Photo by ISAAC KLOTZ
Rev. Darrell Darling, Presenté! 1940-2022
By PETER KLOTZ-CHAMBERLIN, CO-FOUNDER OF RESOURCE CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE
The Resource Center for Nonviolence community is deeply saddened by the loss of one of our own, Rev. Darrell Darling. Darrell passed very peacefully in his home surrounded by family on Feb. 3. He is survived by his wife Karen Darling, daughter Denise Wyldbore and son-in law-James Campbell, beloved son Robert Wilson, granddaughter Kylie and her husband Gabriel. He is preceded in death by his beloved sons, Matthew and Adam.
His loss resonates throughout our entire RCNV community. We are deeply appreciative of Darrell and his devotion to people, love and faith in all of us. His commitment to civil rights, justice, peace, democracy, interfaith community, reconciliation, and nonviolence were steadfast.
Darrell was a pillar of the RCNV community from the 1980s into 2022, lovingly serving on the board and steering committee with his conviction and perceptions. Darrell was instrumental in working with Scott Kennedy to locate the current facility of the RCNV on Ocean Street in 2011.
Darrell also served in the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, the local Democratic Party Central Committee, and Palestine Justice Coalition. He also supported efforts for community policing, the Not In Our Town movement against hate, and interfaith work for peace and justice. Darrell guided, mentored, and supported many leaders and community organizers in Santa Cruz.
Darrell Darling, along with his whole family, answered Dr. King’s call to the Selma, Alabama campaign for voting rights in 1965, joining in the historical Selma-Montgomery march. Rev. Darling graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1966 and was ordained days later in the Illinois United Methodist Conference. Rev. Darling’s Pastoral service included churches in Illinois, New York, and Connecticut, starting churches in Pleasanton and Dublin, California, and pastoring at Davis United Methodist Church for seven years. Rev. Darling served the First United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz from 1978 to 1983.
After leaving the ministry, Darrell and Karen Darling operated the Darling House Bed and Breakfast on West Cliff Drive from 1984–2017. Darrell loved meeting and conversing about life and politics with guests. Darrell and Karen offered the Darling House in community ministry, hosting many fundraising events for justice-led political candidates and organizations. They also contributed to the work of RCNV by providing support and hospitality to guests involved in nonviolent struggles around the world. The Darling House supported the Santa Cruz Sister Cities program, and hosted the Alushta, Crimea mayor’s delegation in 1989 when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck.
Darrell Darling put his faith to work. He did not gloss over the deep conflicts and oppressions our society and world suffer. Darrell sustained many of us with his persistent conviction that reconciliation is possible in every situation. We honor the light and dedication he has given us.
We welcome you to visit the main lobby of the RCNV at 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, to express your love and appreciation for Rev. Darling. We invite you to visit the remembrance table we have set up, leave a written reflection, light a candle, or sit in honor at the center. RCNV will be open: Feb. 8-16, from 1–4pm.
In Light and Peace,
The Resource Center for Nonviolence Board and Staff
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Click here to listen to a clip of Rosa Azul playing "Motivos."
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Top photo shows Adam Bolaños Scow and Jose "Chuy" Hernandez. Photo at left is Russell Rodriguez.
Photos CONTRIBUTED
MUSIC
Rosa Azul with Russell Rodriguez Concert, Feb. 19
By SARAH RINGLER
RosaAzul, a newly formed ensemble presenting music from Mexico and abroad will hold a debut performance next weekend in Santa Cruz. This show follows several successful debuts throughout the region and will be held in the backyard of Irene Herrmann.
The concert is Saturday, Feb. 19, 3-4:30pm. Doors open at 2:45pm. Tickets are $20. For information and to RSVP, email herrmann@ucsc.edu
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Photo by SARAH RINGLER
Over 75 marchers enter Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz as part of a rally and march for National Transit Equity Day and Rosa Parks's birthday. The event was a reminder that not everyone has access to a car and that public transportation is a civil right.
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ART
Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism
and Oakland Museum of California
By SARAH RINGLER
The Oakland Museum of California in downtown Oakland features Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism. It runs until Feb. 27 and highlights science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra, filmmaker Kahlil Joseph and more. For the price of admission you also get free posters like the one at the left, or go online to print out your own. Young people, ages 13-16, receive admission.
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Editor's Note:
Apology: In last week’s article, “Developers of The Cruz Hotel Want to Buy 2 City Owned Parcels,” I would like to apologize to Sheila Carrillo for editing and reorganizing the article beyond what she had originally written. I appreciate that she let me know about the Cruz Hotel issue and reminding me to be a careful editor.
There will be no Serf City next Friday, Feb. 18; I’m heading south.
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“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro... two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.”
1868-1963
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Photo by TARMO HANNULA
A black phoebe rests on a fence post in Arana Gulch in Santa Cruz. The small bird, with an 11-inch wingspan, is common in most of the California coastal region and in Mexico. Its typical flight pattern is to take a perch and then dart out a short distance to grab a bug mid-flight, and then return to the same spot — a yoyo pattern.
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Santa Cruz County Covid-19 Report - Get your free tests here
By SARAH RINGLER
The Santa Cruz County Health Department regularly releases data on the current status of Covid-19 in the county. Total known cases as of Feb. 10 were 43,295, up 3% from last week's 42,141. There were no new deaths.
Because of all the home tests currently available, these numbers are underestimates according to Corinne Hyland, County Health Services Agency spokesperson. She recommends people with minor symptoms stay home, isolate and rest.
Mask mandates, are being lifted on Feb. 16 in Santa Cruz and twelve other Bay Area counties. Indoor masking is still required by the State for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, in public transportation, health care settings, congregate settings like correctional facilities and homeless shelters, long term care facilities, and in K- 12 schools and childcare settings.
Confused about testing? Lisa Krieger's Jan. 13 front page article in the San Jose Mercury News has comprehensive information gleaned from various sources on how to make some sense of the various tests, incubation periods, contagion, viral levels, etc.
Hospitalizations stayed the same from last week. Click to view a graph of hospitalizations here.
There have been few changes in the last week. Active cases in south county and mid county stayed the same, and north county decreased by 1%. See details in the chart below.
On the county's vaccination webpage, as of Feb. 1, 80% of the county has had at least one dose and 73% has had two doses. The single dose number increased by 1% from Jan. 24 and the two doses stayed the same. Here are more details on the county's vaccination data.
This webpage also has a link where you can get a digital copy and scannable QR code of your vaccination record. Keep track of your four digit code because that is your access to the site.
The county's Effective Reproductive Number is below one. See chart below. Numbers above one show the spread of the virus is increasing. Below one means the spread is decreasing.
To get information of COVID-19 testing locations around the county visit this site. Click here to make an appointment to get tested.
Any Californian age 12 or up can get vaccinated for free. For information on getting vaccinated, click here.
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% deaths by ethnicity:
White - 56%
Latinx - 36%
Black - 0%
Asian - 7%
American Native - 0%
Unknown - 0%
% deaths by gender/% of population:
Female - 49%/50%
Male - 51%/50%
Deaths by age/228:
25-34 - 2%
35-44 - 3%
45-54 - 4%
55-59 - 1%
60-64 - 6%
65-74 - 18%
75-84 - 22%
85+ - 43%
% active cases testing positive by region/% of population:
Mid-county - 10%/12%
North county - 40%/56%
South county - 50%/32%
Under investigation - 1%
Weekly increases in positive tests:
June 12-19, 2020 - 7%
June 19-26 - 23%
June 26 to July 3 - 22%
July 3-9 - 23%
July 9-16 - 40%
July 16-23 - 20%
July 23-30 - 27%
July 30-Aug. 6 - 13%
Aug. 6-13- 12%
Aug.14-20 - 16%
Aug.20-28 - 10%
Aug. 28-Sept. 3 - 10%
Sept. 3-10 - 6%
Sept. 10-17- 8%
Sept. 17-24 - 7%
Sept. 25- Oct.1 - 5%
Oct. 1 - 9 - 4%
Oct. 9-15 - 4%
Oct. 15-22 - 5%
Oct. 23-29 - 4%
Oct. 30-Nov. 5 - 6%
Nov. 5-12 - 10%
Nov. 12-19 - 11%
Nov. 19-26 - holiday
Nov. 19-Dec. 3 - 29% 2 weeks of data for this week only
Dec. 3-10 - 16%
Dec. 10-17 - 17%
Dec. 17-24 - 14%
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Dec. 24-31 - 19%
Jan. 1-7, 2021 - 13%
Jan. 7-14 - 14%
Jan. 15-21 - 11%
Jan. 21-28 - 5%
Jan. 28-Feb. 4 - 5%
Feb. 5-11 - 2%
Feb. 11-18 - 2%
Feb. 18-25 - 1%
Feb. 25-March 5 - 1%
March 5-11 - 1%
March 11-18 - 2%
March 18-25 - .5%
March 25 - Apr. 1 - .7%
Apr. 1-8 - 0.1%
Apr. 9-15 - 1%
Apr. 16-22 - 2%
Apr. 22-30 - 2%
Apr. 30 - May 6 - .3%
May 6-13 - 2%
May 13-20 - 0%
May 24 - Data readjustment by county means percentages cannot be calculated this week.
