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Pigs Repress Free Speech on Pacific
Pigs arrest artists 4:37
City Councils new let's fuck over the artists policy in action.
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What’s up with boyz in blue jeans? Real pros those boyz and girlz in LE!
They take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Clearly they have violated their oath office!
Jail the fascists!
They take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Clearly they have violated their oath office!
Jail the fascists!
"Regulations" don't trump Constitutional rights.
In fact, that's what the Constitution is for--to set limits on oppressive state authority.
In Santa Cruz, it's the community that needs to respond to this latest outrage.
In fact, that's what the Constitution is for--to set limits on oppressive state authority.
In Santa Cruz, it's the community that needs to respond to this latest outrage.
Once more Sgt. Jonathan Bush is involved in SCPD hijinks. He's a disappointment.
Art so often imitates life that they become indistinguishable in form and substance to the average person. Our civic leaders, on the other hand, seem not to understand nor appreciate either as the arrest of local downtown artists illustrates. When did we decide as a community to suppress artistic expression rather than encouraging it to flourish? When did we decide that artistic expression should be bound and circumscribed by legislative fiat? I mentioned in a past letter to the Sentinel that our myopic focus on increasing downtown revenue has obscured the need to honor the richness and vibrancy which we owe in no small part to local artists. This latest crackdown is simply another wrongheaded policy that for a time robbed us of the Great Morgani, a true Santa Cruz artist and icon. It was only a full throated and wholehearted community response that brought us back from the brink of that publicly embarrassing precipice. To be less disturbed by these most recent events does Morgani and all other artists a disservice, as it does all of us as a community.
this video ought to go up on Youtube so it can reach a wider demographic.
[Radio interviews in September] http://radiolibre.org/brb/brb150830.mp3 (1 hour and 40 minutes into the audio file).
"Artists Return After Arrest" at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/23/18776537.php
"Alex and Jeff "Freedom Painters" Go to Court Hearing" at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/30/18776857.php .
A broader description of some of the issues: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/30/18776861.php?show_comments=1#18776898 ["Defending Public Space - More on why driving artists off of Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz is a crime"]
"Unpermitted Blue Boxes Appear Overnight on Pacific Avenue" at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/24/18776595.php
"Artists Return After Arrest" at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/23/18776537.php
"Alex and Jeff "Freedom Painters" Go to Court Hearing" at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/30/18776857.php .
A broader description of some of the issues: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/30/18776861.php?show_comments=1#18776898 ["Defending Public Space - More on why driving artists off of Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz is a crime"]
"Unpermitted Blue Boxes Appear Overnight on Pacific Avenue" at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/24/18776595.php
Morgani is "Special". For years the PD didn't fuck with him standing there ILLEGALLY on top of his milk crate, because he's a local businessman who panders to the gentry (interior design) and a member of the DTA. So he gets hassled once and you act as if he's some sort of hero, or example.
Fuck that. You probably think Bernie Sanders is a hero for ONE BUST back in '63 when he was in college.
Fuck that. You probably think Bernie Sanders is a hero for ONE BUST back in '63 when he was in college.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Joff%20Jones
Alex and Joff haven't seemed particularly interested in drumming up court support or engaging in solidarity with other performers (though I haven't heard of any others being arrested). Their cases are nonetheless important.
Vendors are slated to be forcefully excluded from Pacific Avenue and other places under the Scott Collins legislation returning to City Council on April 26th for a First Reading. Several have told me they'd like to form a Vendor's Guild. I'd suggest a resurgence of the old Downtown for All group formed in 2002 to fight the original expansion of the Deadly Downtown Ordinances. (http://santacruz.indymedia.org/mod/comments/display/1672/index.php )
Alex and Joff haven't seemed particularly interested in drumming up court support or engaging in solidarity with other performers (though I haven't heard of any others being arrested). Their cases are nonetheless important.
Vendors are slated to be forcefully excluded from Pacific Avenue and other places under the Scott Collins legislation returning to City Council on April 26th for a First Reading. Several have told me they'd like to form a Vendor's Guild. I'd suggest a resurgence of the old Downtown for All group formed in 2002 to fight the original expansion of the Deadly Downtown Ordinances. (http://santacruz.indymedia.org/mod/comments/display/1672/index.php )
Wow, sounds kinda like the Coonerty's (when they aren't being the gentry, or PredPol'in).
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