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Support justice for Sheila Detoy! Punish bad cops!
PLEASE COME to the Police Commission meeting on December 10th at 5:30 pm at 850 Bryant Street to demand justice for Sheila detoy, 17 year-old who was murdered by Officer Gregory Breslin of the SFPD in 1998. The Police Officer's Association claims the statute of limitations has run out on Sheila's case and wants the Commission to cancel disciplinary action against Breslin. We can't let that happen. We demand justice for Sheila and all victims of police brutality, and we demand it now. PLEASE C...
Posted: Thu, Dec 4, 2003 3:13pm PST
Washington Post Smears Dead Man To Justify Police Brutality in Cincinnati
Courtland Milloy's editorial in the Washington Post marks a new low point in the treatment of police brutality by the press. A man is beaten to death with most of the killing blows comming as the man lay motionless on the ground. In response the Washington Post condemns the man for having taking drugs and blames that (even though according to officials he wasn't high when he was killed) for the police's actions....
Posted: Wed, Dec 3, 2003 10:03am PST
PELTIER CONVICTION, FBI Office is Pursued for Data Tied to '70s Case
A local attorney is planning to file a lawsuit Tuesday morning against the FBI's Buffalo field office on behalf of Leonard Peltier....
Posted: Tue, Dec 2, 2003 2:12pm PST
The Ladies of Dade
The life of women prisoners in Miami-Dade County as seen through the eyes of an FTAA protester- includes the demands and statement of solidarity that the women prisoners gave to this FTAA protester....
Posted: Tue, Dec 2, 2003 11:51am PST
Thessaloniki 7 Conditional Release
The Thessaloniki Seven were conditionally released....
Posted: Wed, Nov 26, 2003 10:41am PST
Solidarity Occupation in Thessaloniki
OCCUPATION OF THE FACULTY OF THEOLOGY
FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OF THE THESSALONIKI SEVEN...
Posted: Tue, Nov 25, 2003 7:07am PST
(SALONIKA 7)They are dying in the hands of the State.
Photo of Simon Chapman on the 44th day of his hunger strike...
Posted: Tue, Nov 25, 2003 4:52am PST
Steelworkers Union Calls for Solidarity Against Miami Police
One of the first victims of neoliberalism in North America, steelworkers, showed up in force at the protests in Miami. Many of them joined with direct action and black bloc kids, helping reach size equilibrium with a muscular police force. Today, USWA is calling for nationwide solidarity against the police in Miami....
Posted: Mon, Nov 24, 2003 10:24pm PST
On patrol (by Latuff)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Mon, Nov 24, 2003 3:55pm PST
Lawyers Guild: Eight Observers Arrested At FTAA Talks, Four Beaten
MIAMI, Fla. -- At least eight legal observers were arrested during the Free Trade Area of the Americas meetings and four of those were beaten by police, the National Lawyers Guild announced Saturday, while dozens of protesters arrested during the weeklong event were issued bond....
Posted: Sat, Nov 22, 2003 6:55pm PST
Free fax to Mayor of Miami
Free fax (preprepared) to express your outrage!...
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2003 3:35pm PST
Pics From Miami
Its amazing how far the police will go to prevent a protest...
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2003 9:56am PST
SEATTLE POLICE KEEP LEIU PROTESTERS VIDEOTAPES
The Law Enforcement Intelligent Unit (LEIU) hearings, based on the June 2, 2003 LEIU protests/police riots in Seattle, are back on. You will remember last time we visited this topic, defendants' property was not being returned by the Seattle Police......
Posted: Sun, Nov 16, 2003 11:36am PST
Thessaloniki 7 solidarity: Anarchists protest at PM’s door
This Monday is the 30th anaversiary of the anniversary of the Nov. 17 1973 student rebellion in Greece...
Catching their police escorts off guard, some 150 anarchists on a motorcycle protest drove unhindered to Prime Minister Costas Simitis’s private residence in central Athens yesterday night, where they held an impromptu demonstration seeking the release of seven people held since the June 21 anti-EU riots in Thessaloniki....
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2003 1:03pm PST
Police Raid School With Guns Drawn
A dozen officers in Goose Creek, South Carolina stormed through the halls of
Stratford High School with guns drawn, forcing 107 students to lay on the
floor and submit to a drug dog search. Students were commanded to get on their
knees with their hands behind their head, students who did not respond quick
enough were put into handcuffs....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2003 9:24pm PST
BURMESE POLITICAL CONDITIONS APPALING, SAYS UN ENVOY
UN Special Envoy Daniel Pinheiro criticized today the situation of human rights under Myanmar (former Burma) military junta....
Posted: Tue, Nov 11, 2003 3:23am PST
Uzbekistan: A Laboratory for Torture, 10 November 03
Vienna Conference on Torture claims Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have the worst record....
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2003 2:16pm PST
Life for COnfessions? The Ridgway Plea Bargain
The judge in the Green River Murder case asked Ridgway if he was entering into this plea bargain of free will. Ridgway said "yes."
Yet he was threatened with the death penalty by prosecutors, and if he agreed to the plea bargain, his life was not threatened......
Posted: Sat, Nov 8, 2003 10:32am PST
Capitalism and Anti-Woman Terror........and what is the deal with NEFAC(anarchists)?
Regarding Mexican governmental coverup of brutal torture and rape of working class women....
Posted: Fri, Nov 7, 2003 8:11pm PST