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6/28 Mobilize for Alternatives, Not Criminalization of Sideshows
Jerry Brown's opportunistic proposal to criminalize
youth for watching sideshows is not dead yet. Please join the Measure Y Coalition, including Let's Get Free, Education not Incarceration, All of Us or None, Raporation Records, Oakland ACORN, Oakland CAN, PUEBLO, Critical Resistance and many more next Tuesday as we
mobilize to demand alternatives for our youth, not
criminalization....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 4:18pm PDT
Petitions 4 Justice
Please take a minute to view the following websites for Justice, for families of victims of Police Britality in California, created by Idriss Stelley Foundation...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:03am PDT
THE HEAT IS ON ! Justice4JulioAyala
Press conference and Protest, 6-21-05, San MateoCounty Board of Supervisors...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 10:29pm PDT
FBI Seeks Muslims' Help to Win the War Against Terrorism
Tom Knowles, FBI Supervisory Special Agent in charge of the Central California Joint Terrorism Task Force and Fresno Chief of Police participated in a forum at the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno. The issues included the Patriot Act, turning in people to the FBI, questions about donations to Islamic charities, racial profiling....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 10:20pm PDT
Grand Jury in SF: Reprieve for Activists
About 100 activists gathered today, June 22, at the Federal Building in San Francisco to protest the Federal Grand Jury that has been convened to investigate the animal rights movement....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 8:22pm PDT
6/26: Rally to Shut Down Chad
3:00pm on Sunday, June 26th at Chad in Stockton...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 11:00pm PDT
A Victory for Sheila Detoy!
Yesterday a San Francisco Superior Court Judge ruled on the side of the people. The judge threw out the argument presented by the Police Officers Union that it was too late to discipline the officers that killed this seventeen year-old child. The charges against Gregory Breslin and his cronies will not be dismissed!!!!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 6:06pm PDT
7/16: Hip Hop Show and Rally to Close the CYA Youth Prisons
• WHAT: 4th Annual "Not Down with the Lockdown" Hip Hop Show and Rally to Close CYA Youth Prisons
• WHERE: Frank Ogawa Plaza, 14th St. and Broadway (Downtown Oakland)
• WHEN: Saturday, July 16, noon-2pm
• FREE! All ages!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 11:43am PDT
What You Can Do to Support A.B. 1121, "California Moratorium on Execution Act"
It is now possible to view the text of the "California Moratorium on Execution Act" (A.B. 1121) at
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1101-1150/ab_1121_bill_20050620_amended_asm.html...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 11:16am PDT
6/21 at 8:30am: Press Conference, Protest for Julio Ayala
WHEN: Tuesday June 21, 2005
8:30 am: Press Conference
9:00 am: Public Comments at the Board of Supervisors
WHERE:Event Location: 400 County Center, Redwood City....
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 12:01am PDT
June 22nd - Resist Grand Juries!
Show solidarity with Grand Jury resistors on June 22nd @ 9AM at the federal courthouse (450 Golden Gate Ave., SF)...
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 8:46am PDT
Recipe for Disaster: Law Enforcement and the Mentally Ill in San Jose, Part Two
This is part two of a two-part story. To read part one, click here...
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 2:36pm PDT
Who’s to blame for the deplorable and abusive medical care in California prisons?
by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:27am PDT
Lodi Muslims Allege 'Harassment' By FBI
CAIR hosts 'Know Your Rights' workshops in response to complaints...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:53am PDT
CAIR-CA: FOIA Request Filed Over Lodi ‘Harassment'
SACRAMENTO - Prompted by reports from the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley (CAIR-SV) and the Muslim community, civil rights groups are filing a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) seeking FBI records of the procedures and policies used during the questioning and detention of dozens of Muslims in the Central Valley town of Lodi. Lodi has become the center of a FBI investigation that has led to the arrests of five Muslims, two of whom are U.S. citizens. They were...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:48am PDT
CLOSE CYA!!! SIGN THE PETITION !
Books Not Bars has launched an ONLINE PETITION to Governor
Schwarzenegger to CLOSE THE NOTORIOUS AND ABUSIVE YOUTH PRISONS OF
THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY (CYA)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:25pm PDT
6/25 Raza Prison Conference
Conference On Raza Prisoners And Colonialism
Sat., June 25, 2005
Rudy Acuña Cultural Center/Cafe On A Street
438 South “A” Street
Oxnard, CA
(805) 487-8170...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:03pm PDT
Travelling Critical Mass VideoZine! Coming to your city!!!
We will be traveling
to cities whose critical mass bike rides have, in the past ten years, encountered repressive interference from police, motorists, or media.We want to interview you! In SF area June 20-23!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 12:24pm PDT
Legislation Calling for a Suspension of Executions in CA Assembly
Opponents of the death penalty applauded yesterday's introduction of a bill that would place a temporary moratorium –or “time out” – on executions in California while the bipartisan California Commission on the Fair Administration Justice completes an examination of the state’s flawed criminal justice system....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 9:40am PDT
Urgent Alert/ Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign
Please distribute widely to your links &lists ! / Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign / Sign the petition ! END PD WAR ON BLACK &BROWN NOW!
http://www.petitiononline.com/Just4J/petition.html...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 12:11am PDT