known Steve for 25 + years and have the highest regard for him. Please pass this on to all of your local email correspondents. Recently, the so-called "Progressive Coalition of Santa Cruz County" has passed out doorhangers endorsing Symons making it appear that she is the progressive candidate - NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH !

Thanks for passing this message on.
Kate Wells

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New home huntin in the Cruz....

2008-05-29T05:51:27Z

Thas right.... the Cruz has been callin me for some time now and I'm putting energy into what I'm wanting to create for me new home!! Looking for likeminded, concious artist/burner community.... intentional, LaUgHtEr & LoVe-filled home, provided privacy and space when needed. =) Looking to co-create, inspire and be inspired... would prefer to be close to downtown to keep biking and walking friendly.

Me: social cuddle-bug with a wide wingspan, rippling smile, melting hugs, into connecting with my community to create our highest abundace, thru love, dance, music, art, expression and tRuTh. I'm a dancer, lover, capoeirista, drummer, yogini, climber.... ya know, just one of them freaky people makin the beauty of the world....

Currently here in Sebastopol/SantaRosa and am looking to move into my new home by the first week of August!! Ooooh soo essited.

The word's OUT. Callin it IN.

Feel free to message me if you know of anything or have any feedback. =)

Thanks and purrrpetual blessings,
::SistaSoLShine::

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Teen Odyssey Camp

2008-05-29T05:31:37Z

Dance Odyssey Studio is launching our first teen dance intensive. The program includes dance instruction, fitness instruction, choreography, visual arts and production planning. Ages 12-16. Full and partial scholarships are available. More info at www.dance-odyssey.com.

~Vashti

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The Fire and Global Warming

2008-05-25T00:35:31Z

Take the Profit Out of Global Warming and War, Nationalize the Oil Industry

Global Warming, the Biggest Threat to Humanity and Other Living Things

By STEVEN ARGUE

In Myanmar the death toll from a cyclone is, according to the Red Cross, between 69,000 and 128,000 people, with many more deaths possible from disease and starvation. Adding to the ferocity of the storm’s impact has been the fact that much of the mangrove habitat that had protected the Myanmar coast has been cleared. In addition, with strong parallels to Bush’s refusal to accept thousands of well trained and well equipped aid workers who would have saved lives in New Orleans, the repressive capitalist government of Myanmar has hindered the ability of international aid workers to do what needs to be done to save lives in Myanmar.

Last year, China had their worst cyclone in over 50 years. Around the world, warmer oceans are increasing the frequency and severity of hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons. This is happening because the world’s warmer oceans feed more moisture into these tropical storms. As a result, computer models of global warming also project hurricanes in places that haven’t had them in known human history. One of these projections was that hurricanes would form in the South Atlantic. Fitting predictions, the first ever known South Atlantic hurricane made landfall on southern Brazil in 2004.

Last year Tokyo had a warm winter, with no snow cover for the first time in recorded history.

California is having the driest spring in 150 years, with regular water shortages in the long-term projections as a result of global warming. Already, on May 22, a wildfire started in the Santa Cruz Mountains, burning thousands of acres and destroying homes. That fire has yet to be contained. With wildfires starting this early, there is reason to fear this upcoming fire season in California.

The Santa Cruz area has a Mediterranean climate. These climates are characterized by winter rainy seasons and dry summers. Places with Mediterranean climates around the world are facing dryer weather with more wildfires. This is also happening in Greece and Australia. Forests and chaparral are burning up as habitats are changing and adjacent deserts are expanding.

The ice sheets in the arctic are disappearing at an ever increasing rate, and some of the latest predictions now project the potential of northern summer ice sheets completely disappearing within six years, bringing on the extinction of the polar bear and other species. As the white ice and snow disappears, dark ocean absorbs more of the sun’s heat, and escalates the rate of global warming even further.

In 2005 the Amazon River basin faced a drought never seen in recorded history. For the first time in recorded history a stretch of the Amazon River went completely dry in 2005, with causes attributed to a combination of less rainfall, smaller glaciers in the Andes (as a result of melting), and deforestation. Computer models predict that the rains that are necessary for the continued flow of the Amazon River will dry up due to the warmth of the Atlantic Ocean, causing moisture to fall directly as rain into the Atlantic rather than being blown inland. In addition to these projections saying that the Amazon River will dry up as a result of global warming, they also say that the Amazon rainforest will begin a regression first to grassland ending with the massive desertification of the Amazon Basin within the next one-hundred years. This, and other processes of desertification around the world, will, like rising oceans, cause starvation, massive refugee crisis’s, and also cause mass extinction of plant and animal species. Presently, the trees of the Amazon Forest remove greenhouse carbon from the atmosphere, but as climate changes and the forest disappears, this process will reverse itself, and the region will be adding carbon to the atmosphere.

Today, every national academy of science of the industrialized world recognizes human caused global warming as a fact. These include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences who explicitly use the word "consensus" on the issue.

Yet there are a few voices who claim that human caused global warming is a myth. Among these is the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a foundation funded by ExxonMobile. Under pressure, ExxonMobile declared they would no longer fund such groups. Yet, a study of ExxonMobiles tax returns showed they were lying and that they were still funding 14 other similar groups. Among these is the organization “Frontiers for Freedom” who recently issued a report that was dedicated to attacking Al Gore and global warming science.

The problem of global warming is one that will, and is, devastating the planet’s environment, causing mass extinction of species while also destroying agricultural and habitable land through rising oceans, more severe hurricanes, droughts, more unpredictable weather, increases in tropical diseases, the slowing of ocean currents causing year round freezing weather with a potential ice age in the northern hemisphere combined with higher temperatures closer to the equator, and the potential of runaway global warming with the melting of the ocean’s methane hydride that could actually cause the extinction of the human species as well as most other species on the planet.

The United States is still the biggest contributor to global warming in the world. Per capita, China has much lower carbon emissions than the United States. Likewise, historically their output is also much less than the United States. No country outdoes the extreme per-capita output of US consumerism, nor do they outdo the historic US output, output which stays in the atmosphere for a long time and continues to contribute to global warming today.

China needs to deal with their pollution too, but their carbon footprint per person is much, much lower than the United States. In addition, the growing output in China is, to a large extent, being done by US corporations who have moved to China, so once again, US capitalists are largely to blame, even for Chinese carbon output. Yet, the Chinese Communist Party’s abandonment of socialism, and lack of true workers democracy under one party Stalinist rule, is also part of the problem.

Despite the severity of this problem and the key role the United States has played in creating it, the U.S. government and corporate leaders do worse than nothing, and have blocked and sabotaged all potential solutions for the past fifty years up until the present.

The United States needs an emergency program to dramatically lower carbon emissions. Without it we are doomed. Yet both ruling capitalist parties in the United States have been in the back pockets of big oil and coal, and have refused to do anything. A first step to save the planet and end imperialist wars, once the people gain power, will be the nationalization of the energy industries.

The first scientist to discuss global warming was Swedish Chemist Svante Arrhenius, a chemist who made many discoveries essential to modern chemistry, who in 1896 warned that a doubling of the world's atmospheric carbon dioxide would increase the world's temperatures by five to six degrees Celsius. With catastrophic implications, this is very close to current predictions. By 1957, scientists Roger Revelle and Hans Suess at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in California put out the first warnings about human caused global warming that were taken seriously by the scientific community. Yet, despite this information being readily available for fifty years, the U.S. government and U.S. corporations failed to act in a favorable way at that time, and presently they continue to be an obstacle to action on global warming.

The current lack of action is due to the massive profits that continue to be made by the big oil corporations, and the political strength they have in being able to buy the politicians in Washington. Nothing short of nationalizing the oil industry, a move that would take corporate profit out of continued greenhouse gas emissions, will break this country from its suicidal drive towards profits at the price of the destruction of the entire planet. Yet the nationalization of oil will not take place within the current power structure of a nation ruled by two capitalist parties that are only elected through the support of massive contributions from the extremely wealthy and the backing of the corporate media. Although there will be a hard struggle ahead, only a revolutionary democratic socialist movement that comes from below can achieve the transformations of the power structure needed to nationalize oil and save the planet.

