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Volunteers needed for TRUE GRIT - Monterey Burners 4th Annual Day-at-the-Beach

jenkaybird — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:13:22 GMT

Hello Everyone!

We are in process of putting the 4th annual m-pyre/monterey burners day-at-the-beach event together, and could use your help!

What it is:

Our 4th annual Day-at-the-Beach event - this is a community event, held on Del Monte Beach in Monterey, California. From 10a-10p we will have music, dancing, art, fire, fun, sharing, community, costumes and whatever you want to enjoy! This is a participation event, if you want to see it there, bring it! If you have questions, please feel free to email monterey@burningman.com to see if your art installation, art car, or theme camp would be a good fit.

These events are not free to throw, so to cover the cost of permits, insurance and to allow us to have future events, we are suggesting a donation of 10$ per person (you can pay via our website www.mpyreburn.com or at the event).

We have permits for full fire - this means if you like to spin fire or have fire toys you want to play with, please bring them! We also have room and permits for two burn barrels.

**For the junglebus that contacted me - please contact me again, your email was lost in a big mess of emails and I apologize for not getting back to you, PLEASE email me again**

Would you like to volunteer:

Right now, we could use some help. If you would like to volunteer we have the following opportunities open:

Fire Wrangler: this would oversee anything on fire - burn barrels, fire toys, fire safety, etc. if you would like to do part of this task, or want to do it with a friend, let me know! We have permits for two burn barrels, if someone would like to donate their barrel(s) for use. Also, we have permits for full fire toy play on the beach, and we need to ahve someone oversee this and make sure we have a safety station. Also, we have an effigy coming (thank you Root!) and will be burning this in a barrel as well!

Sand Artisan: this would be anyone that would like to head up a sand art/castles event

DJ Booth/Altar Decorator: let us know if you are interested. Ian did an incredible job last year, and has now thrown the guantlet for all mpyre dj booths! step up and take the challenge!

Greeters/Greeter Lead: Would you like to greet!? lead the greeters? set up the greeters booth? let us know - greeting is fun, essential and is the face of mpyre! let the community know what we are about and welcome them in. Its a great time and a lot of fun.

Rangers: We still could use some more Rangers for this event, and someone to step up as the lead ranger, please let us know if you are interested.

Green Beans: This is just a matter of keeping an eye on the recycling bins and trash during a designated time during the event. Mike & Nikki have been incredibly gracious to volunteer to do lead this up for us, and they could use some volunteers. If you would be interested in keeping an eye on recycling or helping out with that, it would be greatly appreciated!

If you have any interest in volunteering, or helping out. Please contact monterey@burningman.com and let us know!

Thanks in advance for your help and looking forward to seeing you there!

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TRUE GRIT: 4th Annual Monterey Beach Burn - December 5th!

jenkaybird — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:26:36 GMT

mpyre, the monterey bay burning man regional group presents:

TRUE GRIT: An official Burning Man Event!

We would love to see you at Del Monte Beach in Monterey for ten fun filled hours of music, djs, art, dance, fire performance, costumes, silliness, participation and more!

Come on out for your opportunity to creatively express yourself, or enjoy the creative expression everyone else is sharing!

Suggested donation is 10$ a person, but no one is turned away for lack of funds, so please, join the fun!

We do have fire permits for the beach, so if you would like to participate in fire performance, please come out and spin!

Theme camps are encouraged, as well as being right on the beach, we have some great opportunities for sand art!!! What are you going to bring to share with the Monterey community?

If you have a project or art idea that you would like to share, or are interested in volunteering with TRUE GRIT, please email monterey@burningman.com or go to www.mpyreburn.com for more information.

*all mpyre events are LEAVE NO TRACE and we encourage you to be a part of that during this event and all other events you participate in!

who: mpyre, the monterey regional burning man group

what: an all-day regional burning man event for the local burning man and central coast communities

when: saturday, december 5th - 12n-10p

where: del monte beach, next to monterey bay kayaks

why: because it is fun and a great time to come together as a community!

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Boots-n-Beats-n-Bacon Campout!! Fremont Peak!! March 6-8!!!

jenkaybird — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:29:14 GMT

m-pyre, the burning man regional group, is hosting a campout at Fremont Peak State Park on March 6-8

boots-n-beats-n-bacon - a three day campout to get our community together, relive our burn, cook some bacon, create new memories, have a lot of fun and come together as a community - m-pyre has a longstanding tradition of drinking out of boots, so we are here to celebrate the boot!!! bring your best boot to drink out of and bacon to share!!

this is a full weekend of art, costumes, music, dancing, chilling, playing, frolicking and YOU celebrating life, love and self expression!

Ticket and group site camping: 15$ per person
Ticket only, camping NOT included: 10$ per person

There is a main community area that is the group campsite for Fremont Peak State Park (http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=564), this is where the music and all main activities will be taking place. There is limited camping room at the group site. Camping at the group site will be limited to the first 50 people that pay to camp there. Everyone else will need to book their own campsite at the park, those sites are 11$ a night and can fit up to eight people per site.

All fees go to pay for the campsite and associated administrative fees for this event and future m-pyre events, such as the upcoming 2nd Annual SoulStance event on June 19-21 (www.soulstanceinfo.com)!

*Remember all federal, state and local laws apply

*No refunds, comps, or exceptions

**at this moment, the website for registering (www.mpyreburn.com) is not reflecting the current updates for the campout, that will be updated shortly - until then please paypal your camp fees to mpyre.treasury@gmail.com

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact m-pyre at monterey@burningman.com

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What's Taking Ciao Bella's Place?

Brigit — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:09:46 GMT

I was visiting the home turf the other day up in the SLV and noticed work going on in the now-defunct Ciao Bella restaurant in Ben Lomond (which massively bums me out that Tad closed up--but that's another story). Just wondering if anyone has heard what if anything is taking its place--or are the building owners just spiffing it up in hopes of selling or renting?

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looking for investors

djseek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:43:17 GMT

Hey

This has nothing to do with music, but figured I'd throw this out there to the families.

I have begun making my own cigarettes and I've put together a new blend that seriously with enough backing could revolutionize smoking much like American Spirits did when they came out.

Yes, smoking is bad, but also a whole mess of us still do it.

Without giving too much away, these are filtered cigarettes with all organic ingredients. In the last two months, I've been taste-testing these with people and there has only been one single person who didn't instantly love them.

So, rather than have yet another awesome idea that can't be fulfilled because of lack of funds, I am putting this out to the ether to see what sticks.

In order for this to really work, it is going to take some serious cash flow. I don't want to approach the actual cigarette companies on this, this deserves a brand new company and brand new idea.

Monetary investments need to be minimum $10k per investor. Anything less would be too much trouble to keep track of.

There are many other areas that can be worked out instead of a monetary investment. These items can be available in exchange for a portion of the company; this is your 'stock option' option. If funding becomes available, these positions could be paid positions.

Opportunities that are available:
1. R&D:
a. Research benefits/histories of ingredients
b. Present to general public (taste-testing) and collect response data
c. Develop database of response data with demographic information
2. Manufacturing:
a. All cigarettes are hand made (with a cigarette injector) for the moment, would need people to produce cigarettes for R&D
3. Supply:
a. Research/Communicate with possible ingredient suppliers (must be organic)
b. Research/Communicate with possible mass-manufacturing companies
4. Branding/Advertising:
a. need branding/design concepts/website
b. Advertising inquiries/contracts
5. Legal:
a. need patent legal
b. need tobacco-related legal
c. need investment legal

If you have any questions and/or are interested or would simply like a taste-test, you can contact me at djseek@sugarpartysantacruz.com. The success of this product will depend heavily on the people behind it. I am looking for national/international distribution rather than merely regional.

love, light and a little bit of ice cream
-Art

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Digg December 08 Schedule

djseek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:17:47 GMT

Oi. Got your Monday night sexy-time all lined up for ya for December. Got all sorts of cool folks and sick beats coming your way.

December 2008 Schedule:

Monday Dec 1st:
Abai (Street Ritual, SF) - orignal dub/hiphop - www.myspace.com/abaimusic
Nanda (Muti Music) - original IDM breaks - www.myspace.com/soundofnanda

Monday Dec 8th:
Cybert (Ceiba Records) - progressive/psytrance - www.ceibarec.com
DJ Elijah (Soldiers of Love, WI) - d-n-b/hip-hop (new to town, friend of Rastatronics)

Monday Dec 15th:
Rendr801(Subwize/Dubscouts) - dubstep/d-n-b - www.myspace.com/rendr801
Fire Lieber (Subwize) - dubstep/d-n-b - www.myspace.com/ganja_we_smoke

Monday Dec 22nd:
brother (spaceshipgaia/13moontribe) - tribal house/breaks
Olivia (13moontribe)

Monday Dec 29th:
Chlorophil (Cosmic Leaf/Ajana Records) - down-tempo/ethno breaks - www.myspace.com/chlorodjinnscoloringbook
coolhandluke (spaceshipgaia/the whole world) - acid/house/breaks - www.myspace.com/djcoolhandluke

Digg
Mondays with djseek and friends
Giza Hookah Lounge
1515 Mission St. (Mission and Bay)
9pm - 12am+
FREE
18+ with id

http://digg.sugarpartysantacruz.com

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SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS NEED BLANKETS! Blanket Drive with Five Eyed Hand at Moe's Alley Thursday, Nov 13

DerekBodkin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:19:43 GMT

Greetings to all...
Santa Cruz's own two hometown bands "Five Eyed Hand" and "7 Come 11" will be helping sponsor a Blanket Drive with the Santa Cruz Homeless Services Center.

"Five Eyed Hand" hits the stage at 9pm sharp! Each band plays one set. "7 Come 11" is on next and will finish the evening.

