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Politics of Transience 50¢ Page 1 VOL. 2, NO 9 SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA JULY 12TH, 2002 A Local Weekly Newspaper for an Engaged Populace Un Semanrio Local para un Pueblo Activo y Comprometido

The last school bell rings, Suena la campana de salida and you decide to join some de la escuela y decides acom- friends who are walking to Casa Bienestar pañar a algunos amigos que a nearby youth center. You By/Por HALIE JOHNSON se encaminan a un centro imagine a large room with fl u- Translated By/Traducido Por ARMANDO ALCARAZ jouvenil cercano. Te imaginas orescent lights and too many The Alarm! Newspaper Collective / Collectivo del Periódico ¡La Alarma! un cuarto grande con luces rules. You and your friends fl uorecentes y con demasíadas walk up to a building with The Center solidifi es the El Centro solidifi ca la reglas. Tú y tus amigos llegan teens playing basketball in the relación existente entre a un edifi cio donde hay adol- parking lot. When you see a relationship between three ecentes jugando baloncesto en sign in front that reads “Casa organizations that provide tres organizaciones que el estacionamiento. Cuando Bienestar”(House of Wellbe- provéen servicios similares ves el letrero de enfrente que ing), you realize one would similar services in Watsonville dice “Casa Bienestar,” te das be in for something different en Watsonville. cuenta que esto puede ser than what you expected muy distinto a cualquier cosa Inside the building, more que te hubieras imaginado. people your age are playing Dentro del edifi cio hay otros pool, and you recognize your de tu edad jugando billar, y favorite radio station in the reconoces a tu estación de ra- background. You overhear dio favorita tocando música en someone explaining safe con- el fondo. Alcanzas a escuchar dom use to a group of teens. a alguien que explica a un gru- A woman with a warm smile po de adolecentes sobre el uso takes a break from help- seguro del condón. Una mujer ing someone else with her con una sonrisa cálida deja de homework to welcome you ayudar a alguien mas con su and offer you some chips and tarea para darte la bienvenida salsa. ofreciendote chips y salsa. When Casa Bienestar, “An Cuando la Casa Bienestar, HIV Prevention, Harm Reduc- “Un Centro de Recursos para tion and Community Health Prevención del VIH, Re- Resource Center,” opened its ducción de Daño, y Salud doors in December 2000, it Comunitaria,” abrió sus Go see BIENESTAR on Page 4 Vea BIENESTAR en la Página 5 HALIE JOHNSON/The Alarm! Newspaper Inside

Local / Regional Transience in Santa Cruz Transience in Santa Cruz: Part 2—Local Politics...... 1 Last week, I examined the role of transience in the local economy of Santa Cruz. In this installment of “Transience in Santa Cruz,” I’ll be drawing attention to the political apparatus that both encourages, and is determined by, that tran- Casa Bienestar...... 1 sience. Readers may remember from the last installment that I conceive of transience not primarily as the homeless and HIV Surveillance...... 4 the transient poor, but as tourists and students.

Part 2—The Politics of Transience of the Monterey Bay. Apparently, the State Lands Editorial Commission found the evidence compelling enough By FHAR MIESS Letter from an Editor...... 2 to offer to back up the City if it were to take the case The Alarm! Newspaper Collective to court. Deadly Illusions ...... 2 In the late 1920’s, as Ku Klux Klan chapters The City Council ceded eighty percent of the land Your Letters ...... 3 grew around Santa Cruz, Fred Swanton, Santa Cruz to the Seaside Company in October of 1998 rather Mayor, industrialist and town booster, lead cara- than suing for the entire property. But a few months vans promoting the area’s tourist attractions, most later, a new council—populated by councilmembers Commentary of which he had built himself (or, more accurately, such as Kristopher Krohn and Ed Porter who had paid others to build for him). been elected partly on their pledge to advocate for Pacific Agoraphobia...... 6 In 1933, during the last year of Swanton’s fi ve- the return of the land to the City—reversed the Thirty Years after ‘Deliverance’...... 9 year mayoral term, he transferred title on a few acres decision. Unfortunately, according to Beach Flats Youth: I am Automation Man ...... 11 of public land at the current location of the Board- resident Phil Baer, the weight of the tourism in- walk parking lot and some dustry giant leaned hard of its rides from the City upon the professional to the Santa Cruz Seaside LOCAL ANALYSIS city staff (City Manager Company. The Seaside Richard Wilson and City International Company has owned and operated the Boardwalk Attorney John Barisone) who advise the council. Jungle Geopolitics ...... 9 since Swanton himself bankrupted the operation in The city staff in turn leaned on the City Council. 1915. “My observation is that the City Council rarely, if Santa Cruz politics has changed a lot since then. ever, does anything other than what the staff sug- Certainly, one would hope that a KKK rally would gests and advises that they do,” he says. not last long here these days. Metro Santa Cruz reported on July 4, 2001 that Columns But, in other ways, the old guard is still very the council held private negotiations that summer much in power. According to maps from the 1850s, with the Seaside Company. Despite vigilant protests the land that Swanton sold to the Seaside Company from activists and claims of violations of the Brown Eye on the INS ...... 8 was below the “mean high tide” level, in what are Act, which mandates open access to public meetings, called “tidelands”, properties owned by the State the council eventually dropped the case. of California and held in trust by the City of Santa Tourist transience is big money in Santa Cruz. Other Cruz. According to the State Constitution, those Former Santa Cruz Mayor Mike Rotkin estimates Community Calendar...... 10 tidelands should never have been transferred to any that between one-third and two-thirds of Santa Cruz private party. tax revenues come from the tourism industry. The Comics by Keith Knight ...... 12 In 1998, activists challenged the City Council City Admission Tax, which comes primarily from the Wholly Cross-Words...... 14 to fi le suit against the Seaside Company to reclaim tourism industry and the Boardwalk in particular, Classifieds ...... 15 the land and restore the tidelands to natural habitat accounts for about $1.5 million of city tax revenues for Coho and Steelhead. The San Lorenzo Estuary, annually. The City also levies a Transient Occupancy Rack Locations...... 16 which was largely fi lled in after the construction of Tax (TOT) on hotel patrons, which accounts for over the river levee, is deemed essential for the ability of Go see TRANSIENCE on Page 7 the fi sh to survive upon entering the briny waters 2 The Alarm! Newspaper July 12th, 2002 Letter from an Editor Do we live in a world of exceptions? Last week when Donovan Jackson he was immediately compared to Rod- the police and their activities, some and his father were pulled over for ney King. When Worldcom was found cops will act cavalier. When people Volume II, No. 9 expired tags on their vehicle neither to be cooking their books, they were invest their money and hope for the expected to fi nd themselves in the in the same company as Enron. When best, never checking up on their in- Through the use of strategic investigation and innovative analysis, we aspire to provide quality national headlines. Had it not been for this woman in San Jose was convicted vestments, corporations will give the reporting on the news of Santa Cruz County as a the impulse of an amateur cameraman there were not immediate compari- bosses raises and infl ate their actual means to inspire and engage individuals and the they wouldn’t have. sons, and the response was simply a earnings reports. When the general community at large. We strive to cover news that What was captured on camera stern sigh. These are presented to us, public allows for people to say and act matters directly in peoples’ lives. We are not inter- ested strictly in local news, but wish to connect the shocked viewers: a 16-year-old being the public, as isolated situations, as ex- as they wish towards anyone who is local to regional, national and global issues. fl ung onto a police car and then bru- ceptions to our average expectations. “not a true American,” we become a The Alarm! Newspaper is distributed locally tally assaulted by an offi cer. According But are they? xenophobic society. through coin-operated newspaper racks and can to reports, the footage comes after the The fact of the matter is police We have to awaken our senses and also be found at select vendors. Our print run for this issue is 5,000 copies. Home delivery and bulk of the Inglewood incident had aggression is a constant reality; corpo- sensibilities. We need to recognize our postal subscriptions are also available (see back occured. Of course, there has been an rations constantly fudge their books or role as members of a community, and page for rates and instructions for subscribing). outcry, as citizens of Inglewood and act in ways that are less than ethical; become accountable to one another. others demand the immediate termi- and hate crimes are occurring every- Let corporate America pretend to be The Alarm! Newspaper nation of the offi cer in question. What day that are related to or independent accountable to itself; it is our job to Contacts does not come to the forefront in this of 9/11. Yet, these three events are said recognize that corporations are NOT P.O. Box 1205 incident is the need to examine our to be exceptions. a part of our communities. We need SANTA CRUZ, CA 95061 overall surroundings and institutions. People often comment that if the to look at what we invest in—corpora- Phone: 831-429-NEWS (6397) This week George W. Bush gave a “corrupt” exceptions within our so- tions or communities. Fax: 831-420-1498 speech addressing the recent wrong- ciety are rooted out, we will live in a Is there a tangible link between E-mail: [email protected] doings of a number of corporations. “just and civil society.” What we need these three incidents I have mentioned Website: www.the-alarm.com He called the behavior of corpora- to recognize is that all of these “excep- above? There is the obvious link; these tions, such as Enron and Worldcom, tions” are not isolated events; they are are our headlines. Then there is the How to Reach Us to subscribe deplorable, and he outlined a need all a part of systematic issues within implicit link; all of these incidents [email protected] for stiffer penalties for those “caught” our society. As a matter of fact, when happen in an environment ripe with to place a personal ad doing misdeeds. The markets did not we identify these events as isolated, it apathy. Once we recognize that each [email protected] respond favorably, and the general distracts us from looking at systemic of these events are not exceptions to to place a classifi ed advertisement public changed the news station. problems. These events are actually the status quo, but rather a result of classifi [email protected] to place a display advertisement Two weeks ago a young mother was necessary to maintain the power of the status quo, we can respond accord- [email protected] convicted of a hate-crime against an both capitalism and state over per- ingly. It should not take the beating of to submit letters to the editors man of Arab descent. She faces three sonal or community relationships, a developmentally disabled young [email protected] years in jail for running her vehicle because they reinforce the ideology man to make us take notice—or may- to submit calendar items [email protected] into his, and then assaulting him on that the system works by rooting out be it does. Can the beating of Donovan to submit queries a San Jose street. Locally, there was such exceptions. This ideology creates Jackson bring about something better for article submissions minimal response. an atmosphere where exploration into in our communities? Can we begin [email protected] All three of these incidents are systemic issues does not occur; indeed, to look closely and become more ac- to report distribution problems [email protected] treated as relatively isolated situations. it creates safe harbor for these inci- countable to one another; if not, we to report printing problems When Donovan Jackson was assaulted dents to occur. will never be members of a commu- [email protected] by the offi cer in southern California, When people do not take notice of nity. to report problems with newsracks —Michelle Stewart [email protected] for questions about your bill fi [email protected]