Today, the full extent of the problem of human caused global warming is the focus of considerable scientific research. World temperatures have already increased significantly and are rising at an alarming rate. As global temperatures have risen, ice shelves and glaciers in the Arctic, Antarctic, and mountains have been rapidly melting. So much ice has melted and dropped in the Ocean that the maps of Antarctica have had to be redrawn. In Greenland, it has been found that the increased layer of melted water between glaciers and the ground below is in fact greatly increasing the speed in which glaciers slide into the ocean.

All of this increased water in the world’s oceans is causing sea levels to rise. The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is projected to be the first island nation to be completely submerged by global warming. Rising saltwater has already destroyed crop land and is contaminating their ground water. As a result, Tuvaluans now only drink rainwater and have to import a much greater portion of their food than they did in the past. The nation of 9,300 has already begun a program of evacuating 75 people per year from their islands, with 3,000 Tuvaluans already living overseas. Not only is Tuvalu taking the question of global warming seriously enough to begin evacuation of their islands, their tiny poor nation has decided to spend the $1.5 million per year necessary to be members of the United Nations in order to advocate world action against global warming. While what is happening to Tuvaluans is alarming, the coming elimination of Tuvalu from the planet is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the human and environmental crisis that will be caused by rising seas. As the trend continues, much of low lying nations such as Bangladesh and Vietnam are projected to be swallowed by rising waters, creating millions upon millions of refugees, and destroying some of the most productive crop land in the world, bringing with it a massive humanitarian crisis of refugees and starvation as well as the extinction of many species. In addition, low lying areas of the United States, such as Manhattan and Florida, will be submerged as well.

One disturbing theory regarding global warming makes the seemingly contradictory projection that global warming will trigger a new ice-age. Yet a large and growing body of scientific evidence does back this prediction. It is based on the fact that ocean currents in the Atlantic, including the Gulf Stream, are expected to disappear as a result of large amounts of fresh water melting and disrupting ocean currents. These currents move cold water from the north Atlantic south as well as warmer water north, mitigating what would be the extremes between both northern and southern climates. Twenty thousand years ago, at the height of the last ice-age, a reduction of ocean currents by two thirds drastically decreased the temperatures of the northern hemisphere and plunged much of North America and Europe into year-round winter. Already, measurements of ocean currents off of Greenland indicate that ocean currents there have decreased by 20%. The transformation of most of North America and Europe into frozen wasteland will, like rising oceans and desertification, cause mass starvation, a massive refugee crisis, and also cause mass extinction of plant and animal species.

Much of global warming is proceeding at even faster rates than original dire predictions, due to what are called positive feedback loops. These are phenomena that are caused by global warming on the one hand, and are accelerating global warming on the other. Among positive feedback loops is the melting of ice and snow. As more ice melts, warmth from the sun that was reflected back out of the atmosphere by light colored snow and ice; is more readily absorbed by newly exposed darker colored ground and ocean water. This is why the arctic is currently heating up at a much faster rate than anywhere else.

Carbon sinks, things that take global warming causing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, are also being destroyed by global warming. Fossil fuels (when they aren’t burned) such as oil and coal are the ultimate carbon sinks, where prehistoric carbon was moved out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis and buried in the ground. Unfortunately, as these fuel sources are burned, their carbon is now being released back into the atmosphere. Some other important carbon sinks are forests and peat bogs, where these plants take carbon dioxide out of the air and convert it into sugars, carbohydrates, and cellulose. While direct human destruction of forests and peat bogs for lumber, fuel, and cropland is destroying these important carbon sinks, so too do phenomena such as global warming caused desertification.

Another important carbon sink, caught in a global warming related positive feedback loop, are the activities of the ocean’s forams, tiny organisms that, in their massive numbers, use up vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide as it passes freely between the atmosphere and the oceans. When forams die, much of the carbon they’ve converted drops with their shells to the bottom of the ocean. Yet, this process is now being interrupted by the increased acidity of the oceans caused by the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans. Forams are unable to function properly under these conditions of higher acidity and are thus removing less carbon from the atmosphere.

So a number of causes have been identified where increased carbon dioxide and increased global warming cause even more atmospheric carbon dioxide and more global warming. In addition, the most dire predictions dealing with positive feedback mechanisms is the melting of methane hydride on the bottoms of the world’s oceans. As the oceans heat up, the melting of this material will release methane gas into the atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is even worse than carbon dioxide. A leading theory on the cause of the Permian extinction 251 million years ago, an extinction episode that killed off 95 percent of all species on earth, is that the extinction episode was first triggered by carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by Siberian volcanoes for an extended period of time that led to global warming that reached temperatures high enough to melt methane hydride on the bottom of the oceans.

The combination of high carbon dioxide and methane gas concentrations in the atmosphere then dramatically increased the temperatures of the oceans, causing them to become anoxic. The oceans became anoxic because as water gets warmer it holds less oxygen. In addition, warmer ocean waters circulate less, moving less oxygenated water from the ocean’s surface deeper into the ocean.

Anoxic waters no longer support most advanced plants and animals, but they do support a number of species of bacteria that are adapted to such conditions. These bacteria include species that produce hydrogen sulfide as a waste product of their metabolism. Hydrogen sulfide is poisonous to humans and other organisms dependent on oxygen. It is thought that large amounts of hydrogen sulfide from the world’s heated anoxic oceans entered the atmosphere and killed off almost all life on land during the Permian Extinction. Human caused global warming today, if it is not stopped, may well set in motion the same series of events, and wipe out most species on earth, including the human race.

As U.N. secretary-general Ban told delegates at the December 2007 U.N. climate conference in Bali, "We are at a crossroad, one path leads to a comprehensive climate change agreement, the other to oblivion. The choice is clear." Yet despite a willingness on the part of a number of nations to take some action, and despite overwhelming scientific evidence, the United States, the worst polluter of gasses causing global warming in the world, refuses to sign on to international agreements limiting greenhouse gas emissions. While most environmentalists agree that these Kyoto protocols are not enough, the United States signing on to them would at least be a step in the right direction. If the United States continues to do nothing in regards to global warming except participate in denial while spewing the worst per-capita carbon emissions in the world, the human and environmental catastrophe of global warming will become much worse, and human extinction becomes more and more likely.

In advocating something be done, American environmentalists often point to many individual things people can do to slow one’s personal impact on global warming. These include driving less and generally using combustion engines less, recycling, becoming a vegetarian or vegan, consuming less, using solar or wind energy, planting trees, avoiding cutting down trees, and saving forests and peat bogs. All of these things are positive in reducing greenhouse gasses, and should be encouraged, but without the problem being tackled on a wider societal level, such individual actions amount to a mere drop in the bucket as petroleum and auto-industries sabotage wider solutions, and millionaires like Arnold Swartzenegger try to make up for what they apparently lack in their pants by driving around with his fleet of eight gas-guzzling hummers.

One wider societal solution would be converting the United States to electric cars, and making them more efficient with hybrid technology while also cleaning up the grid by converting more power sources to solar and wind generated power. This should be combined with providing much greater subsidies to mass transportation. Yet, the oil industry and other major corporations of the United States, along with their subservient politicians in both the Democrat and Republican Parties, have blocked every major step towards this kind of progress over the last 50 years.

As Alexandra Paul from Bay Watch stated in a PBS interview, “[…] power as in ‘the power structure’ is why we are still using gas in cars.” In the interview she described how GM decided not to re-lease her electric car, nor any other that they had leased out, and instead took all of these working cars back from their customers in 2002 and crushed them. Toyota also took similar actions destroying their electric vehicles in California at the same time. The only reason these companies ever produced and leased these cars was that they were forced to do so by a California law passed in the 1990’s. The law was inspired by the fact that cities like Los Angeles are over-polluted, largely due to combustion engines, and electric cars with energy coming from power plants produce fewer smog and greenhouse gas pollutants. Yet, when these companies were no longer legally forced to put out electric cars in order to do business in California, they stopped doing so and destroyed the ones they had already produced. When electric cars were on the market, they were available only for lease except a few that Toyota agreed to sell under public pressure. So, when the car manufacturers were no longer forced to have their popular electric cars out on the market, they not only stopped producing them, they took back the ones that were actively being leased and destroyed them.

