-Thursday, Dec 12th, 3-6pm: Black and Pink prisoner letter writing holiday card party!
Black and Pink's mission is to abolish the criminal punishment system and to liberate LGBTQIA2S+ people/people living with HIV who are affected by that system, through advocacy, support, and organizing. https://www.blackandpink.org/
Come through from 3-6 for cozy tea, coffee & treats while we write holiday cards to queer prisoners. We will have card making supplies but also feel free to bring your own! Queer prisoner letter writing may also become a biweekly event on Thursdays (: https://www.facebook.com/events/959456894433050/
-Saturday, Dec 14th, noon-3pm: Really Really Free Market!
Really Really Free Market! No money. No trades. Everything is free. We all have something to share with each other... and to receive with gratitude is also a gift. This gathering is not about the "stuff" we give and take, but more about how we can care for each other.
This market is based on a gift-economy... capitalism NO! But come to the really really free market to give away your old stuff and/or get new-to-you stuff. Bring food to share. Bring your special items that you don't use but can't throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines...your free box). Bring your special talents to offer people (ex. haircuts, message, reiki...). Come and take what you can use and say thanks! We will have folks to check in with as you arrive. First come first served, space may be limited. Don't be late and be sure to check in with the organizers when you get there. If you bring things, you are expected to take away whatever is left at the end of the market. https://www.facebook.com/events/785985128506485/
-Sunday, Dec 15th, 6-9pm: Pinko Release Party at SubRosa
Pinko Magazine Presents Communism for Fags -- Join us for a reading and discussion organized by Pinko, a recently launched biannual magazine of gay communism. In conversation with Madeline Lane-McKinley, we'll discuss gay and communist organizing and questions of sexuality as they contribute to the movement to abolish the present and build our capacity for collective survival.
-Tuesday, Dec 17th, 6:30pm: CrimethInc. presents: From Democracy to Freedom
Pinko is a team of writers, editors, scholars, organizers, theorists, teachers, social workers and designers. They are putting their cumulative years of experience in publishing, organizing and being gay into this new magazine, and will be running it collectively and independently. Pinko publishes new essays, interviews, translations, worker's inquiries, and reprints older texts from dormant traditions of the gender struggle. They pay their writers, too. Event co-sponsored by Santa Cruz Revolutionary Feminist Working Group // More info at https://pinko.online // https://www.facebook.com/events/750374438779812/
Democracy is the most universal political ideal of our time. From the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to Occupy Wall Street and the autonomous region of Rojava, practically every government and popular movement calls itself democratic. Today, the far right has also appropriated the rhetoric of direct democracy, as a wave of populism has swept demagogues like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro into power.
Drawing on From Democracy to Freedom, the latest book from the CrimethInc. collective, we will explore these questions and more. Join us for a lively discussion! https://www.facebook.com/events/2158548127786588/
-Wednesday, Dec 18th, 7pm: An Evening for Chile: teach in, discussion, music, and stories
What is democracy, precisely? How does the rhetoric of democracy serve various agendas? Is there a difference between democracy and self-determination? Are there other ways to describe what we are doing together when we make decisions? And how can this inform our participation in struggles against capitalism and state oppression?
-Wednesday, Dec 18th, 7pm: An Evening for Chile: teach in, discussion, music, and stories
What: An Evening for Chile: Chilean civil society is currently under radical transformation for the people and by the people across identities, class, and culture. Come learn about this critical social uprising and important moment in history against neo-liberal capitalism. Presenters this evening will be sharing first-hand accounts, facts about the uprising, poems, songs, and there will be opportunities for discussion and meeting new people.
Why: This social uprising is a model and inspiration for all societies across the Americas and around the world interested in dismantling the privatization, impoverishment of social life and services i.e. health care, social security, public housing, higher and public education on the heals of "solutions" such as mass incarceration and abject inequality that are the pillars of neoliberalism's free market capitalism. Such economic constructs only promote and uphold patriarchal values such as racism, sexism, homophobia, to name a few. The Chilean people are demanding a re-write of their constitution and reckoning with the repercussions of the US-backed coup d'etat that ousted democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende in 1973. Chilean society has been under neoliberal dictatorship and failing democracy ever since. This event is meant to raise educational awareness, inspire, and raise money for people on the streets in Chile facing severe state violence such as rape, disappearance, and severe violence such as rubber bullets to their eyes at the hands of the police. Please come open and curious to learn and remember the U.S. relationship with Latin American imperialism and to gain understanding for what the implications of a social revolt like this are.