Collective Members Armando Alcaraz Op-Ed [email protected] Leila Binder [email protected] Halie Johnson [email protected] Deadly Illusions Fhar Miess [email protected] By CONN HALLINAN Caroline Nicola The Alarm! Newspaper Contributor [email protected] Rachel Showstack [email protected] The Middle East has always been Michelle Stewart a place where illusion paves the road occupying territory, and besieging [email protected] to disaster. In 1095, Pope Urban’s reli- West Bank cities until the Palestin- Editorial gious mania launched the crusades. In ians complete all the above tasks. Does Education 1915, Winston Churchill’s arrogance anyone really take this seriously? [email protected] led to the WWI bloodbath at Gallipoli. Ariel Sharon is a man obsessed with Environment Illusion tends to be a deadly business illusions. He has always fantasized that [email protected] in those parts. combining violence with appointing Food & Agriculture [email protected] And once again, illusions are about leaders he can manipulate will get Health to plunge the Middle East into catas- him his way. He was a supporter of the U.S. and Russia, so that he will not [email protected] trophe. secret Israeli operation that, accord- have to remove a single settlement. Housing & Real Estate The fi rst of these is George W. ing to Tony Cordesman of the Center According to Sharon, “Netzarim in [email protected] Labor & Economy Bush’s “vision” for peace between for Strategic Studies, funneled funds Gaza is the same as Tel Aviv.” Netzarim [email protected] Israeli’s and Palestinians, a “vision” to Hamas in the late ‘70s as a way to is a tiny settlement of fi fty families in Local Government consistent with the President’s un- undermine the secular Palestine Lib- the Occupied Territories that takes up [email protected] complicated “See Spot Run” world of eration Organization. We know how as much land as the Jebalya refugee State Government good guys and bad guys. that one turned out. camp, which holds 100,000 people. Tel [email protected] National / International Gov’t Since the Palestinians are “bad Then he invaded Lebanon in 1982 Avid is the largest city in Israel. [email protected] guys” the message is simple: Develop to destroy “terrorism,” killed 17,500 A recent study by the human rights Incarceration democracy (but only elect people we Lebanese and Palestinians, and ap- organization B’Tselem, shows that [email protected] approve of), create free market capi- pointed Bashir Jumayil President. while the settlements only occupy Transportation [email protected] talism, halt resisting the thirty-fi ve Jumayil was promptly assassinated, about two percent of the West Bank, Youth year occupation, and stop causing and Israel found itself in the middle through strategic placement and a [email protected] trouble. If the Palestinians somehow of an 18-year war, which it ended network of roads restricted to settlers, manage all this while under occupa- up losing. And once again he is using they control forty-two percent of the Contributors in this issue: tion, then in three years they might massive force in the West Bank and Territories. Under Sharon, existing Oliver Brown, Manuel Schwab, sasha k If you are interested in contributing an article to The get an “interim” state with “provision- Gaza and trying to pick who leads the settlements have been expanded, and Alarm!, please see the guidelines for submissions on al” borders and sovereignty—if Israel Palestinians. thirty-four new ones established. our website Special Thanks go to: agrees. The Sharon government, on Sharon’s latest illusion is to fi ll the That millions of Jews will immigrate Blaize, Chris, Manuel and sasha the other hand, are the “good guys,” occupied territories with Jewish im- All content Copyleft © 2002 by The Alarm! Newspaper. Except where noted otherwise, this material may be copied and distrib- so it gets to keep building settlements, migrants from France, Argentina, the Go see ILLUSIONS on Page 3 uted freely in whole or in part by anyone except where used for commercial purposes or by government agencies. July 12th, 2002 The Alarm! Newspaper 3 Letters to the Editors control, the Sleeping Ban, commu- people for the dot.com fi nancial di- Write to Us! ity control of police, the downtown saster, the high rents merchants must rackdown on the young, the war on pay, shoplifting, vandalism, and the All letters to the editor will be published, with the following guidelines: marijuana). lack of bathrooms downtown. We need a public hearing, which Instead of injecting reason and facts 1) No letters over 350 words he Citizens Police Review Board has into the argument, Ed Porter actually 2) No commercial solicitation (“plugs”) lways been empowered to do, but has argued that hacky-sacking presented 3) No event announcements or personal ads ever done, on the Norman Friedbreg “a life-threatening danger” for older 4) Letters to the editors must be sent “attn: Letters” via post ase (the man beaten for Breadcrumb people. So how many people have or to [email protected] via e-mail (we will assume that ittering on June 24th downtown). been killed by hacky-sack players? if you send letters to these addresses, you want them pub- and others have fi led formal These sweeping ordinance changes, lished--if you have general questions or comments, send omplaints with the CPRB. CPRB which constitute banishment and are them to [email protected]). We prefer e-mail. omplaints always need the following ripe for selective enforcement, Reilly 5) Letters received on paper by Tuesday at 5pm or via email by Wednesday at noon will be published the same week. written and signed additions: “I want described as “clarifi cations.” These 6) We reserve the right to reply to any letters in print in the his complaint put in a public fi le”; “I are being rushed through in a series of same issue. want an early independent investiga- special meetings while the University, 7) Play nice. on;” and “I want a public hearing.” Cabrillo College, and the high schools Since the reports of those I inter- are out for the summer, and many of iewed are sharply at odds with the the locals are out of town on vaca- offi cial police and Sentinel story, it’s tions. Dear Alarm: past time for the CPRB to work up the In previous years, the shoulder-tap Congratulations on presenting a Dear Alarm: nerve for the fi rst time to summon po- law and the youth curfew were passed concise, intelligable review of trends oc- Thanks to Caroline Nicola lice offi cers to a reckoning in front of in just this manner. curring in downtown Santa Cruz. In the (“Sleep Walkers in Santa Cruz”) the community. Witnesses with differ- Contact City Council at (831) 420- “Local Analysis” section of the Alarm’s and Fhar Miess (“Violence over ent accounts could speak out. Those 5017 and urge them to dump these last issue, co-editor Fhar Miess put for- Bread Crumbs”) for their front-page of us watching could form our own proposed ordinances which will do ward a reasoned, compassionate, and stories in the June 28th Alarm. conclusions. nothing to put in bathrooms, stop cogent account of some of the forces at Dismiss my writing about home- ROBERT NORSE vandalism, curb shop-lifting, or to help work behind the campaign to “clean up less and police issues as “hyperbolic Santa Cruz people end their alcohol or drug addic- Pacifi c Avenue”. This attempt, which and sanitized rants” if you’d like; tion problems. At the same time, they to some smells of privitization of public please cover these important topics are competely ignoring the two issues space utilizing a publicly funded police yourselves.. Dear Alarm: more people brought to the council force, seems to be yet another punitive It’s too bad (by Fhar’s own asser- Have you heard the din of the bigots than any others: police harassment measure against those least likely to have tion of The Alarm’s policy) that we lately? They screech about the “bums” of homeless people and the need for a the resources to fi ght back. I would like still have no “muckrakers” in town and “layabouts” who “sponge off the pedestrian-only mall. to propose another facet of the situation. willing to name names. While good citizens”, and “aggressively BECKY JOHNSON Right now, we are all facing a depression. you’re certainly right that institu- panhandle” while “using abusive lan- Santa Cruz This depression is extremely likely to deep- tional corruption, violence, and guage.” No, they aren’t talking about en and worsen. The lessons of The Great apathy run deep, hold the major telemarketers! Depression served to curb the greatest ex- players accountable! Whether it’s Despite all statistics which show Dear Alarm: cesses of corporate profl igacy. However, Dick Wilson, City-Manager-For- that crime in Santa Cruz is down, I am writing to thank-you for being with the new focus towards globalization, Life, or John (no other attorneys the City Council is planning on pass- a great new voice in Santa Cruz. I also those concerns have been muffl ed. Here need apply) Barisone, or any of the ing ordinances which would outlaw have a few comments and suggestions. in Santa Cruz, we have seen soaring rents other real rulers of the City (Belcher, bubble-blowing, leaning on a building, First, I want to encourage you to see and plummeting standard of living for the Cirillo, Lang, etc.), if you want to holding a sign after dark, and further beyond the obvious issues to cover in bulk of the population. At least part of the get to the bottom of things, you’ve restrict sitting on Pacifi c Ave. The Santa Cruz. I appreciate your new take backlash against the homeless has to do got to examine the conduct of the proposed ordinance changes would on issues surrounding downtown etc, with the fear of being forced to join their folks at the top. eliminate sitting or political tabling on however, it is a little bit predictable to ranks. Those who invoke the deepest fear, Santa Cruz’s “progressive” the entire west side of Pacifi c Ave. and cover downtown issues and Food Not even on a subconscious level must be politicians, who you are appar- only allow a few areas on the east side Bombs, all you are missing is a feature obliterated. ently reluctant to criticize by name, of the street. story on Free Radio Santa Cruz and A caution must be rung. What should continue to win election year-after- The council voted on July 9, 2002 the sleeping ban and you would have be brought to the forefront of the col- year by claiming concern for shelter to openly collude with Judges to en- covered all of the generic issues at lective consciousness is that to allow the and civil rights issues. Whether it’s force all of their petty, non-crime, hand in this town. rights of “those people”—whoever they Wormhoudt, Laird, Matthews, Rot- ordinances in an effort to “clean up” I don’t want to sound negative, I did may be—is to give license to the revoka- kin and Beiers (“the old guard”), Pacifi c Ave. of the type of people mer- like the last week’s issue on transience, tion of those same rights for all of us. or Fitzmaurice, Krohn, and Sugar chants don’t like. and am looking forward to the coming JEAN CADWELL (“the new old guard”), they all (as Councilmembers Emily Reilly and installments, however, I want to read Santa Cruz you so aptly put it) “shovel money Ed Porter are leading this effort to about other things in your paper. at law enforcement” and system- placate bigots who blame homeless Also, you seem to miss covering the atically suppress key issues (rent City Council etc. I think that it would be good if you did a brief overview of the meetings. Some people can From ILLUSIONS on Page 2 not make it to those long meetings, 2000. The Israelis may not be im- by the illusion that violence solves and they want to know the outcome to Israel and live on the West Bank is prisoned, but they live in fear. The everything. For the moment they from a new perspective. The Sentinel sheer fantasy. Indeed, according to sur- burden of empire has drained their are marginal, but their numbers are does cover the Council meetings, but veys by Peace Now, some sixty percent treasury, forcing huge social service greater than they were last month, your paper would have a new spin of the Jewish settlers would move back cutbacks, driving infl ation to eight and they will be greater yet next that would be great... what about a to Israel proper if the government would percent, and fi lling the jobless rolls. month. They grow in numbers be- bi-monthly commentary on these pro- offer the same incentives it does for More than 550 have died. cause their “vision” is the only way ceedings. them to live in the West Bank: reduction But sometimes illusion produces out illusion. Another suggestion. I want to see in income taxes, low mortgage rates, clarity. While Americans tend to The Alarm! at events in town. I don’t and subsidized education. Peace Now think of Israel as Sharon and the see your paper at events. You need to projects that this “re-transplant” would Palestinians as suicide bombers, be seen at events so people can get a cost $700 million. It now costs $1.4 bil- the reality is far more complex. chance to know you. Not everyone lion a year to subsidize the settlers and Sharon has called up the reserves, is going to write a long letter or send occupy the West Bank. but he will have to do without the an email. Some people might want to There are illusions on the Palestinian 466 reservists who refuse to serve just talk to you. Being at local events side as well, the most glaring being that in the Occupied Territories. Hamas and making your presence known will suicide bombers will drive the Israelis has pledged a new round of suicide make you seem very personable. out of the Occupied Territories. In fact, bombers, but it will have to do so in I like your paper, it has been im- the bombers only yield the moral high the face of call by fi fty-fi ve leading proving each week both in content ground to Sharon and strengthen the Palestinians to stop the bombings and in its design. You are doing good annexationists in Tel Aviv. These illu- in Israel. The call has already had work—just push it one more step and sion are ruining both Palestinians and an effect, according to the Financial give me more of the news in Santa Israelis. The former live in what is a Times, which reports that Palestin- Cruz County... that means covering is- virtually a national prison, with tens of ian support for suicide bombings is sues south and north of Santa Cruz. thousands of their young men incarcer- declining. Thanks for all your hard work! ated, their economy destroyed, and a There are people of goodwill PAT WINCHELL death toll approaching 2,000 since Sept. on both sides, people not blinded Jerusalem Aptos 4 The Alarm! Newspaper July 12th, 2002 Local News

