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Hunger Games on Stage The Nashiri trial at Guantanamo is little more than a replica of the Hunger Games...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 1:31pm PDT
Demonstration at Wells Fargo in Santa Cruz: "Drop the Charges! Bust the Banksters!" 
On April 4th, a dozen people demonstrated on the sidewalk in front of the Wells Fargo Bank located at 74 River St. in downtown Santa Cruz, and across the street from the vacant bank building apparently controlled by Wells Fargo at 75 River St.
The event was held to "encourage those victimized by the bank to learn they have allies", according to an announcement published on Santa Cruz Indymedia that morning.
The demonstration was also called to "support the hundreds of people who visit...
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 7:29pm PDT
Guantanamo Prison's True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington 
Activist/Journalist Andy Worthington was recently a guest speaker alongside investigative journalist Jason Leopold at the UC Hastings College of Law, in San Francisco, hosted by the college’s chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. The event, entitled “Ten Years of Guantanamo,” was held amidst protests around the world calling for the prison to be immediately shutdown. Worthington, the author of “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison,” has been docu...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 1:35pm PDT
OSC Shows Chilling Effects of NDAA with Street Theatre 
This past Thursday March 1st, 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) went into effect. The NDAA essentially suspends the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, these being our rights against warrantless seizures of person or property of US citizens, against depriving US citizens of life, liberty or property without due process of the law, and against the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury. Occupy Santa Cruz protested the NDAA t...
Posted: Sun, Mar 4, 2012 9:36am PST
Support Occupy Action At San Quentin! 
We call on the Occupy movement, Mumia supporters and all working class militants throughout the US and the world to solidarize with the call for national and international action in defense of prisoners, as we are doing....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 11:19am PST
Jailed for Marching in Oakland: What it means for you and your children. We were jailed for marching. Some were jailed for walking home from the grocery store. We were denied medication, sleep, blankets, time, sanitation, and given bologne sandwiches for breakfast lunch and dinner even though many are vegetarians or could not eat that meat for religious reasons. Some were not booked for 40 hours, meaning we did not exist and some are still in jail and need bail money. We were put in overcrowded concrete rooms with bright flourescent light and no place to lay d...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2012 7:21pm PST
Prison Media Access Bill Passes California Assembly Thursday, January 26 2012
Tom Ammiano Press Release: Prison Media Access Bill Passes California Assembly...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 12:15pm PST
Political Washington Abolishes Due Process Protections tyranny...
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2011 1:07am PST
ALL THEY ARE TAUGHT TO DO IS KILL Police Violence is of Epidemic Proportions because that is the only Tactic they are Taught...
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 12:17pm PST
Call Feinstein Boxer -Vote NO Indefinite Detention of US Citizens by US Military in USA Email them: https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3865&s_subsrc=fixNDAA
Feinstein
Phone: (202) 224-3841 Fax: (202) 228-3954 Phone: (415) 393-0707 Fax: (415) 393-0710
Boxer
(202) 224-3553 DC office
70 Washington Street, Suite 203
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 286-8537...
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 11:58pm PST