Last Rights Parade Art Build 7/4

We would LOVE your help in preparing for a post-July 4th Funeral
Procession (more details below).
In any way shape or form! The key help we'd like is if you or any of
your friends can show up tomorrow, Tuesday- 2-5PM...
or at least by 4PM- if you want to say you picked up a brush!
So, we look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Tuesday July 4th
2-5PM
The Big Yeller House
742 North Branciforte
Near Shoppers Corner- 100 yards towards the hills frum Shoppers on the
RHS, fist big old house. It's yeller!)
Wear comfy clothing, we'll be using water base house paint.

We'll be making Two COFFINS and some signs to wear and/or placards to carry.
But most of all we'll be having FUN and working together.



Here's info on Wednesday's "LAST RIGHTS PRO-Session"
Ah reckon it'll bee a ruckus!
> *Last Night?... No, No!.../ //Last Rights! /Parade and Protest
> Wed July 5th 2:30pm
> Gather at the SC Police Station Courtyard *(Center and Laurel St.)*
> Funeral Procession: via Pacific Ave, Farmers Market & local Media
> outlets, culminating in a finale' at City Hall
> **
> Join us for a funeral parade and out-cry for our first amendment
> rights and right to privacy. A protest against the city's failure to
> resolve the Police Spying Scandal. A demand that city managers muzzle
> their dogs and put restrictions on police power to spy on us. A
> funeral, a parade, and direct action.
>
> With the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra, funeral procession musicians and
> minstrels. *
>
> On *Wednesday, July 5th*,* the new SCPD policy on police spying* goes
> into effect. Under the new rules, even if you are engaged in
> constitutionally protected first amendment activities, Santa Cruz
> police will still be able to "legally" videotape you inside or outside
> of your home, audio record you, listen to your phone calls, look at
> the mail you are receiving, read your email, make notes about your
> organization, tail you, monitor your website, subscribe to your email
> lists, and examine your membership lists.
>
> Six months after the New Years revelations re local police spying and
> infiltration of a peaceful parade organizing group, the City has
> failed in its promise to pass a policy providing clear protection of
> our first amendment rights. We'd like to tell you something different,
> but our local elected representatives for the most part have NOT
> respectfully represented their constituents, nor voiced, nor advocated
> for the public interest with any significant courage or backbone!
> Damn! They resisted. They stonewalled. They sidelined the ACLU.
> They misled us with promises of full discussion and public meetings,
> transparency. They even lied. Then they told us they'd done their
> job and that everything was fine. They said we should be proud of the
> accomplishments. Last Tuesday the one Council Member response to our
> concerns and frustration said publicly: ...."it's probably the best
> ordinance in the entire country." and that the ACLU Police Practices
> Lawyer, Mark Schlosberg, would agree. This said last Tuesday at the
> City Council meeting with a straight face (by Mike Rotkin) knowing
> full well that this was a lie!
>
> */Working within the system isn't working!/*
>
> Nothing less than our First Amendment rights to *free expression* and
> *right to privacy* are at risk here.
> We will never accept police spying on the activities of our community
> groups political, creative, liberal or conservative.
>
> *Wear black. Bring signs. Bring an instrument: a drum, a whistle,
> pots, pans or a resonant piece of refuse (Refuse & Resist!).
>
> Press Conference at 2:00pm. Police Station Courtyard.
>
>
> For more info: ***http://www.lastnightdiy.org
> <http://www.lastnightdiy.org/gallery/>**
> *'Just-us' Anti-SPY Alliance: Local anti police infiltration alliance and
lobbying group.*