The Homeless Services Shelter website is www.scshelter.org. Their mission is dedication to the coordinated provision of services for homeless persons. The goal of the HSC is to provide both emergency and transitional services to homeless individuals and families that will enable clients to achieve self-sufficiency.

Please bring a blanket, new or used (but in good condition) to our show at Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz, this Thursday, November 13th. 9pm

FOR THIS SPECIAL SHOW... those who donate a blanket will receive a special gift pack and more!!

Many thanks from Five Eyed Hand. Help us warm up those that need it. It's getting cold.

Show information:
MOE's ALLEY
Thursday, November 13th 9p.m.
1535 Commercial Way
Santa Cruz, California
www.moesalley.com
Tickets $5 adv, $8 door

BAND WEBSITE: www.FiveEyedHand.com

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mpyre campout - oct 17-19 - apocaLIPS update!

jenkaybird — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:05:37 GMT

***due to the esclating fires in our original location, we have changed the location - here is the text that is heading out to everyone - lets start posting everywhere!!!! we need to fix the flier and that is being done as we speak, but here is the relevant info - the webpage should be updated in the next day or so for everyone to secure their spot - if you arent concerned about camping in the group area, just book your sites now at the fremont peak state park website (see below)

Who: m-pyre, the Monterey Bay Regional Burning Man group

What: A three day campout to get our community together, relive our burn, create new memories, have a lot of fun and come together as a community

When: October 17-19

Where: Fremont Peak State Park www.parks.ca.gov/

Why: Silly rabbit, tricks are for everyone!

There is a main community area that is the group campsite for Fremont Peak State Park, this is where the music and all main activities will be taking place. There is limited camping room at the group site. Camping at the group site will be limited to the first 25 people that pay to camp there. Everyone else will need to book their own campsite at the park, those sites are 11$ a night and can fit up to eight people per site.

Ticket and group site camping: 15$ per person
Ticket only, camping NOT included: 10$ per person

Ticket sales at www.mpyreburn.com (website should be up in about 24hours)

All fees go to pay for the campsite and associated administrative fees for this event and future m-pyre events, such as the upcoming 2nd Annual m-pyre Day at the Beach event on December 6th!

For more information about that event, please click here

*Remember all federal, state and local laws apply

*No refunds

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact m-pyre at monterey@burningman.com

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Vote FIVE EYED HAND for New Groove of the Month on Jambands.com

DerekBodkin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:38:19 GMT

LEND THE HAND A HELPING HAND!!!

This post is a request for help with the hard working Santa Cruz band, "Five Eyed Hand". On the website "Jambands.com". Five Eyed Hand has happily been voted into this contest. Winning this contest is very good for Five Eyed Hand's continued efforts to keep the 'churning' musical energy going, attain even more national exposure, and more... they need your help.

www.jambands.com/Jambands250/

You can vote often... every two hours or so... and if you feel comfortable, we'd really appreciate it if you passed this website on to your music loving friends, web groups, chatrooms, and the like. Please help. They're in second place. So close, but yet so far.

If Five Eyed Hand wins they get national exposure on this website and will be introduced to many more music loving fans like you. Plus... you get to know each of us a little better.

Thanks, again, for your support of live music in these challenging times. Please vote, often, for "Five Eyed Hand" for the "New Groove of the Month" at www.jambands.com/Jambands250/.

Thanks for reading! Thanks for voting! Thanks for your support! LEND THE HAND A HELPING HAND!
Peace
db

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djseek looking for a place again

djseek — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:59:24 GMT

Yo

so, yeah, did this before just about a month ago. Ended up staying at my current spot but now's the time to go.

So here's the deal: Looking for a new place to live for Oct. 1 Can go up to $750 or so. Not worried about location so long as it's with good folks. I got 2 cats with me (indoor/outdoor), plus some soundsystem stuff (could fit in garage or shed or something).

Super mellow, get along with everybody, did all my drugs years ago, but totally cool of course if you're doing em. Actually, I'm still known to partake like maybe once a year.

Web designer from home and generally spend the day working and organizing parties, etc.

Much love to ya all and see you on the dance floor.

djseek@sugarpartysantacruz.com
(831) 419-9403
-Art

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Ride available to Earthdance Los Gatos

djseek — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:33:23 GMT

Heya

I have room in my car leaving today (Friday) to Earthdance in Los Gatos if needed. I have room for 3 more people in exchange for gas money.

Hit me up
djseek@sugarpartysantacruz.com
(831) 419-9403

-Art (djseek)

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Sugar will be closing this month

djseek — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:46:05 GMT

Hello all my lovely-dovies...

So, you may or may not have heard yet that Sugar will be closing our doors at the end of this month. We are very sad about this, but it needs to be done. Many outside forces plus financial ones just aren't keeping it afloat anymore.

We have all had an awesome time along the way and of course this doesn't mean under any circumstances that we are all retiring or something silly like that, we're just going to take a break and regroup a bit.

Full moons are still in effect. In fact this Sunday night (Sept 14th) is coming your way. We will be working on other items for the future. Digg is happening at Giza on Monday nights. It is free and very nice. 18+ unfortunately though, sorry.

I'll be sending out directions for this Sunday's fullmoon on Sunday afternoon.

Other important events for you:

Frinday 09/12: Fairytales and Angels at 418 Project
http://www.myspace.com/havefunsf

Friday 9/12-Sunday 9/14: Earthdance in Los Gatos (yours truly is playing 11pm Friday night)
http://www.earthdance.org/losgatos/

Sunday 9/14: Sugar/Subwize fullmoon
http://sugarpartysantacruz.com/#event_33

Monday 09/15: Digg at Giza with Mimosa and Clay
http://digg.sugarpartysantacruz.com/#event_30

Thursday 09/18: Sugar with myself playing dubstep, Rastatronics, Dj Boggle, and Mercedes
http://sugarpartysantacruz.com/#event_31

Friday 09/19: Night Sweats at the Vets Hall (plus Sugar produced outdoor afterparty)
http://www.myspace.com/justforuraves
http://sugarpartysantacruz.com/#event_34

Monday 09/23: Digg at Giza with Danny Yun and dj Toa
http://digg.sugarpartysantacruz.com/#event_31

Thursday 09/25: *** CLOSING NIGHT *** with Rastatronics, Steve Eatough, Athena, and myself.
http://sugarpartysantacruz.com/#event_32

Monday 09/29: Digg at Giza with Steve Eatough and Toxic Rainbow
http://digg.sugarpartysantacruz.com/#event_32

We love you all and hope we had a good impact on your lives along the way.

Keep up
-Art (djseek)
www.sugarpartysantacruz.com
www.myspace.com/sugarpartysc
http://tribes.tribe.net/sugarpartysc

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Five Eyed Hand with Izabella TONIGHT in Santa Cruz!

DerekBodkin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:07:54 GMT

Five Eyed Hand and Izabella
Tonight... Moe's Alley... don't miss it!!!
www.moesalley.com

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Sugar August Schedule :))

djseek — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:48:39 GMT

The schedule for August has been solidified!!

An awesome month coming for ya. Visiting us from our Northern yonder are Jasonian (Organic North/Funky Techno Tribe), Ivan Ruiz (Delta Funk/Tweekin Records, SF), Bomb-o-klod vs DJP (Tri-Atom/Bad*Kidz), Antiserum (Full Melt/Mode/NarcoHz, SF), and Dubsworth (Full Melt, SF).

Local super heroes include Cybert (Ceiba Records), Fire Lieber (High-4), Nanda (Mutimusic), LB (Giza), plus the Sugar residents Steve Eatough (Sugar/djessential), Rob Monroy (Sugar/Raindance), djseek (Sugar/spaceshipgaia), and Rastatronics (Sugar/Subwize)

you can view pics/bios at the site here: www.sugarpartysantacruz.com

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DJs for August

Thursday 08/07
-- my trance and your trance sittin by the fire --
Hoo boy, have we got a night for you! Not only do we got our resident trance-inclined djs (djseek and Steve Eatough) playing tonight, but we also welcome Bomb-o-klod of Bad*Kidz and DJP of Tri-Atom doing a full on tag-team freakout and a long-awaited visit from Cybert from Ceiba Records in SF.

Gonna be a super high-flyin peak-hour freakfest.. if you miss, you lose..

9 - 10:15 :: djseek (Sugar/spaceshipgaia) - tribal house/breaks
10:15 - 11:15 :: Steve Eatough (Sugar/djessential) - electro/breaks/trance
11:15 - 12:15 :: Bomb-o-klod vs DJP (Tri-Atom/Bad*Kidz) - Bouncy Scouse House
12:15 - 1:15 :: Cybert (Ceiba Records) - psytrance

Thursday 08/14
-- the return of dub --
Dubstep, love it, leave it, but goddamit, you best not deny it's power. Who in their right mind don't like their private parts humming with bass by speakers took to their limits?

Dubworth and Antiserum make a fuckin ridiculously cool appearance to the little room that could. Anybody in the dubstep arena already are well-versed about these guys. If you're unaware, you gonna be schooled with bass wobble sickness.

Sugar also welcomes Fire Lieber to our attic. She kicks ass.

And of course Rastatronics is going to play tonight. Who better to set you all straight?

9 - 10:15 :: Fire Lieber (High-4) - dubstep/d-n-b
10:15 - 11:15 :: Rastatronics (Sugar/Subwize) - dubstep/d-n-b
11:15 - 12:15 :: Dubsworth (Full Melt, SF) - dubstep
12:15 - 1:15 :: Antiserum (Full Melt/Mode/NarcoHz, SF) - dubstep

Thursday 08/21
-- to the batcave!! --
Haha. Somewhere along the line, I associated tribal with batcave and thus, you got your cool heading for tonight.

Seriously though, tonight is gonna rock you.

