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9/11 EVENTS! This Weekend Around the Bay Area 
A lot of excellent events around the Bay to choose from....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 2:19pm PDT
Urgent Request for Faith Leaders We need as many people to sign this letter as possible by 5pm Today, Wednesday September 7th!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 12:37pm PDT
WHY FEMA THE INCOMPETENCE // POLICE STATE CRACKDOWN Facts: FEMA has only spent 6% of its budget on natural disasters. After 911 FEMA became apart of the Department of Homeland Security. FEMA Executive Order 11000 allows seizure of all American people for work forces under federal supervision including the splitting of families if the government finds it necessary. Executive Order 10995 allows seizure of all communications media in the United States. This un-elected, undemocratic, megalomaniacal agency has had the power to suspend our constitut...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 2:44am PDT
Storm Survivors Told To 'Expose Themselves' A group of female hurricane survivors were told to show their breasts if they wanted to be rescued, a British holidaymaker has revealed....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:27pm PDT
New Orleans Police Chief Stands Up To Critics Amid searing criticism and rumors of rampant force desertion, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass defended his department Monday with crisp but harsh words, saying officers held their ground without food, water and even ammunition in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:40pm PDT
Political Persecution of Anti-Police Brutality Juanita Young Continues POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF POLICE BRUTALITY ACTIVIST CONTINUES – TRIAL FOR JUANITA
YOUNG POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 6, 2005...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 11:23pm PDT
Maybe Bush&Rove could do Huricane Katrina damage-control by "Bombing" New Orleans &area? Maybe Bush&Rove could do Huricane Katrina damage-control by "Bombing" New Orleans &area?...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 2:23pm PDT
Suicides, resignations hit New Orleans police department There may be no better way to explain the desperation on the city's ravaged streets than this: In the past few days, two police officers took their own lives and dozens have turned in their badges....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:40am PDT
Taser Saga Continues as Chicago Teenager Suffers Near-Fatal Ventricular Fibrillation... Apparently, the only reason the teenager survived was that he received immediate medical attention. Dr. Wayne H. Franklin, a pediatric electrophysiologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago (and a second doctor), claimed that an electrocardiogram confirmed that the boy did, in fact, suffer fibrillation....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 11:56pm PDT
Five men shot by New Orleans police At least five people have reportedly been shot dead by police in the US city of New Orleans, where a massive effort is underway to aid hurricane survivors.
The five were part of a larger group of people crossing a bridge carrying weapons, police official WJ Riley said.
The US government earlier announced it had restored order in New Orleans, six days after Hurricane Katrina brought flood waters and anarchy to the city....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 5:28pm PDT
9/7 Boyd Family's First Hearing Before the Police Commission Next Wednesday, September 7, 2005, please join us at the Police Commission for the first Hearing on charges brought against the Officers who killed or tried to kill Cammerin. We will hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall at 4:30 p.m. just before the hearing....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:14pm PDT
Policing the Poor amidst Flood Disaster The official response to Louisiana's flood disaster has been dominated by policing the state's poor black population while thousands more are still waiting to be rescued....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:47pm PDT
Shocker! Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans “This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting.”...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 10:34am PDT
narrow escape from martial law A true story about last minute escape from flooded city of new orleans from a friend via email...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:52pm PDT
Red Cross not allowed into New Orleans by government after reading dKos and the other blogs all week and seeing over and over again comments that that FEMA and the NG were no where to be seen from the people on the ground in NO, I was wondering where the Red Cross was in all this. They were never mentioned. It was like they didn't exist. And, after yesterday's drama at the convention center, the Brown and Chertoff lies, the Red Cross was still MIA. Then, earlier today, I saw a note that the Red Cross was not allowed to enter NO. Hmm, that's doe...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Public Hearing Wed Sept 7 will extend isolation torture - the power of a crowd is needed The California Department of Corrections (& Rehab what a joke) has called for public comments this one day only on extending ad seg (the hole) review times from 30 days to 90 days for some offenses and even to 180 days for other offenses. It means more time in the hole and it especially punishes the mentally ill and children as they are cut off from phone calls, visits and canteen, we are talking about increased isolation torture at stake...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 10:47pm PDT
Update from ADC 1) CANCELLED EVENT: Gaza Reflections La Pena 7 Sept. @ 7:30
2) ACTION ALERT: Please call your State assembly member and demand that they support SJR 10- civil rights resolution....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:19pm PDT
USW Interview's Pelican Bay SHU prisoner The following interview gives a first hand account of the arbitrary use of long term isolation in California prisons. There is a large movement that has declared the SHU to be torture and they will be building that struggle at the upcoming Unlock the Box conference in San Francisco on October 8, 2005....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:16am PDT
New Orleans: In Praise of Looting Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am PDT
8-31-2005, Another Young Man Dies In CYA's Brutal Youth Prison CHAD A third young man died at the California Youth Authorit's brutal Chaderjian facility last night. Joseph Daniel Maldonado, 18, of Sacramento, hanged himself at 6:30 PM last night. In the last year two other young men died at Chad - one death is still unsolved, the other was the result of poisoning....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 11:07pm PDT
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