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videoWitness Against Torture (video/quicktime 9.3MB) by Bill Carpenter
A Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo. San Francisco - Part 1 Thirty-second QT movie. 9MB....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 8:42pm PST
imageTorture is a Crime Against Humanity! We Won't Live in a Torture State! part 2
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by E.
Shut down Guantanamo!!! Stop legalizing torture!!! http://www.worldcantwait.net/...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 2:26pm PST
imageTorture is a Crime Against Humanity! We Won't Live in a Torture State! part 1
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by E.
Shut down Guantanamo!!! Stop legalizing torture!!! http://www.worldcantwait.net/...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 2:17pm PST
imageProtests Against Guantamamo Torture Camp
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by Felix Barrett
JANUARY 11, 2008 -- On the day six years ago that the first prisoners began arriving at the U.S. torture camp at Guantánamo, protests were staged across the country and around the world demanding that Guantanamo be shut down. Prisoners are kept in Guantanamo under horrific conditions for years without trial. In San Francisco over 150 people marched from the U.S. Court of Appeals through downtown San Francisco demanding that Gitmo – the U.S. run concentration camp at Guantamo Bay be close...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 1:57pm PST
imageAct Against Torture Candlelight March to Shut Down Guantanamo
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by Act Against Torture
Act Against Torture Candlelight March to Shut Down Guantanamo on the 6th year anniversary of the prison's existence....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:34am PST
imageSecurity Guard and Police Confiscate a Backpack on Science Hill
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by ~Bradley
On January 10th, a tree-sitter on Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz dangled a lime green shopping bag from a platform high up in a redwood, presumably with the desire of receiving food, dry clothing and other supplies for occupying the crown of a coastal redwood during a stormy winter. UC police officers stood below the trees to prevent people from sharing with tree-sitters. A security guard also confiscated a backpack from under a tree and then turned it over to the police. UCSC has resorted to ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11, 2008 2:56am PST
textSan Francisco 8 Court Update - conspiracy charges formally dropped by Free the SF 8
Judge Moscone officially accepted an amended complaint by the prosecution in the San Francisco 8 trial today in effect completely dropping charges against Richard O’Neal who was only charged with conspiracy....
Posted: Thu, Jan 10, 2008 2:42pm PST
textCritical alert : Witnesses to Assault on Mrs Thomsen by Sheriff Brandy Marie Montgommery by Idriss Stelley Foundation
Any witness to the senseless assault on Mrs Sandra Tompsen, from Belise, accompanied by her son Puleiaava Basil Thomsen on 1--4-08, at 12: 40 pm at the SF Hall of Justice, 850 Bryant Street, first floor, perpetrated by Sheriff Cadet Brandy Marie Montgommery (AKA Brandy Bradford), Mrs. Thomsen daughter-in-law, please come forward !...
Posted: Wed, Jan 9, 2008 2:57am PST
textPadilla v. Yoo--text of the complaint by txt
José Padilla is suing John Yoo, former Dept. of Justice attorney. Here is the text of the complaint...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 6:35pm PST
calendarBan Taser Meeting by
DeBug - 701 Lenzen(corner of Lenzen and Stockton) San Jose, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 5:00pm PST
text'08 means 2 fewer prisons! by Ella Baker Center
Breaking news: California's youth prison system will shut down prisons for the first time in 4 years! The Division of Juvenile Justice announced last week that El Paso de Robles and Dewitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facilities will close by July 31 this year....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 4:04pm PST
textEric McDavid Update - 1.08.08 by Sacramento Prisoner Support
Hearings moved, letters to the judge, and more......
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 2:15pm PST
textSupport for Evicted Market Drummers (1/9) by Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra
For the last two weeks police have evicted the market drum circle using the new 15-minute parking lot law. Join us in direct action against oppressive local laws and reclaim public space!...
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 12:02pm PST
textUpcoming 9/11 Truth Events in Sacramento and Davis by Dan Bacher
This is a list of events and actions supporting the 9/11 Truth Movement in the Sacramento and Davis areas in the coming weeks, courtesy of Dave Kimball of Sacramento 9/11 Truth....
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 11:40am PST
calendarSF’s Response to Youth Gangs: Programs or Punishment? by Michael Lyon
Fireside Room, Unitarian-Universalist Center 1187 Franklin St, betw. Geary and O'Farrell...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 1:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 8:54am PST
textConspiracy Charge Dropped Against 5 of the SF 8 by CDHR via list
Prosecutors in the San Francisco 8 case announced that they are filing an amended complaint in effect dropping the conspiracy count against 5 of the brothers because the statute of limitations (of 3 years on conspiracy) has expired....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 6:43pm PST
textOlder Homeless Man Reports Being Driven Out Into the Rain Friday by Robert Norse
Craig Canada, a homeless blogger [http://www.palmspringsbum.com/blog/], reported yesterday by phone that during the heavy rain two SCPD officers drove him out from under the eaves of the flower shop on Cathcart between Pacific and Cedar Sts into the foul weather....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 1:59pm PST
textParking Lot Panic Law Used to Disperse Drummers by Robert Norse
On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:37am PST
textWho Are The Real Criminals? by Kiilu Nyasha
Last year, 2007, began with the arrest of six Black elders, Panthers and community activists from the 1960s, on 36-year-old charges and the extradition from New York of two more Panthers already imprisoned for 34 and 36 years, respectively. I’m referring of course to the brothers known as the San Francisco 8....
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 10:23pm PST
calendarCandlelight Protest to Shut Down Guantanamo by Act Against Torture
Gather 7th & Mission (US Court of Appeals) march to Justin Hermann Plaza (foot of Market)...
Event Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2008 4:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 10:44am PST
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