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UCPD Officer Aranas assaults People's Park community member 
"The individual was non-resistant", says the narrator of the video. Officer Sean Aranas assaults the People's Park community member, a modern day hippie just chilling out and trying to exist....
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2018 3:00pm PST
Listing of Santa Cruz Police Department Officers 
After declining for several weeks to answer informal requests for a listing of his officers, SCPD Chief Andy Mills finally provided this current listing of officers and badge numbers through the City staff. It can hopefully help those who want to connect up officers' badge numbers with their names. I assume it's current as of December 2018....
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2018 8:32pm PST
Hold ICE in Morgan Hill Accountable! 
220 Vineyard Ct, Suite 100 Morgan Hill, CA, 95037...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 20, 2018 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Dec 19, 2018 4:32pm PST
10th Annual Oscar Grant Vigil: Gone But Not Forgotten 
Grant Station
(Fruitvale BART Station)...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2019 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Dec 19, 2018 11:36am PST
Is this a Good Way to Spend Money to end Homelessness? 
Would you pay $420,000 per year to get 8 homeless people into housing? Photo: Staff member of the HERO Team and Captain Burke Farrah....
Posted: Thu, Dec 13, 2018 5:56pm PST
The People's March — 5th Annual Reclaim King's Radical Legacy 
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th St and Broadway
Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2019 7:15am PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 13, 2018 1:59pm PST
City Awards Police 12.5 Percent Raise, Bypasses Public Input 
The Oakland City Council, bypassing opportunities for public input, rushed to approve a Schaaf administration agreement with the Oakland Police Officers Association (OPOA) that gives officers a 12.5 percent raise over the next five years and locks in controversial provisions that reform advocates say are hampering efforts to strengthen police accountability....
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 2:30pm PST
Alameda and Contra Costa County Sheriffs Flew Drones Over Protests 
Interestingly, the mission logs show an exclusive focus on protesters associated with left-wing, anti-racist, anti-fascist, or other groups opposing the Trump presidency. There is little mention of the alt-right, nationalist, or pro-Trump groups also involved in the altercations....
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 6:07pm PST
CRES Letter Condemning Police Violence 
CRES Letter Condemning Police Violence...
Posted: Mon, Dec 3, 2018 4:03pm PST
Dead Man Pulled From Culvert at Plymouth and Highway 17 
On Saturday morning, I saw several police officers and a deputy examine what appeared to be a dead body behind a yellow "crime scene" tape at the edge of a culvert adjoining Highway 17 near the Plymouth/Highway 17 stoplight....
Posted: Sun, Nov 18, 2018 9:06am PST
What's Next After the Election? Oakland People's Assembly 
First of all — Thank you! Words will never accurately convey how grateful I am for all of your support, time, energy, and passion....
Posted: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 5:38pm PST
City of Santa Cruz Announces Park Closures 
Due to a recent string of "suspicious" fires, the City of Santa Cruz today announced the closure of the following parks: Pogonip, Arana Gulch, Moore Creek, DeLaveaga, and Arroyo Seco. "Police and Fire Investigators have aggressively investigated every fire, which has resulted in five arrests in the past four weeks," a press release from the city states. The parks will be closed indefinitely. [Top Photo: The Rincon Fire.]...
Posted: Thu, Nov 15, 2018 10:12pm PST
Thousands of Prisoner Firefighters Combating Wildfires in California Today 
Among those brave enough to combat fires by taking on such dangerous duties as creating containment lines in hot zones are thousands of people enslaved by the prison industrial complex. For instance, two hundred are involved with fighting the ongoing Camp Fire. The California Department of Corrections seems proud that this past summer 58 of them were kids....
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2018 6:45pm PST
CANCELLED: People Get Ready II: Charting a path forward to building powerful movements and the radical left 
Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley
(center of campus past the end of Telegraph Ave)...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 17, 2018 12:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 9, 2018 10:19pm PST
‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Program Targets Muslims in Alameda County Jails 
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office applied for and received a grant targeting incarcerated Black Muslims in Alameda County. The Homeland Security CVE, or Countering Violent Extremism program, has been criticized for solely targeting Muslims as susceptible to violence and extremism, while not addressing the rising threat of white supremacists. "Operation E Pluribus Unum" has been criticized for its focus on incarcerated Muslims. Law enforcement said the program was necessary to support reentr...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2018 2:30pm PST
UN report: housing as component of the right to adequate standard of living and non-discrimination 
Denying access to water, sanitation and health services and other basic necessities, as has been witnessed by the Special Rapporteur in San Francisco and Oakland, California, United States of America, constitutes cruel and inhuman treatment and is a violation of multiple human rights....
Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2018 6:28pm PDT
City Council Candidate Ashley Scontriano Calls Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones "Enlightening" 
After Santa Cruz City Council candidate Ashley Scontriano refused to denounce white supremacy at a candidates forum held at UC Santa Cruz on Monday night, students in the audience chanted "Black Lives Matter" in unison. A short while later Scontriano walked out of the forum, as did two other candidates. "A group of students started chanting Black Lives Matter after I spoke up about equality for all, not just for one race or gender," Scontriano later stated. Scontriano's views on the Black Liv...
Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2018 6:27pm PDT
Stop The Tows, We Won't Go! Protest at Oakland City Hall Against Mass Towing of RVs Oakland City Hall, 14th Street between Washington and Broadway....
Event Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 4:30pm PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2018 12:06pm PDT
Four Activists Arraigned on Seven Felony Charges Each After Mass Arrest at Chicken Farm 
Activists allege criminal animal cruelty, law enforcement cover-up....
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2018 10:38pm PDT
Campground Crisis As Winter Approaches 
The River St. campground, City Manager Bernal tells us, is slated for dispersal at the end of November, breaking the promises by his underlings—Susie O’Hara and Tina Shull that it would last through the winter until April. Instead the population will be shoehorned into a small night-time only shelter, leaving little or no room for other winter shelter refugees....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 9:25pm PDT
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