From BIENESTAR on Page 1 the collaborating organizations. Their sealed the working relationship be- goals include providing “a home-like tween three local organizations. The environment for youth to drop-in, Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Project hang out and access health services, (SCNEP), the Santa Cruz AIDS Proj- which are all free of cost.” ect (SCAP) and the Homeless Persons Martha Zabale of SCAP was born Health Project (HPHP) had been col- and raised in Watsonville. “There are laborating in various ways for nearly a a lot of people who come here and decade, creating and staffi ng the Santa basically need someone to talk to, so Cruz Drop-In Center and providing I get a chance with them before they street-level services in Watsonville and decide to run away or something like Santa Cruz. All three organizations that,” she said. “I feel that they are work to prevent the spread of HIV, comfortable here because we know through meeting at-risk community Watsonville.” members at their own level to provide Ronaldo of SCNEP has lived in assistance and education. Watsonville for thirteen years and has For several years, SCAP, SCNEP volunteered with other local organiza- and HPHP volunteers have been set- tions. “I’m still able to reach the people ting up weekly needle-exchange and who I grew up with and help them,” HALIE JOHNSON/The Alarm! Newspaper HIV prevention sites in the parking he said. A client exchanges needles at Casa Bienestar lot of Watsonville’s Del Sol Market. HPHP provides health services while A Space for Many Purposes SCAP help provide free HIV testing. Casa Bienestar, much larger than There are two bulletin boards list- The Drop-In Center as a State-wide SCNEP provides a one-for-one syringe the Drop-In Center in Santa Cruz, ing jobs, events, activities and other model for effectiveness exchange, where injection drug us- offers a “hang out” room equipped resources that might be of interest The success of the Drop-In Center ers can trade one dirty syringe for a with a pool table, TV/VCR, a stereo, to young people. A health care offi ce in Santa Cruz is what made Casa Bi- clean one. Needle exchange programs a computer with scanner and internet provides health and medical services enestar possible, according to Maroni. are based on the idea that lowering access, a full kitchen and a conference from pregnancy tests to Hepatitis B The State Offi ce of AIDS in California the number of contaminated syringes room. “We’ve had a lot of students vaccines. agreed that the Santa Cruz Drop-In on the streets lowers the risk of new who come in here, and we help them The Needle Exchange room has a Center, which opened in 1988, met HIV infections. SCNEP also conducts out with their homework or résumés,” separate entrance from the main recep- an important need in North County. regular outreach on foot, exchanging Zabale said, pointing out the computer tion area to facilitate the anonymity of In fact, the State Offi ce of AIDS used needles and giving out free condoms station. clients. “If there’s a bunch of kids play- it as a model for the establishment of ing pool out front, they can come in twenty similar centers throughout the If there’s a bunch of kids playing through the side and go, without being State of California. seen by family members or having to The Drop-In Center in downtown pool out front, they can come in go through the embarrassment of see- Santa Cruz is not specifi cally youth- ing non-injectors,” explained Heather targeted, but approximately fi fty through the side and go, without Edney, Executive Director of SCNEP. percent of the participants who utilize being seen by family members or There are three offi ces for private it are below the age of twenty-four, ac- meetings to help people feel more cording to Maroni. “having to go through the embarrass- comfortable talking about diffi cult sub- ment of seeing non-injectors. jects. Edney feels that the awareness of Harm Reduction young people in HIV prevention is cru- In contrast to other drug counseling in areas where drugs are bought and Casa Bienestar also provides plenty cial. A lot of what SCNEP, HPHP and centers in Watsonville which generally sold. of lounging areas where staff and vol- SCAP do is geared towards youth. “Al- work from an abstinence-based model, But according to SCAP Director of unteers can sit with youth and spark most all of the literature we produce Casa Bienestar is set up to be a place Education and Prevention Timothy up conversation about school, sex, is by youth and for youth. ‘Fuck safe, where participants can obtain support Maroni, all three organizations needed family or whatever is on ”a participant’s shoot clean’ speaks to youth,” Edney even when they are not ready to kick a more permanent site in order to be mind. said. as effective as possible. “It was sort of Go see BIENESTAR on Page 13 hectic because we didn’t have a site for the services that we wanted to offer,” he said. In an effort to provide such Soundex is anonymous, but those peo- a site, members of the three organi- HIV Surveillance ple are probably not software engineers zations founded Casa Bienester. In Part 2: The Soundex Code positive and in what populations, an or data security professionals. “It is addition to providing HIV prevention HIV case reporting system needs to possible to break an anonymity scheme and services to injection drug users, By CAROLINE NICOLA have a low duplication rate, meaning as fl imsy as one based on Soundex, es- the center was developed to serve as a The Alarm! Newspaper Collective that people testing positive for HIV are pecially if it has other information in it recreational space for Watsonville resi- not listed more than once. In order to like date of birth,” he said. dents, with a focus on at-risk youth, On July 1, California joined seven other do that, unique identifi ers (UI) are All that would be needed to crack ages twelve to twenty-four. states in reporting people who test positive needed. UI consists of a combination of the non-name code would be a com- “Kids come in, they hang out, they for HIV using codes in lieu of names. Most public or private data elements used to puter, a secondary data base that has all check us out before they say ‘okay, I other states that track HIV use a name-based distinguish people. the necessary data elements in it and a need help,’” said Linda Valdez of HPHP. system. This article is the second of two parts The non-name codes used in Califor- copy of the algorithm used to produce The Center offers free condoms, birth on the new HIV surveillance system in Cali- nia’s HIV case reporting system consist the Soundex codes. control, food, entertainment, advice, fornia. of an individual’s Soundex Code (a So why use the Soundex code if it encouragement, clean syringes and Advocates and people living with code based on the way a person’s name can be cracked? It is easy, cheap and a safe place to rest. “Basically what- AIDS have waged a tough battle for the sounds phonetically), complete date of States have been using it to report AIDS ever their need is we try to meet it for right to be tested anonymously, a battle birth, gender and the last four digits of cases to the Center for Disease Control them,” Valdez added. “If we can’t, we lost in many states. People’s health their Social Security number. since the beginning of the AIDS out- do referrals.” can not be protected if their civil rights In an effort to prevent duplications, break, according to Forbes. She said if HIV testing and needle exchange are compromised, said Anna Forbes, people’s privacy erodes in the process, a State develops a different UI system, sites still show up behind Watsonville’s an AIDS policy consultant, writer and said cryptographer Philip Zimmer- it would be harder to cross-match HIV Del Sol Market every Wednesday af- teacher. That dilemma is fundamental mann, creator and founder of Pretty data against other relevant databases ternoon. Now volunteers often refer to concerns about the new HIV surveil- Good Privacy, Inc. He said there are such as the AIDS registry and the na- participants to Casa Bienestar where lance system in California. two pressures working in opposite tional death registry. “It is a question they can access the same services with Unlike other conditions, funding directions: one is to create a unique between do you give your State a really more comfort and privacy. “I think for AIDS has been based on a numbers identifi er, the other is trying to make it good UI system that protects people’s [the center has] been able to expand count since its beginning. Because anonymous. “Those two are working privacy, or do you go with another the scope and quality and quantity of State and Federal agencies want the at cross purposes. The more unique system like Soundex that is easier and the services that we offer [in South funding to be based on the number of you make a code, the easier it is to cheaper to use, but doesn’t protect pri- County],” Maroni added. people who test positive for HIV rather break its anonymity,” he said. vacy as well,” she said. Forbes argues The line-staff at Casa Bienestar, than the number of full-blown AIDS Zimmermann has received numeri- that any UI system is still more secure who oversee the day-to-day operation cases, some case reporting system is ous technical and humanitarian awards then name-based systems because they of the center, represent all three of needed. for his pioneering work in cryptogra- are harder to crack. To get an accurate epidemiological phy. He said there may be people who account of how many people are HIV believe the non-name system using July 12th, 2002 The Alarm! Newspaper 5 Noticias Locales BIENESTAR de la Página 1 añadió Valdez. “Si no podemos, les pro- puertas en diciembre de 2000, se so- porcionamos referencias.” lidifi có la relación de trabajo de tres Los lugares de pruebas de VIH e inter- organizaciones locales. El Proyecto cambio de jeringas aún aparecen detrás de Intercambio de Jeringas de Santa del Mercado Del Sol en Watsonville Cruz (SCNEP), El Proyecto SIDA de cada miércoles por la tarde. Ahora los Santa Cruz (SCAP), y el Proyecto de voluntarios refi eren a los participantes Salud para Personas Desamparadas a la Casa Bienestar donde pueden tener (HPHP), habían trabajado en co- acceso a los mismos servicios pero con laboración durante casi una década, más comodidad y privacidad. “Creo que creando el Santa Cruz Drop-In Cen- [el Centro] ha sido capaz de expander ter y proveyendo servicios en las el enfoque, calidad y la cantidad de los calles de Watsonville y Santa Cruz. servicios que ofrecemos [en el Condado Las tres organizaciones trabajan para Sur],” añadió Maroni. HALIE JOHNSON/The Alarm! Newspaper prevenir el contagio del VIH reunién- El personal “de linea” de la Casa Bien- La sala de recreación en la Casa Bienestar dose con miembros de la comunidad estar, que se encarga de las operaciones de alto riesgo en su propio nivel para diarias del centro, representa a las tres de ver a personas que no se inyectan,” madamente cincuenta por ciento de proporcionar asístencia y educacion. organizaciones colaborantes. Sus obje- explicó Heather Edney, la Directora los participantes que lo utilizan están Los voluntarios de SCAP, SCNEP tivos incluyen el proveer “a los jóvenes Ejecutiva de SCNEP. por debajo de los veinticuatro años de y HPHP han estado colocando si- con un ambiente hogareño donde pu- Hay tres ofi cinas para entrevistas edad, según Maroni. tios temporales para prevención del edan venir, disfrutar, y tener acceso a privadas para ayudar a las personas VIH por varios años en los estacio- servicios de salud, los cuales son libres sentirse mas cómodas al hablar sobre Reducción de Daño namientos del Mercado Del Sol en de cargo.” temas que encuentren difi ciles. Ed- A diferencia de otros centros de Watsonville. HPHP provée servicios Martha Zabale, de SCAP, nació y cre- ney cree que es crucial la conciencia apoyo para drogas en Watsonville que de salud y SCAP ayuda a proporcio- ció en Watsonville. “Hay mucha gente de los jóvenes sobre la prevención de generalmente trabajan con un mod- nar pruebas gratis de detección del que viene aquí que básicamente necesita VIH. Mucho de lo que hacen SCNEP, elo basado en la abstinencia, la Casa VIH. SCNEP ofrece un intercambio de alguien con quien hablar, entonces HPHP, y SCAP está encaminado hacia la Bienestar está diseñada para ser un de uno a uno de jeringas, donde tengo una oportunidad con ellos antes juventud. “Casi toda la literatura que lugar donde los participantes pueden quienes usan drogas inyectadas pu- que decidan escapar de sus casas o algo producimos está escrita por jóvenes obtener apoyo aún cuando no están para los jóvenes. El fuck safe, shoot clean listos para dejar el hábito del consumo le habla a la juventud,” explicó Edney. de drogas. “Mucha gente no quiere cambiar El Centro Drop-In como un modelo hoy,” añadió Maroni. “Podrán querer estatal para la efectividad. cambiar en un par de meses, o en un Según Maroni, el éxito de el Drop-In par de años de ahora, pero saben que Center en Santa Cruz fue lo que hizo no pueden hacerlo en media hora, posible que se hiciera la Casa Bienestar. así que están viviendo sus vidas, y La Ofi cina Estatal del SIDA en Cali- nosotros solo estamos aquí para vivir fornia (SOA) decidió que el Drop-In con ellos sus vidas, más o menos de la Center en Santa Cruz, abierto en 1988, manera en que ellos nos dicen querer atendía una necesidad importante en el vivirlas.” Condado Norte. Incluso, el SOA lo usó “No hay un si o un no, y no hay un como modelo para el establecimiento bien y un mal,” dijo Edney. “Le damos de veinte centros similares a lo largo a la gente tanta información como

