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text California Trust Act Moves Forward - by Steve Pleich
Trust and Equal Protection Under the Law
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 2:50PM
calendar Rally Against Police Beating of SF Commune 5 @ SF State! sfstate.pdf_140_.jpg original image ( x) - by FREESFCOM5
Malcolm X Plaza, SF State University Main Quad, San Francisco
Event Date:Tue May 21, 2013 2:00PM
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 3:07PM
image SF Commune Activists Attacked, Arrested and Hospitalized by SF State Police; March Today! 120_sfc_march.jpg original image ( 2048x1536) - by Chris Rojas
Seven San Francisco activists from the squatted social center called the SF Commune, were brutally attacked by police and arrested Thursday evening after being invited into the SF State University dorms by students there. One individual was tazed and another was reportedly shoved into a paddy wagon where police continued to viciously beat him. This happened less than 36 hours after the campus visitors were violently evicted from the SF Commune by riot-clad SWAT police on Wednesday morning. ...
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 12:48PM
text Video of Take Back Santa Cruz-supported Clean Team Harassing Homeless Forced Off Internet - by Robert Norse
A week ago, writer Jeremy Leonard posted a video with faces disguised of a member of the Clean Team threatening and harassing a homeless camper as he and others did one of their regular "clean-up's". The video was only up very briefly before it was taken down. A few days ago it reappeared as part of a long interview Leonard did with former Clean Team founder T.J. Magallanes. The interview--still up as of this writing--provoked dozens of comments, and reportedly numerous threats against Le...
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:31PM
image SF Commune Raided {MARCH TONIGHT} May 15th: Arrests and Eviction by SWAT and SFPD 120_img_1648.jpg original image ( 3264x2448) - by Ryan Rising
The SF Commune, a community center and social space for organizers in the Ocean View district of the city, was raided early this morning, Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. Over twenty people were evicted from their home and social center and four arrested as SWAT team and SFPD moved into the before abandoned building to push people to the curb and maintain homelessness in the city. Tonight, the SF Commune and all in solidarity with direct action to alleviate the housing crisis and homelessness w...
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 4:30PM
image Police Shut Down BART Entrance; Pour Into Mission at Block Party against Gentrification 120_p5050587.jpg original image ( 4608x3456) - by Bay Waters
Cinco de Mayo block party lasted for several hours, holding the plaza at 16th and Mission despite a high police presence throughout the event.
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:44AM
image Police Raid Volunteer Farm, arrest 4, & illegally abuse UC Berkeley student 120_the_gill_tract_reoccupied_may_11_2013.jpg original image ( 3000x4000) - by Teresa Smith
Summary: On Monday, university police raided the all-volunteer farm at the Gill Tract. Four people were arrested. One of them was Brooke Marino, a geography student from UC Berkeley, who was standing on a public sidewalk outside the property. As seen in the vdieo footage, Marino was being nonviolent. Police, however, put her in a "pain compliance hold" and carried her by her neck across the street. Civil Rights attorney Dan Siegel witnessed this, and says the police broke the law by bypas...
