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DeSantis' 1st law enforcement appointee killed a man then lied
In 2019, newly elected Governor DeSantis' first law enforcement appointee, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, killed a man, was charged with murder and lied about it on his law enforcement documents under oath....
Posted: Sun, May 28, 2023 4:20am PDT
SF City Politicians Outsource Police Oversight To Non-profit HealthRight 360
The murders by police and recently by the Walgreen's security guard Banko Brown have exposed the role of Mayor London Breed and the rest of the Democratic Party politicians to allow the police and company police to have free hand.
Diana Aroche started with Coleman Advocates, then worked for Maria Su at the Mayor's Office of Children, Youth, and Families, then for Mayor Edwin Mah Lee - who outsourced Violence Intervention and Prevention to HealthRight 360 - and now works at the SF Police De...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2023 1:56pm PDT
Hundreds of schools have been hoaxed by "Ethiopian" caller for 1 year but FBI no comment
The FBI and Justice Department has no comment about more than a year worth of hoax phone calls, numbering in the high hundreds or thousands of schools all over the nation. The calls have all been coming from a single source, traced to Ethiopia. The caller has a thick foreign accent. But also, there is a robotic version of the same caller that also has a thick foreign accent. VERY strange and nobody, including local police are being briefed about this, so schools are taken by surprise. Kids a...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2023 9:42am PDT
Activist Leads Fight to Stop Harassment of Vehicular Residents
In an extensive and well-documented article on LookOut, activist Reggie Meisler published his research and activism to defend the rights of those in vehicles being harassed by police. Cops have been threatening and ticketing for signs not permitted by the Costal Commission....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2023 5:00pm PST
Food Not Bombs announces Meals-at-City-Hall today after top cop bans Lot #10 serving
Harsh rainy weather, the City's failure to provide adequate 24-hour Warming Center facility, and the Chief Escalante's recent ban on serving in the protected parking garage #10 have prompted the free survival food service to move to City Hall today and likely during future rainy days until reasonable alternatives are allowed....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2023 8:56am PST
NLG Condemns "Stop Cop City" Music Festival Arrests in Atlanta
Law enforcement detained at least 35 people in Atlanta on Sunday, March 5, at a solidarity music festival over a mile away from the Cop City construction site....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 3:56pm PST
From Today (Thu), 3 pm ("Stop Cop City"): Online events w) Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc.
Here are about 9 online events taking place over the next week+ (and starting at 3:00 pm today, Thursday, 2/23), featuring people such as Dário Votório Kopenawa Yanomami, Paul Watson, adrienne maree brown, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others.
These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might b...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 12:17pm PST
Free Mumia & Stop Racist Police Murders! For General Strikes To Stop Racist Terror & Murders
The UFCLP calls for mass worker/labor actions including general strikes to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and racist police terror and murder. We also protest the San Francisco Labor Council bureaucrats who opposed supporting the ILWU Local 10 initiated march and rally. These bureaucrats like the national AFL-CIO leadership continue to support the Democrats and Republicans who support more funding for the police along with their militarization. The AFL-CIO, SEIU, IBT, CWA and other unions continue to ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2023 5:44am PST
Oakland Police Vehicle Becomes Target for Arsonists
Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor Sabotaged in Downtown Oakland...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2023 4:14pm PST
Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers
Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2023 2:12pm PST
DeSantis' First Law Enforcement Appointee Perjury and Failure to Disclose homicide arrest
DeSantis 2019 Broward County Sheriff Appointee Perjury Investigation and Homicide Arrest - failure to Disclose - Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony...
Posted: Sun, Feb 5, 2023 4:06am PST
RV Human Rights Activists Challenges Santa Cruz City Police Violations
Reggie Meisler, civil liberties defender of unhoused rights, is waiting for an answer to his January 9th letter to Santa Cruz City Manager Matt Huffaker, Mayor Fred Keeley, Police Chief Rudy Escalante, and the S.C. City Council. Meisler calls for Huffaker to direct his SCPD to stop harassing and uprooting those whose vehicles are their shelter by misusing the "abandoned vehicle" tagging law....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 7:07pm PST
Press Conference: Defend the African Community’s Right to Economic Self-Determination
What: Press Conference: Defend the African Community’s Right to Economic Self-Determination, and Human and Civil Rights on this MLK Day!
When: Friday, January 13th, 2023 at 10am
Where: Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles, 3742 Grand Ave., Oakland, CA 94610
Who: African People’s Education & Defense Fund and Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles
Black Star Industries and Uhuru Foods and Pies
Contact: Stephanie Midler, 510-763-3342 ext 3 or 727-510-4360 (cell)...
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2023 12:07pm PST
SF Wells Fargo Attacked In Solidarity With Atlanta Forest Defenders
Five windows and an ATM were smashed at the Wells Fargo at 24th Ave and Irving St in retribution for the arrest of five Atlanta forest defenders on bullshit "domestic terrorism" charges....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2022 12:13am PST
"Free Julian Assange!" say Latin American leaders
A movement is growing in Latin America to demand the freedom of political prisoner Julian Assange, the Australian journalist persecuted by the United States for his work exposing its war crimes. Most of the major leftist leaders in Latin America have called for Assange to be released from the maximum-security British prison where he has been held and tortured since 2019....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2022 5:18am PST
Federal Marshals Seize KPFA Assets to Pay Defamation Judgment Against New York Sister Station
This week US Marshals seized more than $300,000 of KPFA’s cash reserves to pay for a monetary judgment for its parent organization the Pacifica Foundation. The asset seizure resulted from a defamation lawsuit by a former interim executive director of Pacifica, John Vernile in 2019 against programmers of its New York station, WBAI. Pacifica lawyers filed an appeal today to block the judgment. But KPFA is now facing layoffs and a massive budget shortfall....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2022 10:45pm PST
Killer Robots Rally = Poor Progressive Organizing
No reason to be a prop for a useless photo-op on a cold December morning....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2022 3:44pm PST
Lockdown light - Corona crisis and capitalism
The pandemic and countermeasures have effects shaped by the neoliberal form of capitalism[6] that has dominated since the 1980s. Three aspects are worth mentioning: 1.the independence of the financial sphere,2.the fragmentation of the labor markets, and
3.the weakening of social systems. In the financialized economy, measures to cushion the crisis strengthen the haves....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2022 8:20am PST
Berkeley PD Whistleblower Leads to Call in Delaying Confirmation of Police Chief
An unnamed whistleblower, formerly from the ranks of the Berkeley Police Department, has come forward with allegations against department members and the interim police chief. The whistleblower has been in contact with the Police Accountability Board. The board is now asking Berkeley city council to delay the promotion of the interim police chief to permanent status....
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2022 2:50pm PST
Correcting the Story: San Lorenzo Benchlands Demolition to begin 9 AM on Tuesday 10-25
Contrary to what was posted in Jessica York's recent Sentinel Story, the time of the Tuesday October 25th demolition of the next--to-the-last segment of the San Lorenzo Benchlands Survival Camp will be at 9 AM not at noon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 23, 2022 6:41pm PDT