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UC Santa Cruz POWWOW
Sunday • May 18 • 11 AM – 6 PM • wheelchair accessible
Kaiser Permanente Arena • 140 Front St • Santa Cruz • Free • Hosted by the American Indian Resource Center • The UCSC Powwow 2025 will be a unique opportunity for UCSC and greater community to engage and celebrate Native American/Indigenous culture, song and dance.
Museum of Art and History’s London Nelson Legacy Initiative
Three Dates and Locations in May:
Monday, May 5 • Thursday, May 8 • Friday, May 9
• The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History has scheduled a series of events honoring and celebrating the life of London Nelson, an early resident of Santa Cruz, as part of its London Nelson Legacy Initiative. Nelson is known as a formerly enslaved person who settled in Santa Cruz, had a successful business as a shoemaker, and willed his land to the Santa Cruz school district upon his passing.
AMAH MUTSUN TRIBAL BAND
Weed ‘Em Out! Cascade Creek Work Day
Saturday • May 3 • 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM • Free
Cascade Ranch • 3100 Cabrillo Hwy Pescadero • Join Pie Ranch and Amah Mutsun Land Trust to remove eucalyptus sprouts and other invasive species from Cascade Creek on Año Nuevo Point!
UNDERSTANDING ZIONISM: a 6-PART STUDY for the PALESTINE MOVEMENT
Online classes Tuesdays and Fridays • April 29-May 15 • 6:30-8 pm • PLUS a culminating event at the RCNV on Wed, May 21
Tuesdays and Fridays • April 29-May 15 • 6:30-8 pm • Free • Resource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Wheelchair accessible • Join the Palestinian Youth Movement and the People’s Forum in a rigorous study of Zionism in order to strengthen the movement for Palestine.
Juristac Event: Amah Mutsun Efforts to Protect Sacred Lands
Saturday • April 19 • 5 – 7:30 PM • FREE Luna Gallery • 107 B The Alameda • San Juan Bautista A free informational event about the efforts of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band to protect their most sacred mountain, Juristac, from a proposed mining project near the Pajaro River and Highway 129. There will be speakers, a short film, andContinue reading “Juristac Event: Amah Mutsun Efforts to Protect Sacred Lands”
How Fairy Tales Became White
Tuesday • April 8 • 6:30 – 7:30 PM • FREE • wheelchair accessibleDowntown Library • 224 Church St • Santa Cruz Please join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. Note:Continue reading “How Fairy Tales Became White”
Reimagining Public Safety: Session 1 -Defining Community
Join Aliyya Hatcher and Jasmine Schlafke for the Word is Bond Collective’s first session of the year. Saturday • March 15 • 12:30 – 3:30 PM
Movement Mixer!
Tuesday • March 18 • 5:30-7:30 • wheelchair accessibleAbbott Square • 118 Cooper St • Santa Cruz Join us and many other local grassroots organizations working on a variety of issues in Santa Cruz and beyond. This is a mainly social event and we are encouraging attendees to eat and drink together as we get to know eachContinue reading “Movement Mixer!”
Watsonville Cannery Strike
Saturday • March 15 • 1:00 – 4:30 • FREE • wheelchair accessibleWatsonville Public Library • 275 Main St, 4F • Watsonville In September 1985, in response to their employers drastically slashing salaries and health benefits, almost 2,000 workers at two canneries in Watsonville, the vast majority Mexicanas, went on strike. Over an 18-month period, these rank-and-file workersContinue reading “Watsonville Cannery Strike”
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA 