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Santa Rosa October 22nd March & Rally to Stop Police Brutality
Santa Rosa Southwest Community Park (Hearn & Burbank Aves) @ 4 pm, feeder march @ 5 pm from Sebastopol Rd @ West Ave, Rally @ Old Courthouse Square 6 pm...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2007 4:31pm PDT
Public Space for Public Use!
On Tuesday, October 9th, at 7PM, the Santa Cruz City Council will consider making it illegal to remain in any surface parking lot in the City longer than 15 minutes or be cited for tresspassing. In item #20, on the evening agenda (originally placed on the consent agenda then removed without explanation), the City will consider taking 5 city blocks worth of public space out of public use, for our own safety!! Not only does this criminalize previously innocent behavior, Vice Mayor Ryan Coonert...
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2007 2:05pm PDT
Free the Jena 6: SF Oct. 2nd Rally - Part 2 (video/quicktime 50.1MB)
Henry Clark, Gloria La Riva, and Davey D also spoke in San Francisco. Three-minute QT movie. 50MB....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2007 1:36pm PDT
Police Abuse Downtown? Vote Tomorrow at the BS (Bookshop Santa Cruz) protest 2 PM 10-7
Selective Enforcement and Profiling Downtown? VOTE at our special PROTEST BALLOT BOX in front of the Coonerty Bookshop Santa Cruz. You can't vote on Vice-Mayor Coonerty's Public Assembly Ban in Public Parking Lots law coming up Tuesday 3 PM at City Hall. You can VOTE here! Fight Coonerty's Sleeping Ban, his Public Assembly Ban, and his father's Sitting Ban (passed 1994). Hold up on purchases at his store until the Vice-Mayor gives some straight answers to the Sleeping Ban lawsuit. Supp...
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 10:17pm PDT
A letter from Eric...
Below is a letter from Eric. We want to keep this short, and leave you
with his words, but just a quick note: last night Mark filed a 28-page
motion for a new trial/to acquit based on the errors made throughout the
trial....
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 9:42pm PDT
The Suppression of Dissent in the United States: A benefit for the SF8
New College Theater
777 Valencia Street, San Francisco 94110
Near 16th Street BART...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 4:44pm PDT
Religious Leaders Denounce Crackdown on Homeless
Friday, October 5, 2007 : While Mayor Newsom held a press conference yesterday announcing the 2,000th person being housed under Care Not Cash, Religious Witness for Homeless People denounced the City’s crackdown on “quality-of-life” offenses. The interfaith group released a study showing that, in the past four years, the City has spent $7.8 million prosecuting such infractions....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:20am PDT
Eric McDavid Update - 10.4.07
Trial, the verdict, what comes next...and Eric's birthday...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 10:45pm PDT
Hog-Tied (The Transferring of Sophanareth Sok)
Journalist Boston Woodard tells us what is happening inside the prison industrial complex....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 6:53pm PDT
Free the Jena 6: SF Oct. 2nd Rally (video/quicktime 33.8MB)
Demonstrations to Free the Jena 6 were held across the country on Oct. 2nd. In San Francisco people met at Mission and 7th St. to hear Luis Talamonte, mesha Monge-Irizarry, the United Players (UP) and others.
Part 1: Two-minute QT movie. 34MB....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 1:51pm PDT
Ban on Public Assemblies in Public Parking Lots at City Council Next Tuesday
Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's latest attack on the Constitution is a new local law. It will expand a bad law passed last year to ban lingering in a city parking garage. Coonerty's expansion will ban all those not parking a car or auto from all downtown city parking garages and now all downtown city parking lots. It will be coming to City Council for a first reading on the afternoon of Tuesday October 9th. soon after 3 PM. No more Food Not Bombs or Drum Circles on Wednesday. Cars, yes. hum...
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 11:21am PDT
Bookshop Santa Cruz Demo
Photos of the educational leafleting, picketting, by HRO and HUFF, and Know Your Rights street theather by DYI in front of the Bookshop Santa Cruz, kicking of the first day of Homies for the Homeless Camping Ban Sleep-Out on Aug. 12, 07 at Santa Cruz City Hall. A protest that was to last only one night with hopes of talking with Mayor Riley. The mayor refused to meet with the protesters, changing her appointment process to exclude them. The protesters persisted for six nights before police fo...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 3:11pm PDT
Tasers Go Mainstream, But Who's Talking About Race
Editor’s note: Recent incidents involving police use of Tasers against unarmed citizens—especially the tasing of Florida college student Andrew Myers at a John Kerry event on campus—have brought the weapon into the national spotlight. But on the ground, Tasers were already a hot-button issues, with coalitions in cities across the country objecting to their disproportionate use on people of color....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 1:09pm PDT
Justice for Gary King Jr.: 10/3 Protest at OPD
Please join us to protest the murder of Gary King Jr....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 5:51pm PDT
Contaminated Courts? The Strange Case of Craig Canada, Homeless Medical Marijuana Patient
Homeless blogger and medical marijuana patient Craig Canada thought he'd won a historic victory in the Santa Cruz Superior court of Judge Denine Guy when she found him not guilty of "sleeping outside" because of his need to use medical marijuana. Two months later she reversed herself without explanation. Who got to her?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 4:33pm PDT
The Art of Political Murder: The Hidden Side of Central America in the 1980s
World Affairs Council Auditorium
312 Sutter St, SUITE 200
San Francisco, CA 94108...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 4:02pm PDT
All Out for ILWU Protest Rally at Yolo County Superior Court
All Out to Defend the two Local 10 Brothers Assaulted by Cops in the Port of Sacramento!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 5:29pm PDT
Funeral For Gary King Jr. 10/2
Please see below for funeral information and upcoming events to protest the murder of Gary King Jr....
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 11:51am PDT
DPF's Upcoming Events and Newsletter
You're invited to read the latest issue of Death Penalty Focus's newsletter, The Sentry, in .pdf format.
And we hope you will attend our upcoming Membership Appreciation Breakfast which will be held on Saturday, November 3rd in San Francisco! More details are available below.
Did you know that DPF's Speaker's Bureau enables experts, including wrongfully convicted individuals, to travel and speak to students, religious groups, and civic and political leaders? They are powerful messeng...
Posted: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 10:34pm PDT
Guilty Verdict in Eric McDavid Case`
This evening the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of United
States vs. Eric McDavid....
Posted: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 7:44pm PDT