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News :: International Relations

Adult Ed Student Claims Bigotry Underlies Ouster from Class

A student translating English to Spanish left the Beginning Electronic Keyboard class at the Schott Center with another who spoke only Spanish, contending that bigotry was the cause and calls for a boycott of that class.
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News :: Environment

SBCC Hosts Alternative Transportation Week

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Week of September 5
Santa Barbara City College east campus was the venue for student groups promoting "outside the box" thinking on transportation issues.
 

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Review :: Media

Progressive Rap Artist Rocks the House at Velvet Jones: Talib Kweli Takes the Lyrical High Road

It's just the beginning, the first inning
Battle for America's soul, the devil's winning
The President is Bush, the Vice President's a Dick
So a whole lot of fuckin is what we gon' get
They don't wanna raise the babies so the election is fixed

Hosed down, bit by dogs, and got blacks into house arrest for that...
 

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Commentary :: Peace

Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?

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Diane Feinstein has directly profiteered from the U.S. imposed misery she voted for 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. Feinstein is profiting from the U.S. bombing of the Iraqi infrastructure as well as its inefficient rebuilding by private U.S. contractors.
 

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News :: Civil & Human Rights

Mass Eviction in Isla Vista

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In what may be the largest mass eviction in recent memory, over 50 families received 30-day eviction notices at 6626 Picasso Rd, known as the Cedarwood Apartments in Isla Vista.
 

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Announcement :: International Relations

Think Outside the Bomb

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October 20-22 : The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will team up with various partner NGOs to host the second "Think Outside the Bomb" national conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The conference will bring together high school students, college students, recent college alumni, and young non-profit professionals from throughout the western United States for a series of participatory discussion panels, workshops, and skills trainings on building a nuclear-free world.
 

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News :: Civil & Human Rights : International Relations : Peace

Town Meeting on Impeachment Draws Huge Crowd

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A Town Meeting to discuss Impeachment of Mr Bush drew a standing room only crowd to the Faulkner on 15 August 2006.
 

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Announcement :: Environment

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

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With the loss of Soviet oil in 1990, Cuba was forced to undergo an artificial "Peak Oil." This documentary explores how the island nation, through its focus on community, managed not only to survive but to transform their entire society to a sustainable, low-energy-use system. Also what is the future of Cuba post-Fidel? Want to travel to Cuba? Come and learn how!
 

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