We are super stoked to have Santa Cruz's own unique-beat master, Nanda (Mutimusic), who's gonna show you how things can always take the interesting road. Most already know his bass-rollin creations, those of you who don't are gonna git down with a vengeance. We also are finally getting a long-awaited visit from your good friend Jasonian from Organic North and Funky Techno Tribe. Jasonian will make the Vets Hall shake with an awesome, meticulous blend of funcky tech and booty-shakin breaks.

Rob Monroy starts our night and djseek rolls it forward.

9 - 10:15 :: Rob Monroy (Sugar/Raindance) - house/tech-house
10:15 - 11:15 :: djseek (Sugar/spaceshipgaia) - tribal house/breaks
11:15 - 12:15 :: Jasonian (Organic north/Funky Techno Tribe) - Eastcoast house/breaks
12:15 - 1:15 :: Nanda (Mutimusic) - IDM Breaks

Thursday 08/28
-- burn baby burn --
Yes, many will be out in the desert lettin the freak flags freak, but we gonna do just fine in our neat little freak-box on our own.

Tonight we welcome a special dope visit from Ivan Ruiz (Tweekin Records, SF). A good friend of Rob's, Ivan gonna throw you for that loop you keep coming back for. Tonight we also got a super uber-rare all breaks tagteam set by LB (Giza) and our own Rastatronics. Both are huge dubstep locals, but tonight they gonna kick things up a notch just for you.

Steve Eatough starts and Rob Monroy keeps the blood flowin, or bollin... we like both.

9 - 10:15 :: Steve Eatough (Sugar/djessential) - electro/breaks/trance
10:15 - 11:15 :: Rob Monroy (Sugar/Raindance) - house/tech-house
11:15 - 12:15 :: Ivan Ruiz (Delta Funk/Tweekin Records, SF) - house/deep tribal
12:15 - 1:15 :: LB vs Rastatronics (Giza/Subwize) - Special all breaks tagteam

See ya soon!!
-Art (djseek)
www.sugarpartysantacruz.com
www.myspace.com/sugarpartysc
http://tribes.tribe.net/sugarpartysc

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m-pyre day at the beach - FUN DAY AND AFTERPARTY! JULY 26th!!

jenkaybird — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:39:53 GMT

for everyone that is planning to attend the m-pyre day at the beach event, there is an AFTERPARTY at the ol factory cafe from 11p-4a on the night of july 26th

july 26th from 10a-10p there is a family day at the beach party that has djs all day and fire spinners and burn barrels and all sorts of fun!!

hollah if you need details - suggested donation is 10$ and go to www.mpyreburn.com to donate or go to the tribe:

http://tribes.tribe.net/m-pyre-bonfire

to sign up!!!

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M-PYRE Day at the Beach

Griffin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:45:41 GMT

Yes, that's right, we're planning another bonfire for Del Monte Beach.

July 26th, 10am-10pm - After party is in the works

Music all day, fire performance at night, art, food, love, happiness.

This is an officially recognized Burning Man event, so bring your art, bring your friends, bring whatever it is you like to share, especially fire wood.

We're asking for a $10 donation to offset our costs for permits and insurance. Yes, that's right, we've got permits for fire performances.

go to www.mpyreburn.com for more information.

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Sugar July Schedule

djseek — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:25:26 GMT

Just a heads up for y'all regarding djs coming in July for Sugar. Got a super nice month for you. Plenty of your local favorites plus a few new visiting djs such as Dj Beebo (Aqua Lounge, SJ), Billy Casazza (Opulent Temple, nutbass.com, Santa Rosa), Dj Das (Amazing Groove,Berkeley), and Jasonian (Organic north/Funky Techno Tribe, Santa Rosa).

Other local favorites include: Dave J (Subwize), Alia (Raindance), Ananta (13moontribe), Toxic Rainbow (Just 4 u), Dane Ostrander (Stumblejuice), Dub Pirates (SC), and rendr801 (dubscouts/mechanized records).

you can view pics/bios at the site here: www.sugarpartysantacruz.com

Also, Sugar will be moving upstairs to the "Bill Motto" room. We were up in that room a few weeks back when Taj played. Not only is the Bill Motto room down-right beautiful, as those who came when we were there before already know, the energy level in that room is huge.

Djs for July:
One of the special items on July's plate is that each of the Sugar resident djs are playing special 1.5 hour closing sets. We figured we deserved to treat ourselves since we are all super-duper stars :))

Thursday 07/03
-- independence day blowout --
Sugar welcomes one of SC's coolest house djs, Dj Beebo who has been rocking the local scene forever and is loved near and far for his funky house and good vibes. Also playing tonight is Billy Casazza. Seriously a fuckin awesome dj and and awesome guy. You will freak out happily :)) Steve Eatough will be playing a special 1.5 hour closing set and that can't be anything but good shit.

9 - 9:45 :: Rob Monroy (Sugar/Raindance) - house/tech-house
9:45 - 10:45 :: Dj Beebo (Aqua Lounge) - house/electro
10:45 - 11:45 :: Billy Casazza (Opulent Temple, nutbass.com) - Electro/Progressive
11:45 - 1:15 :: Steve Eatough (Sugar/nitevibe.com) - electro/breaks/trance [[ special 1.5 hour set ]]

Thursday 07/10
-- you in my house now --
Tonight welcomes back one of the hottest new SC djs around, Dave J. Many of you have seen him throw down with perfect finesse at last month's Sugar and also at many of the recent full moon parties. A seriously sick dj. We are also super stoked to welcome back Raindance's Alia. Alia has been an integral part of the Santa Cruz scene forever and is one of the best djs around. Rob Monroy finishes tonight with a special 1.5 hour closing set. Seriously, don't miss cause Rob kicks ass as you already know.

9 - 9:45 :: Rastatronics (Sugar/Subwize) - dubstep/d-n-b
9:45 - 10:45 :: Dave J (Subwize) - Chicago house
10:45 - 11:45 :: Alia (Raindance) - breaks
11:45 - 1:15 :: Rob Monroy (Sugar/Raindance) - house/tech-house [[ special 1.5 hour set ]]

Thursday 07/17
-- tribal git down --
Tonight, we welcome two very cool friends to Sugar. Dj Das, who migrated from Santa Cruz to Berkeley and used to produce Saturday nights at the Blue Lagoon plus many full moon parties last year will be playing a entire set of his original tracks. Seriously fuckin ridiculously awesome shit. Also playing is Jasonian. Hailing from our friends up north, Jasonian throws down chunky tribal infused funky Eastcoast house with an awesome energetic infectious flair. You will be bouncing up and down with an ear to ear smile. djseek rounds out the tribal madhouse with a full 1.5 hour closing set.

9 - 9:45 :: Steve Eatough (Sugar/nitevibe.com) - electro/breaks/trance
9:45 - 10:45 :: Dj Das (Amazing Groove) - all original tribal
10:45 - 11:45 :: Jasonian (Organic north/Funky Techno Tribe) - Eastcoast house/breaks
11:45 - 1:15 :: djseek (Sugar/spaceshipgaia) - tribal house/breaks [[ special 1.5 hour set ]]

Thursday 07/24
-- everybody loves trance --
Haha. Cause even if you claim to not like trance, we know you got a soft spot for it. Tonight will be full on. Although not playing trance, Ananta will be getting things rolling with a special down-tempo, breaks infused, booty-licious set that we know you gonna enjoy. Steve Eatough gonna be helping bring things up to speed to set the stage for our special guests. Toxic Rainbow (aka Evan of Just 4 u raves) will be taking things to the stratosphere, hands in tha air greatness and Dane Ostrander (aka Dane O) will round out the night with a kick ass trance, electro, and original breaks beatdown. Oh my, you gonna sweat tonight :))

9 - 10:15 :: Ananta (13moontribe) - hip-hop/breaks
10:15 - 11:15 :: Steve Eatough (Sugar/nitevibe.com) - electro/breaks/trance
11:15 - 12:15 :: Toxic Rainbow (Just for u) - epic trance
12:15 - 1:15 :: Dane Ostrander (Stumblejuice) - breaks/electro

Thursday 07/31
-- bass to yo gut --
Tonight gonna be a full on bucket o' bass shot straight to your dome. Sugar welcomes the Dub Pirates throwin down the best rollin dubstep around. We also welcome rendr801 whose infectious grooves will have your body twisting and butt freaking back to your tribal roots. And of course, you can't ever go wrong with Rastatronics who will be taking things straight to the feet of the dubstep gods with a full 1.5 hour closing set. Haile Selassie I indeed...

9 - 9:45 :: djseek (Sugar/spaceshipgaia) - tribal house/breaks
9:45 - 10:45 :: Dub Pirates (SC) - dubstep
10:45 - 11:45 :: rendr801 (dubscouts/mechanized records) - dubstep/d-n-b
11:45 - 1:15 :: Rastatronics (Sugar/Subwize) - dubstep/d-n-b [[ special 1.5 hour set ]]

Mad love all around..
-Art (djseek)
www.sugarpartysantacruz.com
www.myspace.com/sugarpartysc
tribes.tribe.net/sugarpartysc

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Five Eyed Hand tonight in Santa Cruz (Moes Alley)

DerekBodkin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:20:21 GMT

FIVE EYED HAND at Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz - TUESDAY, JUNE 3rd, 2008

Hi Hand Fans,
This Tuesay, June 3rd, 2008... Five Eyed Hand will be performing at Moe's Alley. A Tuesday night show... starting 9 p.m. It's a school night so we'll respectfully be starting at 9pm. We'd be honored to have your support.

www.moesalley.com

Five Eyed Hand
Appearing Live at Moes Alley
Tuesday, June 3rd
Psychedelic Jam Jazz
9:00 PM, $5/7

Check out our website for more details, fun, and frivolity.
www.fiveeyedhand.com

JOIN OUR TRIBE! (for goodness sake!) http://tribes.tribe.net/fiveeyedhand?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5Bec83cabf-9158-4646-9c24-ef5ec0dc4468%5D

Be our Myspace friend : www.myspace.com/fiveeyedhand

TALK TO THE HAND : info@fiveeyedhand.com

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Dog Friendly Places....

