May Day in Watsonville. Photo: 2010.
Santa Cruz has a long history of protests, public displays, and energetic community activism.
Santa Cruz Wiki Protest Pages
Annual Marches
- Annual Independence Day Anti-War Protest on Ocean Street
- Last Night Santa Cruz DIY
- Santa Cruz Dyke March
- Santa Cruz Pride Parade & Festival
- World's Shortest Parade
Past Protests/Rallies/Marches/Parades
- 75 River Street Occupation November 2011
- Freedom Sleepers July 4, 2015-Present
- Occupy Santa Cruz October 2011
- May Day 2010 (Santa Cruz)
- Myth California Pageant
- Peace Camp 2010
- Save the Knoll March August 14, 2011
- Tree Sitting
- Women's March Santa Cruz County January 21, 2017
Activists
Community Organizations/Protest Movements
- Food Not Bombs
- Freedom Sleepers
- Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom (HUFF)
- Occupy Santa Cruz
- Resource Center for Nonviolence
- Sin Barras
Radical Spaces
Media Resources
- Alex Darocy Photographer
- Bob Fitch Photographer who covered local protests
- Bradley Stuart Photojournalist who covers local protests and archives them on his website
- City on a Hill Press
- Nopal Media
- Santa Cruz Indymedia Open-publishing news website
These protest signs are written in single-stroke lines that are difficult to read by passing traffic.
