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Lodi Muslims Allege 'Harassment' By FBI
CAIR hosts 'Know Your Rights' workshops in response to complaints...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:53am PDT
CAIR-CA: FOIA Request Filed Over Lodi ‘Harassment'
SACRAMENTO - Prompted by reports from the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley (CAIR-SV) and the Muslim community, civil rights groups are filing a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) seeking FBI records of the procedures and policies used during the questioning and detention of dozens of Muslims in the Central Valley town of Lodi. Lodi has become the center of a FBI investigation that has led to the arrests of five Muslims, two of whom are U.S. citizens. They were...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:48am PDT
CLOSE CYA!!! SIGN THE PETITION !
Books Not Bars has launched an ONLINE PETITION to Governor
Schwarzenegger to CLOSE THE NOTORIOUS AND ABUSIVE YOUTH PRISONS OF
THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY (CYA)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:25pm PDT
6/25 Raza Prison Conference
Conference On Raza Prisoners And Colonialism
Sat., June 25, 2005
Rudy Acuña Cultural Center/Cafe On A Street
438 South “A” Street
Oxnard, CA
(805) 487-8170...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:03pm PDT
Travelling Critical Mass VideoZine! Coming to your city!!!
We will be traveling
to cities whose critical mass bike rides have, in the past ten years, encountered repressive interference from police, motorists, or media.We want to interview you! In SF area June 20-23!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 12:24pm PDT
Legislation Calling for a Suspension of Executions in CA Assembly
Opponents of the death penalty applauded yesterday's introduction of a bill that would place a temporary moratorium –or “time out” – on executions in California while the bipartisan California Commission on the Fair Administration Justice completes an examination of the state’s flawed criminal justice system....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 9:40am PDT
Urgent Alert/ Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign
Please distribute widely to your links &lists ! / Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign / Sign the petition ! END PD WAR ON BLACK &BROWN NOW!
http://www.petitiononline.com/Just4J/petition.html...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 12:11am PDT
Reclaim the Streets: Mutant Street Party
On June 8th, 2004 -- Reclaim the Streets hosted the Mutant Street Party. Over 100 people were arrested, and many were held in jail for several days as they exercised their right to silence. This series of video's captures exactly what happened during the street party and the events that followed....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 11:59am PDT
Recipe for Disaster: Law Enforcement and the Mentally Ill in San Jose
This story is being run in two parts: This first part is being published June 12, and the second part will go up June 19....
Posted: Sun, Jun 12, 2005 3:57pm PDT
6/18 Meeting about Mumia Abu-Jamal
Please join an important meeting of the Mobilization to Free Mumia
Abu-Jamal, on Saturday, June 18th, at 10:30am at Centro del Pueblo, 474
Valencia Street, at 16th Street in San Francisco's Mission District....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 9:41pm PDT
Alert, time sensitive, Justice4JulioAya International Campaign
Please distribute widely to your links & lists ! / Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign / Sign the petition ! END PD WAR ON BLACK & BROWN NOW!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 4:07am PDT
Friday night: San Jose Copwatch
Please join us for Community Copwatch in San Josè this Friday, 10th June. We meet at Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc located at 520 South 2nd Street, between William and Reed Street. We meet at 9:30pm, please come on time....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:55pm PDT
KPFA News screws up again!
KPFA's 4 pm News headlines today, read by Max Pringle, began with another example of how KPFA News is often as bad as, if more subtle than, NPR and other ruling-class media in its reinforcement of government propaganda. Here's the transcript and my brief commentary....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 7:21pm PDT
Victory Against Jerry Brown's Criminalizing Youth for Watching Sideshows; Next Steps...
We had a very important victory last night in
defeating Mayor Jerry Brown's initiative to
criminalize youth who are watching sideshows.
The next Measure Y Coalition will be from 5-7PM on
Wednesday, June 22nd at Raporations Records...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 12:14pm PDT
Coalition for Justice and Accountability Outraged by Palo Alto Police Case
The decision by the District Attorney to settle the case for an infraction is an outrage. The message of this decision is that there are two types of justice, one for the police and one for the everyday person....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:21am PDT
Parking-Ticket Justice Served
Palo Alto police thugs on trial for felony assault were allowed to plead no contest to disturbing the peace by unlawful fighting - an infraction....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 4:01am PDT
Grand Jury Teach-In (audio/mpeg 15.7MB)
Audio of Grand Jury Teach-in conducted that took place on May 31st...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:08pm PDT
trial by ordeal:The Modern-Day Witch Hunt
A Federal Grand Jury has convened in San Francisco and several local activists have been subpoenaed to appear. As government repression in general increases, so does the use of the Federal Grand Jury to intimidate, incarcerate and render impotent activists across social movements. In recent years, pressure on the animal rights, environmental justice, anti-war and anarchist movements has increased exponentially....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 3:52pm PDT
Crime is a Wound ! Justice should be Healing !
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE : Project to bring offenders together with victims and the community to repair the harm...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 3:55pm PDT
PUEBLO's POSITION ON CRIMINALIZING SIDESHOW SPECTATORS
PUEBLO'S POSITION ON CRIMINALIZING SIDESHOW SPECTATORS...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 10:46pm PDT