WHERE: Monterey County Board of Supervisors General Meeting – 168 West
Alisal St., 1st Floor, Salinas, CA.

TIME: 10:00am for public comment

ALSO!! SAME DAY…

Watsonville City Council (7:00pm for public comment – 275 Main St., 4th
Floor, Watsonville, CA.)

Methyl Iodide is a new toxic chemical recently approved for usage by the
California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with high opposition in the United
States. This chemical will replace Methyl Bromide, the pesticide used
mostly on Strawberries and Raspberries.

Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties are most at risk by this chemical since
they use the highest levels of Methyl Bromide (approximately 1.5 million
and 600,000 total pounds in 2008, respectively). Methyl Iodide is four
times more toxic and carcinogenic than Methyl Bromide. If we can convince
Monterey County and the City of Watsonville, two major ag communities, to
oppose to the use of Methyl Iodide, we can send a very strong message to
the EPA and California’s DPR.

Come out and support!! WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK OUT – OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT!

****For more information, call Ramiro @ 831-254-1953 or e-mail
saviorself@riseup.net*****

Poetic Stimulator aka Patricia has been a performer since the age of 5. Music and the arts have always been in her family for generations. She has been writing poetry since she was 13 and got her start in music doing open mic’s at her college. Soon after she was a founding member of her group DobaDoza an all female hiphop Quartet. Her main goal is to stimulate the minds all around her about the truth.Now relocated to LA peklat and Poetic S. started divine daughters. 

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/divinedaughters#ixzz0xn19mcS9

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/divinedaughters#ixzz0xn10Goby

Donation $5

Click on link: http://elenemigocomun.net/banda/simon/

Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker. He has spent the last 8 years documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation in Mexico and the US. Through lectures, workshops, and short films, Sedillo breaks down the effects of neoliberalism, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and militarism on indigenous communities, immigrant communities, and communities of color in the US and Mexico. Through collaborative media projects, Sedillo’s work has contributed to a growing network of communities whose primary objective is to share, teach, and learn from one another, about community based media production and the collective construction of horizontal networks of community rights defense. Sedillo is also an active member of the campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the America’s, at Fort Benning, in Columbus, GA. You can find him at the gates of the U.S. Army base every November along with the folks from The School of the America’s Watch at www.soaw.org.

There has never been a movement for social change without art and visual communications being central to that movement. Graphics are powerful living reminders of struggles for worldwide peace and justice. Favianna will discuss the process of developing art in collaboration with community-based organizations. She will also discuss steps for designing visually engaging posters for social justice campaigns.

Favianna Rodriguez is an artist-entrepreneur who has helped foster resurgence in political arts both locally and internationally. Named by UTNE Magazine as leading visionary artist and changemaker,” Rodriguez is renown for her cultural media projects dealing with social issues such as war, immigration, and globalization, as well as for her leadership in establishing innovative institutions that promote and engage new audiences in the arts. In 2001, Rodriguez co-founded the EastSide Arts Cultural Center in Oakland, California. In 2003, she helped established the Taller Tupac Amaru print studio to promote the historical practice of socially-engaged printmaking. In 2009, she co-founded Presente.org, a U.S.-based, nationwide organization dedicated to the political empowerment of Latinos via the internet and mobile messaging.

Recorded on Thursday, July 8, 2010
Brown Beret Bike Shack
Street: 555 Main Street
Watsonville, CA

Thursday July 15, 7pm-8pm
Watsonville Bike Shack
555 Main Street (Behind the Old Chavez Furniture Store)
Watsonville, CA

Sponsored by the Watsonville Brown Berets and Migra Watch.
For more information contact
Francisco Dominguez at fotowaddle@gmail.com.

Come hear Watsonvile, SC & Bay Area folks share their experiences, pics, video and words. We must ensure that the energy and work generated from the USSF continues at all levels of community to keep growing, healing and building our movement.

“It’s not about revolution…it’s about EVOLUTION.” John Trudell, Poet & AIM Activist at the USSF

“The beauty of the Forum is that each and every person had their own personal encounter with “it”, but we were also all in a collective space that emitted a productive sense of solidarity, unity, progressive voice and vision that I’ve never experienced in my life. The feeling that we CAN do this. Another world IS possible.” Jayeesha, Mind Power Collective

THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY THE WATSONVILLE BROWN BERETS & THE SANTA CRUZ ALLIANCE AGAINST GANG ENHANCEMENTS

All donations will go to the Paiute/Shoshone Reservation in McDerrmitt, Nevada.

www.ussf2010.org

This year 50 students will be riding their bikes and a team of 25 volunteers who will tour from UC Berkeley to UC Los Angeles, stopping at different campuses along the way to hold press conferences to address the importance of access, affordability, and diversity in higher education today. To make this dream a reality, we are counting on individuals like you to sponsor the tour. We are not pro-cyclist many of us do not even have bicycles. It is in this that we need your support there are many bicyclist here in Santa Cruz and Monte Ray Counties many with more then one bike and people that do not use their bikes any more. Help us by contributing your unused bikes so that we in turn can help ourselves continue our education.

Adult Road and Mountain Bikes Preferred, thank you.
The Watsonville Bike Shack will be assisting in the collection and repair of donated bicycles.
The Bike Shack is a youth-run bicycle repair and training project sponsored by the Watsonville Brown Berets.
The goal of the Bike Shack is to provide healthy and safe spaces for youth, help care for our environment, and provide free bike services to the local community.