Dreams — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:33:38 GMT

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...
( www.dogfriendly.com/server/t...ruz.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

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new hookah lounge open in santa cruz off Mission St!

chlorophil — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:14:19 GMT

hey folks the giza lounge is now open in Santa Cruz!

its located on 1515 mission st!! close to cafe brazil, open daily 7pm!!

spinning downtempo and chillout friday nights there!!

check it out!!

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Directions to Monterey Bonfire

Griffin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:49:06 GMT

From Highway 1, take the Del Monte Ave exit (in Monterey, not Marina or Seaside)
Follow Del Monte Ave until you get to Casa Verde (there is a stop light here)
Turn right on Case Verde, go up the hill until you see the beach.

You can park on Tide to unload, but do not leave your car there after dark. You WILL get a parking ticket.
Instead park on Seafoam, or one of the other residential streets.

To find the party, go to the small parking lot at the end of Tide. There will be two porta-potties there.
To the right of the porta-potties there will be a boardwalk trail heading towards Monterey, and down to the beach.
Walk down that trail, and we will be at the end of it.

Here is a map of the area.
scburners.tribe.net/photos/8...57afc9426
or you can use search for Tide Ave, in Monterey in whatever map website you like.

If you have any questions, let me know.

If you want my phone number, in case you get lost, PM me for it. I don't really want to post it here. But really, it's pretty simple to find.

The weather is still looking clear. Temp will be in the mid to high 30's so dress warm. It's supposed to be cloudy during the day, but clear at night, so don't let any day time clouds discourage you.

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let's do it on the beach

Griffin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:51:07 GMT

The Monterey Bay Area Burning Man Regional group (M-PYRE, don't ask what it stands for (we haven't decided)) will be hosting a bonfire on Del Monte beach in Monterey on December 1st.

The party will go from afternoon until late (playa time)

We need DJ's and Fire Dancers - contact griffinchilders@gmail.com if you would like to perform.
The DJ list is filing up fast so please respond quickly. Fire dancers... the more the merrier!

Please bring some wood to burn, some food to share, your own cocktails, art, some friends, and a smile. Playa wear is highly encouraged.

As of Nov. 13th, there are two porta-johns within 100 feet or so, and the fire rings are still on the beach (those were two concerns).
The plan is to take over two fire rings so that more people can enjoy the fire, so we need lots of wood. Rather than make somebody responsible for hauling around a ton of wood, I'd like everybody to bring s small bundle with them.

Directions:
From Hwy 1, take the Del Monte Ave exit
Stay on Del Monte Ave until you get to Case Verde
Turn Right on Case Verde
Go up the hill until you see the beach.
You can park on Tide to unload, but you will get a parking ticket if you stay there past dark. Instead, park on one of the residential streets further back.

We can use a few volunteers for set up, greeting, and designated driving. Contact me if you'd like to help out.

This event is open to everybody, burner or not. Just come out and have fun with us.

As always, this is a Leave No Trace event

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IPOH PRESENTS: TRIP-TOPHAN sat 11-24-07

chlorophil — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:28:52 GMT

Date & Time: 2007-11-24 10:00 PM
Location:
IPOH PRESENTS: TRIP-TOPHAN

IPOH, a collective of DJ?s from the Bay Area, presents it?s first party together, so let?s kick this one off proper!

It will be at a secured, cozy venue in Monterey, CA,

21+

Dress like a Pilgrim or Indian & I?ll buy your first drink - just leave the arrows and muskets at home! ;-)

The kitchen will be open and the bar is open til 2, after which there will be plenty of Redbull & water to go around

The party goes from 10pm-5am, but feel free to show up early & have a bite to eat or a drink while we get this thing started

Here?s the line-up:

10:00-11:10 Actual Rafiq (Ambient Mafia, IPOH, SJ)

11:10-12:20 DJ Dice (Straylight, SF)

12:20-1:30 Jeatbunkie (IPOH, Straylight MTY)

1:30-2:40 DJ Funktion Il (Il n? Naughty, SF)

2:40-3:50 Michael Liu (Illumination Records, SJ)

3:50-5:00 Chlorophil (Cosmic Leaf, Bay Area Folks)

Tickets are $6 through PayPal

To reserve yours send an email along with shipping details to:

eversoll@gmail.com

You will receive an email with a link to PayPal

Your ticket, venue location and handy map will be sent via US Mail, or if you prefer you can receive an online ticket with a confirmation number, just be prepared to show your ID at the door.

This party is expected to be sold out soon so make sure you get in touch sooner rather than later! We look forward to having you all down for a nice chill night of holiday fun and inebriation- see you there :-)

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apple moth spraying

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:47:33 GMT

here's an update on the aerial apple moth control spraying presently happening here in 831 country. anybody have anymore info?

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_313134037.html

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Don't pump gas on May 15th.

Scoundrel — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:25:50 GMT

WHAT CAN WE DO TO GET THE OIL COMPANIES TO LOWER THEIR INSANE PRICES? How about joining with thousands, if not millions, of Americans on May 15th and boycott the gas pumps?

Don't pump gas on May 15th.

In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

On May 15th 2007, all people you send this to, are requested to NOT buy gas in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.

If you agree then send this to everyone you know!!!

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A Crack in the Mask

Scoundrel — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:35:40 GMT

April 20, 21, 22 and 27, 28, 29 7:30 p.m.

The Attic, 931 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA. For More Information: 831-421-9523

Tickets are $20 advanced, $25 at the door, $45 dinner and show.

Meet the Performers Wine Reception Opening Night $7.00

Tickets available at:

The Attic 831-460-1800, Bookworks 831-688-4554 and online www.theatticsantacruz.com.

"A Crack in The Mask", is an electrifying premiere production

of theatrical works woven into aerial dance, fire, live vocals and music.

The evening performances showcase artistic works based on the assumption that humans

meet the day to day struggles and joys in life by calling upon an array of personal masks.

"A Crack in the Mask" explores the questions: "What Masks does an individual choose?”,

"Does a personal Mask reflect who we are becoming?", and “Do we have to drop our Mask

to see what lies inside of ourselves?" While these questions are posed

throughout the evening, the audience is left to find their own answers

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Last Night DIY New Year's Parade Returns in Full Force

ricothunder — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:25:09 GMT

Following police spying, decentralized celebration refuses permission to bring spontaneous parade to Santa Cruz streets

Santa Cruz, CA, December 31st, 2006: Undaunted by civil rights violations last year by the Santa Cruz Police Department, this year's Last Night DIY Parade and Celebration returns in full force to take over the streets.

In your near future: a New Year’s eve parade crammed with jugglers, clowns, samba drums, pirates, bikes, and marching bands. The usual Santa Cruz city-sponsored New Year’s eve event? Hardly. This is Last Night Santa Cruz, a people’s parade, a do-it-yourself celebration that goes beyond the now-defunct First Night event, canceled two years ago due to money problems.

Last year, the celebration erupted into the national headlines when it was discovered that Santa Cruz Police had violated the civil liberties of organizers by spying on their meetings for three months and gathering information about the group and other unrelated activities.

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Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:00:46 GMT

Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?

A Santa Cruz Perspective

By Steven Argue

In California pro-war incumbent Democrat Diane Feinstein has a lead of around 20% over Republican challenger Richard Mountjoy. There are also three socialist candidates running in California for the Senatorial seat now held by Feinstein. Of these, the two that Liberation News is giving critical support are Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action and Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party. In addition International Socialist Organization (ISO) member, Todd Chretien, is running as a Green Party candidate.

Feinstein has voted for every war the United States has carried out since she came into office in 1992. Diane Feinstein also voted to take away our civil liberties by supporting the “Patriot Act” and its renewal. She voted for the 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act speeding up the government’s ability to carry out the racist death penalty and ignore evidence of innocence. And she has supported expanded wire tapping as well as a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning.

Feinstein is a capitalist politician, representing a capitalist party. She also has a personal net worth of 50 million dollars, so she benefited directly when she voted to eliminate the estate tax. Ironically Feinstein has also stated, “Food stamps for the poor are cut ... so that millionaires can have a tax cut.'' Indeed, while this statement was directed at the Republicans, it also applies to her. (Feinstein Urges Regime Change, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2006)

Diane Feinstein, like many Democrats, has pounded the war drum of the racist Zionist state of Israel even louder than the Republicans.

And just as she is no defender of human rights in the United States she has voted for continued military support to the right wing death squad government of Colombia.

Diane Feinstein: Supporter of Imperialist War

In a press conference on August 21, 2006 George Bush Jr. finally admitted what Liberation News has been pointing out since before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. That Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th. Yet Bush had used a supposed connection as a pretext for the U.S.’s unprovoked aggression against Iraq. In addition, Bush Jr. also admitted that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

All of the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, Diane Feinstein included, supported going to war with Iraq. As anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has pointed out, “She voted for the war. She continues to vote for the funding. She won't call for an immediate withdrawal of the troops." (Cindy Sheehan May Challenge California Senator AP, Jan. 26, 2006) Cindy Sheehan’s son was a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.

In trying to let herself of the hook Diane Feinstein claims that Bush “did not fairly represent intelligence”. Feeble cries by these politicians today that their votes for war weren’t their fault because they were lied to by Bush not only make Feinstein look stupid, they are an insult to the intelligence of the American people.

While the Democrats helped promote the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq had no right to defend itself, Liberation News pointed out that it is the United States that has the weapons of mass destruction. Instead we supported the right of Iraq to acquire the weapons necessary to defend themselves from U.S. aggression. There can be little doubt that if Iraq had acquired those weapons they may not be in the mess they are now.

