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SPECIAL TASER EDITION of Cmties United vs. Police Brutality Newsletter This special edition of the CUAPB newsletter will explore areas of interest
related to the use of the electric stun weapon known as the Taser. Touted
by its manufacturer and revered by law enforcement agencies as a "less
lethal" alternative, we are just starting to see the practical effects of
widespread use of these devices...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 1:16pm PDT
Terrorized On the Boston Common! 
This summer, I was able to gather enough money for a roundtrip ticket to Boston, where the democrats were holding their national convention. I had been misinformed that there would be many protesters on the Boston Common that particular day. In all of my worst nightmares, I never would have dreamed that I would have my 1st Admendment right of freedom of assembly, attacked in such an crude and unjustified manner, right on the Boston Commons, where American liberty was born!!!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 11:59am PDT
Your civil liberties: in grave danger As you read this letter, a swiftly changing collage of Patriot II
provisions, repressive immigration changes, and privacy invasions is
rushing though Congress embedded in and under the disguise of legislation
responding to The 9/11 Commission Report....
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 1:04am PDT
Walk for Abolition in Montreal, Canada October 9! Take part in the Walk for Abolition in Montreal, Canada October 9!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 3, 2004 10:24am PDT
Federal Court Strikes Down Patriot Act Surveillance Power As Unconstitutional NEW YORK - Saying that "democracy abhors undue secrecy," a federal court today struck down an entire Patriot Act provision that gives the government unchecked authority to issue "National Security Letters" to obtain sensitive customer records from Internet Service Providers and other businesses without judicial oversight. The court also found a broad gag provision in the law to be an "unconstitutional prior restraint" on free speech....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:03pm PDT
ACLU Decries Planned Election Dragnet in Muslim and Arab Communities NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today said that it will be monitoring a new plan by the FBI to, among other things, use "aggressive - even obvious - surveillance" techniques on individuals who are not even suspected of having committed a crime, in advance of the November 2 general election....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:02pm PDT
Police In Nebraska Harass Head Of ACLU For Showing Film Against The Patriot Act LINCOLN, Neb. - The head of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that two Nebraska state troopers tried to intimidate him after he screened a documentary film critical of the federal Patriot Act.
Tim Butz, who filed a complaint Wednesday with State Patrol chief Col. Tom Nesbitt, alleged the troopers approached him after he screened the documentary film "Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties" at a community college in North Platte on Sept....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:09am PDT
Guantanamo Briton tells of torture and death threats A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has revealed how he saw two prisoners die at the hands of their American captors, before making a plea for his release in the first letter from a serving prisoner at the camp to be made public.
Moazzam Begg, held on suspicion of having links with al-Qa'ida, added that he had been tortured and subjected to death threats by his captors....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 11:46pm PDT
America must respect law at home, abroad Bush trotted out his Iraqi puppet, Iyad Allawi, to echo his macho talk that all is well, even while Iraq is burning.
Americans and, more so, Iraqis are dying in record numbers. Foreigners are being kidnapped and beheaded. Oil pipelines are being blown up. The American plan to regain control of one-third of Iraq after the Nov. 2 election can only stoke more terrorism in the interim.
Notwithstanding the Bush-Allawi duet, the world is demonstrably not safer without Saddam Hussein. Iraqi in...
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2004 9:47am PDT
Cat Stevens Starts Legal Action Against U.S. Ban LONDON, Sep 24 (MASNET & News Agencies) - Former British pop star Cat Stevens said he has started legal action against U.S. authorities after he was deported from the United States as a terrorist risk....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 11:12pm PDT
The Secret Service Investigates Serious Threat to the President’s Balls Homeland Security placed the nation at the highest terror threat level yesterday, red, as news of a new and credible threat to the President made its way around the Internet. Sue Niederer, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq is reported to have publicly stated her desire to shoot the President in the “groined” area. Not since rumors alleging that Hitler had only one ball has a nation’s national security been threatened with such urgency....
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 11:13am PDT
U.S. Muslims React to Exclusion of Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, September 22, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a noon news conference in Washington, D.C., in reaction to today's exclusion from the United States of Yusuf Islam, an internationally-known Muslim activist and educator....
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 10:51pm PDT
Cat Stevens, on Government Watch List, Diverts Plane A PLANE bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine today after passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens - showed up on a US watch list, a federal official said.
United Airlines flight 919 had already taken off from London en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between the passenger and the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.
The plane was met by federal agents at Maine's...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 6:57pm PDT
The 9/11 commission plans to hit the road Get this - "The conversation, after all, is about protecting the citizenry. What makes the most sense is seeing that the citizenry take part in that discussion." Right, so I do hope the CITIZENRY make their voices and the FACTS known for this sideshow . . . featuring those that tried to re-write the timeline, cover-up the crime, shovel the sh** about 'Islamic Terrorists' and generally play out their script like the whores they are. I look forward to the debacle this will be as the...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 4:54pm PDT
10/15/-17: National Conference on Police Accountability Please mark your calendar and come to a National Conference on Police
Accountability in Portland, Oregon, Friday October 15 to Sunday October 17,
2004. Pre-registration of $50 is required by September
30 (deadline has been extended for Portland area residents and those who do
not need discount hotel reservations)....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 10:04am PDT
Iraqi Kidnapping has Mark of Undercover Police Op - Left Media Catching On, Finally In the eight days since their abduction, pleas for their release have crossed all geographical, religious and cultural lines. The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah, the International Association of Islamic Scholars and several Iraqi resistance groups have all voiced outrage. A resistance group in Falluja said the kidnap suggests collaboration with foreign forces. Yet some voices are conspicuous by their absence: the White House and the office of Allawi. Neither has said a word.
Wh...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 2:08pm PDT
National Call for October 22nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality PDF of the call...
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 4:39pm PDT
New Berkeley Daily Planet Column: U.S. War on Terrorism and Challenging Rights Violations For the next few weeks, the Berkeley Planet will publish lists of alleged violations of human rights by the Bush administration for readers to think about, and perhaps use, in their work on the November election....
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 5:00pm PDT
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