The auto manufacturers claim that these cars were unpopular, and that is why they stopped producing them as soon as they could. Yet, when the cars were being leased there were waiting lists for the cars that were longer than what was available. The various manufacturers, in taking these vehicles off the road and destroying them, did so in order to destroy their very example as an alternative. This lets us in on a very important secret. Through their hostile actions against the electric car they have informed us that they are wed to the interests of the oil companies. This could be, in part, due to the fact that the planned obsolescence of cars with combustion engines is harder to engineer into electric cars. So these cars apparently didn’t break down enough to promote auto sales and auto parts sales. So the auto industry is involved in what amounts to, in terms of ethics, a criminal conspiracy to rip-off consumers and destroy the future of this planet in order to achieve short-term profits.

Just as capitalist ownership is blocking the production of electric cars, so to does capitalist energy ownership block the development and production of wide-scale wind and solar energy. As Monica Hill stated in the Freedom Socialist Newspaper:

“[...] it takes a great deal more labor and energy to harness wind and solar power, at present, than to extract oil. Oil men are clear on the subject. "Renewable energy," said former Exxon Mobil CEO Lee Raymond in the British newspaper Economist, is "a complete waste of money." When Raymond retired last December, Exxon Mobil reported profits of $36.1 billion — the largest in U.S. history. Raymond personally raked in $400 million that year. Clearly, when wind and solar power finally get developed, it won't be thanks to capitalist industry. There is no solution for skyrocketing consumer costs and plunging planetary health as long as control of the energy industry remains in the hands of the monster oil industry and its kindred financial and industrial monopolies.”

With the production of wind and solar, once again, capitalist ownership and capitalist profits are the barriers to the steps needed to save the planet.

Just as big oil profits from the destruction of the planet, they are also a major influence in the drive for war against countries that have eliminated private ownership of oil wealth. U.S. intervention against the popular democratic governments of Venezuela and Bolivia is increasing because these countries have nationalized their energy industries and are using oil profits for things such as education and healthcare, instead of that money going directly into the pockets of multi-national oil corporations. Similarly, oil was nationalized under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and oil revenues were used, in part, to benefit the Iraqi people. Now, under a U.S. imposed puppet government in Iraq, there have been attempts to privatize Iraqi oil fields, but resistance from Iraqi workers has so far prevented it. Once again, the drive for higher corporate oil profits is a destructive force for the world’s people and environment.

While the United States government has no right to intervene in other countries to tell them what to do with their own resources, especially when those countries are making better use of resources than would be done in the hands of U.S. and British oil companies, the U.S. also has no right to destroy the entire planet for the profits of a few oil companies. This, combined with the overwhelming corrupting power big oil has on U.S. politics leads one who is interested in the future of this planet to one inevitable conclusion. The oil industries of the United States need to be nationalized under the democratic control of the people.

While taking the profit out of war and environmental destruction through the nationalization of oil and other energy industries may sound logical to most people, inevitable questions naturally arise in people’s minds.

A common myth promoted by those who have profits to gain through private ownership is that private ownership is more efficient. Yet an honest look shows public ownership is always better. A good example is socialized medicine in Europe, which is much cheaper and better than American healthcare, resulting in giving countries like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom longer life expectancies and lower infant mortalities than the United States. Ending capitalist profit, a form of theft to line the pockets of the wealthy in the first place, is just plain more efficient.

Even public ownership of energy, on a small scale, isn’t without precedent in the United States. Electricity in Los Angeles is publicly owned. Because it is publicly owned, money isn’t being siphoned away in the form of profits going to shareholders and CEO’s. In addition, the bottom line is not the profits of shareholders and CEO’s. As a result, electricity is provided at rates much cheaper than in the rest of California, and it is done in a more environmentally friendly way. In fact, since electricity is publicly owned, people in LA were able to put an initiative on the ballot to shut down their nuclear power plants. The measure succeeded, and people in LA, while they are still forced to pay for the nuclear plants that were constructed and shut down, they still pay less for electricity due to the superior efficiency of ending corporate profit through public ownership.

In the United States, public ownership of the oil industry would not only take away profit incentives for war and environmental destruction, but money made from such enterprises could go towards human and environmental needs such as saving the environment, and towards healthcare and education, as nationalized oil money is used in Venezuela.

Yet Venezuela is also facing a crisis, both because the United States is hostile to what the revolutionary Chavez government is doing there with oil money, but also because there are still capitalists that control much of the Venezuelan economy. Through that control they are able to sabotage other sectors of the economy in their attempts to overthrow the Chavez government. Capitalist interference in food distribution has been one of the most recent acts of sabotage, where capitalists have had food stuffs that they were refusing to put on the shelves for sale. How Chavez deals with this, and other capitalist sabotage of the economy, will determine whether or not the Venezuelan Revolution survives.

Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Castro and the rest of the Cuban revolutionary leadership was tested in a similar way. The first nationalizations by the Cuban revolutionary leadership were in agriculture. Before the revolution, under the U.S. backed Batista dictatorship, much of the Cuban land was owned by the American capitalist Rockefeller family through the United Fruit Company. Peasants worked for low wages on this land during the on season, and starved during the off-season. Immediately, upon taking power, the Castro government carried out their promise of land reform and United Fruit Company land was expropriated. Resources from sugar production were no longer used to only enrich the Rockefeller family, but instead used to bring food, education, and medicine to peasants and their children. Yet, the United States and American capitalists never forgave this intrusion on capitalist property, and American capitalists sabotaged production in other sectors of the economy, including by refusing to refine oil. In response, the Castro government nationalized the entire economy and announced the building of a socialist economy in Cuba.

This necessity of socialist revolutions to carry out sweeping nationalizations in order to stop capitalist sabotage of the economy was first recognized in 1905 by Leon Trotsky in his work “Results and Prospects” and later developed further in “The Permanent Revolution”.

It is through the Cuban nationalization of the entire economy that the Cuban revolution has not only been able to survive, but they have been able to implement socialist energy policies that are not based on profit, but are instead based on human and environmental needs. While Cuban socialized medicine has brought about a medical system that has produced a higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality than the United States, Cuba’s planned economy has also benefited the environment. It is as result of those policies and priorities that the World Wildlife Fund has said that Cuba is the only country with passing environmental policies in the world. Yet, those policies on one tiny island nation will not be enough to save the planet. As Fidel Castro stated at the U.N. in Rio in 1992:

“An important biological species is in danger of disappearing due to the fast and progressive destruction of its natural living conditions: mankind. We have now become aware of this problem when it is almost too late to stop it. It is necessary to point out that consumer societies are fundamentally responsible for the brutal destruction of the environment.”

Here, Castro is right, and Cuba does serve as a model. Yet, when we look at the Cuban model of socialism, we must pick and choose what aspects are healthy and which aspects should not be copied by other socialist revolutions.

While the Cuban socialism has achieved much, one key ingredient for a healthy society is missing. That ingredient is democracy. A similar observation was made of the Soviet Union in 1918 by German socialist leader Rosa Luxemburg. While being supportive of the Russian revolution, she was at the same time opposed to the dictatorial methods of the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky in the Soviet Union. Rosa Luxemburg instead advocated revolutionary democratic socialism.

The Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, were swept to power in a popular revolution that called for an end to the war with Germany, land reform, and socialism. Besides the betterment this revolution meant for the workers and peasants in general, including access to healthcare and education, giant strides forward were made for oppressed nationalities, Jews, women's rights, and gay rights. Before the revolution, under Czarist rule, Jews were routinely slaughtered in the thousands in government-sponsored pogroms. Peasants were the property of feudal landlords, and huge numbers of drafted young peasants were dying in the inter-imperialist war with Germany. This all ended with the Russian Revolution. In addition, gay rights and the right to abortion were legalized for the first time in any country with the birth of the Soviet Union and backward anti-woman practices such as bride-price and forced marriage were made illegal. Priorities were made of literacy and meeting the basic needs of the people. These were huge advances made by a revolution that had inherited a poor economically backward nation, soon to be further devastated by civil war and the invasion of many imperialist armies.

