Crossing Intersections
“Wake up, Oakes!” shouted a chant leader of the UC Santa Cruz Student-Led Womxn’s March on the morning of Jan. 20. “We’re here!” Demonstrators marched through Oakes College clutching red and black banners reading “No Justice, No Peace” and “Black Trans Womxn’s Lives Matter.” Just…
Q&A with Calif. Gubernatorial Candidate Delaine Eastin
Democrat Delaine Eastin, former state superintendent of public instruction and the only female Democratic candidate running in California’s 2018 gubernatorial race, came to Santa Cruz on Jan. 18 for a meet and greet at the Santa Cruz County Democratic Party headquarters. City on a Hill…
Santa Cruz Strives for ‘Beloved Community’
“I’m just here to remind you, that Dr. King was more than a dreamer. He was a visionary, he was an agitator of the status quo.” Brenda Griffin, president of the Santa Cruz chapter of the NAACP, spoke these words to the buzzing crowd gathered…
TPS Repeal Leaves Students Uncertain
After over 16 years of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) renewals by the Republican Bush administration and the Democratic Obama administration, President Donald Trump’s administration announced that TPS will be coming to an end. The decision directly impacts students at UC Santa Cruz and other communities…
Demanding a Future for DACA
Three Santa Cruz “Dreamers,” or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, have joined a week of actions in Washington D.C. leading up to Congress’s Jan. 19 deadline to pass a “clean” DREAM Act, rather than compromising with more conservative immigration stances. The DREAM Act…
Potential ICE Raids in Northern Calif.
Immigrations Custom Enforcement (ICE) is planning raids sweeping Northern California in the coming weeks to arrest 1,500 undocumented people, according to a Jan. 16 report from the San Francisco Chronicle. “We are not able to speculate about future enforcement actions,” said San Francisco ICE spokesman…
The Cost of Compliance in the Cannabis Industry
On New Year’s Day, CannaCruz dispensary CEO Grant Palmer saw 400 customers come through his business — almost all were recreational users. In a little less than a week after the year began, the local shop saw an 83 percent increase in business, a big…
Marching Forward with Women’s Rights
In the days following the 2016 election, women and their allies across the country prepared for a nationwide march one day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. When Maria Boutell, a women’s rights advocate and resident of Santa Cruz, heard the hum of national preparations…
Snapshots of the Black Identity
The Black community of Santa Cruz makes up a mere 1.86 percent of the city’s 62,045 residents, according to the 2016 census. Because of this, many Black residents have expressed a sense of loneliness and lack of representation in a white-majority city. Photographer Allison Garcia…
City Plans to Relocate Houseless
The city of Santa Cruz will pursue a different plan to address houselessness after backing out of a plan to construct a public storage center for the houseless community. The gravel lot ringed by barbed wire fence at 1220 River St., formerly slated for the…