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Pacific Avenue Santa Cruz: The Joff Jones and Alex Skelton Report on Freedom in the USA (video/quicktime 238.9MB) 2 videos (11 minutes and 6 minutes) of Joff Jones and Alex Skeltons attempts to gather information from Santa Cruz Police regarding Municipal Ordinance 5.43.020, the "blue box" ordinance. Joff Jones and Alex Skelton were arrested Saturday April 16, 2016 on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz, CA for displaying their art and protest outside of a blue box and declining to participate in the citation program. The video is a compendium of footage taken on Pacific Avenue between April 20 and April 24, ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2016 6:52pm PDT
Pacific Avenue: Freedom Of Press At Its Finest 
Due to the media's negligence to accurately cover the whole story... Alex Skelton and I have taken the liberty of getting the scoop. We were promised that we would be arrested and taken back to jail if we continue to protest this suppression of our rights. We've been protesting for two days now since our previous arrest. Nothing has been done. I'm not impressed. When the time comes, this story will be covered... Every second of it. Freedom of press at its finest....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2016 9:49pm PDT
Pigs Repress Free Speech on Pacific (video/mp4 148.7MB) Pigs arrest artists 4:37...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 9:06pm PDT
Statement from First They Came for the Homeless on the Berkeley Post Office Eviction A Statement from First They Came for the Homeless on the Berkeley Post Office Eviction...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2016 10:07pm PDT
Fresno Ruling: California Can’t Get Away With Not Paying for Public Defenders 
(April 12, 2016) A Fresno judge has ruled against the state of California in its effort to avoid responsibility for ensuring that people who can’t afford to hire their own lawyers are provided with effective counsel....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 3:15pm PDT
Another man killed by Sacramento Police Despite any offense the deceased man may have committed, this case fits the pattern of increasingly militarized cops escalating the use of violence when other means are available. This incident is another reflection of a racist system that alienates people of color by using violence to deal with them instead of trying to deescalate the situation....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 10:02am PDT
Press Conf: Battle Cry Of The People Enough is Enough 
San Francisco City Hall
1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, San Francisco, California 94102...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 11:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2016 6:22pm PDT
EVICTED! First They Came for the Homeless Forcefully Removed from Berkeley Post Office. At 5:00AM this morning, US Postal Police and Inspectors, with support from the Berkeley Police Dept., arrived at the Main Berkeley Post Office, 2000 Alston Way, and literally dragged protesters out of their tents, seized all their belongings, and tore down the information tent, the shelter for our 17-month occupation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2016 1:49pm PDT
Hundreds Rally for Bills to Curb Policing for Profit and Police Secrecy 
SACRAMENTO, April 11, 2016 – Nearly two hundred ACLU members and allies rallied at the steps of the Capitol alongside state Senator Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) today in support of legislation to curb police abuse in California, specifically Senate Bill 443 (Mitchell) and Senate Bill 1286 (Leno)....
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 3:10pm PDT
Community Sleepout #39 
April 5 marked the 39th community sleepout organized at Santa Cruz City Hall to oppose local laws that criminalize homelessness....
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2016 8:58pm PDT
SFPD Raid Homeless Camp at the Site of Thursday's Police Killing of Jose Luis Gongora 
At approxamately 11:45 p.m. on Saturday Night, members of the San Francisco Police department raided and harassed the homeless community on Shotwell betweend 17 and 18th Streets, the site of Thursday's killling of Jose Luis Gongora...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2016 3:32am PDT
Another Man Executed by the San Francisco Police. On Thursday, April 7th, in the Mission District of San Francisco, a homeless man, Luis Gongora, allegedly "brandishing" a knife, was executed on the street by SFPD....
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2016 8:58am PDT
The Relative Merits of a Task Force on Homelessness Scope, Composition and Duration Are Keys To Success...
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2016 12:57pm PDT
Denying renters housing due to a criminal record may be illegal According to HUD, as many as 100 million U.S. adults, or around one-third of the population have a criminal record of some sort that makes it difficult for many formerly incarcerated individuals to secure housing, including public and other federally-subsidized housing because of their criminal record....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2016 11:09pm PDT
Postal Police Announce Saturday Morning Raid on Berkeley Homeless Protest After leaving the protest be for 17 months, Postal Police decide to illegally evict the vigil/protest/occupation at the Berkeley Post Office....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 7:13pm PDT
National Stolen Lives Cultural Education Tour - Cuba 
A contingent of Family members of Murdered and incarcerated loved ones will be traveling to Cuba for an Educational and Cultural Tour. They will be Hosted by the Cuban Federation of Women and The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 9:26pm PDT
UN Official Receives Formal Complaint from Solitary Prisoners’ Family Members & Advocates CA – After months of public outcry, California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC) and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) have submitted a formal complaint to Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment condemning the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) jarringly noisy and disruptive “security/welfare checks” in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Units (PB-...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 4:54pm PDT
Big Surprise: Alameda Sheriff's Deputies Lied in Reports About Beating of Stanislav Petrov 
It was almost the perfect cover-up of a serious violent crime by a dozen or so pigs from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. In their official reports, posted below, Deputies Luis Santamaria and Paul Wieber claimed they beat Stanislav Petrov senseless on November 12, 2015, because they feared for their lives and their baton strikes "appeared to have little effect." That might have been the end of the story, as it usually is when police pummel or kill someone out of public view. But this t...
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 11:47pm PDT
Contact City and Seaside Company to Halt Destruction in Beach Flats Garden 
A bulldozer rumbled into the Beach Flats Garden early Thursday morning, March 24, tearing out mature fruit trees and nopales plants that city staff had earlier promised would not be touched, and damaging an already strained relationship between the City and community....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 11:21am PDT
The Day the Bulldozers Came 
City of Santa Cruz Staff used heavy machinery to uproot and destroy mature fruit trees and nopales today (March 24, 2016). Topsoil compaction from the bulldozers will do irreparable harm to the precious garden microbes that make the beach flats garden soil so abundant....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 10:58am PDT
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