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13 Years of Marching for Peace and Unity
On October 7th, 2006, friends and families of the victims of violence, as well as community activists, passionately marched through different Watsonville neighborhoods demanding an end to all violence, including war and government oppression during the the 13th annual Peace and Unity March.
After the tragic gang-related murders of Jessica Cortez, 9, and her older brother Jorge Cortez, 16, in 1994, the Peace and Unity March was organized by the newly formed Watsonville Brown Berets to address the gang warfare going on in their community. The Berets aim to re-channel the energy that youth put into violent gangs and transform youth into community leaders and activists with a strong knowledge of their culture.
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The 13th Annual Peace and Unity March
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The 13th Annual Peace and Unity March
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Recently, the WPD zapped a man three times with a taser until he stopped breathing, had to be recesitated by EMS and then taken to the hospital where he was comatose for several days. According to the mans family, he is schizophrentic, hadn't taken his medicine, and had been drinking. What was his crime that required such the use of such force??? Refusing to get off the bus. Yup. While at the Waztlan transit center he had been told to get off the bus, for whatever reason he didn't (maybe he had somewhere to go!?!) and somehow the WPD thought zapping him three times with a tazer was a good idea and the only way to get him off the bus. WPD official said that because of the size of the bus they had to use the taser for safety reasons. Sounds like some BS to me. Trying to test your new toys??? Scared of a little scuffle??? Trying to pick on someone less capable than you??? Where is your compassion you pigs!!!! This is seriously fucked up and even the punk as senile printed something about this...
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/October/12/local/stories/03local.htm
On the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party I can't help but wonder just how far we've really come. Sure, we got latino cops and politicians, and we ain't being lynched in this county no more (yes is did happen here) but when a fucking terrorist federal government can come and destroy families and carry people away to immigrant concentration camps, I mean uh, "detention centers", and the police justify zapping a mentally sick man 3 times for refusing to get off a bus, I gotta wonder just how far we've really come. I wonder how po po cheif Terry Medina thinks of this one?? City council???Where ya at Waztlan Brown Berets??? Our people, all people (my understanding is he was white), need you now and until we get the po po off the block. They call it Hip Hop..... Hip Hop..... Hip Hop.... Hip.... Its bigga than....
Mother fuck a corrupt police and fuck police brutality. This shit is wrong and needs to be challenged. I know the family could use the support too. Anyone now a good lawyer??? Pro bono preferably, they don't got a ton of scrilla.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/October/12/local/stories/03local.htm
On the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party I can't help but wonder just how far we've really come. Sure, we got latino cops and politicians, and we ain't being lynched in this county no more (yes is did happen here) but when a fucking terrorist federal government can come and destroy families and carry people away to immigrant concentration camps, I mean uh, "detention centers", and the police justify zapping a mentally sick man 3 times for refusing to get off a bus, I gotta wonder just how far we've really come. I wonder how po po cheif Terry Medina thinks of this one?? City council???Where ya at Waztlan Brown Berets??? Our people, all people (my understanding is he was white), need you now and until we get the po po off the block. They call it Hip Hop..... Hip Hop..... Hip Hop.... Hip.... Its bigga than....
Mother fuck a corrupt police and fuck police brutality. This shit is wrong and needs to be challenged. I know the family could use the support too. Anyone now a good lawyer??? Pro bono preferably, they don't got a ton of scrilla.
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