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Council member Rotkin's "Unruly Assemblies" ordinance, the "Party at Your Peril" law, comes up for modification on March 11th at the evening city council meeting. Coonerty and Rotkin are moving to liberalize the ordinance with four changes. The real question, of course, is whether there should be such an ordinance at all and what kind of suffering it has inflicted. Police stats, as usual, are not included in the police report and may not be forthcoming at all (as was the case in the Parkin...

Bathrobespierre's Broadsides on Free Radio Santa Cruz broadcasting at 101.1 FM and streaming at www.freakradio.org from 10- to 11 AM on Sunday March 2nd. Questions can be e-mailed to me in advance at rnorse3@hotmail.com, or phoned in at 831-427-3772 during the show....

101.1 FM Free Radio Santa Cruz www.freakradio.org Archived at http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org/ .http://www.indybay.org/calendar/event_add.php?topic_id=0&region_id=60 San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center...

Jerry Smith discusses his latest book on weather warfare on the Questioning War- Organizing Resistance weekly radio show with activist Carol Brouillet...

Why not put one's energy into changing something that is a real and genuine injustice rather than antagonizing local politicians and police officers through petty disputes?...

The Santa Cruz chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in one of its rare statements defending civil liberties locally issued the following statement at http://www.aclusantacruz.org/node/154. As of yet, they have not been visible at any of the Drum Circle crackdowns nor offered any legal assistance. ACLU attorney Don Zimmerman, however, has both publicly and privately expressed strong opposition to the current law....

Comments transferred from the Police Assault on the Drum Circle thread around the issue of censorship on indymedia can be found here. Hopefully the discussion will continue, and folks will continue to address the important Public Assembly issue in words and actions on the other thread....

In spite of a City Council lawsuit, and various public statements, City Council members approached by homeless activists--Mayor Ryan Coonerty and Councilmember Tony Madrigal, have refused to commit themselves to providing emergency shelter for homeless people if and when LBAM spraying resumes. The word "homeless" apparently didn't enter into the after-midnight proposal by Councilmember Madrigal at the last Council meeting to establish a Task Force on the issue....

On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....

The following story, e-mailed to me by a friend, is a well-written, encouraging, and illuminating tale of the troubles you may face filing a appeal. It describes the combination of ignorance, pigheadedness, arrogance, and obstruction that can and do happen. These kind of hostile roadblocks are raised even in relatively simple matters where the law is on your side--perhaps particularly where the law is on your side. At this time, the author prefers to remain anonymous....