HALIE JOHNSON/The Alarm! Newspaper del Estado de California. podemos y ellos hacen lo que quieran Literatura y equipo para inyecciones de prevención del VIH El Drop-In Center en el centro de con ella… Sólamente estamos tratando Santa Cruz no está exclusívamente de intervenir antes que las cosas se eden intercambiar sus jeringas sucias así,” ella dijo. “Siento que están cómodos orientado a los jóvenes, pero aproxi- pongan peor.” por nuevas sin usar. Los programas aquí porque conocemos Watsonville.” de intercambio de jeringas operan Ronaldo de SCNEP ha vivido en Wat- bajo la premisa que al disminuir el sonville por trece anos y ha trabajado Casa Bienestar número de jeringas contaminadas en como voluntario para otras organiza- las calles también se disminuye el ciones locales. “Aún puedo alcanzar la riesgo de nuevas infecciones de VIH. gente con quien crecí y ayudarlas,” el Horario de Consulta SCNEP también conduce campañas dijo. de alcance a pie, intercambiando jer- Lunes & Martes 2–6 PM, Miércoles 12–2 PM (2:30–4:30 Mercado Del Sol) y 5:30–8:30 PM: Jueves– ingas y distribuyendo condones gratis Un Espacio de UsosMúltiples Sábado 2–6 PM en areas donde hay compra y venta La Casa Bienestar, mucho mas grande Planned Parenthood de drogas. que el Drop-In Center en Santa Cruz, Pero según Timothy Maroni, Di- ofrece un cuarto de estancia equipado Lunes 3–5: Pruebas de Embarazo, Chlamydia y Gonorrea, control de natalidad, vacunas rector de Educación y Prevención con una mesa de billar, televisión, vid- contra hepatitis B, anticonceptivos de emergencia, y citas concertadas. de SCAP, las tres organizaciones eocasetera, estéreo, y una computadora Pruebas de Detección del VIH necesitaban un lugar mas perman- con “scanner” y acceso al internet, así ente para poder ser lo mas efectivas como una cocina completa, y un cu- Lunes 3–5: En este horario estarán disponibles videos educativos, información, accesorios posible. “Era muy difícil porque no arto de conferencias. “Hemos tenido a para sexo seguro e inyecciones seguras. teniamos un lugar para los servicios muchos estudiantes que vienen aquí, y Visitas de Enfermeros de Salud Publica del Homeless Health Services que queríamos ofrecer,” el dijo. En nosotros los ayudamos con su tarea o un esfuerzo conjunto para propor- con sus résumes,” dijo Zabale, señalando 1er y 3er miércoles de cada mes, 6–7:30 2º. y 4º martes de cada mes 2–3: cionar tal lugar, los miembros de la estación de la computadora. Revisiones médicas, ayuda con auto cuidado en caso de enfermedad o lesiones, dudas las tres organizaciones fundaron la La Casa Bienestar también provée su- acerca de la salud, reducción de daño, establecimiento de eligibilidad para cobertura médica Casa Bienestar. Además de proveer fi cientes lugares donde el personal y los y referencias para el abuso de alcohol y drogas, manejo de casos. prevención de VIH y servicios a usa- voluntarios pueden sentarse a conversar Proyecto Chupa Higados dores de drogas inyectadas, el centro con los jóvenes y adolecentes sobre la es- fue desarrollado con el objetivo de cuela, el sexo, la familia, o cualquier otra Miércoles 5:30–8:30: Cualquiera que haya sido inyectado dentro del año puede obtener servir como un espacio recreacional cosa que tengan en mente. pruebas gratis de hepatitis B, C, y VIH. Para más información llame al 831–425–3033 para los residentes de Watsonville, Hay dos pizarrones con enlistados de Needle Exchange en el Mercado Del Sol enfocándose en jóvenes de entre los trabajos, eventos, actividades y otros doce y veinticuatro años de edad con- recursos que pueden ser de interés para Miércoles 2:30–4:30 siderados como alto riesgo. los jóvenes. Una ofi cina de salud provée Grupo de Apoyo para Padres “Los muchachos y muchachas servicios médicos y de salud, desde prue- vienen, y están aquí un rato viendo bas de embarázo hasta vacunas contra la Martes 6:30–9: Para padres y madres que necesiten mas información para entender o ayu- el lugar y echándonos un ojo antes hepatitis B. dar a un ser amado durante o después del uso de drogas o alcohol. de decir ‘necesito ayuda,’” dijo Linda El cuarto del Proyecto de Intercambio Santa Cruz AIDS Project Proyecto SIDA de Santa Cruz Valdez de HPHP. El Centro ofrece de Jeringas tiene una entrada separada condones gratis, métodos anticon- del área de recepción principal, para así Lunes a Viernes solo cuando esté abierto ceptivos, comida, entretenimiento, facilitar el anonimato de los clientes. “Si Proporciona prevención por manejo de caso, un grupo de apoyo para hombres dos veces consejos, apoyo, jeringas limpias hay un montón de muchachos jugando por semana, y defensa de la comunidad VIH positiva. y un lugar seguro para descansar. billar enfrente, pueden entrar y salir por “Básicamente, cualquiera que sea su el costado, sin ser vistos por familiares o Casa Bienestar, 90 Mariposa Ave Watsonville (831) 761–8595 necesidad tratamos de atenderla,” sin tener que pasar por la incomodidad 6 The Alarm! Newspaper July 12th, 2002 Commentary