Yet, Rosa Luxemburg, while praising the advances made by the Russian Revolution, did not excuse the lack of democracy in the Soviet Union. She saw the Marxist concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in a completely different way than Lenin and Trotsky. She saw this simply as the toiling majority becoming the dictators over the capitalist minority that once held power. For that majority to actually be in charge, however, they would need democratic organs, universal suffrage, and democratic rights. For Lenin and Trotsky, the concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" fit more into bourgeois models of individual dictatorship by those in power. As Rosa Luxemburg states in her 1918 work, the “Russian Revolution”:

“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only a bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders with inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule [...] a dictatorship, to be sure, but not dictatorship of the proletariat [...].”

A different position by Lenin and Trotsky, more in league with that of Rosa Luxemburg, could have produced a much better and more open society that would have made Stalin's type of rise to power through skullduggery, corruption, and terror within the ranks of the party much more difficult.

Rosa Luxemburg did not see this question as being counterpoised between bourgeois democracy (democracy for the rich as we have in the United States) on the one hand (defended by fake "socialists" who had betrayed socialism and become administrators of capitalist exploitation and war), and dictatorial communism on the other. Instead, she rejected both and fought for a socialist society with nationalized industries where the working class has democratic control. It is this essential banner of revolutionary democratic socialism that must be fully revived in order to not repeat the mistakes of the past, and in order for people to take our movements for environmental survival and socialism seriously and want any part in them.

It was a very unfortunate error of history that the first socialist revolution was carried out with the anti-democratic errors of Lenin and Trotsky. Stalin amplified those errors for his own personal gain. Due to the influence of the Russian Revolution, both morally and financially, the undemocratic errors of the Russian Revolution were copied by most socialist revolutions after, including the Cuban revolution. While recognizing the advantages of the Cuban socialist model over U.S. imposed dictatorship and a corporate controlled economy, it is important not to repeat their undemocratic errors.

Yet, there is nothing inherently democratic about a private economy. As was shown in the example of publicly owned power in LA, with the ability of the people to shut down unsafe nuclear power plants, public ownership is more democratic than private ownership. Private ownership allows a few extremely wealthy people to control not only industrial policies where public input and control is essential for a healthy environment, but their private control of vast financial resources also gives them control of the two established political parties in the United States. Public ownership on a wider scale, with a broadly socialized economy, tied to full democratic rights and universal suffrage, will allow the United States to become a much more democratic country than it is today, and will allow the people of this country to begin the measures needed to save the planet.

Yet, while all of this may seem reasonable, it does beg the question, “How do you propose to gain such a far reaching goal in a country that has an entrenched power structure that is more engaged in privatization than nationalization?” This is the hardest question. It will take the organization of a revolutionary party firmly committed to these goals that is not interested in compromise with the current power establishment. The goal of such a party must be for power, but history has also shown that such parties and movements can become powerful enough at times to scare the power structure into making some of the needed reforms. Even relatively small parties that stick to radical convictions that seem to be on the very fringes can, in times of discontent and sudden revolutionary turmoil, become the majority. As issues worsen in the United States around war, environmental destruction, lack of healthcare, and a possible coming economic collapse, the possibilities of a sea-change in the relatively passive U.S. population becomes more and more likely.

It is with these understandings that the first steps are being taken to establish the Cool Earth Party on the principles of revolutionary democratic socialism, which includes the following demands:

1. Immediate action to save the planet by cutting greenhouse gas emissions!
2. Nationalize the Oil Industry, Other Energy Industries, and the Auto Industry!
3. U.S. Troops Out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, and the Philippines!
4. End US Military Aid to Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and All Other Oppressive Governments in the World!
5. End US Imperialism!
6. For Socialized Medicine!
7. No to Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia!
8. For proportional democracy with guaranteed equal time for parties in the media, outlaw big campaign spending, and outlaw electronic voting machines (which are presently used to rig American elections).
9. For Class Struggle Methods to Achieve these Goals, Including Strikes, Mass Protests, Alternative Media, Acts of Conscience and Rebellion Within the US Military, and the Building of a Revolutionary Democratic Socialist Party.
10. Towards Revolutionary Democratic Socialism in the United States!

Such a party will necessarily start small. But, I think, time will tell that such an organization is not only essential for the survival of the planet, it is also an idea that can become popular quickly because it is an idea whose time has come.

Join the Cool Earth Party
http://tribes.tribe.net/coolearth

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SoulStance 2008, June 20-22, Lupin Lodge, Los Gatos, Santa Cruz mountains!

2008-05-16T00:05:56Z

The Southbay, Santa Cruz and Monterey burner communities unite for the biggest precom the area has ever seen --

SoulStance 2008!

June 20-22

A campout at Lupin Lodge, Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz mountains!

FIGURE OUT HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!!!

Go to www.soulstanceinfo.com for ALL the info you need to be a part of this wonderful event.

To chat with your fellow burners about the event, join the tribe at http://tribes.tribe.net/soulstance

SEE YOU THERE!!!

w00t!

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Yard Dogs Road Show first show in Santa Cruz next Thursday at Rio Theatre (May 22nd)

2008-05-15T03:21:33Z

The outrageous Nouveau-Burlesque Yard Dogs Road Show revue makes their
Santa Cruz debut next Thursday, May 22nd at the Rio Theatre! (www.riotheatre.com) Showtime is 8 pm
(after party at the Crepe Place) If you havent seen them yet, dont miss this show! (Ck out the website www.yarddogsroadshow.com)
$19 tickets are still available at Streetlight Records and online www.pulseproductions.net

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Police Break 60 Year Old Homeless Woman's Arm

2008-05-10T18:16:51Z

[Donna Deiss is a politically active homeless woman in Santa Cruz, who was also an advocate for tenants rights before she was unfairly evicted. The homeless in Santa Cruz, as well as activists who criticize the local government, are often victims of police harrassment, false arrests, and police violence. -Steven Argue]

60 Year Old Homeless Woman Says Police Broke Her Arm
by Robert Norse
Saturday May 10th, 2008

Donna Deiss called in last night to report that yesterday around 5 PM, Officer La Moss (Badge #114) assaulted her, broke her arm, and then put her in handcuffs when he attempted to question her at Three Tree Lot near Lighthouse Field. Deiss was taken to the Watsonville hospital, had to wait hours for x-rays, whichconfirmed her arm was broken.
Deiss reported the following to me in a phone message last night and an e-mail this morning:

She was talking with friends yesterday on Westcliffe Drive near her RV. An undercover police officer, whom she later identified as Officer LaMoss, arrived in a black unmarked car and said he wanted to talk to her and others in the group. She read La Moss a statement from the ACLU about the rights of community members vis a vis the police and walked to her RV.

The cop followed her. She got in and tried to close the door. Le Moss, not saying she was under arrest or detained, reached in and grabbed her right arm, pinching the skin as he twisted it behind her back, breaking it. She screamed her arm was broken, but his response was to call for backup. 4 more police cars arrived. She continued screaming for 911 and finally paramedics showed up.

The police said they were impounding her RV, which she lives in.

She was taken to Watsonville hospital, waited hours for x-rays and painpills. She is charged with battery and an additional charge. X-rays confirm her arm was broken. She needs an attorney and community support.

This is an account from Donna Deiss (with someadditions from her friend Shane). Donna has previously been harassed by rangers as part of the 'clear out the hippies' campaign at Three Tree Lot and the other lots around Lighthouse Fields. Recently the City's Parks and Recreation Department had its 'No RVs' signs painted over by state Rangers, for apparently violating state law and policy regarding parking (i.e. RVS are allowed to park).

See related stories: 'Harassment of Homeless in RVs, a Letter from Donna Deiss' at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/08/18452903.php ,

'Superintendant Hammack Stonewalls on RV Ban in Coastal Parking Lots' at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/12/18447267.php , and

'Coastal Access Denied to Motorhomes and Trailers in Santa Cruz' at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/30/18444952.php for related stories.

HOMELESSNESS AND POLITICAL REPRESSION, THE GREEN PARTY FAILS THE TEST IN SANTA CRUZ by Steven Argue
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2001/12/5085.shtml

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BURLESQUE WORKSHOP TONIGHT! 5/6

2008-05-06T18:41:13Z

Hello circus-people and friends,

Tomorrow night we have a special installment of the Ramshackle Sidewalk Circus Skills workshop series. We will be meeting at our normal time of 7-9pm, working on tumbling, clowning, circus history and juggling. THEN: At 9pm, Miss Balla Fire (of the renowned and fabulous burlesque troupe - The Sin Sisters) will be offering a Burlesque 101 class for only $10. Noone will be turned away for lack of funds, but she is giving us a serious discount already, and I assure you: $10 is a bargain!

