UC Cops Clear People's Park Eastside Encampment 
The deal was last year that after the clearance and arrests of the Park's occupation that the regular homeless individuals could camp there again without intensified reprisals. It was a verbal agreement between activists and longtime homeless. On the night of January 17, UC police violated that agreement....
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 3:49PM
A Civil Libertarian Looks at Facial Recognition Technology 
City to Consider Ordinance Banning Facial Recognition...
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:02PM
Oakland Rally and March for MLK Day 
Children and disabled lead Oakland march to reclaim King's radical legacy...
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:23PM
What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Do? Chief Andy Mills is pushing a series of cruel civil rights violations against those without housing and is sponsoring the MLK March in Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:53AM
The Fight for Mom's House (video/mp4 393.1MB) Documentary on Moms 4 Housing...
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:54PM
City Council Votes 6-1 to Approve $235K SCPD Taser Purchase (video/mp4 308.9MB) On January 14, the Santa Cruz City Council City Council Voted 6-1 to approve a $235K Taser purchase request from Santa Cruz Police to re-outfit the entire department with new Taser guns. (Video: Taser discussion from the January 14, 2020 Santa Cruz City Council meeting.)...
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:40PM
APTP to Lead 6th Annual March/Rally to Reclaim MLK (plus weekend events) 
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th Street and Broadway
Oakland...
Event Date: Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:00PM
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:35PM
SCPD's $235K Taser Purchase Request is Back on City Council's Agenda 
A request from Santa Cruz Police to approve a $235k Taser purchase, in order to re-outfit the entire department with new Taser guns, is back on the consent agenda for the January 14 Santa Cruz City Council meeting, after being sent to the City of Santa Cruz Public Safety Committee on December 2 for discussion. The use of Tasers by police is a topic of concern for those advocating against police brutality, who want the weapons either banned altogether, or at minimum classified the same as othe...
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:25PM
Jerry Dyer for Mayor? Progressive Activists Say Hell No! 
This article is from the January 2020 issue of the Community Alliance newspaper. Image: This altered billboard draws attention to the allegation that Dyer had sex with an underage girl while an officer in the Fresno Police Department....
Posted: Wed Jan 1, 2020 2:27PM
Court Support for Kayla Moore Family US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 95 - 7th St, San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu Jan 9, 2020 9:00AM
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 3:54PM
Community Allies Ready to Stand in Defense of Moms' House 
The Moms 4 Housing were in court on December 30, attempting to establish a human right to housing that supersedes a company's "right" to flip houses for profit at the community's expense. At the same time outside of the moms' house in West Oakland, organizers and allies strategized and practiced home defense tactics in preparation for a potential eviction by sheriff's deputies. Eviction will not be allowed to happen without civil disobedience arrests....
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:03PM
Energetic Solidarity with the Moms 4 Housing the Day After Christmas 
Hundreds showed up for court support at the Hayward Hall of Justice and for home defense at the Moms4Housing home on December 26. Speaking in West Oakland after the court hearing were Misty Cross and Dominique Walker of Moms for Housing, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., and Carroll Fife....
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 8:17PM
Unhoused Wood Street Residents Deliver Demands and Holiday Care Package to Schaaf's Home 
Wood Street residents and allies personally delivered a letter of demands — and a holiday care package on behalf of unhoused folks across Oakland — to mayor Libby Schaaf at her posh Oakmore estate on December 19....
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:41AM
Moms 4 Housing Temporarily Block Eviction 
A group of homeless women, who formed a collective called Moms 4 Housing, moved last month into an empty two-story house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland without the owner’s permission and are now fighting in court alongside supporters to stop the eviction....
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:18AM
Housing Justice Village Arrestees Respond to Jailing by City of Oakland 
In a political show of force, the city of Oakland directed a small army of police to mass arrest and jail 22 housing rights demonstrators on November 24, for nothing more than setting up tents in front of city hall to protest the city's never ending war against the homeless. Most arrestees spent at least 24 hours in Santa Rita, and some remained jailed for over two days, on what would otherwise be a citable infraction. On December 2, arrestees held a press conference to address the city's ...
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:22AM
Winter Shelter Suggestions for Community Action 
Here's the flyer version of a regularly updated series of suggestions I make when announcing my twice-weekly netcast show on Free Radio Santa Cruz at freakradio.org. The shows are archived as audible files at http://www.huffsantacruz.org/Lostshows.html with content summarized at http://huffsantacruz.org/wordpress/category/huff-communications/ ....
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 8:15PM
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Orders Mass Arrest of Housing Justice Village Protesters 
An inspirational day of solidarity with unhoused Oaklanders turned into a traumatic night after mayor Libby Schaaf directed a small army of police and DPW workers to smash a housing rights protest held on the doorstep of City Hall. For daring to challenge the Oakland's never ending war against the homeless — the city's encampment demolitions and evictions, the towing of residential vehicles, and a lack of earnestness and urgency in addressing the housing crisis — twenty-two people were arres...
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 8:14PM
Winter Shelter Demands for Law Enforcement 
These flyers are being distributed to encourage the community to contact police and politicians and demand a sane, compassionate and lawful winter policy regarding those outside in public places. They include a Sentinel opinion piece exposing criminal inaction regarding Winter Shelter by the Santa Cruz City Council...
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:49AM
San Franciscans Celebrate the End of Gang Injunctions; Concerned About Secret Database 
San Franciscans Celebrate the End of Gang Injunctions: Community Members Still Concerned About Secret, Controversial SFPD Gang Database...
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:36PM
Pack the Court! Justice 4 Kayla Moore 9th Circuit Appeal The Moore family’s 9th circuit appeal in their case against the City of Berkeley and the cops who killed Kayla has been scheduled for oral arguments to be heard on 1/9/2020. Demand justice and support the Moore family in court! Thurs Jan 9 at 9a @ US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 95 - 7th St in SF...
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:11PM