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A "National Day of Out(r)age Against the Telcos" was held on Wednesday, May 24th. In San Francisco, there were two protests. The first was held at noon outside of AT&T Park for street theater to point out that people won't play ball with telephone companies that do business with the NSA. There was also a rally outside of AT&T headquarters, (600 Folsom Street, between 2nd and 3rd Streets) from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Photos The AT&T building is where the National Security Agency (NSA) set up a secret spy room to collect phone calls. Read more

On May 24th, protests will be held across the country against the telephone companies AT&T and Verizon. People are outraged by the tactics of the major telephone companies, or Telcos (AT&T, Verizon and Quest), to pass National Video Franchising legislation in Congress. The Telcos are spending one million dollars a week to buy the votes of Congresspeople for their legislation, House Bill 5252 and Senate Bill 2686 and on advertising to influence public opinion. The proposed legislation will curb local control over video franchises, negatively impact thousands of local Public, Educational and Governmental Access channels, allow red-lining in low-income and rural communities and jeopardize the openness of the internet by removing 'net neutrality' provisions designed to promote competition.

Recent news also has exposed the privacy violation of millions of telephone users-- thatAT&T and Verizon willingly handed over call records to the National Security Agency without proper legal warrants. Read more AT&T has also been in the news about its collusion with the NSA to install computers to track the internet traffic on their Worldnet backbone. Now these same corporations want even more access to homes throughout the country with their fiber networks. Protest organizers demand accountability and better protections.

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The Project is a monthly radical newpaper for the UCSC campus and Santa Cruz Community. It is run in a non-hierarchical fashion mainly by UCSC students, with an emphasis in anti-capitalism and local activism aimed at democratizing the university system.

The purpose of this newspaper collective is to document and inspire strategic radical actions that are relevant to local, regional, and global socioeconomic justice. The Project Newspaper Collective believe independent media plays a crucial role in facilitating dialogue, organizing mass mobilizations, and encouraging daily acts of resistance.

In This Issue: The Naked Truth: UC Sweatshops || An Open Letter of Solidarity... || Support the Troops? Support Troop Resistance! || SAW Call to Action || Shout Out to May Day: Unidos Estamos, Nos Quedamos || HR4437 & SR2454: The Deal With the Bills || May Day- Made in America, Forgotten and Remembered || How to Keep it Up (Momentum, That is) || Disarming the War Machine || Sustainable Farming

Yet another Federal Grand Jury targeting local activists has been convened. The apparent reason is to investigate the anti-G8 protest held in the Mission District on July 8, 2005, during which a local police officer was injured. Independent journalist Josh Wolf, a frequent poster to Indybay, has been subpoenaed to provide his unedited videotape of the demonstration. June 15th update: Josh refused to testify or provide video evidence to the federal grand jury. Instead of being held in contempt, he was told by the prosecutor that he was free to go. Photos & Video

There will be a Free Speech Rally and BLR Press Conference on Saturday, March 11th at 2pm at the corner of Telegraph and Haste Streets in Berkeley. Read more

On February 21, 2006, two Federal Communications Commission agents demanded to search a residence in Oakland, California-- they were looking for the Berkeley Liberation Radio station. The occupants refused to allow the F.C.C. to enter the house without a warrant. The F.C.C. retreated, stating they would be back with one and left a ten-day notice for the occupants to respond.

Berkeley Liberation Radio volunteers say that they feel compelled to continue to stand up and give a platform for the voices in the community and beyond. They say that Bush cannot own the air, and that he is under Citizen's Arrest for his many crimes against humanity. They refuse to be silenced by the Bush regime.

FRSC's recent Interview with Gerald Smith of BLR about the FCC's visit, and some of the history of BLR

"el enemigo común" scratches beneath the surface of neoliberalism, at some of the most hidden atrocities in recent North American history. The film documents instances of paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2002 through 2005 while including scenes from an international human rights movement in 2003, in Miami against the Free Trade Area of the America's, and in Cancun against the World Trade Organization. The three locations in isolation expose the disparity of North American resistances, but together bring us closer to understanding the nature of an emerging common struggle. The film has recently screened in San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz and Santa Ana.

Watch Trailer | Austin Inymedia | El Enemigo Común Blog

Audio from Santa Cruz Screening: Simon speaks on El Enemigo Común || Ryan Harvey performed: COINTELPRO | Open Song to the U.S. Occupying Forces | Remember Me | Freedom | New Orleans Got Iraqed | The Plan Puebla Panama | Give It Time

Upcoming Screenings: Berkeley March 1st, San Francisco March 3rd and Oakland March 4th

We are very pleased to announce that the Santa Cruz Independent Media Center will now be regionally integrated with Indybay.org, the website of the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. The new website address for Santa Cruz Indymedia is Indybay.org/SantaCruz. Together, as media activists in Central and Northern California and throughout the world, we will share news and information for a world based on freedom, cooperation, justice and solidarity, and against environmental degradation, neoliberal exploitation, racism and patriarchy.

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Read More about Indybay's New Regional Coverage, Redesign, and More

Media Action Marin is working to create an independent, non-profit Community Media Center that will allow people in Marin to create, control and broadcast their own programs over cable’s PEG channels (Public, Education and Government). The next meeting of the Marin Telecommunications Agency (MTA) will be on Wednesday, Jan 11th, 2006 from 6pm to 8pm, in the Larkspur Town Hall at 400 Magnolia, Larkspur, CA. Media Action Marin is asking for people to attend and voice their support for independent, non-profit community media in Marin. Informational Flyer

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