Invite your friends! Wear your finest gloves! Bring a dress, a tie, boots, heels, masks... whatever it is that you want to take off or show off. Street clothes are welcome, but dangerous clothes go further...
And: Pasties are limited, so arrive early(or paint your chest silver..?)

SO:
to recap...
7-9pm : Circus / Clown / Performance Building with Ramshackle Sidewalk - Free!
9-10pm: Burlesque 101 with Miss Balla Fire of The Sin Sisters - $10 (a bargain at twice the price)

at the Wellness Community Transformation Center,
at 903 Pacific, in downtown Santa Cruz.
3rd floor in the office building above Cruzio.
Call us if you get lost: (713)292-6340

Hope to see you all there!!
- Nikolas, David & Jody at Ramshackle Sidewalk

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Hearing at the City Council about project to build a 5 storey parking garage on lot #4 (Cathcart/Cedar) this coming Tuesday, 6th at 2pm!

2008-05-06T02:00:12Z

As a downtown resident I received a letter with this news:
There will be a "study session" at the Santa Cruz City Council and Downtown commission pertaining to the construction of a new downtown parking garage this coming Tuesday May 6th, at 2pm at the City council chambers, City Hall.

Basically they want to build a 5 story high parking garage on parking lot #4 which is the Cathcart/Cedar parking lot where the farmers market is held on Wednesdays.

Hopefully lots of us can be there at 2pm to understand and know all the motivations for this.

Here is a pdf with more info:
www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/pw/dc/...art.pdf

Peace to you all,
S.

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Craft Shows?

2008-05-06T01:59:25Z

Where are some good regular events where I could sell my body jewelry at? I specialize in organic jewelry for stretched ears.

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What’s up for Mother’s Day?

2008-05-01T18:20:02Z

Hey all, I thought I’d start a thread on stuff to do in the area next weekend for the Mom’s in our lives. Here's my contribution.

Twin Lakes College of the Healing Arts is having a Massage-a-Thon fund raising event to raise money for the school and to help support all of its many community outreach programs. All massages are performed by professional massage therapists from the Twin Lakes community of Teachers, Grads and Supportive Friends.

The sessions are all sliding scale – 60 minute massages are $50.00 to $75.00 and 90 minute massages are $75.00 to $90.00.

The event runs on Friday, May 9th from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM, and on Saturday and Sunday (the 10th and 11th) from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM. Gift certificates for later use are also available in case the timing doesn't work out.

The Massage-a-Thon will be held at the school (located at 1210 Brommer St.). Massages for yourself or your Loved ones can be scheduled by calling the office at 831-476-2152.

Hope to see some of you there.

So what else is going on for Mother’s Day?

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Whole Foods?

2008-04-25T17:54:15Z

Strolling around the neighborhood last night, I noticed the "Parking reserved for patrons of Whole Foods only" signs have been put up along 41st Ave/Capitola Rd. (The old Ralph's building). Yet I have heard conflicting reports on whether they are taking that space or not.....does anyone know anything about it? Some local friends are job hunting right now and it might be good time to get the olde resume in there.

Feedback appreciated!

Thanks
Sassy-T

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YES!!!! Judge Paul Burdick just ruled to stop the spraying over Santa Cruz Co (only)!!!!!!

2008-04-24T20:03:00Z

Yes!!!!!

From the sentinel:

Judge rules that LBAM spraying can't continue in Santa Cruz County
State says they will appeal
Sentinel staff report
Article Launched: 04/24/2008 10:11:50 AM PDT

Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick ruled Thursday morning that aerial spraying to control the light brown apple moth could not continue in Santa Cruz County.

Burdick ruled that the state had not provided sufficient evidence of an emergency and must complete an environmental impact review before spraying resumes.

Burdick's ruling was based on the fact that the state could show no evidence that the moth had caused any damage.

The state says it will appeal.

California Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura said of the ruling "My department will aggressively seek an expedited appeal of this ruling, which threatens the safety of our agriculture, environment and economy. The light brown apple moth is a serious threat not just to Santa Cruz but to the entire state, and the method we are using is the safest, most progressive eradication program available."

The state asked for a stay of the judge's order but Burdick denied it. The state's appeal would be heard in the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_9040264

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Where will you be on 4/20?

2008-04-18T19:52:47Z

Ok, so in this town there's about a million things going on.

In the past, I've just taken a bus up to the chaos at the Porter Meadow.

This year, however, I'm in the mood for something different!

Sound off about what your plans may be, my Santa Cruz cohorts! :-D

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Join the “Cool Earth Party” tribe

2008-04-18T19:39:35Z

Join the “Cool Earth Party” tribe

The Democrats and Republicans are the paid agents of the oil, armament, and insurance industries. Their continued rule of America will assure a future of more imperialist war, a healthcare system that doesn't work, and no meaningful action on global warming (the single biggest threat to the future of humanity and a healthy planet).

The Cool Earth Party is being established on the principles of revolutionary democratic socialism. We call for an end to the dictatorial power of the wealthy through the nationalization of major industries and for the establishment of a planned economy run to meet human and environmental needs. This socialist society must be established within the framework of full democratic freedoms and multi-party proportional democracy. To be truly Democratic all parties running in elections will be legally guaranteed equal time in the media, big campaign spending will be outlawed, and electronic voting machines (which are presently used to rig American elections) will be eliminated.

Upon taking power the Cool Earth Party will establish a system of socialized medicine for the United States, end all U.S. military occupations of other countries, end U.S. military aid to repressive governments, and nationalize the auto and energy industries to carry out immediate emergency measures to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Cool Earth Party
http://tribes.tribe.net/coolearth

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Chemtrails over Santa Cruz

2008-04-16T17:37:37Z

It's really bad today, the sky is filled with chemtrails and the fake clouds they produce.
...reminded me to post this link:

http://www.chycho.com/?q=Chemtrails

Basically, Germany has admitted to chemtrail spraying as a military operation.
Hopefully this new info will compel the US to do the same.

posted in Santa Cruz - 16 replies

what's that smell?!

2008-04-16T17:33:04Z

Hey,
Why does the entire town of Santa Cruz (including Live Oak, downtown etc...) smell like we're holding the Cat-Poop Olympics today?

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SF Bay Area BM FUNdrasier: Beltane Alchemy April 26th-27th

2008-04-16T17:21:13Z

Hi Everyone;

Sacred Spaces and Entheon Village are collaborating on making a beautiful Temple Complex this year at Burning Man. We're having a fundraiser in late April and would love to see as many freaky peeps as we can gather under the stars present. :)

Luv n' Rockets;

-Veleda

************ ********* ********* ********* ********* *
Beltane Alchemy
11am Saturday April 26th - 2pm Sunday April 27th
************ ********* ********* ********* *********

Isis Oasis - www.isisoasis. org
Geyserville, CA (1 hour north of SF)

For more info and schedule: http://www.temple08.com/fundraising.html
Join us for this once in a lifetime Sacred Event at Isis Oasis!
Dancing around the Maypole, we activate our Springtime inner Lover and
honor the blossoming of life as we unite the Present with the Ancient,
the Masculine with the Feminine, together, in Sacred Alchemy.
The Maypole ritual will be followed with participatory comedy, a
bardic fire circle, musical performances, and shamanic DJ's creating
soundscapes for our dancing and art throughout the night. Rise and
shine with the Sun for: yoga with Niema Lightseed, brunch, a rockin'
reverent circle of gratitude, and more!

Suggested Donation: sliding scale $75-$175 with some work-trade and
vendor positions available. Donations include: camping/dorm space,
playshops, prayer-formance, rituals, spa, Beltane Feast and Sunday brunch.

All donations go directly to the Pantheogenesis Sacred Temple in
Entheon Village at Burningman in August and to the Mythic Playground
at Isis Oasis.