Yet for Bush and Feinstein Iraqi weapons were never the real motive for mass murder in Iraq. The capitalist ruling class, and their Democrat and Republican representatives, thought that they could use their superior military power to quickly move into Iraq and establish by force a stable neo-colonial puppet regime, and then make massive profits from the privatization of the Iraqi economy, especially oil. It is the failures of this imperialist plan, in the face of Iraqi resistance and growing unpopularity at home, that has forced some Democrats and Republicans to try to rethink, or at least distance themselves from, the Bush policies they have supported.

Feinstein herself has directly profiteered from the U.S. imposed misery in Iraq. Her husband, Richard Blum, is a billionaire investor that together with CEO Ronald Tutor own investment companies that hold 75% of the voting stock in a company called Perini. On March 12, 2004 Perini was awarded a $500,000,000 contract for rebuilding the electrical infrastructure of southern Iraq. So Feinstein is profiting from the U.S. bombing of the Iraqi infrastructure as well as its inefficient rebuilding by private U.S. contractors. Perini also received the contract for the construction of facilities to support the First Brigade of the Afghan National Army. These include barracks, dining facilities, a power plant, a water treatment facility and a wastewater treatment plant. Diane Feinstein not only voted for the wars and occupations that made these contracts possible, she also sits on the Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. (Perini Corporation, The Center For Public Integrity)

Just as Liberation News opposes the U.S. occupation and corporate looting of Iraq, we also denounced the starvation blockade that was carried out through the UN by the Clinton administration. That blockade, due to the capitalist nature of the Iraqi economy under Saddam Hussein, cost the lives of about a million people, many of them children. While a socialist economy like that of Cuba could have made sure that everyone in Iraq had food, blame for this mass murder should also be put on the Clinton administration. Likewise, it was this Clinton starvation blockade that also weakened Iraq for the Bush invasion.

Today, while the U.S. occupation of Iraq has murdered over 100,000 people and the U.S. starvation blockade of Iraq murdered a million or more, the U.S. government and its puppets in Iraq have the nerve to put Saddam Hussein on trial for propaganda purposes. Yet the worst crimes of the Saddam Hussein regime were also carried out when he was directly backed by the United States. In the 1980’s the U.S. was giving massive military assistance to Iraq to help Saddam Hussein commit genocide against Kurds and carry out a bloody war with Iran at a time when Saddam Hussein was used as an ally of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. Likewise the CIA helped Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party come to power supplying them with the names of 5,000 socialists and labor leaders that the Ba’athists subsequently rounded up and executed.

Yet to those who claimed that an invasion of Iraq would be a chance for the U.S. to finally set things straight and set up a democracy in Iraq, Liberation News responded before the U.S. invasion saying:

“In the 1970s Iraq nationalized its oil fields. This helped the Iraqi people by taking a chunk of the profits made off of oil out of the hands of the international oil monopolies and instead keeping them in Iraq. This money helped pay for free healthcare and education. As such this was a socialist measure carried out by Saddam Hussein’s capitalist government. It was also a measure that stood up to the interests of the rich and powerful nations. For both reasons socialists supported the nationalization of Iraqi oil while those measures infuriated the imperialists...

“While defending Iraq against imperialist attack and supporting their right to defend themselves socialists also recognize that Saddam Hussein is a capitalist leader and that the Iraqi people have their own scores to settle with him. Yet any government set up by a US occupation army will not be democratic and will only lead to the privatization of the resources that American oil monopolies intend to steal...”

“U.S. imperialism will never solve the question of women’s liberation in the Middle East. Unlike all of the US supported governments and forces in the Arab World, Iraqi women have many rights found nowhere else in the Arab World except in the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Over 50% of Iraqi doctors are women. Iraqi women are allowed to walk unescorted in the streets. They are allowed to drive. Iraqi women can even freely criticize men. In addition Iraqi women have the right to work and control their own funds. This is in stark contrast to the treatment of women under the repressive U.S. backed governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where women have no rights what-so-ever.

“The U.S. ruling class hates governments like Iraq, Libya, and Venezuela who use the profits of their oil resources partly to benefit the people with social programs. Likewise they love governments like that of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that strip the people of all their rights and keep the oil profits in the hands of the international oil monopolies and their corrupt local servants. Today in the United States we face unemployment, homelessness, and a lack of health care. The billions of dollars the U.S. will squander on killing Iraqis to steal their resources should be spent to benefit the working class and poor of the United States instead.” -From Liberation News: What Is Socialism, and Why We Oppose The Invasion of Iraq

What was predicted is reality. Those predictions were accurate because they were based on the past behavior of U.S. imperialism. The U.S. has set up a puppet Islamic government with functioning death squads and torture chambers. Socialists have been excluded from participating in elections and unarmed demonstrators have been shot down and murdered in the streets by U.S. troops. The puppet Islamic government also opposes women’s rights and women’s rights have deteriorated dramatically since the U.S. invasion. The rebuilding of basic infrastructure, such as electricity, has lagged way behind what was rebuilt by Saddam Hussein after the massive U.S. bombardment of Iraq in 1992.

With the exception of the privatization of Iraqi oil, all of the predictions have shown themselves to be true and the only reason that Iraqi oil isn’t completely under the direct control of U.S. oil monopolies now is because of the union resistance of 23,000 organized oil workers as well as the general resistance by the Iraqi people to the idea of Iraq’s resources being looted by U.S. corporations.

For the working class in the United States there is ever growing frustration with a war that is costing many lives and billions in dollars while needed programs for healthcare, jobs, the environment, and disaster relief do not get the funding they need.

Yet for the ruling class their failure in Iraq is not in the undemocratic and anti-woman nature of the puppet regime they have set up and the money that has been squandered in doing it, but in the failure of that regime to deliver the stability needed to acquire the oil loot. They complain that oil production in Iraq is below prewar levels and the occupation by U.S. and British troops serve as targets for the insurgency.

As a result some Democrats that voted for the war like John Kerry have called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year. Yet the Kerry-Feingold plan actually calls for keeping troops in Iraq that are "critical to completing the mission of standing up Iraqi security forces." The Kerry-Feingold plan also calls for "an over-the-horizon" troop presence in the region that could come to the aid of a failing puppet government in Iraq as well as intervene elsewhere in the so-called war on terror. (Lawmakers begin Bitter Debate on U.S. Troop Withdrawal Plan for Iraq, FOXNews, online report, June 2, 2006)

Senators Harry Reid and Carl Levin have put forward a similar proposal, rendered meaningless with similar loopholes to Kerry-Feingold’s, but their proposal calls for the [partial] withdrawal of troops by the end of 1997.

Diane Feinstein supported the Levin-Reid proposal. Defending the proposal Feinstein said, “Our amendment is not about cutting and running. Rather, our amendment acknowledges that staying the course is a strategy that shows no promise of success, and it is time to change that strategy.” (Video clip shown on CNN’s O’brien Show, online transcript, June 23, 2006)

Unlike Feinstein, Liberation News sees nothing good that can come from the Levin-Reid proposal of staying at full war with the Iraqi people for another year and then carrying out a possible partial Iraqification of the war the year after. We disagree with Feinstein when she says, "We all know we can't cut and run, what I'm talking about is changing the nature of this mission. We have to say to Iraq that it's time for your soldiers and police forces to take over.'' (Feinstein Urges Regime Change, San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2006)

The U.S. occupation of Iraq is doing nothing for anybody except the capitalists that are profiting from the war and the tax dollars of the American people. We demand: Iraq to the Iraqis! U.S. Out Now! On this issue we agree with the campaigns of Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action, Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party, and Todd Chretien of the Green Party that are all calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq:

“More than 2,250 young American troops and over 100,000 Iraqis have died with no end in sight. If we want to stop the dying and respect the Iraqi people's right to run their own country, then we must immediately withdraw all American military forces from Iraq and the surrounding countries.” -Todd Chretien, California Senate candidate of the Green Party

“Immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the Middle East!”
Marsha Feinland, California Senate candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party

"Immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq! War is an inherent part of capitalism and the ultimate solution to the internal contradictions of the profit-driven and competition-driven system. The U.S. military-industrial complex is organized and designed to maximize profit rates for the corporate few and to serve the imperial economic and political interests of the war-making class—regardless of the capitalist party in power. Socialists acknowledge our fundamental obligation to challenge the U.S. war-makers and their twin parties and to defend the rights and struggles of all those who resist imperialist domination and oppression.” -Jeff Mackler, California Senate candidate of Socialist Action

Liberation news agrees with these calls for U.S. troops out now. In addition we call for the labor movement to break from the Democrat Party of war and exploitation and to end the war through building the mass movement in the streets; striking against arms producers; hot cargoing war materials on the docks, trains, and trucks; and building towards a general strike against the war. Likewise we support the right of military personal to refuse orders and resist this war. We support students, such as those at UC Santa Cruz that have repeatedly driven military recruiters off campus. And we call for building the socialist movement to end imperialism through socialist revolution.

The Role of Peace Action (Formerly Sane / Freeze)

Diane Feinstein has never seen a pending imperialist war she didn’t like. In her entire time in office she has voted for them all. Likewise Feinstein voted for the “Missile Defense System” and other “defense” boondoggles meant to line the pockets of the military industrial capitalists. Yet the group “Peace Action” gives Feinstein the passing grade of voting for peace 89% of the time.

“Peace Action” is deceiving the anti-war vote. Why? Because Peace Action is a pillar of the status quo that sees no alternative to delivering votes to what they see as the “lesser evil” Democrat Party, even when the Democrats are equally pro-war. This strategy has made “Peace Action” an obstacle to peace and a pillar of the status quo.

Every few years the ruling class of the United States parades its selected representatives in front of the American people to give us the chance to vote for their so-called “lesser” and “greater evil” representatives in the Democrat and Republican Parties. The corporate media and liberal pro-war groups like “Peace Action” ignore the anti-war candidates and back pro-war Democrats by misrepresenting their records to the people.

