Saturday • January 10 • 12-4 PM • Sign Making • wheelchair accessible • FreeResource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Santa Cruz• Immediately After • 4-5 PM • Honor Everyone Harmed by ICESigns on Ocean St • Santa Cruz The Resource Center for Nonviolence invites you to gather to make signs onContinue reading “Pre-MLK March Community Sign-Making with RCNV **AND** Community Response Action”
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Emergency Food Resources
We’re publishing Supervisor Justin Cummings list of local food resources as Santa Cruz County declares a local food emergency due to federal food aid delays. Please consider donating funds or food to one or more of these agencies.
50 Years since “Wounded Lee” in Watsonvillewith Indian Elder Patrick Orozco
Wednesday • Nov 5 • 12 – 2 PM • Free • wheelchair accessibleUCSC Cowell Hay Barn • 94 Ranch View Rd • Santa Cruz We gather in recognition of Amah-Ka-Tura, a symbol of the enduring legacy and successful efforts of Patrick Orozco and the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council. Today, we honor Patrick’s unwaveringContinue reading “50 Years since “Wounded Lee” in Watsonvillewith Indian Elder Patrick Orozco”
Film Screening: The Mask You Live In
Wednesday • Nov 5 • 5 PM Doors • 6 PM Film • 7:45 Panel • DiscussionJoin a free community screening of documentary The Mask You Live In (IMDB),exploring the challenges boys and young men face in staying true to themselves while navigating society’s narrow expectations of masculinity.
Fight Back Fall – SURJ National Action Hours
Ongoing Every Other Wednesday • 5 PM • OnlineNext Date: Nov 12 Join SURJ National on Wednesdays — whether you are new to SURJ, or have been organizing with us for a while — to take action together. We do things like call and write representatives and make public comments on government websites. Each action hourContinue reading “Fight Back Fall – SURJ National Action Hours”
No Kings Rally & March – in Santa Cruz and Watsonville
Saturday • October 18 • wheelchair accessible Santa Cruz: 10 AM – 12 PM • San Lorenzo Park + Volunteer Sign Up formWatsonville: Noon – 2 PM • Watsonville City Plaza Watsonville: Sign making party at the Watsonville Public House (625 Main Street) 4:00-6:00, Thursday, October 16. Supplies will be provided. Local Indivisible chapters are organizing No Kings Mass Rallies in Santa CruzContinue reading “No Kings Rally & March – in Santa Cruz and Watsonville”
La Ofrenda – RCNV’s Annual Fundraiserwith Keynote speaker Dr Paul Ortiz
Saturday • Nov 1 • 4 – 7 PM •
Resource Center for Nonviolence • Santa Cruz • Join the RCNV for La Ofrenda, a sacred gathering where memory meets movement, as they honor the ancestors of justice and kindle the flames of tomorrow’s freedom struggles.
We Survived the Night
Monday • Oct 27 • 7 PM •
London Nelson Community Center • Santa Cruz • Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night.
Join Dolores Huerta, Danny Sheehan, Chase Iron Eyes and others for “People of the Americas Unite for Fair Immigration Policy”
Friday • October 24 • 6 – 10 PM •
Veterans Memorial Building • Santa Cruz • Join the People of the Americas Unite event at the Veterans Memorial Building to come together in a spirit of unity, compassion, and democracy to shape a more inclusive approach to immigration and foreign policy.
“Unapologetic” Film Screening and Discussion – TWO SHOWINGS
Tuesday • October 21 • Wednesday • October 22 • Santa Cruz Black’s last offering in their BLACK On Screen is Unapologetic, a film that challenges viewers to consider what being “unapologetic” demands of those who resist—refusing respectability politics and embracing the discomfort of speaking truth to power.
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA 