Category Archives: Current

Cultivating Care

4th Monday of the Month • Next Meeting June 22nd • 5:30-7:30 PM • Free• Ocean View Park
• wheelchair accessible • Join us to actively build an anti-racist culture by understanding and dismantling white supremacy as it exists in ourselves and our culture.

Film Screening: Space Is the Place  +  Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

Friday • June 19 • 7:30 PM • $10 advance / $15 at the door
• The 418 Project – Small Theater • 155 S River St • Santa Cruz • Join the 418 Project for a special Juneteenth celebration honoring the visionary world of Sun Ra through an unforgettable double feature screening of SPACE IS THE PLACE (1974) and the new documentary SUN RA: DO THE IMPOSSIBLE (2025).

Juneteenth Celebration

Saturday • June 13 • 12 – 6 PM • wheelchair accessible • Free •
Santa Cruz City Hall (809 Center St) to Laurel Park (301 Center St) •
Santa Cruz Juneteenth celebrates Black Liberation and Freedom for our 35th year!

Read this Op-Ed: Let’s decriminalize mental illness: Santa Cruz doesn’t need a mental health jail

Lookout recently published an op-ed written by a couple of members of our Care Not Cages group, responding to a recent Lookout interview with Sheriff Clark where he floated an idea to build a mental health jail. We know that jail is not treatment, and incarceration only deepens trauma and mental illness. From the article’sContinue reading “Read this Op-Ed: Let’s decriminalize mental illness: Santa Cruz doesn’t need a mental health jail”