Building Solidarity: A New Wave of Santa Cruz Unions
For a worker to comfortably afford Santa Cruz’s rental market, they would have to make about $80 per hour. Yet the average food service or retail worker in Santa Cruz makes less than a fourth of that. Combined with groceries, bills and coursework, student workers...
Future of Coast Road Stables Left Unstable with Potential UCSC Land Acquisition
For nearly two decades, Christine James, a Santa Cruz County local, has boarded her horse at the Coast Road Stables located on a quiet parcel between the Monterey Bay shoreline and Highway 1, just west of UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal Science Campus. She makes the...
Santa Cruz Planned Parenthood Shut Down. Now What?
Aneri Pillai was at home scrolling on her phone when she stumbled upon an Instagram post that left her devastated: The Santa Cruz Planned Parenthood Health Center had permanently closed. As both a student at UC Santa Cruz and the president of the university’s Planned...
State Bill Threatens Integrity of Ethnic Studies Curricula
First read to the California State Assembly on Feb. 12, AB 715 was a bill aimed at protecting lawyers licensed under the California State Bar from disciplinary action due to the laws of other states. Now, three months after its first reading, the bill bears...
Sabores Familiares de Santa Cruz: Exploring 5 Local Taquerias
“When you’re far away from your culture, food is one of the only ways that you can get that connection,” said Keyla Garcia, a co-chair of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán de UCSC (M.E.C.h.A.). “When I would go home for the weekend and come back,...
The Cuts Come to Santa Cruz: Museums and Libraries Threatened
Editor’s note: This piece has been slightly edited for brevity. “This grant is no longer in the best interest of the United States.” That’s what a letter sent to the Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery (MOD) on April 8 read, informing them that the...
“We are here, We are Alive, and We are Part of This Country.”: Senderos’ 20th Guelaguetza Festival
“This is activism,” said Maestra Fe Silva-Robles, the co-founder of Senderos, as she pointed to a lively crowd dancing on Cooper Street in Downtown Santa Cruz. “This is the way that we are active …. This is the way that we show how proud we...
“An Important Win”: Judge Narrows Search Warrant After Two-Month Legal Battle
For the past seven months, UC Santa Cruz police have had access to the entire contents of third-year Laaila Irshad’s phone. From private emails and text messages, to photos and even location data, authorities had access to over a decade’s worth of personal data. UCSC...
Santa Cruz Community Tells Trump and Musk: Hands Off!
Angela Farley and her team deliver over 3,000 meals each week to people living with critical and chronic illnesses, 87 percent of whom are considered low income. But due to the Trump administration’s flurry of budget cuts and layoffs across federal agencies, the fate of...
“Cine Se Puede”: Watsonville Film Festival Uplifts Latine Filmmakers
“We are underserved by film festivals and other cultural organizations,” said Brenda Avila-Hanna. “We are a filmgoing community, and we deserve a good festival.” Avila-Hanna is a board member for Watsonville Film Festival (WFF), an event and non-profit organization that highlights films directed by Latinx...