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DESCRIPTION:Come listen to music, sip cocoa, and keep an eye on the bluebellies.\n\nThe 
 new Copwatch Santa Cruz Blog debuted on line at 
 http://santacruzcopwatch.blogspot.com/ but we still need lots of help 
 updating it.  Give a call to HUFF at 423-4833 if you'd like to help or 
 e-mail rnorse.\n\nDowntown, we'll be taking accounts of police behavior and 
 videoing cops on the beat as they drive poor people away and give out 
 tickets they can't pay.  Last week Officer Winston was particularly focused 
 on the African-American Burrito Man and avoided ticketing middle-class 
 folks with dogs (while threatening homeless people carrying them).  \n\nThe 
 antiwar turnout in the last few weeks was dismayingly small as the 
 Obamatons turn more youth into killers and corpses in Afghanistan.  
 Homeless vets are a significant proportion of the community without shelter 
 outside. Please bring us any accounts of police problems around local 
 vets.\n\nThis is both a budget and civil liberties issue locally. Police 
 must be discouraged from being a part of the local War on the Police, and 
 the merchant community that supports these outrages confronted.\n\nThe new 
 anti-homeless Downtown Ordinance public assembly constrictions are now 
 being enforced by police. They criminalize more than one hour's sitting on 
 a city bench, make 3 unpaid infractions a jailing misdemeanor, and expand 
 the notorious "No Go" zones downtown for sitting, sparechanging, political 
 tabling, and street performing.\n\nAnti-homeless ticketing for sleeping at 
 night continues with shelter for less than 10% of the homeless community. 
 We'll also be supporting calls for a Tent City when the Armory Winter 
 Shelter closes in several weeksl as is already happening in Sacramento, 
 Fresno, and Ontario CA.\n\nWe will also be gathering accounts of harassment 
 in hopes of joining Santa Barbara and Sacramento in challenging 
 anti-homeless Sleeping Bans. Successful lawsuits and political pressure 
 have already ended Sleeping Bans in Fresno, San Diego, Los Angeles, Laguna 
 Beach, Richmond, and Palo Alto.\n\nWe hope to encourage media to counter 
 the City's persecution of those outside using massive police overkill and a 
 new city attorney crackdown with a civil injunction.  Please contact 
 attorney Jonathan Gettleman at 427-2658 if you have had positive 
 experiences with Anna Richardson and Miguel deLeon, currently under City 
 Attorney attack.\n\nWe have video cameras and tape recorders; bring your 
 own as well.\n\nIf you want to volunteer for Public Records Act request 
 work and other behind-the-scenes Copwatching, call 423-4833.\n\nTo help 
 plan future events, come to the Human Rights Organization meetings Saturday 
 3-4:30 PM at the Sub Rosa Cafe 703 Pacific Ave. Or check out HUFF (Homeless 
 United for Friendship & Freedom) at the same place Wednesdays 9:30 AM 
 -11:30 AM.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/03/18585911.php
SUMMARY:Copwatch Yet Again
LOCATION:In front of Borders Book Store on Pacific Ave. between Soquel and Walnut 
 Sts.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/03/18585911.php
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