May 27 - June 3 - 0%
June 3-10 - 0%
June 11-17 - .25%
June 18-24 - 0%
June 25-July 1 - 0%
July 2-8 - .3%
July 9-15 - .2%
July 16-22 - .5%
July 23-29 - 1.2%
July 30-Aug. 5 - 2%
Aug. 6-12 - .7%
Aug.13-19 - 4%
Aug. 20-26 - .7%
Aug. 26-Sept. 2 - 3%
Sept. 2-9 - 2%
Sept. 10-16 - 1%
Sept. 17-22 - 1%
Sept. 23-30 - 2%
Oct. 1-7 - 0%
Oct. 8-14 - 1%
Oct. 15-21 - 1%
Oct. 22-28 - 1%
Oct. 29-Nov. 4 - 1%
Nov. 5-11 - 1%
Nov. 12-18 - 2%
Nov. 19 - Dec. 2 - 2 weeks 2%
Dec. 2-9 - 2%
Dec. 9-16 - 1%
Dec. 16-23 - 1%
Dec. 24-30 - 2%
Dec. 31 - Jan. 6, 2022 - 5% Growth of home tests underestimates cases-see above
Jan. 7-13 - 9%
Jan. 14-20 - 15%
Jan. 21-27 - 9%
Jan. 28 - Feb. 3 - 31%
Feb. 3-10 - 3%
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Photo by TARMO HANNULA
Fashion Street - A woman waits for her bus at the Watsonville Transit Center beside a large mural created by Paul De Worken and community members.
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Labor History Calendar for Feb. 11-17, 2022
Feb. 11, 1913: IWW-led rubber strike in Akron, Ohio begins.
Feb. 11, 1919: Seattle General Strike ends.
Feb. 11, 1937: 48,000 GM workers end sit-down strike.
Feb. 11, 2011: Strikes topple Egyptian government.
Feb. 12, 1817: Frederick Douglas born.
Feb. 12, 1877: US rail strike against pay cuts begins.
Feb. 12, 1967: 60 burn draft cards in NY.
Feb. 13, 1917: Strikes and meeting in St. Petersburg plants launch Russian Revolution.
Feb. 14, 1903: Western Federation of Miners strike for 8-hour day.
Feb. 14, 2011: Egypt military takes charge and orders end to strikes and protests.
Feb. 15, 1839: Labor journalist Dyer Lum born in New York.
Feb. 16, 1916: Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control in New York City.
Feb. 16, 2011: Sick-out closes Wisconsin schools as teachers protest union-busting legislation.
Feb. 17, 1906: WFM leaders Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone framed on murder charges.
Feb. 17, 1936: Goodyear sit-down strike.
Feb. 17, 1992: Yale University unions strike in solidarity with TAs.
Feb. 17, 2020: Thousands strike JY Ha Nam Co. over Covid fears in Vietnam.
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Photo by TARMO HANNULA
West African Peanut Soup
By SARAH RINGLER
Several years ago during a cold November, I bought some heavy sweaters for Christmas gifts for my family who lives locally. Then, when the day arrived, it was as warm as Hawaii and the gifts seemed ridiculous.
Of course the weather will change again and this recipe will satisfy whether it is cold or warm as afternoon on an oasis in the Sahara Desert.
You can use yams or sweet potatoes but yams are native to Africa. The other prominent ingredient, the peanut, is native to the Americas, but grows very easily in Mali and is similar to a native nut called the Bambara groundnut which was used in the past. Peanuts have a higher protein and oil content making it a more economically viable crop for farming.
A good stock makes any soup better. You can use water but it doesn’t take too much time to make a stock. The recipe is included below.
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup yellow onion, chopped
¾ cup chopped carrots
1 cup chopped yams or sweet potato, peeled
2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger
¼ teaspoon cayenne
2 ½ cups vegetable stock or water
½ cup tomato juice or chopped tomatoes
½ cup creamy peanut butter
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
5 green onions, chopped
If you have time, make a vegetable stock with the following ingredients. Use the peelings or pieces from sweet potatoes, potatoes, onions, celery and the carrots. Put them in a saucepan and fill with about 4 cups of cold water. Bring to a boil, turn down the heat and simmer for 15-25 minutes. Strain. This will really add to the flavor.
Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Stir in the chopped onions and carrots and cook about 3 minutes until the onions are soft. Add the ginger and cayenne and cook for another minute or so.
Add the chopped sweet potato, tomato juice or tomatoes and only 2 cups of the stock. Add the salt and pepper. Bring to a boil then lower the heat and simmer for about 15 minutes. Let cool.
Ladle the soup into a blender or food processor. Add the peanut butter and blend until smooth. Pour back into the saucepan.
Heat the soup over low heat. Add the final ½ cup of water or stock to thin the soup to the consistency that you desire. Adjust by adding more salt and pepper to taste.
Serve soup with chopped green onions on the top. Serves about 3-4 people.
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Thanks, Sarah Ringler
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Welcome to Serf City Times Over time, our county has grown more stratified and divided with many people feeling left out. Housing affordability, racism and low wages are the most obvious factors. However, many groups and individuals in Santa Cruz County work tirelessly to make our county a better place for everyone. These people work on the environment, housing, economic justice, health, criminal justice, disability rights, immigrant rights, racial justice, transportation, workers’ rights, education reform, gender issues, equity issues, electoral politics and more. Often, one group doesn’t know what another is doing. The Serf City Times is dedicated to serving as a clearinghouse for those issues by letting you know what is going on, what actions you can take and how you can support these groups.This is a self-funded enterprise and all work is volunteer.
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