In addition to Kim Hix's Mythic Playground, Isis Oasis is the amazing
home of the Healing Zone & Love Den, a 500 year old fir tree, ocelots,
white peacocks, temples, a hot tub, a sauna, and a pool.

Please R.S.V.P. by Tuesday April 22nd so we may have a proper
headcount for creation of the Feast. Only 108 tickets are available
for this event, so secure your magickal space via Paypal soon.

There is limited indoor lodging available Goddess Rooms: $75 (ideal
for the Romantic Couple or the person wanting a private room)
If a Goddess room is desired please contact Robin Sol at (702)
575-8441 to make room reservations prior to the event.

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Free: The Omega Project at The Atrium in The Catalyst

2008-04-04T16:12:26Z

http://omegaprojectmusic.com/

The Omega Project at The Atrium in The Catalyst

The Omega Project will be playing at The Atrium in The Catalyst on Sat. April 5th. We are headlining out of three bands so we are supposed to go on at 10. The Catalyst is one of the best venues in Santa Cruz, and The Atrium is the outer room. If we fill it up with people, we will get booked for inside. So please come out and help us celebrate Carlos’ 27th birthday. As always, the show will be sponsored by We Are California Grown. Live painting by a local artist..
21+ FREE
For more info check out omegaprojectproductions.wordpress.com

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4/20, 4:20pm, $4.20 WAMM's Quinceañera (inside or free outside)

2008-03-27T07:05:25Z

PRESS RELEASE – for immediate release
DATE: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
CONTACT: Mimi Hill, 831-425-0580, mimi@wamm.org

EVENT: Draggin’ Fest WAMM’s Quinceñera

ADMISSION: FREE outside Pearl Ally parking lot (Lincoln and Cedar) and a door charge of $4.20 inside with a valid ID over 21 at Club Dakota (1209 Pacific Ave). All donations will benefit the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana.

PROGRAM: Did I hear 4/20? Get out your stilts and hula-hoops. Dress up as your favorite super hero or villain. Santa Cruz Dyke March throws a D.I.Y. Do It Yourself street party to benefit WAMM’s Quincinera! Sunday 4/20 at 4:20pm OUTSIDE at Pearl Alley parking lot across from Farmers’ Market. INSIDE at Club Dakota a WAMM benefit with D.J. A.D. spinning Motown for those over 21 with a valid ID.

Join the revolution of consciousness with: Omega Project, Genea Gjaguar, Clown Burlesque, Radical Cheerleaders, Lisa Dewey, Kinetica, Ariginal and Las Palamitas.

wamm.org santacruzdykemarch.org (831) 425-0580

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Five Eyed Hand Full Moon Friday 3/21/08!

2008-03-21T16:18:47Z

www.FiveEyedHand.com

Five Eyed Hand is playing The Brookdale Lodge in Brookdale, Ca, this full moon Friday. The Brookdale Lodge is under new ownership, and Five Eyed Hand is super stoked to help charge the Brookdale Lodge with new musical energy. Check out Five Eyed Hand at the grand Brookdale Lodge, rich with Santa Cruz mountain history... and ghostly tales of days gone by...

We'll be joined by "Open Space Project" to start the night out right!
www.openspacemusic.net

Please see this listing for FREE SHOW FLYER and full event deatails:
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/FIve-Eyed-Hand-and-OSP-THIS-FRIDAY-at-the-BROOKDALE-LODGE/san-francisco-ca/9bcfe4ea-35ce-49ac-9ff2-e06a8701a13e

Take a Look at "The Brook" -
11570 Hwy 9, Brookdale, CA 95007
Tel (831) 338-1300
info@brookdaleinnandspa.com

Talk to "The Hand" -
info@FiveEyedHand.com
www.fiveeyedhand.com

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Naomi & the Courteous Rudeboys - Equinox celebration 3/20

2008-03-20T16:29:45Z

Don Quixote's in Felton

SPRING EQUINOX PARTY! Funk, soul, reggae, world beat

Thu March 20 at 7:30pm $7 adv./$7 door DANCE - AGES 21 +

Equinox occurs at 10:48 pm PT (05:48 UT)

If you're ready to let loose and love, then enter the world of Naomi & The Courteous Rudeboys (NCR). This quintet from Santa Cruz is fun, quirky and furiously dedicated to throwing a good party. Their insatiable passion for funk, soul, reggae and world beat makes for a "smorgasbord of different musical offerings." (Chris Stanley, tastyfanzine.org.uk) or a band that has been together for only two years, NCR has racked up some mileage in their bio-fueled bus. Highlights include performances at Earthdance & High Sierra Music Festival. Anyone that has seen them live will tell you that NCR has a whole lotta heart and soul. With a variety of danceable songs, there's something for everyone. Their debut LP, Beautiful Beings , released in 2007, was recorded at the legendary Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco . Through grass-roots efforts, Naomi's songs are featured on independent radio stations WORLD-wide. Artist site with tunes: www.sonicbids.com/naomithecourteousrudeboys

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Salsa on the plaza, downtown!

2008-03-19T05:39:39Z

Oh yeah!
There is a new free event that is starting this coming Sat., 22nd at 3:30pm on the plaza, downtown, in front of Jamba Juice.
DJ Miguel Carballo will be spinning some real good Cuban and others tasty salsa rhythms and there's going to be lots of special guests and surprises!
This event will become regular very soon.

Yay!
S.

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Five Eyed Hand at Monterey Live this Friday!

2008-03-14T19:10:43Z

Take a trip down south this Friday to catch Five Eyed Hand do their thang and shake up Monterey. They are performing at Monterey Live which is a pretty swanky little club with a decent dance floor http://www.montereylive.org/ Tickets are only $8 and show starts at 9:30pm. 5EH plays until about 11:00 with Sheepdog on the Set taking the stage after that.

FIVE EYED HAND is an eclectic collaboration of veteran musicians who have joined forces to create a unique musical experience. Throughout the years they have each shared the stage with one another in a variety of different musical endeavors. Now, in 2007, these musicians have formed a new and exciting musical friendship. By combining their impressive musical backgrounds, original material, unique takes on cover tunes, and playful artistry, Five Eyed Hand has begun to make serious waves in the Bay Area music scene.
This musical association generates psychedelic rock with a jazz roots approach.

This band is capable of anything and are often joined by incredible guest artists. Each member brings their own compositions, technical skills and unique improvisational energy to this lineup to help propel the music and the listener into the stratosphere.

Formed in Monterey, CA during the fall of 2007 SHEEPDOG ON THE SET fuses the musical talents of Paul Lottridge, Lawrence Keener, and Dave Holodiloff. They focus on performing an energetic live show with a mission to bring all in the audience to their feet and make them move together.

Sheepdog's intense instrumentals compel the audience into a trance with a set list ranging from hard-hitting rhythms to chilled grooves. Myriad backgrounds and a love of all music provide Sheepdog with a stable and educated pedigree rising above the stereotypical garage band. Sheepdog on the Set is on the cusp of beginning another chapter in Monterey's stout musical history.

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Looking for an Earth Woman Friendly community?

2008-03-12T16:55:11Z

There is a Meeting of the Kindred Spirits coming up March 29th! And
we do need to see some more Positive well integrated Female Energy in
this group who can work closely with others.

http://edenvillage.net/18.htm

We are still looking to organize a group of volunteers to
help out some good folks one day out of the week, with some
organic gardening and we still do need someone to take Minutes
at the next meeting.

It would be possible, I would think, if there is a single female or
two out there who is cool about living closer to the Earth then
I may be able to provide a place for you to live, for
maybe 6 months out of the year up where I live in Northern
California.

If you can simply come to our next meeting on March 29th. - T

http://edenvillage.net/18.htm

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Red White and Blue Update?

2008-03-10T22:04:29Z

Any news on where the sale of this property is at? Did they get a buyer?

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Hot Buttered Rum with Derek Bodkin to open = Friday, March 7th!

2008-03-10T20:10:42Z

Hot Buttered Rum is back in beautiful Santa Cruz!

