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Police Department Covers up Death Squad Activity Attempted Murder of a journalist by a Police Officer...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 3:22pm PST
Police Militarize Downtown Fresno on Cesar Chavez Day 
Downtown Fresno was a police zone on Friday. Hundreds of students were prevented from reaching City Hall by police in squad cars, on horse back, motorcycles, and on foot. The students were told if they reached City Hall, they would not be arrested or detained. What the police didn’t tell the students is that they would be prevented from reaching City Hall. This is the first of two reports that will be posted today. Detentions and or arrests are still being made as this report is being wr...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 2:43pm PST
Prisoner Update: Chelsea Gerlach's Birthday April 6! Chelsea's birthday is coming up -- let's make it a little nicer!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 2:41pm PST
Police Department Covers up Death Squad Activity Attempted murder of a journalist by a Long Beach Police Officer...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 1:33pm PST
Video journalist seeks to block federal grand jury subpoena A freelance journalist asked a federal magistrate in San Francisco today to block a grand jury subpoena for his videotapes and notes on a clash between protesters and police last year....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 9:56am PST
Santa Cruz Public Safety Committee Meeting on SCPD Spying (audio/mpeg 4.4MB) A special meeting of the Public Safety Committee took place March 29, to discuss the results of the Police Auditor's investigation into SCPD infiltration of Last Night Parade planners (the report found that the police spy operation "more than likely" violated the civil rights of parade organizers), and draw up a new policy governing the SCPD's use of surveillance....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 4:26pm PST
Grand Jury Press Conference (video/quicktime 16.6MB) On Thursday morning, March 30, a press conference was held to draw attention to a hearing to decide whether or not accept a motion to quash the subpoena. This video contains excerpts from the press conference....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 3:40pm PST
Green Scare Indictment comes to Bay Area: Berkeley resident indicted Another Person Indicted in "Green Scare" in Seattle
author: concerned citizen
Briana Waters, 30, is the 14th person to be charged in Oregon and Washington with conspiracy to commit a series of ecoterrorist attacks in the West in recent years.
Woman indicted in arson that destroyed UW horticulture center
The Associated Press
SEATTLE - A federal grand jury has indicted a Berkeley, Calif., woman in an arson that destroyed a horticulture center at the University of Washington f...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 2:24pm PST
Kurd unrest escalates in Turkey Hundreds of Kurdish youths have clashed with Turkish police in the town of Batman, in a third day of street violence in south-eastern Turkey....
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 12:59pm PST
fbi assassins and terrorists The time to hold the fbi and the cia accountable for a century of atrocities is now; the duty to do so is YOURS AND MINE. Failure is not an option that we can afford to consider because all of Humanity demands an end to the dirty little murderous episodes that characterize fbi/cia global criminal operations ongoing as I write this piece. Comprende!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 8:58am PST
Day of the Young Combatant 2006 
Masked rebels built barricades in the streets and threw paint and fire bombs at riot police today outside of Chilean universities in the cities of Santiago, Concepción and Iquique, on the "Day of the Young Combatant"....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 6:43pm PST
Woman Gets $100 Ticket For "BUSHIT" Bumper Sticker A Georgia woman was pulled over while driving and issued a $100 ticket for her "BUSHIT" bumpersticker, despite the fact the statute she was cited under was struck down over 15 years ago as being unlawful. She plans to fight the ticket in court....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 9:53am PST
DRAFT POLICY ON POLICE SPYING 
It is the policy of the Santa Cruz Police Department to ensure that the First Amendment rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution are protected for all individuals and to permit police involvement in the exercise of those rights only to the extent necessary to provide fir the legitimate needs of law enforcement in investigating criminal activity....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 2:29am PST
ACLU Letter to City Council RE Police Spying Policy 
ACLU to Santa Cruz City Council: Do the Right Thing...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 2:17am PST
Accounts of Police Violating Civil Rights of Students in Watsonville on 3/27 (audio/mpeg 6.4MB) On Monday, March 27th, 2006, high school students went on strike to protest against HR 4437. In Watsonville, police responded by violating the civil rights of students, including detaining students at 2:00pm for "walking out of school" even though their school, Renaissance High School, had gotten out at 1:15pm. Another student at Renaissance was arrested after refusing to get on a bus. She was already out of school and did not walkout. (Audio is 18 minutes and 30 seconds)...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 5:34pm PST
Antonin Scalia "Not Fit" for US Supreme Court! Justice Scalia "pre-judges" and finds Gitmo inmates "Guilty" with no examination of the facts let alone looking at any verifiable evidence!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 11:36am PST
FRSC: Jenn and Ramiro of the Brown Berets discuss Student Walkouts, HR 4437 and more (audio/mpeg 4.2MB) Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo talks with Jenn Laskin and then Ramiro Medrano. Jenn and Ramiro called into the Global Local program on Freak Radio Santa Cruz, 101.1FM on Monday, March 27 to discuss the student walkouts which took place at local high schools....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 7:49am PST
Betrayal of the American Idea Outlawing torture is as "American" as Independence Day and the milkshake.. How can one defend freedom by destroying it, even if only in Cuban and Arab prisons?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 5:35am PST
Britain accused of aiding US 'rendition' British officials were involved in the CIA's arrest of two men travelling in Africa, who were later taken to Guantanamo Bay as suspected terrorists, secret telegrams show....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 9:36pm PST
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