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Meltdown in Juvenile Probation
At-risk kids to lose community-based services due to Department’s muddled funding process...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:54am PDT
God save us all from SF Bayview "Peace Officers"...
LaCresha Parker, step sister of Richard Tims, disabled 100 pd. Black Man shot at 32 times and killed by SFPD on March 15, 2002 on Geneva and Mission, is a Youth worker at the SF Bayview Hunters Point Foundation on 3rd Street. She calls Idriss Stelley Foundation Crisis line at 6:00 P.M, in tears...I met Sister LaCresha, a stunning young Sister with passion in her eyes and rebounding energy 2 months ago, and set up her website Justice4Richard that you can see at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 12:41am PDT
Children Will Foot the Bill for California's Prison Expansion
The compassionate and strategically wise parts of California's new prison plan are overshadowed by billions of dollars earmarked for new prison beds. The first victims of the state's shortsighted prison budget, writes NAM writer and editor Nell Bernstein, will be the incarcerated and, most vulnerably, their children. Nell Bernstein is the coordinator of the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, and the author of "All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated" (New...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 6:43pm PDT
Private Property, Raging Grannies, and Electric Cars
SF Bay Area FOX-TV covered “the intersection of private property, Raging Grannies, and electric cars” in a report aired on July 14, 2006.
The Raging Grannies jumped head first into the fray when the call came from our friends in the Electric Vehicle Association. They had been denied permission to distribute literature about electric cars in front of a San Jose theater showing the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Grannies sprang into action and descended on tony Santana Row with in-yo...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 12:27am PDT
Sunday Aug 20 3pm, End Law enforcement war on Black & Brown, cookout and benefit
Enough is Enough !
END LAW ENFORCEMENT WAR
AGAINST BLACK &BROWN !
WHAT: Fundraising Benefit and Cookout, coalitions building
Justice4BigO, (RIP Oliver Lefiti, Killed by SFPD 6-24-06)
Justice4ASA, (RIP Asa Sullivan, Killed by SFPD 6-6-06)
Bayview CEDP (RIP Tookie Williams/Campaign to End the Death Penalty)...
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 2:59pm PDT
Rotkin to Defend City Attorney Barisone on Free Radio Sunday
Councilmember Mike Rotkin will be my guest on the Sunday July 16 edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides defending the behavior of the City Attorney and answering critic's questions....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 8:13pm PDT
SFPD Killing Spree on Black & Brown, June 2006
The man hunt is on, on San Francisco Plantation....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 7:55am PDT
SF Village Voice - june 30 2006 (audio/mpeg 43.2MB)
La Mesha talks with friends of Asa Sullivan who was killed by San Srancisco police earlier in the month...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 9:41pm PDT
Spy or Risk Green Card: How the Bush Administration 'Recruits' Muslim Informants
We take a look at a largely covert aspect of the Bush administration's War on Terror - the government's aggressive solicitation of Muslim informants. We speak with Banafsheh Akhlaghi, the attorney for Yassine Ouassif - who had his Green Card confiscated and was asked by the FBI to be an informant in the Muslim community in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 7:33am PDT
Indynewswire: SCPD Surveillance Policy Takes Effect (audio/mpeg 13.2MB)
After numerous delays, a two-page document on SCPD spying took effect July 5. Some locals, who say the new policy does nothing to limit police monitoring of activists, spoke out at the June 27 City Council Meeting, and held a Last Rights DIY Funeral, March July 5.
TRT: 28:53...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 10:40am PDT
Mumia's Fight for Justice Continues II (video/quicktime 6.4MB)
Tom Lacey explains that Mumia was framed for his extraordinarily effective political work and the police officer, Daniel Faulkner, was killed because he was apparently giving evidence on corrupt Philadelphia police to the FBI. Two-minute QT movie. 6MB....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 1:33am PDT
pointless cop behavior
interactions with a nazi cop at a rally in Santa Cruz in solidarity with so centeral farm...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 10:18am PDT
Mumia's Fight for Justice Continues (video/quicktime 18.0MB)
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been behind bars since December 1981 for a crime he didn't commit.
Four-minute QT movie. 18MB....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 8:36am PDT
The Making of an O.G.: Transcending Gang Mentality
Essay on the history and use of the term "O.G.," by San Quentin Death Row prisoners Steve Champion and Anthony Ross. Please copy and distribute in your community....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:06am PDT
Press Conference to Denounce LAPD Brutality - Tues, July 11, 10 am
More
than 300 pro-immigrant protestors gathered in a militant demonstration to
counter a Minuteman hate march down Hollywood Boulevard, a traditional route
for anti-war and other progressive demonstrations. The march was an open
attack on the immigrant rights movement that has gripped the nation over the
past four months......
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 12:41am PDT
Two Nasty Ordinances Heading for Passage at City Council Tuesday
Tripled penalties for minor offenses and expansion of police powers in parks are both slated for rubberstamping at the 2 PM session of Santa Cruz City Council Tuesday July 11th....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 5:28pm PDT
Green Scare: Zachary Jenson Support Update
Sacramento Prisoner Support
July 7, 2005
Zachary Jenson’s Birthday
Sacprisonersupport[at]riseup[dot]net...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 1:59pm PDT
WARNING: Travel Advisory for Santa Cruz Visitors
Over 4500 copies of the following handbill were distributed on July 3rd and 4th in tourist areas of Santa Cruz....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 12:19pm PDT
SF: URGENTE - Denounce Police violence in El Salvador!!!!
WHERE: Salvadoran Consulate, Flood Building On Market @ Powell St....
Event Date: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 11:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 5:42pm PDT
Working Within the System is Not Working
On July 5th, Santa Cruz activists protested against the city's failure to resolve the Santa Cruz Police Department spying scandal. Instead of taking steps to protect civil rights, the Santa Cruz City Council and SCPD have worked together to approve policies filled with blatant first amendment violations. The SCPD have not only been cleared of spying on Last Night Santa Cruz meetings, but now have explicit permission to videotape you inside or outside of your home, audio record you, listen to ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 11:47pm PDT