Hot Buttered Rum, one of the hardest-working and fastest-rising stars in the musical firmament, has become, over the last five years, a group that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. It began with a core of five uniquely talented musicians, writing and singing songs on the mountaintops and city streets of Northern California; five musicians who, on the night they realized they loved playing together too much to ever stop, were sipping a warm buttery drink from which the group derived its name. Since that fateful night, the organization has steadily expanded to include a rich tapestry of fans, friends, and family, reaching from coast to coast. Visit www.hotbutteredrum.net for more information on this collaboration of musician's musicians.

Joining in the fun and opening the show for Hot Buttered Rum is Derek Bodkin. A Santa Cruz resident and percussionist in the Bay Area's up and coming popular Jazz/Rock Fusion Band "Five Eyed Hand". Derek also enjoys wearing his other 'hat' as a "Good Times Acoustic Groove" Singer/Songwriter and is stoked to open for one of his favorite touring bands today. Check out Derek and his music at www.derekbodkin.com and www.fiveeyedhand.com.

Don't miss it!

When: Friday, March 7th, 2008 8 p.m.

Where:
Moe's Alley Concert Venue
1535 Commercial Way
Santa Cruz, California 95060

Cost:: $12.00 advance/$15.00 doors 21+

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/HOT-BUTTERED-RUM-with-Derek-Bodkin-at-Moes-Alley-3708/san-francisco-ca/13a10f44-120b-464d-abc9-cfaa25591e26

posted in Santa Cruz - 5 replies

Five Eyed Hand shows in MARCH!

2008-03-04T16:44:17Z

Some Five Eyed Hand dates in March, 2008: Santa Cruz band... come support the hand.

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3.2.08
St.James Gate, Belmont,CA
5EH plays 2 sets. early sunday show 7-10p.m
Gonna be a really fun night of good folks, musical artistry, and unexpected surprises.

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3.6.08
The Crows Nest, Santa Cruz, CA
5EH plays 2 sets 8:30p.m- 11:30p.m $5

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3.21.08
Brookdale Inn & Spa, Brookdale,CA
Open Space Project (www.openspacemusic.net/) starts the show.
5EH finishes the show

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3.29.08
Jupiter,Berkeley,CA
3 sets 8-11p.m

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Hoping to see you there!
www.fiveeyedhand.com

(Don't forget Fritz 50th bday bash in April!!!)

4.18.08
The Connecticut Yankee, San Francisco,CA
5EH plays 2 sets 10:00pm-close
Celebrate Fritz's 50th Birthday party!!

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Website = www.fiveeyedhand.com
TALK TO THE HAND = info@fiveeyedhand.com
Lend a helping hand - we need street teamers = info@fiveeyedhand.com

posted in Santa Cruz - 3 replies

Help Save The Santa Cruz Flea Market

2008-03-03T19:35:42Z

http://www.petitiononline.com/saveflea/petition.html

We have about 10k physical signatures so far. We would like to get another 10k online, so please sign the petition. We are not trying to stop Sutter, we just want them to commit on paper that they will keep the flea open as long as they are not using the property for anything else. They have made a thin verbal commitment to do this, but most people believe this is just to get us off their backs. We just want them to stick to their word. When it comes to large corporations, it takes a community to monitor integrity!

Thanks everyone!

posted in Santa Cruz - 43 replies

Dog Friendly Places....

2008-02-29T22:35:19Z

Hello everyone,

I moved to Santa Cruz about 5 months ago. Loving it here :)

The question I have is..are there any other places that you can take dogs besides the places listed on this site...
( http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/travel/uscities/guides/w/cities/wonlinecityCASanta_Cruz.shtml )

I have a 16 lbs Daschund /Beagle mix, very well behaved.

Thank you for all of your help.

If there are any places that you know off that is also a place where I DO NOT want to take my dog...that information would be helpful as well.

Thank you all for your time.

Dreams

posted in Santa Cruz - 2 replies

New Monsoon at Moe's Alley this Friday 2/29

2008-02-29T17:34:15Z

Friday is Leap Day so why not celebrate it by going to check out New Monsoon www.newmonsoon.com at Moe's Alley. They may not make you leap but they'll definitely get your ass groovin. They have a relatively new drummer and bass player so if you haven't heard them in a while, you're in for a treat!
Cover is only $12 in advance/$15 at the door. Hope to see you there!

posted in Santa Cruz - 2 replies

DIY and natural Medicine tribe

2008-02-29T05:11:23Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/diymedicine

Check it out if you are interested in holistic medicine and self care.

posted in Santa Cruz - 0 replies

Animal rights activists raided in SC

2008-02-28T18:20:13Z

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_8355689?source=most_viewed

Anyone know more about this?

posted in Santa Cruz - 22 replies

California results with 95.9% in

2008-02-18T20:13:10Z

California results with 95.9% in:

Peace and Freedom Party:
Stewart A. Alexander (P&F) 282 5.4 %
Gloria E. La Riva (P&F) 1,057 20.4 %
John Crockford (P&F) 292 5.6 %
Stanley Hetz (P&F) 87 1.6 %
Brian P. Moore (P&F) 279 5.3 %
Ralph Nader (P&F) 2,090 40.2 %
Cynthia McKinney (P&F) 1,114 21.5 %

P&F Web Page
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/

Green Party
Kent Mesplay (Grn) 564 2.0 %
Jared Ball (Grn) 444 1.6 %
Jesse Johnson (Grn) 506 1.8 %
Kat Swift (Grn) 843 3.0 %
Ralph Nader (Grn) 16,835 61.1 %
Elaine Brown (Grn) 1,259 4.6 %
Cynthia McKinney (Grn) 7,124 25.9 %

Green Party web page:
http://www.cagreens.org/

Propositions:

91 N Transportation Funds. 2,654,316 41.9% 3,674,380 58.1% Map
92 N Community Colleges. Funding. Governance. Fees. 2,783,544 42.6% 3,738,241 57.4% Map
93 N Limits on Legislators' Terms in Office. 3,071,170 46.5% 3,522,645 53.5% Map
94 Y Ref on Amd to Indian Gaming Compact: Pechanga 3,727,990 55.8% 2,959,696 44.2% Map
95 Y Ref on Amd to Indian Gaming Compact: Morongo 3,725,141 55.8% 2,953,405 44.2% Map
96 Y Ref on Amd to Indian Gaming Compact: Sycuan 3,707,573 55.7% 2,956,192 44.3% Map
97 Y Ref on Amd to Indian Gaming Compact: Agua Caliente 3,708,824 55.7% 2,952,036 44.3%

Democrat Party:
Barack Obama (Dem) 1,686,517 42.4 %
Hillary Clinton (Dem) 2,064,590 51.9 %
Mike Gravel (Dem) 6,467 0.1 %

DNC Disruption 2008
http://dncdisruption08.org/

Republican Party:
Mike Huckabee (Rep) 260,447 11.6 %
Duncan Hunter (Rep) 12,046 0.5 %
Alan Keyes (Rep) 9,265 0.4 %
Sam Brownback (Rep) 1,975 0.0 %
John H. Cox (Rep) 2,574 0.1 %
John McCain (Rep) 952,409 42.1 %
Ron Paul (Rep) 96,300 4.2 %
Mitt Romney (Rep) 765,355 33.9 %
Tom Tancredo (Rep) 3,225 0.1 %

RNC Welcoming Committee
http://www.rncwelcomingcommittee.org/

posted in Santa Cruz - 5 replies

Looking for a mid/higher end mountain bike

2008-02-15T02:27:51Z

Let me know if your selling one for a good price.

posted in Santa Cruz - 0 replies

Wubakia at Brookdale Lodge Tomorrow Friday 2/15

2008-02-14T19:37:48Z

Wubakia is a wonderful jam band with lots of good energy, great songs, and jow droping jams. They are playing with Harry and the Hitman, another great band. I hope as many people as possible will go support them at the Brookdale Lodge which is up Hwy 9 at 11570 Hyw 9, Brookdale, CA 95007. For more info on Wubakia see there myspace site at http://www.myspace.com/wubakia or there tribe site at http://people.tribe.net/c0c2b434-82f1-422f-9fbc-16fa9f6712cb. this is an amazing band with very talented people!!! What is better than supporting the great local jam bands.

posted in Santa Cruz - 0 replies

The Anti-War Candidates

2008-02-14T00:55:21Z

While Obama, Clinton, Huckabee, and McCain are all pro-war and have no real solutions for global warming or healthcare, there are a number of candidates opposed to the war. Besides anti-war Republican Ron Paul, who on the question of global warming opposes all environmental regulations, and on healthcare would abolish Medicare, each of the following political parties will run anti-war candidates:

Peace and Freedom Party
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/

Green Party
http://www.cagreens.org/

Socialist Equality Party
http://www.wsws.org/index.shtml

Socialist Party
http://sp-usa.org/

Party for Socialism and Liberation
http://www.pslweb.org/site/PageServer

Socialist Workers Party
http://www.themilitant.com/index.shtml

Workers World Party
http://www.workers.org/

In addition the following are anti-war candidates and likely running whether or not they get their party’s nomination:

Mike Gravel
http://www.gravel2008.us/

Cynthia McKinney
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/

And the following are anti-war anti-global warming events in opposition to the Democrats and Republicans.

