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National Day of Out(r)age Against the Telcos! Wednesday May 24, 2006 4:00-6:00pm
AT&T Building
600 Folsom Street (Btwn 2nd & 3rd Sts.)
San Francisco, CA...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 11:33pm PDT
California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice Report, Meeting on 6/21 THE CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON THE FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE HAS RELEASED ITS TENTATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS ON FALSE CONFESSIONS AND ANNOUNCED PLANS FOR ITS NEXT PUBLIC HEARING ON JUNE 21, 2006. ATTACHED ARE COPIES OF THE TENTATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS AND A PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING THE HEARING. BOTH HAVE BEEN POSTED ON THE COMMISSION'S WEBSITE AT www.CCFAJ.ORG....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 10:33pm PDT
EFF SUES AT&T (audio/x-wav 15.5MB) ORAL ARGUMENTS WERE HEARD IN SF FEDERAL COURT TODAY TO DISMISS EFF'S SUIT AGAINST AT&T FOR ASSISTING THE NSA IN WARANTLESS WIRETAPPING OF MILLIONS OF AT&T CUSTOMERS. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS ASKING FOR THE COURTS TO DISMISS THE LAWSUIT SAYING EVIDENCE USED COULD HARM NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 12:09am PDT
Petition Against Parking Garage Paranoia & Update The Cabrillo Student Body President and the Head of the Cabrillo Democrats testified at the last City Council meeting against the Public Works Department's latest shutdown of public space. The law to ban everyone (but especially homeless people) from parking garages entirely, and limit motorists to fifteen minutes, passed City Council on May 9th 6-1, and comes back for a final reading on May 23rd....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 10:45pm PDT
The Green Scare continues... Information from The Civil Liberties Defense Center This is information from The Civil Liberties Defense
Center:...
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 4:17pm PDT
5/17 - Barbara Becnel Speaks at New College -- Advocate for Stanley "Tookie" Williams AN EVENING with BARBARA BECNEL - Wednesday, May 17 at 7 PM, New College of California, Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Free and open to the public....
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 10:44pm PDT
Letter to Captasin Pardini, SF District 10 Bayview Precinct Pardini shined by his abesence at last week Press Conference on 3rd Street:
"End the War at Home and Let's Call it TRUCE!"...
Posted: Sun, May 14, 2006 5:36pm PDT
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi knew about Bush's NSA phone-call database Isn't it time SF elect someone better able to stand up to Bush? Matt Gonzales, running as a Green, got 47% of the vote for mayor and almost won in a short and underfunded two-month campaign. Can't another Green do as well or better with more time and planning? SF can then send the first Green to Congress this fall and set an example for the nation. If not here, where? Everyone disappointed with Democrats in SF should register and vote for the alternative candidate with the best chance of...
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 2:06am PDT
Parking Garage Paranoia Law Stalls Again The Parking Lot Trespass Law as Amended and its Final Passage Again Delayed Until the Next City Council Meeting on May 23rd. It will probably happen at another hard-to-attend afternoon session....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 5:03pm PDT
Vegan Feast for Zachary Jenson in Sacramento 
There will be a vegan feast to support political prisoner Zachary Jenson on May 17 in Sacramento....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 9:32am PDT
Parking Garage Paranoia Law Stalls Again The Parking Lot Trespass Law as Amended and its Final Passage Again Delayed Until the Next City Council Meeting on May 23rd. It will probably happen at another hard-to-attend afternoon session....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 9:33pm PDT
5/19 Puerto Ricans' Art Exhibit "Not Enough Space" in SF 
Coming This May
"Not Enough Space"
May 19 - June 16, 2006
An Art Exhibit Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Political Imprisonment of Oscar López Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 8:21pm PDT
5/11: Spying & Surveillance: A Workshop for Civil Liberties Activists Thursday, May 11th in San Francisco
5:00-7:00 PM...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 10:23pm PDT
Rights During a Police Encounter 
A handbill in English on Rights During Police Encounters. Print out the handbill and make it available in our communities....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 10:03pm PDT
Sus Derechos Durante un Encuentro con la Policía 
A handbill in Spanish on Rights During Police Encounters. Print out the handbill and make it available in our Spanish-speaking communities. Also included is the English version of same....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 12:17pm PDT
Parking Lot Panic at City Council Tuesday May 9th The Fifteen Minute Trespass Law has its final reading as item #17 on the afternoon agenda at Santa Cruz City Council Tuesday May 9th. A protest with food and frolicking will precede the Council rubberstamp at 2:30 PM. Item #17 on the City Council agenda will come up sometime after 3 PM (anywhere from half an hour to several hours)....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 9:42pm PDT
Heavily Armed Police Brutalize the Community and Target and Arrest Copwatch Monitors It is a Mexican community tradition to non-violently celebrate Cinco de Mayo in peace and safety; and it is also a police tradition on Cinco de Mayo to brutalize and terrorize the community. On Friday evening 5/5/06, there was a public and peaceful Cinco de Mayo music and spoken word event held on the corner of Story and King which was viciously attacked by riot police. There is a decades long pattern of police brutality on Cinco de Mayo which has gone unchecked, but this year they were cau...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 2:36pm PDT
San Jose Police Attack Copwatchers at Cinco de Mayo Celebration; Charge "Lynching" San Jose Police attacked and arrested six people Friday night in an attempt to shut down the annual Cinco de Mayo celebration at a shopping center at Story and King in San Jose. Copwatcher is accused of "lynching"....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 1:40pm PDT
Lessons from COINTELPRO: Building a Movement in the Face of Repression Recent crackdowns on the animal rights and environmental justice movements have left many activists feeling that their communities are under siege. From the prosecution of the SHAC 7 to the arrests of thirteen individuals for arsons committed over a ten-year span, a war is being waged against these movements by the U.S. government....
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 7:38pm PDT
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