“I’ve been worried about this problem for 10 years . . . long before this crisis. Long, long before Occupy Wall Street. I’ve been very aware of the fact that the economic system doesn’t work the way that I learned it works in school.”
Articles by Samantha Larson
Faces of Occupy Santa Cruz
“I didn’t know about the movement until my caregiver told me about it, and then I saw it on the news. I told my friend, ‘I’m down to support that, I’ll definitely march with you guys.’”
Faces of Occupy Santa Cruz
“I’m trying to get more people involved because a lot of people don’t know what’s going on and what this actually supports—making Wall Street and the upper classes take more responsibility for the state of the economy.”
PRFF: Deadly Heights
Luis Benitez paused when he saw me coming down and leaned into the axe planted in the snow above him. “Hey Sam, how’re you feeling?”
“Good . . . tired,” I replied, my voice weak.
“I’ll bet you are,” he said, and laughed. “Why don’t you go back to base camp, get yourself a coke, go to college, find a hot boyfriend—how ‘bout a junior—and forget this scene for a while,” he said.
Monarchs Return to Santa Cruz
Natural Bridges celebrates the return of the monarchs this Sunday, Oct. 9 at the 31st annual Welcome Back Monarchs Day. It’s also a celebration of the re-opening of the boardwalk trail that leads down to the eucalyptus grove—repaired with the help of the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks after it was damaged last winter.
Haircuts for Charity
L’Atelier stylist Nick Saporito first organized a Hope Cuts event four years ago after learning about the campaign through spending time at City of Hope with his father, who was a lymphoma cancer patient there. Years past have reaped as much as $4,000 in the six-hour period, thanks to desirable raffle schwag.