There will be light refreshments and music and poetry/essays by Latinx artists, including Cambucheros Salsa Cruz! // 5-20 dollars donation. NOTAFLOF // https://www.facebook.com/events/446501659575026/
-Thursday, Dec 19th, 6:30: Third night of Posadas at the Hub
In collaboration with community partners, Sanctuary Santa Cruz, The Hub for Sustainable Living, SubRosa Community Space and the Fábrica are hosting the 3rd night of Posadas in downtown Santa Cruz. Please join us in solidarity with all refugees. Participants will gather the evening of December 19th at the Boys and Girls Club (542 Center St.) and walk, holding candles and singing to our courtyard at 703 Pacific Avenue. There will be craft activities for kids and a traditional meal of tamales, soup and hot chocolate (champurrado). Click here for a link to the entire week of posadas December 17th through the 23rd: https://www.facebook.com/events/1511916252290126/
(Come on by and have some coffee, check-out a book or strike up a conversation)
Mondays, 1 - 4pm // Wednesdays, 10:30am - 2:30pm // Fridays, 9am - 11am //
& open for events & meetings
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NOTE: Grad student TAs are on a wildcat strike at UCSC for a cost of living adjustment
How can I show support... I am a GRADUATE student:
STRIKE! No COLA, No Grades.
Text "wildcat" to 844-936-0993 to receive text updates on the strike.
Talk to your peers. Talk to your cohort and your department. Make sure they know how to STRIKE.
Talk to undergrads, especially your own students. You can send them an email, help us distribute flyers on campus, and engage in person and on social media. The university that doesn't pay graduate students enough to live in Santa Cruz is the same university that shackles undergrads in student debt and is the same university that refuses to give AFSCME a fair contract. We are in this fight together, especially if the admin tells us otherwise!
Talk to faculty in your department and get them organized to support COLA and not penalize the strikers.
How can I show support... I am a GSI:
STRIKE! No COLA, No Grades.
Text "wildcat" to 844-936-0993 to receive text updates on the strike.
Don't penalize your TAs for striking.
Talk to undergrads, especially your own students. You can send them an email, help us distribute flyers on campus, and engage in person and on social media. The university that doesn't pay graduate students enough to live in Santa Cruz is the same university that shackles undergrads in student debt and is the same university that refuses to give AFSCME a fair contract. We are in this fight together, especially if the admin tells us otherwise!
I am a reader/grader:
STRIKE! No COLA, No Grades.
Text "wildcat" to 844-936-0993 to receive text updates on the strike.
How can I show support... I am an UNDERGRADUATE:
Support your TAs and fellow students in the struggle against our common exploiter.
If you are turning in a paper or bluebook, write "I support the strikers" somewhere visible.
Text "wildcat" to 844-936-0993 to receive text updates on the strike.
Email your professor and let them know you support graduate student strikers and that you are willing to forgo a grade until the conclusion of the strike.
Talk to your fellow undergraduates, spread the message widely.
How can I show support... I am a FACULTY:
Withhold your students' grades in solidarity with the strikers until graduate students are granted a COLA.
Don't penalize your TAs for participating in the strike activities.
Stand in solidarity and please do not undermine our action by crossing the digital picket line and completing grading. And please don't ask readers or lecturers to do the grading.
Sign a petition (form) to push the administration to grant us a COLA.
Ask your colleagues in the department, Division, and other departments to sign the petition in support of a COLA for grad students.
Pledge to not revoke TAships next quarter for striking students.
Ask the Dean of [division] to pledge to not withhold pay from striking grad students.
Let your undergraduate students know that you support the strike and will not penalize them!
How can I show support... ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE, affiliated with the UC or not, can support us by:
Follow and share our social media: https://www.instagram.com/payusmoreucsc and https://twitter.com/bananaslums
Contribute to the strike fund. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fund-for-striking-workers-at-ucsc
Reach out to bananaslums@ucsc.edu if you want to be a part of the Strike Rapid Response team on the ground and/or virtually. Call UCSC and California public officials to support COLA. You can use these numbers to call https://payusmoreucsc.com/contact/administrators-and-public-officials/ and this template (link at website) to leave a message. Subscribe to the COLA updates on our website and stay tuned for more! https://payusmoreucsc.com
Follow @payusmoreucsc (https://www.instagram.com/payusmoreucsc/), @cola4all (https://www.instagram.com/cola4all/) #strikeucsc, #cola4all, #payusmore, #noteatingasusual
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SubRosa is part of a community center called The Hub ---
Check out The Hub's facebook, instagram & website for info re: other Hub projects!
and more from some of our neighbors at The Hub...
-Hard Core Compost --- https://www.compost.bike // https://www.instagram.com/hardcorecompost/ // www.facebook.com/compost.bike/
-The Fábrica --- https://thefabrica.org // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_/
-PedX Courier & Cargo --- http://pedxsc.com/ // https://www.facebook.com/pedxsc/ // https://www.instagram.com/pedalersexpress/
-Tenant Sanctuary --- https://tenantsanctuary.org // https://www.facebook.com/tenantsanctuary/
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SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space, a place to meet others and challenge our assumptions and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant environment for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance, art, studying and more. SubRosa also offers radical literature for sale, and houses the Anarchist Lending Library. We welcome folks to join us in fostering an environment free from coercion, sexism, queer&homophobia, racism, ableism and other hierarchies.
SubRosa is in downtown Santa Cruz, CA, which is the ancestral homeland of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people.
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