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7/8 SF Meeting; 6/9 report; Respond to attacks in Philadelphia media * 7/8 SF Organizing Meeting
* Report on 6/9 SF protest/legal update
* Respond to attacks on Mumia in Philadelphia media...
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 11:13pm PDT
Josh Wolf Defends Freedom of the Press (video/quicktime 20.1MB) Ben Rosenfeld, attorney for Josh Wolf on June 15th, and Carlos Villarreal, Executive Director of the San Francisco National Lawyers Guild, joined Wolf and other supporters before his grilling by the U.S. grand jury and then Judge William Alsup in the Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco. Six-minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 8:20am PDT
Powdering The Crooked Nose of The City's Anti-Homeless Panhandling Law The Santa Cruz City Council did a "quick fix" on an obscure section of its really bad panhandling law on May 23rd and June 13th. Instead of giving the whole panhandling law the civil liberties and common sense overhaul it needs, the Rotkin City Council chaired by Mayor "Two Minutes" Mathews cut short public discussion and rubberstamp City Attorney Barisone's settlement. More legal challenges and more city money will probably be going to pay City Attorney Barisone's questionable defense of h...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 2:12pm PDT
Meeropol in Bay Area + On Radio Monday JUNE 19th, 7:30 pm
With special guest, Ronnie Gilbert (formerly of The Weavers), who will read Ethel Rosenberg’s last letter to her sons, written just hours before her execution
Middle East Children’s Alliance office, 901 Parker St. (at 7th), Berkeley
DESSERT RECEPTION...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 12:19am PDT
Enough is Enough ! Justice 4 Asa Sullivan Candlelight Vigil Once more, we gathered at 9 PM by Asa's house in the Parkmerced Villas complex by SF State University, last Saturday in the ever so cold and windy Ingleside District, at the ASA Candlelight Vigil, to celebrate his life and pay respect to his family. Brother Asa, 25 yr. AfriKan American Youth was gunned down by SFPD, in a 2 1/2 feet crawling space, while he held an eye glass case that the department claims was mistaken for a gun......
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 4:29pm PDT
SF Village Voice (audio/mpeg 21.3MB) Homage to Asa Sullivan - Slaughtered by the Thugs in Blue, SFPD 6/7/06...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 9:31pm PDT
To the Berkeley City Council and City Manager 
RE: President Bush's Vicious Nationwide Attack on Whistleblowers Comes to Berkeley Via An All Too Obliging City Council, Mayor, and Police Department...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 8:55pm PDT
Video surveillance program coming up for vote 
Call to action - Stop the Fresno Police Departments video surveillance proposal....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 1:42pm PDT
Fresno Police Department Budget Hearings - Day 2 More on the video surveillance debate in Fresno...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 11:02pm PDT
Norse Hearing Postponed from Friday June 16th to early August TBA A hearing prior to the jury trial of Robert Norse (aka Robert Norris Kahn) to investigate complaints against arresting officer Steve Clark will be postponed from Friday June 16 to early August time TBA....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 4:58pm PDT
Video Surveillance in Fresno 
Update on the Video Surveillance story in Fresno...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 9:24am PDT
Kamala Harris and her ploy to defend her Witness Protection Program San Francisco's District Attorney Kamala Harris does NOT fully comprehend the constituents of San Francisco. It is too late to bring some cronies together to discuss the Witness Protection Program that has so far failed and was not brought to the community to disscuss in the first place. Any program that does not have the blessing of the community - poor or rich will NOT survive in San Francisco. Gone are the days when Willie L. Brown Jr. and his crones got away with murder - in recent months...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 7:16am PDT
June 17th San Jose CopWatch Benefit Show 
This is the flyer to this Saturday's rip roaring show at the MACLA art galley...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 4:57pm PDT
National Lawyers Guild Condemns FBI's Operation Backfire as Unconstitutional New York. The National Lawyers Guild condemns the FBI's Operation Backfire "green scare" tactics as an unconstitutional abuse of authority. The FBI has engaged in an orchestrated campaign of issuing subpoenas to environmental activists, conducting large scale roundups of activists, levying unprecedented penalties for property crimes, and using threats of severe sanctions to leverage fear of conviction and force individuals to turn state's evidence....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 4:33pm PDT
"I LIVE HERE, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME" Justice 4 Asa Sullivan (A young girl approaches the cops at the Justice4AsaSullivan Rally &Protest:
"Officer, isn't it illegal to shoot an unarmed man?"
"No, It's called suicide"...
Now beware, good citizens of San Fran-psycho, holding an eyeglass case in front of a police officer while Black is Suicide By KKKop...little did young Brother Asa, who paid it with his life, knew...)...
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 12:16am PDT
Sacramento DA issues Flash Bang Incident Report after elections take place 
Sacramento County's jail has been notorious for brutality over the years, but an incident took place on December 1, 2005, led to riot cops requesting inmates to get on the floor in their cells after toliets were flooded inside the jail. Before even finding out if the inmates complied, the storm troopers launched flashbangs inside the cells and extracted the prisoners. One of the inmates suffered burns to his crotch. Others got a nice ass whooping....
Posted: Sat, Jun 10, 2006 11:10pm PDT
Another Unarmed Young Black Man Shot Dead by SFPD on June 7, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO: Police fatally shoot man in friend's attic
Officers thought glasses case was gun and opened fire...
Asa B. Sullivan, 25, had his arms outstretched and was holding a "cylindrical object" when the officers confronted him Tuesday night in an apartment near Lake Merced, said Police Chief Heather Fong. The object turned out to be an eyeglasses case....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 7:01pm PDT
This Saturday 6/10 - "Resisting the Green Scare" Daytime Benefit Show in SF A Bay Area Event in Solidarity with Political Prisoner Jeff "Free" Luers
and Environmental/Animal Rights Activists Most Recently Targeted by State
Repression....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 9:23am PDT
Why We Need Police Accountability in San Jose (video/quicktime 12.4MB) Here are three voices and footage from Cinco De Mayo 2006, that show a diverse call for police accountability in San Jose. This video was shown at the 2006 Law Enforcement Accountability Forum on May 24th, which had over 200 people in attendance, including candidates for the Mayor of San Jose and Santa Clara County District Attorney's office. It is a 4 minute video....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 11:45am PDT
EARTH MATTERS RADIO - THE GREEN SCARE (audio/mpeg 7.3MB) Interview for KPFA's Flashpoints with Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters' director Karen Pickett, about the FBI and federal government's targeting, arrests, grand jury proceedings and draconian prosecutions of environmentl and animal rights activists. MP3 audio, 12:44. Music clip: "23 Years" by David Rovics. http://www.davidrovics.com...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:42pm PDT
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