Liberation News urges all of the super-exploited workers that go door to door raising money for the Peace Action bureaucracy to quit your meaningless jobs and look for better work while looking for ways to hook up with the real anti-war/anti-imperialist movement that is marching in the streets. Likewise we urge all of the liberal and leftist minded people that give money to Peace Action to stop doing so and instead participate in the mass anti-war movement in the streets with your bodies, minds, and your money if you can afford it.

In response to the reformist call of, "Anybody But Bush," Socialist Action candidate Jeff Mackler aptly replied, "No to the twin parties of war and oppression!" and "Yes to the independent organization and mobilization of working people!"

Feinstein, Supporter of Racist Israel

Diane Feinstein, like many Democrats, has pounded the war drum for the racist Zionist state of Israel even louder than the Republicans. The U.S. gives Israel billions of dollars in military aid every year and Senator Feinstein’s vote backs that money for death. Israel is a racist settler state established in 1949 that has denied the original inhabitants, the Palestinians, all basic rights. Besides denying Palestinians the same rights to travel, jobs, housing, and education as allowed Jews, the racist Zionist State has used massacres and other forms of terror, wars, and torture to drive out the original Palestinian inhabitants.

Likewise Israel is always at war with its Arab neighbors. Israel’s recent attack against Lebanon where their aerial bombardment of the civilian population murdered 1,150 people and destroyed vital infrastructure is only the latest such terrorism by Israel. Yet when Senator Bill Frist introduced a bill backing Israeli / U.S. aggression in Lebanon Diane Feinstein voted for it along with Senate Democrat colleagues John Kerry (Mass.), Barack Obama (Ill.), Harry Reid (Nevada), Maria Cantwell (Wash.), and Edward Kennedy (Mass.).

Claims of Israel being the victim, bombing and invading Lebanon on the pretext of two Israeli soldiers taken prisoner do not hold water in light of the fact that Israel is holding 2,000 Lebanese prisoners in their torture chamber dungeons from their previous invasion of Lebanon. In addition numerous reports say those two Israeli soldiers were captured in Lebanon, not in Israel. Those reports are from such sources as AP, Hindustan Times, and AFP.

In contrast to Diane Feinstein and her pro-war Democrat colleagues, here is what the candidates to the left of her have to say:

“Israel is a racist state. It has separate laws for Arabs and Jews. The leader of the South African trade union COSATU recently stated that he thinks that the Palestinians face worse conditions than Blacks faced during South African Apartheid. There will never be peace in the Middle East as long as the Zionist state is given a blank check from the United States to treat the Palestinian people as less than human. Israel is part of the American empire and is key to US plans for permanent domination of the Middle East. If we ever want to see our troops come home from Iraq, then the anti-war movement must fight to cut off all American aid to Israel.” -Todd Chretien, California Senate candidate of the Green Party

“As a Jewish American, I chose to run for U.S. Senate partly as an act of conscience in support of the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories. The wall which impedes people from conducting a normal life must come down. Israel should abandon the settlements and retreat to its pre-1967 borders. I do not condone any violence against civilians, and favor full rights for all people in any state…End U.S. aid to Israel until it withdraws to its 1967 borders.” -Marsha Feinland, California Senate candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party

“For a democratic and secular Palestine! End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel! Stop the bombing of Lebanon and Gaza! For a united socialist federation of the Middle East! Socialists reject the legitimacy of the Zionist colonial settler state of Israel, just as we do all colonial settler states. We see no difference between the imperialist colonization of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East of yesteryear and today’s U.S.-backed Zionist conquest and occupation of Palestine. Israel today serves as the chief U.S. instrument for the imperialist domination and exploitation of the Middle East”. -Jeff Mackler, California Senate candidate of Socialist Action

All three candidates of the left take the correct and most important position of ending U.S. aid to Israel, but there are important differences in building an international movement.

While Todd Chretien holds a good position on Israel, the Israeli Green Party is a Zionist capitalist party that holds the position of deputy mayor of Tel Aviv. In a recent letter to the Green Party of the United States by Green Party chairman and deputy mayor, Pe’er Visner, the closest he got to recognizing any crimes by the Israeli government was saying, “We are “sorry” that the Israeli army prevents Palestinian suicide bombers from “expressing” their “human rights” to bomb themselves among Israeli citizens.” This racist response to the suffering of the Palestinian people should serve as a warning to Green Party members in the United States of what happens to parties that fail to put forward a revolutionary program for the overthrow of capitalism as well as fail to be a tribune for all of the most oppressed and exploited in society.

Unlike Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party, Liberation News does not call for a withdrawal of Israel to its conquered borders of 1967. We instead call for pushing Israel back to its 1948 borders for a democratic, secular, and socialist Palestine within the 1948 borders with a separation of religion and state and equal rights for Palestinians and Jews including the Palestinian right to return, a society to be formed by the multi-ethnic working class through socialist revolution.

This is our context of demanding an end to U.S. military aid to racist Israel as well as to the repressive capitalist governments of Egypt and Jordan. Such a cut off is not intended to pressure Israel into a better two state “solution” as Marsha Feinland asks the U.S. government to do, but to allow the people of the Near East self-determination and revolution without the interference of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid to murderous regimes.

Jeff Mackler, in seeing Socialist Action as part of an international socialist movement with an international revolutionary program, has proposed a similar revolutionary program to that of Liberation News, but missing a key ingredient:

“Zionism is an ideology of racism and apartheid segregation. It is a deathtrap for the Jewish people, a central source of almost 60 years of war and oppression of the Palestinians. Socialist Action supports the creation of a democratic and secular Palestine, where Jews and Arabs can live together as equals in a new society, a society predicated on the immediate right of return of all dispossessed Palestinians. In this society, revolutionaries will fight for the construction of an egalitarian socialist state.” -Jeff Mackler, California Senate candidate of Socialist Action

Missing from this formula is the understanding that only socialist revolution, led by (a) secular multi-ethnic socialist party or parties will be capable of solving the national and democratic questions of Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. The capitalists and their parties, be they Kadima, Likud, Labour, Shas, Hamas, Fatah, or the Hashemite King Hussein of Jordan base their rule on capitalist exploitation and are incapable of providing any real solutions. Liberation News disagrees with the idea that democratic secular revolution should occur now and provide the basis for a later struggle for socialism, pointing out that this is the essence of Stalin’s Two-Stage Theory of Revolution when we instead hold high the banner of Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution.

It was this Stalinist Two-Stage Theory that provided the political basis for the Communist Party of South Africa putting all of their resources into building the African National Congress (ANC) as the democratic alternative to the racist apartheid government of South Africa. Yet by building a political party and movement that supported the continuation of the capitalist system they created a new capitalist party that now rules South Africa for the rich white capitalists at the continued expense of the super-exploited and poor black majority workers, minus overt racist laws. Strikes for healthcare and other workers’ demands have been broken by the ANC for the capitalists, HIV-AIDS goes untreated, and the massive mineral wealth of South Africa continues to go into the pockets of the capitalists instead of their potential of benefiting the workers, environment, and world revolution.

So when is the Communist Party of South Africa going to set about fighting for the next stage of the revolution? The answer is never. They are now part of the capitalist apparatus and part of the problem. It will take the other socialist parties of South Africa, the Trotskyist parties, to lead the socialist revolution.

While Stalinism has done much to stifle workers’ democracy in the deformed workers states under Stalinist control, it has also greatly sabotaged the world socialist revolution through Stalin’s Two-Stage Theory. Socialist Action is not a Stalinist organization, but they appear to have adopted part of their program.

So what would be Socialist Action’s ANC for Palestine? Fatah? They’ve already discredited themselves. They’ve sold the Palestinian people out with the Oslo Accords placing the Palestinian people on tiny Bantustan’s without a real basis for an economy. Would their ANC be Hamas? The imposition of Islamic law could hardly be considered a democratic secular revolution. Would they then suggest that Palestinian and Israeli socialists build a party with a purely democratic secular program, abandoning the socialist program as the Communist Party of South Africa did? Let’s drop the nonsense, build for the socialist revolution! For a democratic, secular, and socialist Palestine!

Liberation News rejects Stalin’s Two-Stage Theory of Revolution. We instead hold up the banner of Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution. It was through this theory that Trotsky explained that the democratic and the socialist revolutions are inseparably linked.

Yet the differences between Liberation News and Socialist Action as well as our differences with the Peace and Freedom Party on these questions do not prevent us from giving critical support to both in this election.

The Role of the Green Party

While Todd Cretien of the Green Party has good immediate positions on the war, Liberation News does not support Green Party candidates because the Green Party is a capitalist party. In Santa Cruz, where the Green Party has elected their party member Tim Fitzemaurice to office, Tim Fitzemaurice has backed the fears of local shop owners by voting for anti-homeless laws such as the law that makes it illegal for the homeless to sleep at night. While criminalizing those who cannot pay the high rent Fitzemaurice refuses to take a stand for rent control. Likewise Tim Fitzemaurice has refused to take any stand against police violence used against anti-war protesters in 1999 and other repressive measures against activists including my arrest and beating for distributing literature and the police murder of homeless activist John Dine. Recently Fitzemaurice did take a stand against police infiltration of the organizers of a Santa Cruz anti-war parade, but his stated reason for doing so was an attempt to maintain the credibility of the Santa Cruz police.

Tim Fitzemaurice is not a leader for change in Santa Cruz. He is instead a pillar of the status quo. This is the future of all political parties and politicians that do not have a clear program for the overthrow of the capitalist system.

The Green Party is clear in their program. They state that they are for a system of small capitalism. Yet the small capitalists commonly have a smaller profit margin and often exploit workers worse than the big capitalists. In opposition to such a vision of small and inefficient capitalist exploiters, Liberation News looks to labor struggle and the nationalization of industry under workers’ control as the way to fight and neutralize the corporate exploiters and bring justice for the working class.

