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Confronting the Police State and Imagining Alternatives, Oakland, 5/22/09: audio
by dave id
Sunday May 24th, 2009 12:35 AM
The Friendly Fire Collective held a panel discussion titled "Confronting the Police State and Imagining Alternatives" at AK Press in Oakland on May 22nd. The panel consisted of members of San Jose Copwatch, Silicon Valley De-Bug, the Watsonville Brown Berets, Petaluma Copwatch, O22, Cop/Migra Busters, and Critical Resistance.
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Questions posed to the panel by moderators included:

1) What tactics, strategies, or campaigns have your groups deployed that have been effective in combating police presence and abuse?

2) In what ways does your group relate to the communities in which you work? Do you experience resistance to your organizing from parts of these communities and how do you respond to that resistance? How do you hope to include more people from these communities in your projects?

3) How do you envision communities decreasing the presence of law enforcement and increasing their capacity for self-determination over time? Knowing that there will always be various conflicts and degrees of violence within our own communities with or without police, can you envision alternative models for resolving community conflicts without the police?

A question and answer session with those in attendance followed the panel discussion but was not recorded due to technical difficulties (batteries ran out).

Event announcement: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/14/18594796.php

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