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Gun violence and Crime in the Bayview and San Francisco There is a Select Committee headed by Sophie Maxwell that holds meetings in Room 263 trying to address issues linked to Gun Violence and Crime but having NO BLUE PRINT, less time lines, and with no Accountability in sight. Year after year Black on Black violence increases. Year after year more of our youth mostly Black continue to die. In the Bayview people are so used to violence and death because it occurs so very often. Since Sophie Maxwell was elected District Supervisor more youth have d...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 3:39pm PDT
Surviving Law Enforcement Encounters Interview with Katya Komisaruk (audio/mpeg 41.6MB) Radio Interview with Katya Komisaruk Lawyer and Author of Beat The Heat about how to handle Law Enforcement Encounters and knowing your rights and how to assert them. Broadcast on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101fm 04-25-06...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 2:08pm PDT
Fifteen Minute Parking Lot "Panic" Law At Council Today (4/25) Everyone's invited to a 2:30 PM protest today (4-25) at City Hall (809 Center St.) against the Fifteen Minute Trespass law. The second and final reading will happen at the afternoon session of City Council at 3 PM (the item to reach the agenda probably sometime between 3:30 and 5 PM). Public comment can also be made, after the fact, at 7 PM during Oral Communications....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 8:47am PDT
North San Jose Turned Into Police State for Bush 2's Visit 
San Jose, California (April 21, 2006) – According to the San Jose Mercury News, about 500 protesters turned out to the streets around Cisco's offices in North San Jose. The protesters did there best to "un-welcome" Bush 2 to San Jose....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 12:46am PDT
African woman, jailed, strip-searched, wins $65,000 settlement Immigration officer told her, ‘Go back to the jungle’...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:41am PDT
Remember ‘66! The police do 
Yes, this is a tank you see on the front page of the paper – in Bayview Hunters Point! Why, you may ask, was it parked there? Well, I’ve been wondering the same thing for two weeks....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:37am PDT
Eric McDavid Extremely Sick, Denied Access to Doctors Sacramento Prisoner Support
sacprisonersupport[at]riseup[dot]net
April 21, 2006
Eric McDavid Alert...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:56pm PDT
Where have all the Mexicans Gone? When a Mexican goes on trial in San Jose, apparently there aren't any Mexicans available for the jury pool - where have all the Mexicans gone? Please come to the Superior Courthouse in San Jose at 190 West Hedding Street, Dept. 51, 4th floor - to support Martin Rodriquez in his stand for justice for himself....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 1:01am PDT
Important updates on April Events for MUMIA Updated speakers lists and logistical info for all of the Mumia events in
Oakland, SF, Philadelphia, New York and Saint-Denis, France...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Norse Trial Postponed To May 22nd Originally scheduled for this week, my trial for "disrupting a public meeting" (i.e. standing at the podium of a City Council meeting and asking for my two minutes to speak) and "resisting arrest" (i.e. not leaving the room until I was told I was under arrest, in spite of a painful come-along hold by Lt. Clark that injured my left hand), has been rescheduled for May 22nd....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 2:36am PDT
Behind BALCO: The Hidden Officer Involved Shooting 
If the BALCO case is strictly about drug use in sports, then why is Barry Bonds represented by Michael Rains - a lawyer whose entire legal career has been spent protecting police from prosecution? While we're being distracted by the Bonds saga, are we missing a connection between steroids and police?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 10:28am PDT
Protestors have to return to court! Anxious defendants have to wait!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 4:07am PDT
Smash the police state and pass the popcorn 
Flim Flam Film Fest reportback. Plus one of the best Sentinel headlines in recent memory....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 9:13pm PDT
Student Arrested at UCSC for attempting to incite revolution Student arrested, sent to jail/hospital for attempting to incite a revolution on the UCSC campus...
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 7:56pm PDT
Federal Court Overturns Sleeping Ban Enforcement in Skid Row in L.A. ...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:42pm PDT
"Green Scare" Prisoner Letter Writing Cafe Political prisoners represent the heart of the movement for social
justice and the struggle for earth and animal liberation. They are the
ones bearing the brunt of this struggles' resistance. With the recent
federal indictments, grand juries and convictions we must come
together in solidarity and support these and other political prisoners....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:17pm PDT
Announcing the First Annual Flim Flam Film Fest (4/13) 
An evening of good, informative, entertaining, indignant, funny, and inspiring short films dealing with repressive laws locally and elsewhere, as well as resistance to oppressive laws...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 8:35am PDT
Anti-Homeless "Parking Lot Peril" Law at Council 3 PM 4-11 Ignoring public requests for a thorough examination of alternatives, lacking substantiation that there's a "crime wave" downtown, reversing decades of Santa Cruz traditional use, directly targeting the homeless, but impacting every member of the community, Councilmember Coonerty's "Fifteen Minute Trespass" law will slide through City Council Tuesday Aprill 11th shortly after 3 PM. Be there to give them some indigestion as they chew up and swallow public spaces and human r...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:48am PDT
What Was Left Untold We mark the three year anniversary of the violent attack by the OPD at the Oakland Docks with the absence of any public disclosure regarding the events that led up to the firing of "non-lethal" projectiles at non-violent political activists and union workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 10:43am PDT
Judge Denies Motion To Quash Grand Jury 
On April 5, 2006, Judge James delivered her order denying my motion to quash the subpoena. I am still consulting with my lawyers as to what our next steps will be. A PDF file of the Judge's ruling is attached....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:14pm PDT
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