On a national level the Green Party generally is not even seeking power, but pressure and reform of the Democrat Party. Yet the policy of many Greens in promoting votes for Democrats when the vote between the Democrat and Republican is close only promotes further illusions in the Democrats. Likewise promising votes to Democrats when it looks close does nothing to pressure the Democrats and their super rich backers to move to the left.

It was a massive and fighting labor movement led to large extent by socialists that forced the American ruling class and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to carry out the New Deal reforms in the 1930’s. This was out of fear of further unrest and potential revolution. It is the position of Liberation News that the most meaningful reforms do not come from reformism, such as that of the Green Party, but from revolutionary and working class struggle.

While making these criticisms Liberation News does recognize that there are differences between the program of Todd Chretien and that of the Green Party. If Todd Chretien was also speaking out for the Green Party to adopt a socialist program we could possibly give him support, but he is not. By running as a candidate and being a spokesperson for a party with a capitalist program Todd Chretien is helping build that capitalist party and program, so we must respectfully withhold our support.

Critical Support To The Socialist Candidates

Liberation News is giving critical support to Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action and Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party. These are two socialist parties that hold socialist programs (for the most part) and are also active in the anti-war, free Mumia, and labor movements. To a large degree they represent the kind of political alternative that Liberation News promotes in opposition to the Democrats and Republicans.

Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action

Jeff Mackler is a long time socialist that has done much in organizing protests against imperialist wars, for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, for socialism, and other leftist causes.

Jeff Mackler and other expelled members of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) were part of establishing new groups that continued on in some of the better traditions of the SWP, a party that led the 1934 Teamster’s Strike (a turning point in U.S. labor history), a party that was a major leader in the anti-war movement of the 1970’s and 1960’s, and a party that helped establish the world Trotskyist movement and expose the crimes of Stalinism.

Yet Jeff Mackler’s group, Socialist Action, was also born with a few programmatical errors. One was their abandonment of Trotsky’s concept of Political Revolution. The call for political revolution in the deformed workers states, such as the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, was a call for overthrowing the repressive Stalinist bureaucracy and institutionalizing workers’ democracy without overthrowing the nationalized planned economy itself. While Trotskyists call for political revolution in the deformed workers’ states, we also defend those socialist economies from imperialist attack and internal counter-revolution. The failure of Socialist Action to understand the true nature of the counter revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Afghanistan led to important mistakes.

In supporting Solidarnosc in Poland Socialist Action backed a political movement that had a clear program for capitalist counter revolution and joined ranks with the CIA, the Pope, and Ronald Reagan in backing Solidarnosc’s rise to power. After taking power Solidarnosc’s program became even clearer with the outlawing of abortion (that used to be free on demand) and privatizations of the economy that led to 50% unemployment. Yet despite how clear it is today that Solidarnosc led a capitalist counter-revolution as opposed to a socialist political revolution (that would maintain the socialist economy, but oust the Stalinist bureaucracy and institute workers’ democracy) Socialist Action has not changed their position on Solidarnosc.

On Black liberation we at Liberation News advocate Richard Fraser’s Theory of Revolutionary Integrationism as opposed to the Black Nationalism promoted by Socialist Action. Socialist Action’s advocacy of Black Nationalism has brought them to the point of even promoting the religious and pro-capitalist Nation of Islam of Louis Farrakhan. Liberation News sees the promotion of Black Nationalism as a dead end. There is no geographical area that we can point to on a map and say by its demographics that it would make sense to set up Black nation there. Even if it were possible or desirable to set up a separate Black Nation in the United States the pain and suffering such an adventure would cause in terms of dislocations of the working class would not be worth the price. Liberation News, in contrast, calls for the overthrow of the racist capitalist system and the building of an egalitarian socialist society that guarantees racial equality, full employment, and access to health care for all.

Liberation News does, however, see Socialist Action’s campaign for Senate as a supportable campaign that, despite its mistakes, is promoting socialism as the alternative to the capitalist Democrats, Republicans, and Greens.

Here are some of the demands that Mackler is putting forward with his campaign:

1) Immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq! No U.S. aid to Israel! Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza! Shut down Guantanamo! U.S. hands off Cuba and Venezuela! End the Cuba blockade!
2) Tax the rich, not working people! Jobs at top union wages for all! Shorten the work-week with no cut in pay! For a revitalized and fighting labor movement! For a Labor Party!
3) Human needs before capitalist profits! Nationalize so-called bankrupt corporations under workers’ control.
4) Free quality health care and education for people of all ages! Build schools not jails! Quality affordable housing for all!
5) An emergency program to combat global warming! End our dependency on fossil fuels! No to nuclear power and weapons!
6) Stop the attacks on civil liberties! Repeal the Patriot Act! End police brutality! Support the right of marriage for same sex couples!
7) Defend a woman’s right to control her own body! Ready access to abortion is a fundamental right!
8) Immediate amnesty, legalization, and equal rights for all immigrants! No to La Migra! Demilitarize and open the border! Self-determination for oppressed nationalities! Affirmative action with quotas to remedy past discrimination! Support to Black and Latino independent political action!
9) For a government of, by, and for working people and the oppressed! For socialism!

While Liberation News agrees with many of these slogans we see a couple as too transitional. We do not see any good reason for limiting calls for nationalization to so-called “bankrupt corporations”. Perhaps this is in imitation of the economic crisis of Argentina and the many “bankrupt corporations” that have been taken over and run by workers as part of a miniature workers’ economy that employs about 10,000 Argentinean workers.

Liberation News sees no reason for limiting the nationalization of companies to those that the capitalists don’t want anymore, companies that the capitalists are no longer making super profits from. The exploitation of workers’ and the environment have produced all wealth, and the revolutionary movement of the working class wants it all back! We want the railroads, the banks, the health care industry, and of course oil! Only a society with a planned economy can meet the needs of the working class, can end war for capitalist profit, and can begin to save the environment. Revolution takes bold vision; we want it all; leave the conservatism to the Democrats and Republicans!

Imperialism has caused the poverty of Mexico, and an open border is the only right thing to do. Yet an open border would be coupled with a massive influx of immigrants and should be combined with the call for a socialist economy that guarantees jobs for all. Only socialism can solve the national question.

Jeff Mackler’s campaign for senate, despite its errors, does help show the way forward by pointing to socialist demands and solutions.

Due to the undemocratic laws of the state of California making it very difficult for third parties to gain ballot access Jeff Mackler will not be on the ballot so if you choose to vote for him you will have to write in his name.

Marsha Feinland of the Peace and Freedom Party

The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is the only socialist party in California that does have ballot status. Liberation News is also extending critical support to the PFP candidacy of Marsha Feinland. Here are key points of Marsha Feinland’s campaign:

1) Withdraw troops and advisors from Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti and Colombia
2) End aid to Israel until it withdraws to its pre-1967 borders
3) Raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour
4) Create universal health care with a "single payer" (Canadian type) system- no insurance company profits
5) Shorten the work week with no loss in pay and guarantee paid vacation time for all workers
6) Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act - restore the right to strike and end "right to work" laws
7) Abolish the death penalty
8) End the phony "war on drugs" - legalize marijuana and decriminalize drug use
9) Fully fund the U.S. government share of education costs, particularly special education
10) End the war on children - stop the government mandated testing craze in public schools
11) Protect the National Forests and other public and native lands from corporate exploitation
12) Abolish the Senate and the Electoral College - one person, one vote

In this platform Marsha Feinland raises a number of good points, including opposing the undemocratic nature of the Senate itself stating, "Abolish the Senate and the Electoral College - one person, one vote." This is in reference to the way that the senate has equal numbers of representatives from each state, regardless of that state’s population. On a similar issue Diane Feinstein has been criticized by activists in Washington D.C., a district where the people do not get representation in the Senate, for supporting Washington D.C. school vouchers that were undemocratically crammed down their throats.

In the United States more than 45 million Americans have no health coverage. These include 9 million children. Millions of others have inadequate coverage. It is a crime that the richest nation (rich due to imperialist exploitation of the world) leads in medical technology, but has the worst access to healthcare of any developed nation. Marsha Feinland’s call for single payer healthcare of the Canadian model, covering everyone and getting rid of the insurance industry middlemen would be a welcome change. And yes, despite the propaganda, government programs are always more efficient than private profiteering with its stockholders, overpaid CEOs, and advertising. But the Cuban model with nationalized healthcare and no private hospitals or pharmaceutical companies profiteering from illness works even better. It is this healthcare model that Liberation News advocates.

In fact Marsha Feinland’s platform is not just missing a full socialized medicine program, it is missing another key ingredient. Besides calling for eliminating the private insurance industry through single payer, nowhere in her platform or other materials does she call for the nationalization of the capitalist economy. She has no reference to the expropriation of big oil, industry, and finance capital or even any calls for the nationalization or municipalization of the generation, distribution and sales of electric power. Without such a socialist program it will be impossible to neutralize the power of the capitalist class and meet the needs of the working class.

Liberation News also strongly disagrees with the Peace and Freedom Party’s practice of endorsing Democrats in city elections. In Santa Cruz this has meant that the Peace and Freedom Party has helped elect some of the most anti-worker, anti-homeless, and pro-police oppression Democrats such as Mike Rotkin. Rotten Rotkin publicly opposed the bus drivers when they went on strike, is currently campaigning against a city initiative to raise the minimum wage, has voted for and supported every anti-homeless law in Santa Cruz, and has backed the police in every act of repression, violence, and spying that they have carried out against the left in the city. The local PFP may not support Rotkin anymore, but they did help get him elected, and they continue to help elect other Democrats and Greens in Santa Cruz that have virtually identical programs to that of Rotkin. Liberation News says: No to support for Democrats or Greens in local or national elections! Yes to the socialist candidates!