Pacifi c Avenue because I don’t want to get hit up Pacifi c Agoraphobia for money all the time.” The irony, of course, is that By MANUEL SCHWAB Phelan, “but this year it’s earlier, maybe because of extracting money from customers is precisely what The Alarm! Newspaper Contributor the economic downturn…” every mall is engineered to do. The entire shopping Agoraphobia, which is the clinical term for the Perhaps, but if so the economic downturn district is a place where people go to be solicited for fear of open spaces, is derived from the Greek words clearly has the business sector peculiarly worried. their money in exchange for one commodity or an- “agora” and “phobia.” The Agora was a large public Phelan claims she sees “no signs of Armageddon,” other. square at the center of Athens. It was open to the and while I agree, it seems clear that signs of a new The fact that this economic exchange is an accept- Athenian citizen class, although only about 5 to 10 brink in the battle between private and public space able replacement for the democratic confrontations percent of the population of Athens could afford to is at hand. On the one side, we have the usual fare of the past is symptomatic of the time in which live a leisurely life that included hours spent debat- of self-indulgent overstatements by those who fre- we seem no longer to have a social sphere, but an ing and talking in the Agora. As opposed to the quent downtown and clearly have a lot to gain by economy instead. In fact, as Greg Kindig rightly theater—in which the distinction between specta- painting themselves as the targets of excessive op- points out later on in the “Nuz” section of the Metro tors and orators was clearly marked—the Agora pression. Most glaring among these is Estéban Fox, the entire list of downtown issues “reads like a list of was the center of participatory political discussion in who seems to think that getting a ticket for sitting on symptoms.” But nobody seems to be understanding Athens, a place in which discourse was fragmentary a planter (yeah, we all know how ridiculous that is) the disease. Focusing only on symptoms—from the rather than dominated by a single citizen. puts us one step closer to building a “20-foot-high disruptive presence of panhandlers to hacky-sack In modern Greek, the meaning of “agora” has been wall around downtown…and a military takeover of projectiles—amounts to establishing scapegoat is- altered. “Agora” now refers not to a public forum but downtown.” This claim seems excessive, especially sues to avoid the fact that our public engagement is to a marketplace. Nevertheless, “agoraphobia” still in light of developments in Palestine and Israel, bankrupt. Downtown’s status as a shopping/public carries the connotation of a fear of public engage- where citizens have every tangible reason to fear district in which it seems that the stores themselves ment: a phobia of putting oneself at stake in front of draconian governments. are the only citizens who ultimately have a right to one’s fellow citizens. On the other hand, there are legitimate reasons occupy downtown—with prospective consumers as If the public documents about the current debate to suspect the merchants’ new campaign. New- their temporary guests—is testimony to this. on the use of downtown space are any indication, Corp-on-the-block Borders has the audacity to As is the repeated reference to the Beach Flats it would serve us at this time to refl ect on the shift- publicly admit “we’re considering installing an ATM as the source of the dangerous elements in down- ing defi nition of “agora.” In response to a series of that would limit loitering [around the Borders store] town—references that seem acceptable across the “incidents” that are perceived as threats to the placid to 50 feet.” Reality check: with laws on the books board, as they are made by residents, merchants, face of our beloved Pacifi c Avenue—a shooting, a like the one that would provide Borders with a 50 and homeless citizens alike. We are afraid of con- stabbing and agressive panhandling—the Santa Cruz frontations with difference, of heterogeneity, of any City Council has held public forums and formed a form of friction—we are agoraphobic, scared of oth- special committee on downtown issues. Close on the ers, afraid of precisely that which we need to make heels of this chorus of concern, the July 3–10 edition us strong. Of course this superstitious disposition is of Metro Santa Cruz treated Santa Cruzians to “The neither the fault of Sarah Phelan, nor of the Metro Reality Check Issue,” in which it attempted to “put Editorial Staff, nor for that matter of the City Coun- some overdue perspective on the controversy over cil. What all three entities should be taken to task safety in downtown Santa Cruz.” for, however, is that they present this superstition The institutional and media responses from the without challenging it systematically. community demonstrated the heartening fact that After glossing over the myth of the “dangerous” Santa Cruz is actually concerned about its public Beach Flats and the victimized chain store—or rath- space. But the terms of the debate led to the un- er allowing these myths to speak for themselves—it avoidable observation that we cannot, at least as is downright aggravating to see Phelan take on the far as the dominant perspectives of our commu- quite evident process of gentrifi cation and dismiss nity are concerned, imagine the difference between it as mythical. One almost gets the impression that civic spaces and commercial districts. What becomes Phelan is bent on ignoring the facts. Has she forgot- clear in both the framing of the Council Commit- ten that the fear that the Cinema 9 would drive out tee’s recommendations, and the response of the the Del Mar cannot be so quickly dismissed, as the Metro article—which relies heavily on community theater actually did go under, and the “beautiful testimony—is that the Santa Cruz community works renovation” touted by one of her interviewees was from extremely narrow assumptions about what a made possible only by a city government bailout. downtown should be, about whom it serves, and And while the Dotcom bomb may have made a what constitutes the good health of a public space. serious dent in the offi ce rentals downtown, it has What was once the politically heated public space, not made a dent in the rent prices that the previous perfectly suited for the exchange of debate, has be- Dotcom boom helped drive skyward. come marketplace, suited only for the exchange of Luckily, it seems that there are still plenty of us goods and services. Yet even with this devolution of left who realize that the replacement of the social public space into the relative safety of rule—bound considerations with economic transactions is an economics, we in Santa Cruz still retreat from any foot buffer for its ATM, town ordinances already fall unacceptable compromise. For now, even the Com- trace of the old political friction once associated with clearly on the side of the merchants. No matter how mittee Forums and Reality checks that offered such the Agora. self indulgent the “gypsy kids” on the streets may a startling illustration of the problem also offered us The Downtown Issues Committee, for its part, get, there is a higher power indulging the commer- a good picture of those people left in resistance. The is so split in its recommendations that it is diffi cult cial interests. biggest danger, then, is that we will slowly be taught to understand where they would have us go with This indulgence becomes even more clear when to underestimate the import of this struggle to main- downtown. One minute they want the City Council we look at the remaining recommendations of the tain our spaces for civic confrontation. When that to take a clear position regarding “anti-social behav- Downtown Issues Committee. While they include a happens, we will have lost a monumental battle in ior.” But in the same statement they re-affi rm their few more gestures like the promise to protect public the fi ght for self determination. In the fi nal analysis, commitment to “protecting public space.” These space (the hiring of a Downtown Social Worker, for what must become more and more clear to all of us commitments may not at fi rst seem at odds, until instance), the committee’s recommendations, aimed is that ironically, the capacity for self determination we realize that “anti-social behavior” has come to ostensibly at restoring a downtown “out of balance,” depends on our willingness to be confronted, often include any form of friction, encompassing many bend over backwards to accommodate the mer- uncomfortably, by others. activities that were once an integral part of “public chants who feel so deeply threatened. space.” “Public space,” in turn, has become emaci- Take a close look and you will recognize that ated, left with nothing to fl ourish around but money the committee’s recommendations for Ordinance Killing King Abacus transactions, so that merchant interests are the only Modifi cations—made under the guise of simplify- ones that count. Not recognizing that these devel- ing the understanding and enforcement of the opments have transformed the defense of the space present ordinances on soliciting and sitting down now considered public into an attack on the social on sidewalks—and you see that they are actually ••for relations without measure•• sphere in all of its fertile messiness, the council is engineered to clear the mall of any such activity an insurrectionary anarchist zine proposing to take measures that work in the exact by “undesirables.” “The proposed adjustment is to opposite direction they intend make the distance for all of the above situations 14 Sarah Phelan’s article in the Metro illustrates the feet.” Apparently, Borders will not have to bother tension between the desire to regulate downtown with the 50 foot buffer around their store—by my http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus and to still allow the space to be genuinely public. estimation, a 14 foot distance from storefronts puts In the article we fi nd the County Supervisor telling panhandling “gypsy kids” in the street for almost the PO Box 6404, us in no uncertain terms that fears about downtown entire length of the Mall. safety are generated and defi ned by the commercial The threat that these “gypsy kids” pose, as Glenn Eureka, Ca 95502 interests in downtown. “Usually the merchants plan Rogers informs us in Phelan’s collection of inter- a campaign [to crack down on downtown problems] views, is not that they are dangerous. Rather, Rogers [email protected] just before Thanksgiving,” Mardi Wormhoudt tells informs us that he tends to avoid “walking along July 12th, 2002 The Alarm! Newspaper 7 Local Analysis From TRANSIENCE on Page 1 most radical experiments in higher education at the wage”, indicates that—at least ideally—the City time, led to a strong progressive shift which gave the Council is in support of decent wages and workers’ town the nickname “The People’s Republic of Santa rights to organize on the job. While this may tend to Cruz”. exert an upward pressure on regional wages, it will Santa Cruz still carries that reputation across the likely be limited to workers specifi cally identifi ed in country—undeservedly so, according to many. Con- the ordinance. There are some notable exceptions, trary to the high ideals which originally put people such as the Santa Cruz Community Credit Union, like John Laird, Mike Rotkin, Ed Porter and others which this spring voted to tie their lowest wages to into local government, Baer now describes the City the city’s annually-indexed “living wage”. Unfortu- Council as a “dynasty”. “The local politics are so nately, those workers in the largely tourism-driven entrenched that you’re basically choosing between retail sector are least likely to share in the ancillary incumbents and former council members, selecting benefi ts. from this handful of people who can get elected any When it comes to material, systemic support for time they want and just sort of pass it back and forth decent wages and working conditions, the City’s between each other because we have some regula- record is not so impressive. Continuing no-strings tion on the books that no council member can sit subsidies for the exploitive tourism industry are a The cross-hatched area on this map, provided by Phil on the council for more than eight years,” he says. notable example. “Police protection”, which, ac- Baer, indicate the tidelands from an 1850 survey. “They then have to take a two-year break, and then cording to Rotkin, comprises a large portion of $3 million annually, and sales taxes from money they can go for another eight years, on and on until public subsidies for tourism, is particularly problem- spent by tourists amount to millions more. When it they’re senile and attending council meetings from atic. When asked who it was that was being policed comes to local politics, that big money talks, and—as the retirement home.” in this case, Rotkin answered “everyone.” However, the tidelands case illustrates—often behind closed To a large degree, this state of affairs can be attrib- the casual observer will note that, at least when it doors. Baer notes that the Seaside Company exerts uted to the transience of the political powerhouse comes to Pacifi c Avenue, the scruffi er transients are “this quiet, behind-the-scenes pressure that you can that is the student body. Eight-year term limits do targeted overwhelmingly over the more well-to-do never seem to trace exactly, but things always seem little good in a population with at best a four-year tourist transients who visit the area. Again, hard to go their way.” attention span. “As much as I like the students and numbers are hard to come by on this issue, as law The City spends big money to keep tourism in the university and higher education,” says Baer, “in enforcement offi cials are reluctant to keep records Santa Cruz as well. Upwards of $400,000 per year general, I don’t think of the average UCSC student to track it. is allocated from the City’s General Fund to support as being particularly cognizant of what’s going on in Even stricter downtown ordinances and more the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau (CVB) which city politics or what the impacts are of the votes that rigorous enforcement of existing downtown and promotes tourism in Santa Cruz. The primary bene- they somewhat casually cast. anti-homeless ordinances can only compound this factor of this subsidized advertising is the Seaside “I think they get played by the people who are problem. As tempers fl ared around the time of the Company with its various tourist attractions. infl uential up there [on campus], notably Mike Rot- police-instigated riots of 1994, members of the Santa But city subsidies for the tourism industry are kin,” he says. “Their vote is being used by people to Cruz General Membership Branch of the Industrial not always so direct. The City also contributes sig- do some things I’m not sure students would really Workers of the World (the IWW, or “Wobblies”) nifi cant funds for public works (which go put it succinctly: “All low-paid waged toward cleaning up sidewalks and beaches, When you put police offi - laborers…are essentially being warned by etc.) and police protection. “A lot of our anti-homeless legislation to ‘play it safe’ on police efforts are directed towards tourism,” cers on Pacifi c Avenue or in the job so as not to end up on the street. says Rotkin. “When you put police offi cers “The effort to stigmatize and outright on Pacifi c Avenue or in the beach area, the beach area, that’s pretty vilify an economic circumstance that all that’s pretty much tourist-related.” waged workers must constantly struggle to Several people I spoke with would like much tourist-related. avoid is a very useful strategy for keeping to see some hard numbers detailing the “ labor in line. In Santa Cruz, a worker’s ex- amount of money that tourism actually brings to want done if they understood how it was really play- istence is primarily defi ned by the constant struggle the Santa Cruz community as well as the social, en- ing out.” to maintain legal housing where over half of one’s vironmental and economic costs of accommodating What Baer is referring to is the myriad controver- monthly wages may go towards rent. The criminal- tourists. Those numbers are hard to come by. In the sies that Rotkin, who teaches a class on Marxism at ization of the condition of being unable to pay rent course of conducting interviews for this series, I have UCSC, has gotten himself embroiled within. Rotkin, functions as a very real demand that workers remain found politicians and bureaucrats alike reluctant to along with councilmembers Scott Kennedy, Cynthia ever-grateful for current employment, regardless of offer solid fi gures on either the costs or the benefi ts. Mathews and Mike Hernandez consistently found ”conditions or pay. I was lucky to get approximations. himself in hot water with local activists over issues “By securing access to a subdued and fearful ser- Fred Geiger, an activist who follows the Seaside such as the Beach Area and South of Laurel Plan, vice-industry workforce, supporters of anti-homeless Company and the local tourism industry, had a few which included converting La Bahia apartments into legislation (almost entirely bosses) seek to simul- things to say about it. “I don’t think the business a convention center, an expansion of the Boardwalk taneously sweep the streets of the homeless while community wants to have that kind of informa- and the razing of affordable housing in the Beach assuring that there will always be a willing employee tion out there because people might decide that it’s Flats, among other things. The plan was meant to to hold the broom.” simply not worth it,” he says. “Many other towns “revitalize” (many would say “gentrify”) the area have condemned these types of operations [like the and bolster tourism. Where to now? Boardwalk]—Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Venice, The Rotkin-Kennedy-Mathews-Hernandez coun- This piece began in 1920’s Santa Cruz, when the Long Beach—because they bring blight to the com- cil majority also came under fi re for supporting the Wobblies were as active here as they were in 1994, munity.” Gateway Plaza and Costco developments. Rotkin, then struggling against the timber barons in the Of particular concern to activists is the sort of who is running for a fi fth term in November, cites Go see TRANSIENCE on Page 13 vehicle-intensive “day-tripper” tourism attracted to this as an attempt to take advantage of a potential the Boardwalk which contributes little to the local non-tourist tax base and stem the fl ow of capital community except reduced air quality, increased out of the community into big-box havens such as noise and traffi c, and drunken rowdiness. Folks like Fremont and Sand City. Community activists coun- Baer and Geiger claim that much of this day-trip- tered that these developments would only support per tourism precludes lower-impact, “conceivably low-wage jobs and the profi ts of huge corporate benefi cial” tourism, not to mention the health and chains. sanity of locals. Those other transients Student transience When asked what the city had done to mitigate There is, however, a dearth of political will to the tourism industry’s tendencies to draw down move away from tourism as a local tax base. “I don’t wages in the area with the proliferation of low- think anybody is thinking that there’s some other in- skill, poorly-paid jobs, Rotkin responded, “It’s led to dustry that’s going to replace tourism in Santa Cruz,” people thinking that we need to help try and sup- says Rotkin. But he does note the way in which port organizing so that people in those industries Santa Cruz’s economic and political establishment of can organize and provide an economic defense for the 1950’s dealt with the lack of any off-season in- themselves.” As evidence, he cited a case in 1981 dustry by pushing for the location of a UC in town. in which, as Mayor, he supported a strike at a lo- In some ways, though, they ended up shooting cal hotel. He was hard-pressed to cite more recent themselves in the foot. “I don’t think they un- examples, but noted that the City requires that con- derstood the political impact of bringing a major tractors pay prevailing wages in the building of city university here,” says Rotkin. After all, the voting developments and that, had the La Bahia Confer- age was still 21, and students were not allowed to ence Center idea gone through, the City would have FHAR MIESS/The Alarm! Newspaper vote outside of their home districts for some time. required the employer to pay prevailing wages. “Supporters of anti-homeless legislation…seek Vietnam-era state and federal legislative changes re- The City’s recent passage of the Living Wage Or- to simultaneously sweep the streets of the home- versed those conditions. This, in combination with dinance, which requires the city and its contractors less while assuring that there will always be a the student body that was attracted to one of the to pay their employees an annually-indexed “living willing employee to hold the broom.” 8 The Alarm! Newspaper July 12th, 2002

