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imageNSA Spying Case Moves Forward: Judge Denies "State Secrets" Motion
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by from EFF.org
EFF's Spying Case Moves Forward - Judge Denies Government's Motion to Dismiss AT&T Case...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 2:22pm PDT
documentZachary Jenson Is A Government Informant
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by Sacramento Prisoner Support
Sacramento Prisoner Support sacprisonersupport[at]riseup[dot]net July 20, 2006 Alert Zachary Jenson is a Government Informant...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 11:04am PDT
textLt. Gov. Candidate Proposes Prison Population Reduction by Stewart A. Alexander
Stewart Alexander is proposing to reduce California’s prison population by 70 thousand, and says California should close one or more prisons, within the next two to three years, to cut cost to taxpayers....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 7:08pm PDT
textHomeland Security Spies on Student Anti-War Groups by via The Progressive (Matthew Rothschild)
July 18, 2006 You probably know that the Pentagon has been spying on anti-war groups. Now it turns out that Homeland Security has been working hand in glove with the Pentagon—at least in California. The ACLU of Northern California released two documents on July 18 that reveal Homeland Security as a source of information for the Pentagon on protests at the University of California Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 3:38pm PDT
documentDepartment of Homeland Security Provided Information To Pentagon on UC Students' Anti-War Activities
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by via ACLU of Northern California
The Federal Department of Homeland Security provided the Pentagon with information on anti-war protests at UC campuses last year, according to the most recent government documents released to the ACLU of Northern California....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 3:23pm PDT
audioInterview with Josh Wolf (audio/mpeg 11.8MB) by David Grace
Bush Administration Uses Grand Jury to Encroach on State's Rights and Journalistic Privacy...
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 2:24pm PDT
textWho is the Spy in the UCSC Administration? by William Scott
USCS previously disclosed the existence of its spy who infiltrated the anti-War group. Now it has been disclosed that this spy reported to the FBI, Homeland Security, and other such agencies. The identity of the spy has been blackened out on documents obtained by the ACLU....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 9:43am PDT
textIndependent Journalist Charged with Civil Contempt for Resisting Grand Jury Subpoena by Grand Jury Resistance Project
San Francisco Independent journalist Josh Wolf, who is facing civil contempt charges for refusing to testify and provide evidence to a federal grand jury, will appear before U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup this Thursday. On behalf of the government, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Finigan is seeking video footage of a July 2005 protest in the Mission district against the Group of Eight (G8), meeting in Scotland at the time. If convicted, Wolf could be jailed for up to 13 months....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 9:41am PDT
textProtest the corporate undermining of democracy Protest ALEC Thurday 2pm by deanosor (from sources)
PROTEST...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 4:17pm PDT
textMeltdown in Juvenile Probation by Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron (reposted)
At-risk kids to lose community-based services due to Department’s muddled funding process...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:54am PDT
textGod save us all from SF Bayview "Peace Officers"... by Idriss Stelley Foundation
LaCresha Parker, step sister of Richard Tims, disabled 100 pd. Black Man shot at 32 times and killed by SFPD on March 15, 2002 on Geneva and Mission, is a Youth worker at the SF Bayview Hunters Point Foundation on 3rd Street. She calls Idriss Stelley Foundation Crisis line at 6:00 P.M, in tears...I met Sister LaCresha, a stunning young Sister with passion in her eyes and rebounding energy 2 months ago, and set up her website Justice4Richard that you can see at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/...
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 12:41am PDT
textChildren Will Foot the Bill for California's Prison Expansion by New American Media (reposted)
The compassionate and strategically wise parts of California's new prison plan are overshadowed by billions of dollars earmarked for new prison beds. The first victims of the state's shortsighted prison budget, writes NAM writer and editor Nell Bernstein, will be the incarcerated and, most vulnerably, their children. Nell Bernstein is the coordinator of the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, and the author of "All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated" (New...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 6:43pm PDT
imagePrivate Property, Raging Grannies, and Electric Cars
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by Ruth Robertson
SF Bay Area FOX-TV covered “the intersection of private property, Raging Grannies, and electric cars” in a report aired on July 14, 2006. The Raging Grannies jumped head first into the fray when the call came from our friends in the Electric Vehicle Association. They had been denied permission to distribute literature about electric cars in front of a San Jose theater showing the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Grannies sprang into action and descended on tony Santana Row with in-yo...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 12:27am PDT
textSunday Aug 20 3pm, End Law enforcement war on Black & Brown, cookout and benefit by Idriss Stelley Foundation
Enough is Enough ! END LAW ENFORCEMENT WAR AGAINST BLACK &BROWN ! WHAT: Fundraising Benefit and Cookout, coalitions building Justice4BigO, (RIP Oliver Lefiti, Killed by SFPD 6-24-06) Justice4ASA, (RIP Asa Sullivan, Killed by SFPD 6-6-06) Bayview CEDP (RIP Tookie Williams/Campaign to End the Death Penalty)...
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 2:59pm PDT
textRotkin to Defend City Attorney Barisone on Free Radio Sunday by Robert Norse
Councilmember Mike Rotkin will be my guest on the Sunday July 16 edition of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides defending the behavior of the City Attorney and answering critic's questions....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 8:13pm PDT
textSFPD Killing Spree on Black & Brown, June 2006 by mesha Monge-Irizarry
The man hunt is on, on San Francisco Plantation....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 7:55am PDT
audioSF Village Voice - june 30 2006 (audio/mpeg 43.2MB) by la mesha
La Mesha talks with friends of Asa Sullivan who was killed by San Srancisco police earlier in the month...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 9:41pm PDT
textSpy or Risk Green Card: How the Bush Administration 'Recruits' Muslim Informants by Democracy Now (reposted)
We take a look at a largely covert aspect of the Bush administration's War on Terror - the government's aggressive solicitation of Muslim informants. We speak with Banafsheh Akhlaghi, the attorney for Yassine Ouassif - who had his Green Card confiscated and was asked by the FBI to be an informant in the Muslim community in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 7:33am PDT
audioIndynewswire: SCPD Surveillance Policy Takes Effect (audio/mpeg 13.2MB) by Vinny
After numerous delays, a two-page document on SCPD spying took effect July 5. Some locals, who say the new policy does nothing to limit police monitoring of activists, spoke out at the June 27 City Council Meeting, and held a Last Rights DIY Funeral, March July 5. TRT: 28:53...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 10:40am PDT
videoMumia's Fight for Justice Continues II (video/quicktime 6.4MB) by Bill Carpenter
Tom Lacey explains that Mumia was framed for his extraordinarily effective political work and the police officer, Daniel Faulkner, was killed because he was apparently giving evidence on corrupt Philadelphia police to the FBI. Two-minute QT movie. 6MB....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 1:33am PDT
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