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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....

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)...

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....

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....

Since early January, when the Federal Communications Commission asked for comments on its 2005 ruling ordering schools and businesses to give the police access to their Internet systems, almost three dozen parties have filed opinions on the matter....

On March 10, 2006, Utah's Tibetan community together with friends and allies commemorated the 47th anniversary of 1959's Tibetan national uprising....

When President Bush signed a law banning torture he quietly signed a statement saying he could bypass it. Earlier this month, Bush signed the USA Patriot Act but signed a statement that said he did not consider oversight rules binding. We speak with the Boston Globe reporter who broke the story....

Results of the independent investigation into Santa Cruz police spying on New Year's Eve parade planners were made public March 21. Bob Aaronson, the independent police auditor, concluded in his report that SCPD officers may not have violated any local laws or policies by infiltrating the group, but the undercover operation more than likely violated the civil rights of parade organizers. The report also said that while the organizers contemplated an act of civil disobedience, the minor infrac...

There are literally thousands of political prisoners in the United States! And yet the U.S. goes around pointing the finger at others. It would be a country which longs to free the prisoners of sin and self, rather than one which has more than a million of its people locked up in jail and prison cells. America would be very different, both at home and abroad....

concerns the "spectacle" of September 11th...