that no one really knows what type of Eye on the INS paperwork to fi le and when—as is the contention of all of the affected parties A weekly focus on the INS and immigration policy in this case? Or do we admit to the larger issues? Was it really news on July 4, 2002? Mohammad Nour al-Din Saffi made the mistake of entering into the US as By MICHELLE STEWART lander for the past six years. To the FBI best fl ight school in the nation as well a man of Arab descent looking to go to The Alarm! Newspaper Collective and INS, Saffi is a man of Arab desent as one of the schools to train an alleged a fl ight school. This is the baseline fact, who was last in the United States just 9/11 hijacker. all that comes before and after are sec- Case Study: Mohammad Nour al-Din Saffi days before 9/11, and this latest visit It is only under recent immigration ondary. His link to Saddam Hussein is would have been to go to a fl ight school reform that Saffi is required to get a simply the icing on the cake; fi rst and On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, federal on the July 4th weekend... oh, and his student visa for this type of course, and, foremost, Saffi was seen as an Arab agents stormed a hotel suite across the stepfather is Saddam Hussein. according to INS, he is being detained looking to fl y. If it were anything less, street from the Miami International “The circumstances are somewhat and deported for failing to get the the feds would not have stormed the Airport. Their target was Mohammad disturbing,” said Jim Goldman, INS student visa, not for “lying” to an INS hotel room, made a big splash on Inde- Nour al-Din Saffi . chief of investigations. “It’s an awful offi cer about his intentions at the fl ight pendence Day, and then deported him Saffi , a naturalized New Zealander long way to come to take a refresher school. Saffi has admitted to misun- for something as silly as a visa mistake. and employee of Tiger Lines Cargo (a course. Post 9-11, an individual such derstanding the need for a student visa Saffi entered the US and declared his New Zealand-based airline company), as this defi nitely comes onto our radar to attend the class, and the school has intention, and when he made a mistake entered the US last Wednesday via LAX screen.” But are the circumstances re- broadcast that they were misinformed. he admitted fault. Yet, he sits in deten- where he was detained and questioned ally so disturbing? Not really, once the Yet Saffi sits in detention, waiting to tion. And there are dozens more stories about his visit. Saffi stated he was going facts become evident. be deported, and will be barred from like this; stories where immigrants are to Miami to take a recertifi cation course According to Saffi ’s employer and entering the US for fi ve years. A rather not aware of the varied nuances of for fl ight engineers; he was entering on the fl ight school, they followed all steep penalty for a simple mistake. immigration policy and paperwork. a tourist visa. He had the appropriate of the immigration rules related to Well, there are a few infl amma- Immigration law changes at such a documentation from his employer and entering the US and taking the fl ight tory details that need to be addressed. rapid pace, little time or attention is de- the fl ight school had confi rmed his im- engineering class. The school ran all of First, Saddam Hussein, many years voted to disemminating the facts. Post migration status with the Department Saffi ’s immigration information per the ago, married Saffi ’s mother. There is 1996 immigration law was changing of Justice. Despite his long interroga- instructions on the new Department much gossip surrounding the affair at this same speed; again there was no tion by a battalion of INS and FBI of Justice webpage to ensure that he that pre-dated the marriage, and the effort to really explain to immigrants agents, he was eventually allowed to and visitors the policy changes, and it continue on his trip. has extreme effects on many people. As Saffi boarded the plane for I know airplanes but I don’t In many cases, small mistakes then re- Miami, the agents at LAX called the sulted in people being barred from the Florida INS authorities to inform them know INS. — Statement US for fi ve to ten years. This recent mis- that he was on his way. A surveillance take for Saffi will result in a fi ve year operation was offi cally underway. INS from Beron Beach, VP of bar from the US. We are in ridiculous agents then called the fl ight school, times, measured easily by this ridicu- Aeroservice Aviation Center, to ask “ Aeroservice Aviation. lous hysteria and penalties. Saffi ’s intent. They were informed he The only reason we heard about this was scheduled to take a course to re- was cleared to attend the class. Both incidents of violence surrounding the case was because the headline could certify his license to fl y Boeing 747s. the school and employer are stumped, marriage. Suffi ce it to say, that I will read that Saddam’s stepson was in The INS identifi ed this as a different and contend that the incident is just a not be further engaging this gossip, but jail, that he wanted to fl y a plane, and act than was reported by Saffi , and de- simple mistake of failing to acquire a feel free to visit CNN’s webpage for the that he was caught just before the 4th clared that he had lied to an INS offi cial student visa. whole soap opera. At the” end of the of July. Many in the country read the upon entry into the US, and that he Berton Beach , Vice President of day, Saffi has no relevant ties to Sad- fi rst paragraph of this story last week entered without the correct visa. Saffi operations at the fl ight school outlines dam Hussein since the connection is and breathed a collective sigh of relief. was picked up at his hotel room that the confusing immigration polices re- only through his mother and he lives We need to read past these shock-value same evening and the news broke on garding student visas and fl ight school, a totally autonomous life. The second headlines and see what is happening July 4, 2002. “There is no requirement on any infor- factor is his presence in the US days to people in this country. One close Who is Mohammad Nour Al-Din mation we have from the Department before 9/11. The Department of Justice read of any of the details of this story Saffi ? Why was this news? of Justice or from the FBI or from claimed this was suspicious. The simple should have instigated a collective out- To an outsider, Saffi is a 36-year-old INS that a [student] visa is required,” fact was that he was here on a fl ight cry. And yet, these stories are only on man of Arab descent who works as a (CNN, 7/6/02). Indeed, the Aeroservice (he is a fl ight technicican) en route to the increase. fl ight engineer for Tiger Lines Cargo, Aviation Center is likely one of the London. Finally, there is the question Since detention is still a secretive and has been a naturalized New Zea- best-informed fl ight schools because of why he came to the US on the 4th process there is limited information it holds the dual distinction to be the of July weekend to go to fl ight school. available, and there are currently over According to his employer, it is the best 1,000 people being held in INS deten- school for the training he needed and tion with infractions that range from it seems obvious that the school would the mundane to the exteme. Until we have had openings and smaller classes bring all of these cases out into the on the Independence weekend. open we will continue to hear about What do we do with all of this then? stories such as that of Mohammad Do we chalk it up to an under-handed Nour al-Din Saffi . deed by Saffi —as did the federal authorities? Do we recognize that im- Your comments are welcomed and en- migration law is changing so rapidly couraged at [email protected] In Brief Border crossers using water stations