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:19AM
calendar Blueford Family to Call on City and New Police Chief for Accountability 120_badass-jeralyn-mollie-jack.jpg original image ( 2048x1366) - by anne weills
Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre, on the steps of City Hall 14th & Broadway, Oakland, CA
Event Date:Thu May 16, 2013 3:00PM
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 3:58PM
image Shaquille O'Neal Stabs Mumia Abu-Jamal in the Back! 120_shaq1.jpg original image ( 201x251) - by gerald smith
Shaquille O'Neal, retired basketball star and wannabe cop, was challenged by protesters at the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoff game at the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday, May 12, 2013. ( O'Neal wasn't present.) (video 9m) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfwDWlLZE5s&feature=
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:48PM
text Four Arrests, A Tractor Sit-In, and A Destroyed Farm - by Ryan Rising
Four people are arrested today attempting to plant and then defend a community farm in Albany, CA on a piece of land owned and planned to be paved over and developed by the University of California at Berkeley. Many farmers express they want a peaceful and voluntary shift towards all people taking care of each other, and also that destruction of food will not be tolerated. RISE UP
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:55PM
image Occupy The Farm Raided 120_009.jpg original image ( 3000x4000) - by Molly Batchelder
Occupy the Farm Raided
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 9:30AM
audio Radio Autonomía:Zapatismo in the Bay MAY SHOW:Strike Debt & Resistance to Prisons and PIC (audio/mpeg 92.2MB) - by Radio Autonomía
AUDIOS are from the May 5th, 2013 broadcast of Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay on Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1FM, livestream at Berkeley Liberation Radio
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:53PM
image Escaped Guantanamo Prisoners Spotted on BART 120_empty_car_close_on_newspaper.jpg original image ( 864x648) - by Kate
As the massive hunger strike among prisoners at Guantanamo enters its third month, Bay Area activists took to the rails to raise awareness of this escalating human rights violation.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:28PM
video Mayor Jean Quan's Husband Identified in Second Altercation on First Friday by New Witness (video/mp4 68.6MB) - by wecopwatch.org
If you thought we were kidding about Mayor Jean Quan's Husband, take a look at this interview of a witness who had her own experience with Mr Floyd on 1rst friday
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 2:08PM
image What $160,000 dollars a year buys in contracts to ‘First Alarm’ 120_what_160_thousand_a_year_buys_640px.jpg original image ( 640x480) - by Razer Ray
Can you IMAGINE how many jobs… jobs for Santa Cruz youths could be subsidized with that amount of money?
Posted: Tue May 7, 2013 11:57AM
image Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Drags Off Aggressive Husband at Art Murmur 120_picture_31.jpg original image ( 618x400) - by Mohammed Harun Arsalai
In recent years, Oakland has seen an accelerated gentrification process occurring. City Hall and law enforcement operations are both engaged in the dirty work that comes along with these processes
Posted: Mon May 6, 2013 11:55AM
image Sleep and Resistance in Downtown Santa Cruz 120_sleep-protest-santa-cruz-post-office-april-21-2013-1.jpg original image ( 800x530) - by Alex Darocy
On April 17 a group of homeless community members in Santa Cruz initiated a high visibility sleep-protest, which was held downtown at the main branch of the post office. Sleepers subsequently occupied several locations outside of the front of the building for four days, with many individuals continuing to sleep there in protest after being cited for violating the sleeping ban or for obstructing the sidewalk. Some of those cited under Santa Cruz's municipal code 6.36.010, the ban on sleep in p...
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:48PM
text Public Nudity(?) at 44th Anniversary Celebration at Peoples Park in Berkeley - by George Davis
On Sunday. April 28 the Berkeley Police harassed a nudist at the 44th Anniversary Celebration at Peoples Park in Berkeley. This reverses a long time tradition of accepting nudism as part of the Celebration. Just another freedom being chipped away.
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:52PM
audio Copwatch heading to Berkeley's City Council for answers re Kayla Moore's death in custody (audio/mpeg 1.2MB) - by KPFA Evening News, Ann Garrison, 04.28.2013
It's been two and a half months since Berkeley resident Kayla Moore died in Berkeley Police custody, after what the police first reported as a call for a mental health evaluation. Moore was an African American transgendered woman. The Berkeley Police still have not released a report. Nor have they lifted their hold on release of the Alameda County Coroner's report on the cause of her death. Berkeley Copwatch will be at the Berkeley City Council meeting Tuesday, 04.30.2013, at 7 pm, to demand...
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:29AM
calendar MAYDAY Autonomous/Anarchist People of Color Contingent 120_may-day-callout-2013.jpg original image ( 612x792) - by c
Ceasar Chavez Library inside Fruitvale Plaza (Fruitvale BART)
Event Date:Wed May 1, 2013 3:00PM
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:12PM

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