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Santa Clara County Court Clerks Fight For Living Wages & Human Rights After 7 Year Freeze 
Four hundred Santa Clara County Superior Court clerical workers have been on strike for 8 days for living wages and human rights. The Chief Executive Officer David Yamasaki has refused to give a cost of living increase even though the state of california provided the increase for court workers....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2016 10:12pm PDT
Scorecard of 50 Police Body Camera Programs Shows Failure to Protect Civil Rights (audio/mpeg 12.2MB) WASHINGTON, August 2, 2016 – Today The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Upturn released a scorecard (see: https://www.bwcscorecard.org/) that evaluates the civil rights safeguards of police body-worn camera programs in 50 U.S. cities. It shows a nationwide failure to protect the civil rights and privacy of surveilled communities. In November 2015, these organizations released an initial scorecard evaluating 25 programs. This new edition updates the policies of those origina...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2016 12:39am PDT
MLK Jr. Event in San José 
Friends old and new gathered in front of the San José Martin Luther King Jr. library today as part of a national day of action. The major goal of the action, held in dozens of cities across the US, was to draw international attention to the systematic execution of Black Americans and the terrorism inflicted upon them by racist institutions, including the police....
Posted: Sun, Jul 31, 2016 7:13pm PDT
Killer Cop Training - Coming Soon to the Bay Area. 
Police training by a private company trains them to shoot zeroth, worry about it later....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2016 7:43am PDT
#FreedomNow: Global Call to Action 7.21 
The ACLU of Northern California supports the Movement for Black Lives and the collective #FreedomNow actions taking place globally on Thursday, July 21....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2016 4:01pm PDT
Justice For Josiah in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter #FreedomNow 
San Jose City Hall
200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 3:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2016 2:29pm PDT
Ferguson police killing of Michael Brown & invations of Afghanistan: variations on a theme The Police killing of Michael Brown by a Furguson policeman and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and subsequent U.S. invasion are dominos, variations upon a theme: the hubris of a powerful nation, class or ruling elite to control a much subservient people or nation, there are tragic lessons to be learned to the demise of the powerful (at the expense of the powerless)....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2016 9:54am PDT
School Supply Drive Drop-off locations throughout the Bay Area: http://www.foodispower.org/drop-off-locations/...
Event Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2016 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2016 12:44pm PDT
Black Lives Matter, Brown Lives Matter: Police Brutality Protest in San José 
One person was arrested during a march to protest police brutality on July 10 in San José. In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, the protest was organized in response to the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, and Philando Castile in Minnesota, as well as the local killing of Latino youth Anthony Nuñez. Nuñez was killed at his home by officers with the San José Police Department on July 4. [Top photo: A speaker at the protest displays a sign that reads: "Black Live...
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 10:00am PDT
Solitary Man: My Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA 95112...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2016 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 1:04am PDT
The Black Lives Matter Movement Needs to Embrace Civil Disobedience The American public should be in support of mandatory minimum sentences for police officers who commit acts of brutality, that led to serious injury or death, due to racial motivations. However, reacting to violence with violence, will not garner the good graces of the majority of the public, therefore civil disobedience must be urged by leaders of the Black Lives Movement to change the media narrative that the group is a violent organization with leaders that seek violence to continue....
Posted: Sun, Jul 10, 2016 11:28pm PDT
LaborFest San José -- July 8, 14, 22, 23, 26, 29 
Featuring FilmWorks United, the International Working Class Film & Video Festival...
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2016 12:21am PDT
Desde San José, CA exigimos: Alto a la represión en Oaxaca 
Plaza Cesar Chavez
194 S Market St.
San José, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2016 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2016 12:36pm PDT
Laborfest: Film: Operation Bootstrap San Jose Peace & Justice Center - 48 S. 7th St., San Jose...
Event Date: Fri, Jul 29, 2016 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2016 6:37am PDT
Laborfest: Comedy Night San Jose Improv - 62 S. 2nd St., San Jose...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2016 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2016 5:55am PDT
Laborfest: Tour of Quicksilver Mine Meet at the New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum, Casa Grande, 21350 Almaden Road, San Jose...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2016 9:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2016 6:23am PDT
Laborfest: Films: Limpiadores & Claiming Our Voice San Jose Peace & Justice Center - 48 S. 7th St., San Jose...
Event Date: Fri, Jul 22, 2016 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 6:52am PDT
Laborfest: The Factory-A Movie from India San Jose Peace & Justice Center - 48 S. 7th St., San Jose...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2016 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2016 6:30am PDT
Laborfest: Films: Blue Elephants, Driving for Hire San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose...
Event Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2016 6:33am PDT
Elder Abuse I went to Superior Court of California,Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 to appear before Judge Persky....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2016 1:24pm PDT
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