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Public Space in Santa Cruz and the Surveillance Camera Walking Tour
On April 30th, I attended Free Skool Santa Cruz's Surveillance Camera Walking Tour. After meeting at the Clocktower, we walked up Mission Street to get a bird's eye view of the downtown. Our class started off with about a dozen people, including professor Winston Smith. In addition to pointing out cameras, our lesson for the day was to discuss various types of surveillance and the effects it has on individuals and society.
Now we will take a peek into the loss of public space and personal ...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 8:24pm PDT
Surveillance Camera Walking Tour in Downtown Santa Cruz
On April 30th, I attended Free Skool Santa Cruz's Surveillance Camera Walking Tour. After meeting at the Clocktower, we walked up Mission Street to get a bird's eye view of the downtown. Our class started off with about a dozen people, including professor Winston Smith. In addition to pointing out cameras, our lesson for the day was to discuss various types of surveillance and the effects it has on individuals and society....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 7:57pm PDT
LIVE VIDEO STREAM MATHEW ROTHSCHILD, WILL DURST, ANDREA LEWIS
Live Stream (Windows Media) from Mill Valley's Throckmorton Theatre 7:30 pm Fri. May5
go to http://brightpathvideo.com...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 6:09pm PDT
Homophobic Police Assault In Santa Cruz
The following is a letter of protest sent to the Santa Cruz City Council for the
police assault of Shane (Tammy) Maxfield....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 11:57am PDT
Eastside San Jose Copwatch this Cinco de Mayo: In the spirit of Puebla!
Resist Police Brutality and celebrate the liberation struggles of the Mexican people with community Copwatch in Eastside San Jose!...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006 1:25pm PDT
Update on police spying
Behind the scenes update of the police spying scandal...
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006 7:49am PDT
Marchers Arrested on Arcata/Eureka 101 Corridor
Mayday, 2006
Eureka, CA...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 6:01pm PDT
The War on Terror on the Lodi Front
Two juries in US District court in Sacramento issued verdicts last week on government prosecutions of supposed terrorists. One jury dealt a terrible injustice to a young Pakistani. The other jury split, thus--at least for now -- balking the FBI of its prey....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 8:23am PDT
May Day March in San Jose Taken-Over by the State
As a representative of San Jose’s radical community, I was deeply frustrated and hurt by the mass consumerism that controlled the May 1st March in San Jose....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 5:27am PDT
Benefit for Modesto Copwatch at AK Press! Friday May 26th
Benefit for Modesto Copwatch. Community speakers, fine book selection, and film showing of "Our Oil and other Tales", Friday, May 26th!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 10:42am PDT
Gun violence and Crime in the Bayview and San Francisco
There is a Select Committee headed by Sophie Maxwell that holds meetings in Room 263 trying to address issues linked to Gun Violence and Crime but having NO BLUE PRINT, less time lines, and with no Accountability in sight. Year after year Black on Black violence increases. Year after year more of our youth mostly Black continue to die. In the Bayview people are so used to violence and death because it occurs so very often. Since Sophie Maxwell was elected District Supervisor more youth have d...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 3:39pm PDT
Surviving Law Enforcement Encounters Interview with Katya Komisaruk (audio/mpeg 41.6MB)
Radio Interview with Katya Komisaruk Lawyer and Author of Beat The Heat about how to handle Law Enforcement Encounters and knowing your rights and how to assert them. Broadcast on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101fm 04-25-06...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 2:08pm PDT
Fifteen Minute Parking Lot "Panic" Law At Council Today (4/25)
Everyone's invited to a 2:30 PM protest today (4-25) at City Hall (809 Center St.) against the Fifteen Minute Trespass law. The second and final reading will happen at the afternoon session of City Council at 3 PM (the item to reach the agenda probably sometime between 3:30 and 5 PM). Public comment can also be made, after the fact, at 7 PM during Oral Communications....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 8:47am PDT
North San Jose Turned Into Police State for Bush 2's Visit
San Jose, California (April 21, 2006) – According to the San Jose Mercury News, about 500 protesters turned out to the streets around Cisco's offices in North San Jose. The protesters did there best to "un-welcome" Bush 2 to San Jose....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 12:46am PDT
African woman, jailed, strip-searched, wins $65,000 settlement
Immigration officer told her, ‘Go back to the jungle’...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:41am PDT
Remember ‘66! The police do
Yes, this is a tank you see on the front page of the paper – in Bayview Hunters Point! Why, you may ask, was it parked there? Well, I’ve been wondering the same thing for two weeks....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:37am PDT
Eric McDavid Extremely Sick, Denied Access to Doctors
Sacramento Prisoner Support
sacprisonersupport[at]riseup[dot]net
April 21, 2006
Eric McDavid Alert...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:56pm PDT
Where have all the Mexicans Gone?
When a Mexican goes on trial in San Jose, apparently there aren't any Mexicans available for the jury pool - where have all the Mexicans gone? Please come to the Superior Courthouse in San Jose at 190 West Hedding Street, Dept. 51, 4th floor - to support Martin Rodriquez in his stand for justice for himself....
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 1:01am PDT
Important updates on April Events for MUMIA
Updated speakers lists and logistical info for all of the Mumia events in
Oakland, SF, Philadelphia, New York and Saint-Denis, France...
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Norse Trial Postponed To May 22nd
Originally scheduled for this week, my trial for "disrupting a public meeting" (i.e. standing at the podium of a City Council meeting and asking for my two minutes to speak) and "resisting arrest" (i.e. not leaving the room until I was told I was under arrest, in spite of a painful come-along hold by Lt. Clark that injured my left hand), has been rescheduled for May 22nd....
Posted: Tue, Apr 18, 2006 2:36am PDT