A Call For Transformative Justice
*This article contains references to sexual assault. “All power to the people!” chanted Bilal Mafundi Ali to an enthusiastic audience that echoed the call. About 55 students gathered at the Stevenson Event Center on Nov. 14 to listen to panelists Cat Brooks and Ali discuss...
Camp Phoenix Residents Evicted for Trespassing
Within a week of its opening, Santa Cruz police evicted over 50 individuals from Camp Phoenix for trespassing. Officers arrived around 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 15 and told Camp Phoenix residents to vacate the premises. Police cordoned off camp entrances, preventing residents from reentering and...
Queer Airwaves: From the Radio Station to You
From UC Santa Cruz’s on-campus radio station to your ears, here are a couple of queer-centered programs available throughout Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, courtesy of KZSC. “Queer Ear” This quarter, two best friends created a project that transcends distance, thanks to the hosts’ high-energy...
Queering A Doll’s House
The magic of theater is transplanting a seat in a barn into a television studio, into a telenovela, into a home, into a room, into a relationship, into the protagonist’s mind. Xóchitl Rios-Ellis’s adaptation of “A Doll’s House” took place against the backdrop of a...
Santa Cruz Shows Up For Dreamers
Four days before the U.S. Supreme Court heard the final arguments in a case deciding the fate of some 700,000 undocumented U.S. residents, a crowd of families, students and activists gathered at the Santa Cruz Town Clock with pickets emblazoned “Home Is Here.” Here, the...
Camp Phoenix Restores Hope For Change
A rising sun welcomed Santa Cruz’s newest community shelter for houseless residents. Camp Phoenix, located at the site of the former Ross Camp, opened on Nov. 10 to residents seeking shelter. Santa Cruz houseless residents informally reopened the encampment after city officials closed the area...
UC Workers Demand End to Outsourcing
Almost 200 students and workers struck at the base of campus on Nov. 13 to denounce the UC’s recent increase in labor outsourcing. The day saw hours of picketing, rallying and a strong police presence of about 10 to 20 officers at a time. The...
Graduate Students Protest For Living Wages
*A pseudonym is used to protect the source’s identity. Over 100 graduate students gathered in Quarry Plaza on Nov. 7 and marched to Kerr Hall to present a list of demands to Chancellor Cindy Larive. In the first march of a monthlong campaign of visibility,...
Remembering Carol Freeman
She was a writing instructor. A mentor. A pedagogical inspiration. But students, colleagues and friends just called her Carol. Carol Freeman, 75, died of an illness at her home on Oct. 21. Freeman laid the foundation for UC Santa Cruz’s writing program, served as Cowell...
UCSC Student Calls For UC Regent Resignation
Rebecca Ora spoke during the public comment session of the Nov. 13 UC Board of Regents meeting, alleging that Regent George Kieffer grasped her leg under a table at a dinner in 2014. Ora is a doctoral candidate at UC Santa Cruz in the film...