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Mental Health, Oppression, and Repression: A Community Discussion - by Lauren JohnsonThe Holdout, 2313 San Pablo, Oakland Event Date:Sun Jun 2, 2013 6:00PM Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 10:00AM
Our Vanishing Civil Liberties - by Susan HarmanSt. John's Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue
Berkeley Event Date:Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:30PM Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 11:03AM
Interview with SC Clean Team founder TJ Magallanes - by Cleaning the TeamFourth generation Santa Cruzan TJ Magallanes knows all to well about groupthink, bullying and the problems that can develop when one expresses their thoughts within a community group. He has run several Santa Cruz community oriented Facebook pages, which have enjoyed various levels of success...and failure. He has tapped into the power of social media, and has used it to enact positive changes within our community. He started Santa Cruz’s own Clean Team in response to piles of needles and t... Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:18PM
Abusing Prisoners Decreases Public Safety --An interview with author Shawn Griffith - by Angola 3 NewsIf given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of US prison policy. The author, Shawn Griffith, was released last year from Florida’s prison system at the age of 41, after spending most of his life, almost 24 years, behind bars, including seven in solitary confinement. Facing the US PrisonProblem 2.3 Million Strong: An Ex-Con’s View of the Mistakes and the Solution was self-published just months after Griffi... Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:35PM
Espionage Act - by Ted Rudow III, MAU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is heading to Capitol Hill , where he’s expected to be grilled over the Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize the work, home and cellphone records used by almost a hundred reporters and editors at the Associated Press. On Tuesday, Holder defended the move as a necessary step in a criminal probe of leaks of classified information. Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 10:03AM
Screening of: War on Whistleblowers: Free Press & the National Security State - by Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org Event Date:Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:00PM Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 5:33PM
Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture - by Stephen Lendmantorture Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:48PM
California Trust Act Moves Forward - by Steve PleichTrust and Equal Protection Under the Law Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 2:50PM
Judge William Brigham reported to Texas State Commission of Judicial Conduct - by Truth & HonestyMay 16, 2013 Mary Cummins filed a complaint against Judge William H. Brigham with the Texas State Commission of Judicial Conduct. In the complaint she alleges that Judge Brigham was unethical and did not rule according to the law and evidence because of his special relationship with the Plaintiffs' attorney Randy Turner and with the sitting Judge for that court Judge Bonnie Sudderth. Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 3:57PM
Rally Against Police Beating of SF Commune 5 @ SF State! - by FREESFCOM5Malcolm X Plaza, SF State University Main Quad, San Francisco Event Date:Tue May 21, 2013 2:00PM Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 3:07PM
Anti-Trafficking and The Carceral State with Emi Koyama (eminism.org) - by Carol LeighFaithful Fools, 234 Hyde Street, San Francisco Event Date:Wed May 22, 2013 7:30PM Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 8:11PM
SF Commune Activists Attacked, Arrested and Hospitalized by SF State Police; March Today! - by Chris RojasSeven 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
Fight Back against Police Brutality - by Juan Torres Steps of Malcolm X Plaza, San Francisco State University. Event Date:Fri May 17, 2013 2:00PM Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 10:04AM
DUI checkpoint in Santa Cruz - by SCPD checkpoints on Saturday night from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Ocean Street corridor Event Date:Sat May 18, 2013 11:00PM Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:17AM
Film Showing & Discussion ""Assata: Eyes on the Rainbow" - by ANSWER Coalition2969 Mission St. btwn 25th and 26th, SF
near 24th St. BART, #14, 49 MUNI Event Date:Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:00PM Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 9:30AM
Video of Take Back Santa Cruz-supported Clean Team Harassing Homeless Forced Off Internet - by Robert NorseA 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
SF Commune Raided {MARCH TONIGHT} May 15th: Arrests and Eviction by SWAT and SFPD - 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
Police Shut Down BART Entrance; Pour Into Mission at Block Party against Gentrification - by Bay WatersCinco 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
Police Raid Volunteer Farm, arrest 4, & illegally abuse UC Berkeley student - by Teresa SmithSummary: 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
Attorney Lynne Stewart Too Sick for Prison; Sign Petition for Compassionate Release Now - by Free Lynne StewartAttorney Lynne Stewart, framed by Republican Bush, and still being prosecuted and persecuted by Democrat Obama, is so weak from Stage 4 Cancer, now in her lungs, that she walks with a walker and must nap for an hour just to take a shower. She needs your signature on her Petition for Compassionate Release now at http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-to-free-lynne-stewart-save-her-life-release-her-now-2 Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 8:23PM |