The donation of your bicycle will be tax deductible.
Please email us at brownberets@msn.com

There has never been a movement for social change without art and visual communications being central to that movement. Graphics are powerful living reminders of struggles for worldwide peace and justice. Favianna will discuss the process of developing art in collaboration with community-based organizations. She will also discuss steps for designing visually engaging posters for social justice campaigns.

Favianna Rodriguez is an artist-entrepreneur who has helped foster resurgence in political arts both locally and internationally. Named by UTNE Magazine as leading visionary artist and changemaker,” Rodriguez is renown for her cultural media projects dealing with social issues such as war, immigration, and globalization, as well as for her leadership in establishing innovative institutions that promote and engage new audiences in the arts. In 2001, Rodriguez co-founded the EastSide Arts Cultural Center in Oakland, California. In 2003, she helped established the Taller Tupac Amaru print studio to promote the historical practice of socially-engaged printmaking. In 2009, she co-founded Presente.org, a U.S.-based, nationwide organization dedicated to the political empowerment of Latinos via the internet and mobile messaging.

Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Brown Beret Bike Shack
Street: 555 Main Street (Behind the old Chavez Furniture Store)
City/Town: Watsonville, CA

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Please read the following documents to learn more about Efren’s wrongful conviction and how you can assist him. We invite you to read additional information available on the site as well when time permits. The following links are located under the General Information tab of www.4Efren.com:

Web Site Intro Support Letter Request Letters in Support of Efren

• Paul Ciolino Support Letter and Credentials
• Efren’s Biographical Information
• Case History

HOW YOU CAN HELP
Circulate Information: You can support Efren’s cause and encourage others to stop this human rights violation by copying and circulating this message on web sites, blogs, message boards, comment sections, survey feedback spaces, in chat rooms, on Facebook pages, MySpace pages, and by sending it in e-mails to people you communicate with. We are especially interested in getting Efren’s case in the media throughout the international community. You are invited to link to Efren’s MySpace page and Facebook page as well and add yourself as a friend. Efren’s MySpace URL is www.myspace.com/4Efren. His Facebook URL is www.facebook.com/p/Efren_Tlecoz_Paredes/ 665781653.

Write Support Letters: You are also encouraged to write letters in support of Efren and mail them to: The Injustice Must End (TIME), P.O. Box 858, Battle Creek, MI 49016. You can review some of the support letters Efren has received thus far at www.4Efren.com under the General Information tab. If you would like help writing your letter you can e-mail us to request the electronic file “Suggested Content for Support Letters”.
Sign Efren’s On-Line Petition: Please sign an electronic petition to support a new trial for Efren Paredes, Jr. and encourage others to do so as well.. Along with signing the online petition people can leave a comment on the petition for others to read. We will use the petition to urge the Governor of the State of Michigan to pardon or commute Efren’s sentence if an appellate court will not grant him a new trial. The petition is available at www.petitionspot.com/petitions/4Efren. You can also download a printed version of the petition to gather signatures as well which is available at www.4Efren.com under the General Information tab as the file “Justice for Efren Paredes, Jr. Petition – In Print Form”.

Make a Secure Online Donation to the Efren Paredes, Jr. Legal Defense Fund: To make a secure online donation to the Efren Paredes, Jr. Legal Defense Fund you can visit our web site at www.4Efren.com and click on the white “Make Donation” button located toward the center of the page. The donations are made through PayPal.
An electronic version of this entire message is available for you to copy and paste into e-mails or circulate as an e- mail attachment. You can request a copy of this electronic file by sending an e-mail requesting “Efren E-mail Campaign Letter” to info@4Efren.com. You can request any of the electronic files mentioned above from info@4Efren.com as well.

Friday, June 25, 2010
Rampart Police Station 10AM-2PM
1401 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, California

Help us free Timothy Fonseca, AN INNOCENT MAN!
Join the March and sign the petition!

SIXTY-ONE YEAR OLD MOTHER ADVOCATES SON’S INNOCENCE! Incarcerated fifteen years for a crime Timothy Fonseca did not commit!

Mr. Fonseca has been profiled on CBS 2 news report on 11-16-2005 “Wrongfully Convicted”; endorsed by Association in Defense of The Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC), story presented in AIDWYC Journal Volume 9 Spring 2008 “The Timothy Fonseca Case”. On August 8, 2005 Mr. Fonseca underwent a polygraph test, which was conducted by Dr. Louis Rovner, Ph.D. on the advice of INNOCENT, a Michigan-based organization. Mr. Fonseca passed the polygraph with an overall score of +13 (passing score is +6).

Stop the INJUSTICE NOW! Help exonerate Timothy Fonseca and join our rally outside Salinas Valley Prison.
Website: freetimnow.com
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Thirty-five to life for a crime he did not commit! Railroaded by the scandalous L.A.P.D. Rampart Police Station in 1995. Sixteen year old male witness recanted his testimony midway through the trial, stating that Timothy did not do it, but that he lied because he feared the police. Long list of suspects, but only Timothy’s finger prints were tested with NO MATCH. Victim’s wife described the suspect as bald, no facial hair and no tattoos, as viewed by her at 3:30 A.M. from a distance of 180 feet. Timothy had a full head of hair, mustache and tattoos.

Throughout Timothy’s ordeal and 16 years of incarceration, he has maintained that HE IS INNOCENT. In 2005, a polygraph was given to Timothy on behalf of the Innocence Program, Timothy scored +13, to be considered truthful one must obtain +6 score.

Contact Info.: Bertha_Fonseca@yahoo.com
Website: http//:www.freetimnow.com