Sal Lua is the kind of person that’s hard to have a conversation with—someone is always interrupting by coming up to him to say hello. During our chat, fellow teens, the adult head of security at Watsonville High School, and Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees member Karen Osmundson all gravitate toward the [...]

By Rosie Spinks City on a Hill Press Published November 4, 2010 at 2:21 am Strawberry production on the Central Coast is part of a $2 billion industry. Of all the strawberries grown in the United States, 88 percent of the crop is grown in California, with roughly 50 percent coming from the Watsonville, Salinas [...]

17th Annual Peace & Unity March in collaboration with Viernes Cultural and White Hawk Danza Azteca Saturday, October 30, 2010 Your invited to the 17th Annual Peace & Unity March. After the tragic murders of 9 year-old Jessica Cortes and her 16 year-old brother Jorge, the P & U march was the first event organized [...]

Fall 2010 tour Thursday, March 28, 2010 at 7pm United Presbyterian Church 112 E. Beach St. Watsonville, CA This film and workshop presentation discusses a recent investigation into US military mapping of communally owned indigenous land in Oaxaca, Mexico. Kansas University geography professors presented the mapping project to indigenous communities as a participatory research project [...]