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All of Us or None and City of San Francisco Find Common Ground To End Discrimination In a victory for civil rights advocates everywhere, formerly-incarcerated activists with All of Us or None and officials in the San Francisco Department of Human Resources collaborated to reach an agreement that significantly reforms the City’s hiring process, to reduce prejudice and discrimination against people based on past convictions....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 7:29pm PST
Court Date for Bicycle Rider attacked by CHP: Wed. Jan 18 
On November 2nd 2005, the California Highway Patrol attacked 40 bicycle riders on highway 101 as they rode from Arcata to Eureka where a demonstration was taking place....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 6:28pm PST
Friends of Tookie Facing Charges On December 8, 2005, these men (including my uncle) were taken from their cells by guards in riot gear and told that they were going to be questioned and investigated under the charges that they were conspiring to incite a riot and harm guards following the execution of Tookie...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 12:26pm PST
LIVE VIDEO STREAM CLARENCE ALLEN EXECUTION PROTEST EXECUTIONS R US
Blind, Wheelchair bound, sick and elderly...don't matter to the state of Executionalifornia.
I will be LIVE streaming the Clarence Allen Execution Protest outside the gates of San Quentin on Monday night Jan 16, starting at 9pm Pacific....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 6:34pm PST
UPDATE on my taxpayer-funded persecution in Fremont I thought I would be entering a plea, but
apparently that happens at my next court date, which is scheduled for
this coming Friday, January 13 (same place, 39439 Paseo Padre Parkway
in Fremont, at 9:00 a.m., this time in department 602)....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:54pm PST
Schwarzenegger's budget: up with prisons, down with communities Sacramento - In his budget released today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck to an old script: increasing funding for the state's massively troubled prison system. Elected on a platform that promised to "blow up boxes," the governor continues to fall in line with expensive and ineffective "tough on crime" policies despite widespread voter frustration at pouring ever more resources into a failed prison system....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:25am PST
Fremont Mosque Under Surveillance as Spying Targets Muslims FREMONT, Calif. - On the back wall of a store in a shopping complex on Fremont Boulevard, a surveillance camera points directly at the parking lot of a local mosque....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:38am PST
1/12: Rally/Press Conference to Stop the Execution of Clarence Ray Allen Activists call for Gov. Schwarzenegger to stop the execution of 75
year-old man Clarence Ray Allen, a Choctaw American Indian would be
the thirteenth inmate to be executed since California restored the
death penalty in 1978....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 11:06pm PST
1/24 Resolution To Be Presented to the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission 6 p.m.
Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission
Board of Supervisor Chambers
70 W Hedding...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:50pm PST
DPF Updates On January 10, 2006, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 4-2-1 to support the "California Moratorium on Executions Act" (AB1121) (Leno, Goldberg, Hancock, and Dymally voted to support the bill, Cohn abstained and Spitzer and LaSuer voted against the bill)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:05pm PST
In Fresno, we dissent from Bush illegal spying on us 
In Fresno, we dissent from Bush illegal spying on us. 1.5 minute video...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 2:11pm PST
Help Free Theresa Cruz Imprisoned for 15 years for the non-fatal shooting of her ex-husband, Theresa Cruz is finally up for parole! She's not a media star, just a regular working-class woman who needs your help. This is a case we could win! Please write the governor....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 6:56am PST
AB 1121 Moratorium on Executions Hearing tomorrow Location: State Capitol
Room 126
9:00 am
A press conference will be held at 12:00 noon in Governor's Press room #1190...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:10pm PST
Tonight at 6:30: Anti-death penalty coalition meeting ACLU Office, 1663 Mission Street, San Francisco (near Mission and Van
Ness), buzz ACLU/4th floor or call 510-333-7966 to get in the building....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:08pm PST
1/16- Upcoming Events Thursday, January 19, 2006
THE SF BAY AREA PREMIERE OF AFTER INNOCENCE
A Benefit for the Life After Exoneration Program and Death Penalty Focus...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:02pm PST
Peace Fresno Denounces Government Sponsored Spying 
Peace Fresno Press Conference - Monday, January 9, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 2:57pm PST
Photos of 12/13 Vigil for Rudy Cardenas 
State Agent Michael Walker was acquitted of manslaughter on December 13 in the killing of Rudy Cardenas. Walker thought Cardenas was another man. He shot him in the back after a high speed chase through downtown San Jose. The verdict was met with disappointment and outrage. 60 gathered on the evening of the 13th at the spot Cardenas was killed in downtown San Jose. Rudy's daughter Regina Cardenas, speaking for the family and their supporters, said she is "Completely appalled. We didn’...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 4:12pm PST
Official Report: CYA to Blame for Recent Death The Inspector General just
released a report confirming what youth and families have known all along: Joseph
Maldonado didn't have to die -- Chad's prison guards failed to save his life....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 5:21pm PST
Officer Andrew Cohen produces yet another film Officer Andrew Cohen wrote to me on Monday, Jan. 2, to promote his brand new film, “Inside SFPD: The Bayview,” his attempt at “rebuilding trust in the Bayview community.” After reading my response to his email, he immediately called to discuss how he felt he had been vilified in the media and how his new film would help to build trust between the police and Bayview residents. Apparently, he could find no appropriate venue in Bayview Hunters Point....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:46am PST
1/12: Press Conference/Rally to Stop The Execution of Clarence Ray Allen Press Conference/Rally to Stop The Execution of Clarence Ray Allen
Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:00 PM
The California State Building
Van Ness and McAllister
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 1:47am PST
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