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Petition for "Strategic Release" for Abdul Olugbala Shakur Abdul Olugbala Shakur is a political prisoner, one of the organizers of the Cal. prison hunger strikes, and a founder of the George Jackson University. He has stayed involved in black communities and the struggle for justice even while in prison. This is a petition to try to win parole for him....
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2015 11:26am PDT
This is the Moment We Have All Been Waiting For SCRAM! Calls Community to Action: Let Council Hear Your Voice on Tuesday Night...
Posted: Sat, Mar 21, 2015 6:30pm PDT
Attack on Jabari Shaw, daughter, & Mary Carmen Valencourt by US Marshals, FBI, and OPD In the wake of the March 9th violent police attack on well-known Oakland activist Jabari Shaw, we at Community Ready Corps (C.R.C.) are raising questions about the surveillance of community organizers by the Oakland Police Department and U.S. Marshalls....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 12:43pm PDT
Why Pay For A Port Boondoggle - One With No Benefit To The City Of Oakland? The Domain Awareness Center in Oakland is not needed, not wanted, and unfunded. It's time for it to go. But the privacy policies that were created as a result are important and need to be instituted....
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2015 10:37am PDT
Misguided Border Security Bill Threatens Public Lands TUCSON, Ariz.— Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) today jointly introduced the “Arizona Borderlands Protection and Preservation Act” in the U.S. Congress. A press release from Sen. McCain’s office claims that the bill is necessary to grant border security personnel full access to federal lands along the Arizona-Mexico border, including national parks, wildlife refuges, forests and monuments....
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2015 5:33pm PDT
San Francisco "Liberals", Their Police Department & The Assault on the Black Community SFPD: Lingering Questions on Race...
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2015 11:42am PDT
Berkeley Declares War on the Homeless. Berkeley takes first steps toward passing homeless criminalization ordinances....
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2015 11:34am PDT
Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) to start 3/23/15 Statewide Coordinated Actions every month respond to the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers’ November 2013 Proposals:
“ We want to consider the idea of designating a certain date each month as Prisoner Rights Day. On that date each month prisoners across the state would engage in peaceful activities to call attention to prison conditions. At the same time our supporters would gather in locations throughout California to expose CDCR’s [CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] actions and r...
Posted: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 12:38pm PDT
Ignored Palestinian Persecution on Election Day in Israel Israel...
Posted: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 7:30am PDT
Defiant Netanyahu Pledges No Palestinian State if Reelected Israel...
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 11:38am PDT
Community Alert: PredPol Company and Involvement of Local Politicians Several local politician/community figure types have been involved in the formation, marketing, and ongoing operation of a local startup company called "PredPol". This company claims to make crime-predicting software which they want police departments across the country to buy. There are some who think they are just blatant prison-industrial complex profiteers abusing their political connections to become rich on the backs of the 99%.
The real scoop on this has been censored in the loca...
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 11:21am PDT
Palestinians Suffer Horrifically Ahead of Israeli Elections Israel...
Posted: Sat, Mar 14, 2015 11:43am PDT
Lawsuits Charge Police Agencies with Refusing to Disclose Information about StingRay Use San Francisco – The ACLU on March 10 filed lawsuits against the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and the Anaheim Police Department, charging that the two agencies refuse to produce documents related to their use of StingRays....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 12:34pm PDT
Netanyahu and Herzog Promise Business As Usual for Palestinians Israel...
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 12:34pm PDT
SF Democrats' Police Beat & Pepper Spray Homeless Man as Video Rolls From 3/2/15 Street Sheet, p.6: "On Feb 11 (2015), Bernard Warren fell asleep on the 5 Fulton Muni bus." The police were called, and Raymond Chu, a cop showed up. As can be seen on the bus video at www.cohsf.org/WarrenBeating or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccZjGRUEuL0, he hollered at the poor African-American homeless man, woke him up, and brutally hustled him off the bus, although sleeping on the bus is not a crime. Warren was off the bus when the thug cop beat and pepper sprayed him, a...
Posted: Wed, Mar 11, 2015 8:52pm PDT
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