It will take a massive working class movement for good socialist candidates to actually win elections. An important element of this will be breaking the labor movement from the Democrat Party. By backing the candidates worth voting for today we at Liberation News feel that we are helping build the foundations of that movement today and into the future as people get more and more fed up with capitalist exploitation and wars. Ultimately the ruling class will use ever more violence to try to maintain their grip on power and a revolution will be necessary for the working class to actually seize power and transform society.

Liberation News:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news

Marsha Feinland, California Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for Senate:
http://feinlandforsenate.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Jeff Mackler, California Socialist Action Candidate for Senate:
http://www.socialistaction.org/macklerforsenate/index.html

Todd Cretien, Green Party Candidate for Senate:
http://www.todd4senate.org/

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looking for a divine subletter July-Aug 2006 in Boulder Creek

alxindia — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:47:31 GMT

I am looking for an impeccable person to sublet my charming temple-cottage in the redwoods of Boulder Creek, CA. I'd prefer a female but am open to negotiation about that for the right person.

impeccable means: you're on a serious spiritual path. you're quiet, respectful, meditative, and don't use drugs, alchohol, or smoke tobacco. it means you know how to respect other people's space and possessions, and keep a temple clean. almost compulsively clean. it also means you can take care of plants, like watering flowers in a small garden and in pots. plus, you have integrity and pay stuff like rent and electric bills on time.

another quirk: there's a cat involved, a neurotic, wild, ferociously loving Abyssinian with idiosyncracies who needs to be fed regularly, loved, petted, fussed over, taken care of.

the sublet dates (which may change, another quality is flexibility, please!) are from early July to the beginning of September of this year.

the rent is low.

the location is amazingly beautiful.

there's a lovely upright piano in the cottage.

and a woodstove.

and DSL wireless internet.

requirements:

first month's rent plus a security deposit and a cleaning deposit.
you pay some utilities (water is free)
good references from past places
love of cats
you can go up and down ladders

contact:

Alx Uttermann
831/ 425-3234

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Come to the 831TV party at Club Octane this Saturday, April 1st! Take the party bus from Coastline Brewery in Santa Cruz!

831tv — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:14:10 GMT

831TV is hosting a party at Club Octane and you're invited! The party will feature four rooms of music including hip hop, house, live rock and lounge. KDON 102.5 will be in the house!

Ladies—be a part of the 831TV Guest Host Competition and win $200 cash plus a VIP pass to Club Octane for 1 year. Plus, you'll appear on the next episode of 831TV!

Chill out to downtempo beats in the 831TV Lounge with local art, chair massage and refreshments. We'll have giveaways and prizes! Art will be provided by the Outeredge Studio in Monterey.

From Santa Cruz? Take the 831TV Party Bus from Coastline Brewery for only $25! Includes bus ride to and from Monterey, plus admission and 1 drink at Club Octane. Bus passes may be purchased at Coastline Brewery, 120 Union Street, Santa Cruz, 831-459-9876.

$12 Cover Includes 1 Drink
21 Years of Age & Up

This is a televised event. By entering this event you give full permission to be videotaped for future broadcast and distribution.

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What up from Boulder Creek

Zion — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:16:54 GMT

Just got back from a year in India and getting pretty bored here. Any real people out there?

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hello. . .

Da Chaz — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:33:57 GMT

This is my first direct post to this tribe so I figure it best to introduce myself even though my profile and blog does most of that for me already, Hmmm. . . Anyway I'm Chaz aka Da Chaz, Janus, or X. I'm working on eliminating the alias' really I am. Anyway I am an affable easy going aquarious / water dog.

I am hetero however I am capable of being comfortable with sharing affections with the same sex provided I'm a tad familar with them *ahem*. When meeting new people I am a bit timid and shy, not that I am uncomfortable with myself, just that I am overly conciderate of how other people feel. I easily open up though the more I interact with people.

I am highly empathetic and affectionate person however I only lavish my affection on those who wish it. Also, dispite my empathetic nature I am socially oblivious due to living a reclusive childhood, which explains why I am unsure if any ones interested in me until they start sticking their tongue down my throat.

Well I think thats about it check out my profile and blogs if you wanna know me better or e-mail me that works too, Goodnight everybody, ciao for now!

-Chaz

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Anyone from Los Gatos?

Tue, 03 May 2005 01:08:07 GMT

Hello anyone?

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Watch this new show, 831TV!

831tv — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 03:00:03 GMT

831TV is a new local TV show promoting nightlife and entertainment on the Central Coast. 831TV airs every Saturday at 7:30pm on Cable Channel ABC-7 in Monterey and Santa Cruz County and daily at 10pm on Cable Channel 34 in Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz. Watch streaming video online at http://www.831tv.com/streaming.html

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Greetings

karina — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:10:24 GMT

If you live, work, play, love, adore or otherwise consider the 831 area your home to play, get wicked, or get down, this is the tribe for you.

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Help do organic gardening for Folks living with HIV in Santa Cruz

Seeds of Love Santa Cruz — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:08:06 GMT

Oppertunity to Help do organic gardening for Folks living with HIV in Santa Cruz
Please look at our brand new Tribe for the details.
Thanks!

tribes.tribe.net/seedsoflovesc

Please help spread the word!

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listen to the sound.. .of my machine....

nokturna — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:45:07 GMT

http://www.exile-labs.com/

world domination, one town at a time...

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Drum Circle in Bonny Doon

sonnytwofeathers — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:56:34 GMT

Hey all!

What are you doin this saturday? If the answer is shit, then come on down for a drum circle. Dont forget the drums, didj, some food, a pipe (preferably not empty), and YOUR DANCIN SHOES!!!!!!

Follow these directions exactly:

From hwy 1 and bonny doon rd

Turn on Bonny Doon rd. Go 5.3 mi to Ice Cream Grade.(bonny doon rd
will become pine flat. continue straight)

Just before you get to Ice Cream Grade you will pass Bonny Doon
Elementary. Turn Right on Ice Cream Grade. We are the third drive on
the left, after the bend. .49 mi from pine flat to the house.
( there will be markers for the driveway)

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831 Dinner

karina — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 04:28:15 GMT

I've organized dinners for impromptu get togethers for other tribes, and am interested in doing the same for 831 tribe members. Any takers?

Depending on interest and availability - time, date, place TBD

I try and schedule dinners in various locales (neighborhoods in da 831) so that a reach is created in each area. It's a fun way for people to get together between events, a way to gather a community presence in person, and get to know your fellow Community members outside the virtual arena.

If interested, please respond here, or alternative you can contact me via my tribe.net email / YIM/AIM (located in my profile)

Much love to you!

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EcoSystems December 18th Party!

Sean — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:45:41 GMT

Hey Everybody!

Thsi Saturday starting at 11:00pm the doors will open for EcoSystems, a three room 10+ DJ party with a heated patio, free water, food vendors and drum circle!

We have Dano from Red Melon Records (SF) and Jessie Gonzales (Salinas) headlining our main room and a host of locals in our other two rooms including Mike Schultz, Izzy, Travis Carter, Paul Atkinson, and Meerkat!

Check out the website at http://www.ideafactories.com/cel.html and purchase your ticket there to save a few bucks rather than at the door. Just click the link at the bottom of the page and follow the steps through PayPal.

I hope to see you all there!

Sean

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San Lorenzo Valley?

Paul — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:40:18 GMT

I have a personal project web site that I'm trying to build into a resources and community site for the San Lorenzo Valley. I'd love you to visit it, send me feedback if you feel like it, or even contribute content. If you register on the site, you can submit your own stories, news, FAQs, reviews, and participate in the discussion forums. I'm getting a fair number of page views, but would like to encourage more participation.

Thanks!

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In the 831...

DeannaLeigh — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:23:43 GMT

THE WEATHER IS BEAUTIFUL!!

Not used to this beautiful weather we are having but enjoying it!! Hope everyone is able to enjoy the beautiful weather we are having!! :o)

831's topics - tribe.net

Volunteers needed for TRUE GRIT - Monterey Burners 4th Annual Day-at-the-Beach

TRUE GRIT: 4th Annual Monterey Beach Burn - December 5th!

Boots-n-Beats-n-Bacon Campout!! Fremont Peak!! March 6-8!!!

What's Taking Ciao Bella's Place?

looking for investors

Digg December 08 Schedule

SANTA CRUZ HOMELESS NEED BLANKETS! Blanket Drive with Five Eyed Hand at Moe's Alley Thursday, Nov 13

mpyre campout - oct 17-19 - apocaLIPS update!

Vote FIVE EYED HAND for New Groove of the Month on Jambands.com

djseek looking for a place again

Ride available to Earthdance Los Gatos

Sugar will be closing this month

Five Eyed Hand with Izabella TONIGHT in Santa Cruz!

Sugar August Schedule :))

m-pyre day at the beach - FUN DAY AND AFTERPARTY! JULY 26th!!

M-PYRE Day at the Beach

Sugar July Schedule

Five Eyed Hand tonight in Santa Cruz (Moes Alley)

Dog Friendly Places....

new hookah lounge open in santa cruz off Mission St!

Directions to Monterey Bonfire

let's do it on the beach

IPOH PRESENTS: TRIP-TOPHAN sat 11-24-07

apple moth spraying

Don't pump gas on May 15th.

A Crack in the Mask

Last Night DIY New Year's Parade Returns in Full Force

Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?

looking for a divine subletter July-Aug 2006 in Boulder Creek

Come to the 831TV party at Club Octane this Saturday, April 1st! Take the party bus from Coastline Brewery in Santa Cruz!

What up from Boulder Creek

hello. . .

Anyone from Los Gatos?

Watch this new show, 831TV!

Greetings

Help do organic gardening for Folks living with HIV in Santa Cruz

listen to the sound.. .of my machine....

Drum Circle in Bonny Doon

831 Dinner

EcoSystems December 18th Party!

San Lorenzo Valley?

In the 831...

why not 318?