By ANDREW REDING La Opinión and Pacifi c News Service Undocumented Mexicans who afar. Last year eighty-fi ve would-be cross into the United States through undocumented border crossers died the desert are consuming 200 gallons from dehydration in the hot desert. of water at “water stations” along the It is impossible to know how many border, according to La Opinión. The lives have been saved, but volunteers water is deposited by groups of vol- report that many of the persons who unteers belonging to an organization drink the water leave thank-you known as Alto a Guardian (“Stop notes and Mexican pesos, often writ- Guardian”), in reference to the ing that the water saved their lives. Border Patrol’s Operation Guardian, The Border Patrol is permitting which is intended to seal off the bor- Alto a Guardian to operate freely and der in California and Yuma County, has pledged not to use the water sta- Arizona. tions as traps to catch undocumented Each water station consists of Mexicans. plastic water bottles set in a big white box with a blue fl ag set atop a fl ex- ible fl agpole to attract notice from © Copyright Pacifi c News Service July 12th, 2002 The Alarm! Newspaper 9 Commentary Thirty years later, it’s time to deliver Appalachia from ‘Deliverance’ By JEFF BIGGERS Pacifi c News Service or from tourist operators in Helen. In fact, sometimes EDITOR’S NOTE: On the thirty-year anniversary of the you’d hardly even know you’re in Appalachia. Hollywood blockbuster “Deliverance,” PNS contributor Jeff In Helen, a self-described “Alpine Village,” faux Biggers visits the hollows and dells of Southern mountain Bavarian trim, red roofs and white stucco abound. country to fi nd the real Appalachia, one celebrated in the The town has turned Appalachia into Alps for passing verse of a native son. Biggers ([email protected]) is travelers or affl uent Atlantans looking for a summer a freelance writer based in Illinois and Italy. cottage in the highlands. The town went through its remarkable remake thirty years ago, in an attempt to HELEN, GA—It’s turnout time in the north Georgia attract business and put on a novel face for outsiders. mountains. The hollows are humming with outdoor Oktoberfest is now Helen’s major celebration. enthusiasts. Families picnic in the forests, listening But just a few miles up the road from the Coo- to the honks of wood ducks and watching belted sawatee River, where Dickey based his novel, another kingfi shers swoop over the lakes. Hikers tighten their poet was born in 1906 near Ellijay. Few people have boots and tackle the Appalachian Trail. ever heard of Don West, the poet errant of Appala- Thirty years ago this month, Warner Brothers re- chia. West’s family raised corn and dug ginseng on leased “Deliverance,” based on poet James Dickey’s the steep slopes. His mother was a great banjo picker. novel of the same name. In all its brilliance, its fl eet- Members of his family were anti-slavery supporters picking banjo tunes, its blood-curdling reminder who fought on the side of the Union. of man’s inhumanity to man and nature, the fi lm In 1946, West’s collection of poetry, “Clods of branded an image of the Appalachian mountaineer Southern Earth,” became a literary phenomenon. into our national minds. The volume sold nearly 100,000 copies. The poet I’m here to fi nd another Appalachia, a more re- praised the role of mill workers, miners, and tenant Could the anniversary of “Deliverance” instigate an alistic and inspiring one portrayed in the verse of a farmers and called for racial unity. end to the stereotypes of Southerners in the US? different, native poet. West wrote defi antly about the progressive history I heard some hikers from Atlanta talking about of Appalachia. He crafted poems about what some winds around mountaintops fl attened by coal com- “Deliverance” recently at a state park in Helen. They consider America’s fi rst declaration of independence, panies, and views the resulting fl ood devastation. A joked about gun-toting inbred hillbillies. Most non- drafted by mountain people in Watauga, Tennessee West-inspired tour probes working conditions at the Appalachians would be hard pressed to name an He told of the mountaineers’ role in the Underground poultry plants and carpet mills that dot the region like Appalachian that rivaled the household name status Railroad and their publication of one of the fi rst abo- ginseng. It might even question how tourist operators of Lil Abner or the albino banjo picker in “Deliver- litionist newspapers. depict the region as a sort of alpine retreat. ance.” In 1934, West had to escape from Atlanta under a West died in obscurity in 1992. That same year, The emergence of “Deliverance” as a code word sack in a car, wanted dead or alive, for defending an Robert Schenkkan’s “The Kentucky Cycle,” a con- for violent and sexually deviant miscreants, however, African American activist on trial for leading a hun- troversial play that recycled many Appalachian followed more than one hundred years of literary ger march in Atlanta. Blazing his own Appalachian stereotypes of violence and ignorance, won the Pu- caricatures about Appalachia. Dating back to Mary trail on an Indian Chief motorcycle, West was impris- litzer Prize. Murfree’s popular novels in the late nineteenth oned and beaten untold times, reviled by newspaper Back in Helen at the state park, about two miles century, which meted out portraits of uncouth back- editors across the South and burned out by the Klan. and a hundred years away from the Alpine Village, woodsmen, mountaineers have been treated to a He organized textile workers in North Carolina and I heard a young woman play the banjo. She wasn’t cavalcade of characters, including Lil Abner, Snuffy Georgia, and coal miners in bloody Harlan County, picking “Dueling Banjos,” though. She claw-ham- Smith, and Ma and Pa Kettle. Television shows such Kentucky. He helped co-found the Highlander Folk mered a breath-taking tune she had learned from her as “Hee-Haw,” “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “The School in Tennessee—a critical base for the civil rights grandma in the coal fi elds. At the end of the song, she Dukes of Hazzard” continued the tradition. movement, which trained Rosa Parks among many looked up and smiled. “The Waltons” added a sentimental touch. others—and gave voice to the vibrant folk revival “I call that “The Other Side of Deliverance,” she The “deliverancization” of Appalachia has become movement in West Virginia in the late 1960s. said. more benign these days. Despite the Atlantans’ quips, West’s Appalachia shattered the quaint folksiness you generally don’t hear cracks about hillbillies, ridge- promoted in the tourist brochures. Instead of Bavar- © Copyright Pacifi c News Service runners or gully jumpers from the politically correct ian Alpines, a journey through his Appalachia today Jungle Geopolitics High-tech surveillance system may threaten Amazon By MARCELO BALLVE port city of 1 million near the Amazon zil’s history. No Brazilian government Pacifi c News Service River delta. has exerted effective sovereignty over Editor’s Note: Brazil has long sought to At the construction site, some 300 the Amazon, which covers two-thirds tame its immense rain forest, where mer- workers in orange overalls put fi nish- of national territory. Mercenaries and cenaries and drug smugglers still roam. ing touches on the ultramodern main smugglers still wander the jungle in Now a massive satellite and ground-based building. Soon, rows of analysts in an unregulated, destructive pursuit of surveillance system may bring order to the cavernous rooms will pour over data wealth. Drug fl ights crisscross borders. Amazon—or become the latest tool to aid gathered by truck and jet-borne radar. Technology, much of it provided by in its destruction. PNS contributor Marcelo Ultraviolet and infrared photographs U.S. military contractor Raytheon, will Ballve ([email protected]) is a former taken by low-fl ying jets will stream now be used to combat these threats. Associated Press reporter in Brazil and the into powerful computers for real-time Sivam will also allow planners to cre- Caribbean. He is working on a magazine imaging. ate a valuable inventory of Amazon article about Sivam, jungle security and Standing on the roof, chief engi- resources. The system, complemented Brazil’s relationship to the Amazon. neer Ismael Pereira surveys the site, by a regional military buildup—includ- mostly still an expanse of bare, red ing ships, planes and helicopters—will BELEM, Brazil—A new rainfor- earth carved from surrounding forest. watch porous borders, alerting security scientists, in control, says Belem inves- est surveillance system promises to Even here, near the Amazon’s largest forces of any incursions by drug traf- tigative journalist Lucio Flavio Pinto, transform Brazil’s relationship with city, the jungle had to be hacked away fi ckers or guerrillas. the sole object of Amazon policy be- its vast Amazon region. Though de- before construction. Now, three years Sivam has enjoyed wide support comes occupation. signed to secure territory against drug after the fi rst trees were uprooted, the among politicians, newspaper editors “This program was completely traffi ckers’ planes and incursions by job is almost done. and even many ordinary Brazilians as defi ned by the military,” said Pinto, Colombian rebels, the renewed focus “I feel proud,” Pereira said. “I think a tool that will fi nally illuminate and who recently blasted the plan in his on jungle security could accelerate the it’s about time that the Amazon became secure the empty quarters of Brazil’s Amazon Agenda column for the pres- Amazon’s destruction. incorporated into the rest of Brazil.” maps. But for one prominent critic, tigious Agencia Estado news service. At the heart of the $1.5 billion So does Brazil’s government. It touts it represents the latest phase of the “It is bent on increasing the coercive network are four massive intelligence the System to Guard the Amazon, Amazon’s militarization, increasing power of troops in the region to in- installations linked by satellite, all now known by its Portuguese acronym, the likelihood that Indians and peas- crease sovereignty. The price we’ll pay in fi nal stages of construction at stra- Sivam, as the solution to the most ants will be victims of repression. Go see AMAZON on Page 13 tegic points, including Belem, a gritty stubborn geopolitical problem of Bra- With the military, rather than 10 The Alarm! Newspaper July 12th, 2002 Community Calendar

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For info call (831) 426-3062. Submissions are due Tuesday at 5pm for that Fri- 1st & 3rd Tuesdays 7:00 PM Earth First! meeting. 509 Broadway. day’s edition. FRIDAY 7/19 1:30–5:00 PM Women’s hours. Con- 2:00–3:00 PM Flamenco Dance Classes WEDNESDAY 7/17 doms, coffee, and conversation at the MONDAY–FRIDAY with La Romera. Beginners level 2 & 12–1:00 PM Brown Bag Lunch. Wom- Drop–In Center. 412 Front St, SC. intermediates.$10 w/card or $12/drop- 1:00 PM Democracy Now! with Amy en professionals, writing group, with in. Louden Nelson Center, SC. Goodman. FRSC 96.3 FM. speakers. For info call (831) 426-3062. 5:00 PM Peace Vigil at Watsonville 303 Walnut Ave, SC. Plaza facing Main St, Wats. 5:00 PM Free Speech Radio News. 2:00-4:30 PM The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. FRSC 96.3 FM. 2:30–6:30 PM Santa Cruz Farmers 5:00 PM Peace Rally at the intersection $10–$45. Call the ticket offi ce at Market. Lincoln & Cedar St, SC. Ongo- of Ocean and Water St, SC. 459–2159 or go to www.shakespearesa 5:30 PM ongoing. Earth First! Radio. ing through November. FRSC 96.3 FM. ntacruz.org for more info. At the UCSC 5:00–6:00 PM Condoms, coffee and Theater Center. 5:00–6:00 PM Beginning Hip Hop conversation at the Drop–In Center. 6:00–7:00 PM KPFA Evening News. Summer Session. Drop in dance classes 412 Front St, SC. On 88.1 KZSC. with Eva and Carmela. $10–$15 teens SUNDAY 7/14 6:30–7:30 PM Nicotine Annonymous and adults. Louden Nelson Rm 4/5, 8:00 AM–8:00 PM “A Luta Continua: to stay stopped. Trinity Church, 420 9:00–1:00 PM Live Oak Farmers Mar- SC. African Liberation Movement Posters Melrose Ave (off Water St), SC. ket. 1515 East Cliff Dr, at the East Cliff from the Collection of David H. An- 6:00–7:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced thony.” Professor David H. Anthony’s Shopping Center, SC. Now open every Sunday through November. Hip Hop Summer Session. 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On the steps of Zambia, where he traveled and worked City Hall in San Francisco. extensively, followed by a pot-luck 7:00 PM S.M.A.R.T. Recovery (Self- Tuesdays 9:00 AM and Wednesdays supper. Free. At the UCSC Arboretum. Management and Recovery Training). 8:30 PM Making Contact. FRSC 96.3 12:00–4:00 PM Condoms, coffee, and Call 427-2998. A self–help program for recovery from FM. conversation at the Drop-in Center. addictive behavior. Non-denomina- 412 Front St, SC. 7:30–9:00 PM English Morris Dancing. tional. Based on cognitive/behavioral Tuesdays & Fridays 12–1:00 PM High-energy centuries old, comes from methods. Page Smith Community Domestic Violence support group. 303 6:00–7:30 PM Survivors of Incest the Cotswold Region of Central Eng- House 111 Coral St (at River St and Walnut Ave, SC For info call (831) Anonymous. Women’s meeting Survi- land. Dancers wear bells on their legs Hwy 1.), SC. 426-3062. vor’s Healing Center. 2301 Mission St, and clash big sticks together or wave SC. For more info call (831) 477-4165. Wednesdays 9:00 AM and Fridays hankies. Louden Nelson RM 4/5, SC. Call (831) 426–3437. SUNDAY 7/21 6:05 PM Counterspin by Media Watch 6:30–7:30 PM Nicotine Annonymous and FAIR. FRSC 96.3 FM. to stay stopped. Louden Nelson Rm. 7:30–9:30 PM Creative writing circle. 2:00–4:30 PM The Merry Wives of 2, SC. Contact Karen for location and info Windsor, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. FRI–SUN (7/12–7/14) (831) 469–0360. $10–$45. call ticket offi ce at 459–2159 TUESDAY 7/16 or go to www.shakespearesantacruz.o Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival. 8:30 AM Homeless United for Friend- rg for more info.At the UCSC Theater 100% California Bluegrass. Bolado Park, 12:00–6:00 PM Organic fruits, vegeta- ship and Freedom. Baker’s Square on Center. San Benito County Fairgrounds Hollis- bles, and fl owers grown at the UCSC Ocean St, SC. 2:00–4:30 PM Coriolanus. Shake- ter, CA. Visit www.bluegrasssociety.org. Farm and Garden. At the corner of Bay speare Santa Cruz. $10–$45. Call the St and High St, SC. THURSDAY 7/18 ticket offi ce at 459–2159 or go to ww SATURDAY 7/13 w.shakespearesantacruz.org for more 2:30–6:30 PM Felton Farmer’s Market. 12:00–6:00 PM Organic fruits, vegeta- 6090 Hwy 9, Felton. Ongoing through info.At the UCSC Theater Center. 7:00 PM S.M.A.R.T. Recovery (Self- bles, and fl owers grown at the UCSC November. Management and Recovery Training). Farm and Garden. At the corner of Bay 2:00–7:00 PM Bluegrass & Old Time St and High St, SC. A self–help program for recovery from 5:00 PM Youth Coalition SC, RCNV, Jam, Boulder Creek Methodist Church. addictive behavior. Non-denomina- Mountain & Boulder Streets off Hwy 9 515 Broadway, SC. 12:30–4:00 PM Youth hours. Con- tional. Based on cognitive/behavioral in Boulder Creek. Call Mark Varner doms, coffee, and conversation at the methods. Page Smith Community los Martes 6:30–7:30 de la tarde at (831) 338-0618 or Leslie Abbott at Drop–In Center. 412 Front St, SC. House 111 Coral St (at River St and Grupo de apoyo para madres y (831) 423-5214 for info. Hwy 1.), SC. niños sobrevivientes de la violencia 7:00 PM Santa Cruz Peace Coalition 7:30–9:00 PM Survivors of Incest domestica. En español. Defensa de meeting, RCNV, 515 Broadway, SC. 1:00–2:00 PM Flamenco Dance Classes Mujeres, 406 Main St, Watsonville. Anonymous. Coed Meeting. Call (831) with La Romera. Introduction to Fla- 7:00 PM Gay Teen Alliance. For youth 477-4165 for info. Walnut Women’s menco—Beginners level 1. $10 w/ card ages 14–25, all genders, bilingual. 12 E. Center, SC. or $12 drop-in. Louden Nelson, SC. Gabilan St, Salinas. For info call (831) 772-8200. July 12th, 2002 The Alarm! Newspaper 11 Youth