DNC Disruption 2008
http://dncdisruption08.org/

RNC Welcoming Committee
http://www.rncwelcomingcommittee.org/

posted in Santa Cruz - 4 replies

Looking for a Beach House for a Wedding

2008-02-13T15:35:30Z

I am scouting for a Beach House that could handle a Wedding for my fav niece Rachel and her sweetie Phil. They plan to be married on the 4th of July. They will have around 60-75 people at the wedding They would like to rent a house to be able to have folks stay over. Or just find a great beach that would accommodate a wedding and that many cars.

Let me know!

TerriLynn

posted in Santa Cruz - 0 replies

2/12/08 Meeting to Save the Pleasure Point Roadhouse

2008-02-12T00:52:47Z

This is the Big Roadhouse meeting 2/12, 9am County Building
Thank you for caring about the Pleasure Point Roadhouse and our History
The meeting is at the County Building 701 Ocean St SC
It is on the 5th floor
9am
go to
http://sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/bds/Govstream/ASP/Display/SCCB_AgendaDisplayWeb.asp?MeetingDate=2/12/2008
tap item 70 for more info. in PDF
People can tap the envelope icon to email comments to be presented to the board.
They can take info to the Supervisors office on the 5th floor to be added before Tue meeting.
You can come and speak in support of its historic designation and encourage the Supervisors to designate it NR-5
Thank you for your help and let others know, as this is likely the last time they will hear its historic designation and Planning is recommending it not be listed as the owners request.
If it is not listed, it can be easily bulldozed without much notice
Please let others know and keep updated at
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveroadhouse/

posted in Santa Cruz - 0 replies

FIVE EYED HAND - Friday February 8th in Santa Cruz/Felton

2008-02-08T17:07:21Z

This Friday! February 8th, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

Five Eyed Hand
Performs at DON QUIXOTES INTERNATIONAL MUSIC HALL!!
Located in the magical Santa Cruz mountain community of Felton!

Join us as Five Eyed Hand (Derek Bodkin, "Fiddler Mikey" Henderson, Jeb Taylor, and Chris Zanardi) takes you on a musical journey of dance, trance, and skilled improvisation. Joined by our friends
"Byron Space Circus"
Also - Special Guest Surprise Appearances

Five Eyed Hand is an eclectic collaboration of veteran musicians who have joined forces to create a unique musical experience. Throughout the years they have each shared the stage with one another in a variety of different musical endeavors. Now, in 2007, these musicians have formed a new and exciting musical friendship. By combining their impressive musical backgrounds, original material, unique takes on cover tunes, and playful artistry, Five Eyed Hand has begun to make serious waves in the Bay Area music scene. This musical association generates psychedelic rock with a jazz roots approach.

Located just 10 minutes from Santa Cruz, California
Don Quixote's International Music Hall
Tickets and Reservations call 831-603-2294

Tell thine friends. On this night... we groove.
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As ever, please check out 5EH's cool website to hear mp3's and gather information on upcoming shows.
www.fiveeyedhand.com

See 5EH's YouTube Performance w/ guest artist Fareed Haque!! (awesome show!)
www.youtube.com/watch

Become 5EH's Myspace Friend.
www.myspace.com/fiveeyedhand

Talk to the hand!
info@fiveeyedhand.com

posted in Santa Cruz - 4 replies

Save Gobo

2008-02-08T05:50:43Z

Sean (aka DJ Gobo) has been promoting and encouraging the goth/industrial scene in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area for decades. He was recently diagnosed with Lymphoma. His prognosis is excellent and he is currently undergoing treatment through Standford Medical. Please join us on this special night and help him with his struggle.

If you are unable to attend please visit http://www.savegobo.com and donate what you can.

Please feel free to forward this announcement on to any lists or groups that would be apropriate.

If you would like to help distribute flyers, they may be found here http://www.savegobo.com/files

Friday, Feb 15th
at The Blue Lagoon
923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA
9:30pm-1:30am
$5-10 Donation 21+ with ID

Performances by
Audio Terrorists
Rick Walker
plus Special Guests

---
rodent (putting the eek in geek)

posted in Santa Cruz - 2 replies

EOTO feat. Jason Hann & Mike Travis (SCI) + Seve Molitz (Particle)

2008-02-07T20:34:23Z

it's not quite as cheesy but it sho is greezy !

Wed Feb 6th
@ The Attic in Santa Cruz 931 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz

EOTO feat. Jason Hann and Mike Travis from (SCI)
plus special guest Seve Molitz (Particle)

& DJ Little John
+ guest TBA

This is an early show, doors @ 7:30 pm
$10 presale will be available
$12 @ the door the night of the show
http://www.theatticsantacruz.com

(thanks to ~Lil John~ for posting over in Jam Bands tribe)

posted in Santa Cruz - 3 replies

Byron Space Circus - Psychedelic Lounge Funk (Feb 6 & 8)

2008-02-06T22:53:37Z

Tomorrow night!

Byron Space Circus out of Santa Cruz (formerly of Minnesota)

Listen to some tunes on their MySpace page, and read more about them at JamBase.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=41667205

http://www.jambase.com/Artists/Bio.aspx?ArtistID=22462

February 6th, Crepe Place (restaurant) at 1134 Soquel Ave in Santa Cruz
8pm doors, 9pm show, $5 at the door

http://www.thecrepeplace.com/

February 8th, Don Quixote's on Hwy 9 in Felton, CA
With Five Eyed Hand
8pm $7, ages 21+

http://www.donquixotesmusic.info/

posted in Santa Cruz - 1 reply

Umbrella Man

2008-02-06T15:19:40Z

Who is he? Cracks me up. Kinda looks like one of my teachers from Cabrillo who always talks about him. They could be related.

posted in Santa Cruz - 38 replies

note from tribe.net: Please assign a moderator

2008-02-05T23:22:52Z

Hey there, "Santa Cruz" members--

This Tribe doesn't have an active moderator, but as a matter of policy, Tribe.net likes all groups to have a leader. Can you collectively choose someone to moderate your Tribe?

When you've reached consensus, have the new moderator send a note to help@tribe.net and c.c. wendy@tribe.net, with the words "Moderator Change – Santa Cruz " in the subject header, letting us know that you've selected a new leader. Please be sure to include a link to this discussion thread!

Thanks--

TOU (Terms of Use) Guy

posted in Santa Cruz - 8 replies

LOOKING FOR A FRIENDLY ROOMMATE ON SEASIDE ST

2008-01-29T19:09:09Z

im looking for someone to share the back unit of my buddies house with me. the unit is completely seperated from the front and is two stories. we would share the entire units space together. the bottom is a living room and a kitchen and the top is a bathroom and a big room my old roommate and i shared. like i said, this is the back unit of my friends house and i recently moved in myself because of the wonderful opportunity. with that being said, there is also access to the yard, tool shed, etc.

rent is $600 PLUS UTILITIES ($50 - $75) and it is available on the 1st of March.

the property is located right next to Safeway on mission st. its about a 10 minute ride to campus and also downtown.

a little about me; im a 21 year old male working in cupertino. i usually work from 9AM - 3PM mon - fri. im 420 friendly, outgoing, and respectful.

you can reach me at thealenbomb@hotmail.com and ill be more than happy to give you more information.

i look forward to your response!

posted in Santa Cruz - 0 replies