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DESCRIPTION:Between Thursday and Friday of last week, 107 residents of Santa Cruz, 
 Watsonville, and Holister were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs 
 Enforcement (I.C.E.) officers in a sweep they called, “Operation Return 
 to Sender”. Of the immigrants arrested, most were from Mexico, but some 
 were also from El Salvador, Guatemala, and India. \nAs of September 10th, 
 44 people had already been deported without prior access to lawyers. The 
 rest are currently being held in custody at I.C.E. Detention Centers. The 
 conditions within these Detention Centers are often treacherous and 
 barbaric. Poor medical attention has resulted in several deaths, including 
 by suicide. Often times, basic requests for necessities like food and 
 blankets are ignored or denied by guards. Mothers are often separated from 
 their children, with their children being taken into State custody, leaving 
 the mother unsure if she will ever see them again. Women are routinely 
 assaulted by predatory I.C.E. detention officers and Homeland Security 
 guards.  \nMany of those arrested in this latest attack on our communities, 
 have lived in the United States for the majority of their lives, have homes 
 here, and U.S. born children. Some of those being deported are being 
 transferred to a country they have not lived in for over 30 years. \n\nTens 
 of thousands of immigrants have been arrested, and hundreds have been 
 deported this year by I.C.E. officers. This latest mass arrest is only the 
 latest, more coordinated attack on immigrants within our communities. The 
 capitalist system is an inherent negation of human community, leaving 
 peoples’ lives burdened with poor working conditions, shitty wages, and 
 the constant threat of ‘work or suffer’. \nThe Police State has 
 declared on offensive against all undesirables of society. The ongoing 
 harassment and exploitation of poor, working class communities is reflected 
 in this most recent attack by I.C.E. authorities in our local area. \nOne 
 only needs to walk down their street to realize that we live in a society 
 in which we are treated as potential criminals. The landscape in which we 
 tread is built for maximum social control on the part of the Police State. 
 Constantly under surveillance via CCTV cameras (on practically every block 
 and every intersection), we are confronted daily by the brute force of the 
 Police State: \nthe illegal and unwarranted searches which have become 
 routine, performed on random citizens; the secret service agents spying on 
 UCSC students who organize anti-war demos; Homeland Security spending tens 
 of thousands of dollars just to patrol Santa Cruz; FBI agents investigating 
 graffiti and minor vandalism; the motorist pulled over by policemen for 
 simply looking of non-white dissent or for having an older vehicle; the 
 woman walking alone at night cornered by policemen because they suspect she 
 may be a prostitute; the street kid or homeless person who wakes to being 
 physically assaulted by the downtown police;\n...We all have our own horror 
 stories of harassment and assault felt at the hands of the police. Clearly, 
 it is not only the immigrants who are considered undesirable by the cold, 
 mechanistic hands of Capitalism...\nWe are all undesirables!\nOn September 
 15th, we will converge to express our utter discontent with the 
 intrusiveness of the Police State, and all of it’s terrorizing endeavors. 
 \nThe arrest of 107 immigrants was executed in the secrecy of the night in 
 an attempt keep the government’s dirty manevuers unnoticed. It is of 
 great importance that we do not let these unethical acts of terrorism by 
 the State go unchallenged!\nWe are calling out to people from all walks of 
 life in Santa Cruz County to join us in an emergency response Reclaim The 
 Streets. At 5 PM on Friday, there will be a protest outside of the 
 Government Building on Ocean and Water St. in downtown Santa Cruz. At 6 PM, 
 we will take over the streets of downtown, we will be loud and visible 
 (except for maybe our faces!). \nSome suggestions of what to bring: masks, 
 bullhorns, fog horns, 5 gallon-bucket drums,  smoke bombs, music, signs, 
 friends, and the willingness to take a stand against the injustices at 
 hand!\n***Also, for those who may not want to participate in a more 
 publicly-oriented context, we suggest you apply resistance wherever 
 applicable - on your own - to coincide with Friday’s events. Use your 
 imagination. The possibilities are endless...\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/14/18311708.php
SUMMARY:emergency response Reclaim The Streets
LOCATION:We will be meeting at the Clocktower downtown (Pacific St. and Water 
 St.)\nat 6:00 PM
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/14/18311708.php
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