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The local politics of transience UCSC by bolstered Economics and En- gineering departments and a waning From TRANSIENCE on Page 8 commitment among faculty to non- traditional education. For another, it Santa Cruz Mountains. Tom Scribner, is clear that the student body has enor- whose bronze statue perches on the mous political power, but that political Pacifi c Avenue sidewalk facing the power will be easily mobilized, as it St. George Hotel and whose portrait always has been, to serve the interests graces the wall of the Poet & Patriot, of the political elite who have in turn was a Wobbly during those times. He enslaved themselves to the economic devoted most of his life to organizing interests of the tourism industry. with the unemployed and downtrod- The solution does not lie in City den against the fi nancial system that Government. As Phil Baer notes kept them down. He was later known about his experience in City Council for his skill in playing the musical saw, meetings, “It just seems like a prede- which he often did in public spaces. If termined process. You go there, you only our eclectic street musicians were say your spiel, but you get the sense treated with such respect nowadays. the decision has already been made.” Still, it is positive that we have a How we vote matters far less than statue of an old-time radical and no how we relate to our bosses, our land- such visible monument to the racial lords or those who would presume to and class bigotry which ran rampant police us. It also matters far less than in the ‘20s in Santa Cruz (at least until how we all relate to each other—the Louis Rittenhouse erects—as Bruce community ties and the alternative Bratton claims he plans to—a com- institutions we build together. memorative plaque to his grandfather, a major proponent of the “Keep Cali- My next installment of “Transience in fornia White” movement). But, we Santa Cruz” will focus on how transience cannot rely on a transient and un- affects these interpersonal relationships. It rooted student radicalism to maintain will not appear in the next issue, but rather the pseudo-progressive majority in in the following one, to give all of you time to Santa Cruz. relate your stories and register your opinions For one thing, the political power on this topic. Please send us your thoughts of the student body is likely to become to our P.O. Box or e-mail me at fhar@the- increasingly fragmented as a new alarm.com. student demographic is brought to

From BIENESTAR on Page 4 the habit. tell us they want to live them.” “A lot of people don’t want to be “There’s no yes or no, there’s no fi xed today,” Maroni added. “They right or wrong,” said Edney. “We give might want to be in a couple of months people as much information as we can from now, or a couple of years from and then they do what they want with now, but they know they can’t do it in it…. We’re just kind of trying to step in a half an hour. So they’re living their before things get worse.” lives, and we’re just there to live their

FHAR MIESS/The Alarm! Newspaper lives with them, more or less how they The statue of Tom Scribner playing musical saw in front of the St. George Hotel.

From AMAZON on Page 9 Casa Bienestar Path and the Revolutionary Armed for that is the continued destruction of Forces of Colombia, or FARC. In May, Drop–In General Hours the region.” Brazilian soldiers exchanged gunfi re Monday & Tuesday 2–6 PM, Wednesday 12–2 PM, (2:30–4:30 PM Del Sol ), He fears the system will facilitate with suspected FARC guerrillas near and 5:30–8:30 PM, Thursday–Saturday 2–6 PM. encroachment on vulnerable indig- the border. enous areas that shelter valuable gold Most worrisome to Brazil’s military Planned Parenthood and lumber. The military counters that is a chunk of territory known as the Mondays 3–5 PM: Pregnancy, Chlamydia and Gonorrhea tests, birth control, Sivam will be a cost-effective way to Dog’s Head, a remote area wedged be- Hepatitis B vaccinations, emergency contraception & scheduled appointment. protect the integrity of Indian lands. tween Peru and Colombia. Pinto said a conventional fi xed ra- The plan for the Dog’s Head “is to HIV Testing dar network, Radam, was trumpeted increase the area under surveillance so Mondays 3–5 PM: Educational videos, information, safer sex supplies and as the rainforest’s savior in the 1970s, as to not permit use of Brazilian terri- safer injection supplies. only to coincide with road-building tory by any of Colombia’s forces,” said schemes that brought all-consuming Airforce Col. Francisco Leite Albuquer- Public Health Nurse Visits fi res deep into the jungle. Likewise, que Neto, vice-president of the Sivam 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month 6–7:30 and 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the government’s current “Advance commission. “On that point, there is no each month at 2–3 PM: Health services available, assistance to establish Brazil” development blueprint calls doubt (Sivam) will be very useful.” medical coverage, case management and referrals for alcohol and drug use. for paving thousands of kilometers of But rather than lead to repression, jungle roads. Sivam will generate objective data for Proyecto Chupa Hígados Even Jarbas Passarinho, ex-mili- resolving property disputes underly- Wednesdays 5:30–8:30 PM: Anyone who has injected within the past year tary brass and former governor of the ing social confl ict, said Albuquerque. can get a free Hep B, C & HIV test. For more info call the hotline at (831) jungle state of Para and a fi rm Sivam Corruption will decrease; aerial sur- supporter, has warned against trans- veillance will discourage offi cials from 425-3033. forming the Amazon into a “militarized taking bribes from poachers, illegal log- Needle Exchange laboratory.” gers and wildcat miners. One for one syringe exchange as well as safer injection supplies. Sivam was unveiled at Rio’s 1992 Sivam’s data will aid in the mapping Earth Summit as a tool to control de- and monitoring “ecological-economic Needle Exchange at Del Sol Market forestation. Security objectives have zoning” for rainforest use, Albuquer- Wednesdays 2:30–4:30 PM now eclipsed those goals. Neighboring que said. “The Brazilian government Colombia’s confl ict has become a full- has never had the intention or the pol- Parents Support Group fl edged war against narco-guerrillas icy of allowing the Amazon to remain Tuesdays 6:30–9 PM: For parents who need more information to understand and paramilitaries. In 2000, the United isolated.” Defense Minister Geraldo or help a loved one during and after the use of drugs and alcohol. States launched its $1.3 billion Plan Quintao recently repeated the old Colombia, intensifying the confl ict mantra that the Amazon’s population Santa Cruz AIDS Project and increasing the risk of spillover into density is too low. Monday–Friday: Open hours for the bi–weekly men’s support group and ad- Brazil. In this age of security, visions of a vocacy for the HIV positive community. Then Sept. 11 shifted the whole sparsely populated and pristine future world’s focus to security. Brazil fi nds it- for the Amazon seem increasingly far- self bordering countries that are home fetched. Casa Bienestar is located at 90 Mariposa Ave Watsonville, CA (831) 761-8595 to four organizations on the U.S. list of terror groups, including Peru’s Shining © Copyright Pacifi c News Service 14 The Alarm! Newspaper July 12th, 2002 Wholly Cross-Words By Oliver Brown

Puzzle #006

ACROSS DOWN

1 Trim a photograph 1 “Good Times” band 5 1978 Kidder role 2 Wealthy in Barcelona 9 Material forming cells (suffi x) 3 Across 14 Bee digs 4 Lineage 15 “____ and Andy” 5 The Blue ______(1980) 16 Beck stoner rap 6 Love in Genoa 17 Chilled 7 National Novel Writing Month 18 Admin. of laws (abbr.) 19 Dull pains 8 Respected 20 Opening track on the Pixies’ 9 Two-dimensional Come on Pilgrim EP (1987) 10 Union branch 22 Italian volcano 11 ___ Wednesday 24 Prescott Sheldon progeny 12 View 29 Post-JFK Commission 13 “___ Brown, You’ve Got a 32 Ruler Lovely Daughter” by Her- 33 Hubbub man’s Hermits 34 Inhalation anesthetic 21 Samuel Adams 35 Jason Kidd 23 “Upper Class ____ of the Year” 36 Disencumber (Monty Python skit) 37 Comic strip by Casatt & 25 Biological father (anthropology Brookins term) 38 Accomplished 26 Self-defense art 39 Satisfy 27 Receiver of pointed letters 40 Guided 28 Beaver or rabbit 41 “___has truth in it; wisecracking 29 Son of Beverly Crusher is simply calisthentics with 30 Goddess of wisdom and war words.” —Dorothy Parker 31 One time home to wonderous 42 Donned (two words) bronze statue 43 Direction from Binghampton, 38 Pacifi st New York to Albany, New 39 Take away York 41 Crimeon and Boer 44 El ____, Texas 42 Portion of level ground 45 Camus or Brooks 44 Drive bananas 46 September 1988 Playboy inter- 45 Astray viewee 47 Band started by Brett Anderson 49 Cold War foe and Bernard Butler 50 Fertilizer ingredient 48 Orphan musical 54 Fix the time on a clock again 51 State openly 57 Lion hair 52 Retro decorative motif 59 Characterized by vigorous pur- 53 “I Dream of Jeanni” actress suit 54 Game offi cial 60 Run away 55 Eden resident 61 “____ is maybe lying to God. Or 56 Dated casually better, lying to love.” —Anne 58 Blvd. Sexton 62 Speedball ingredient 63 Not as many 64 “Pale Blue Eyes” composer 65 Kirby Puckett

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