Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.
demonstration
Stop the Attack on Civil Rights at Occupy Eureka
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 11:02amPlease phone and email the numbers & addresses below!
*Demand Return of All
Property including Signs,
Literature,Banners.*
*Insist the Police Respect
Our Right to Protest,
Stop Abusing Us & Stop
List of OCTOBER 13 Events in Solidarity with Hunger Strike!
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 2:10amLos Angeles
Thursday, October 13th, 5-7pm: Vigil to Support the Hunger Strikers! 200 North Spring Street. Los Angeles, CA 90012 (We will be in front of City Hall, 1st and Spring Street on the North Steps). Click here for more info
San Diego
Thursday, October 13th, 5-7pm: Vigil to Support the Hunger Strikers! On the Corner of University & Fairmount in East San Diego. Click here for more info
Santa Barbara
Thurs, Oct 13th EMERGENCY Eureka Rally: Support Prisoner Hunger Strike - Demand End to Torture!
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:04amSupport the Prisoner Hunger Strike -
Demand an End to Torture
October 13th Rally in Solidarity
A Reading of Prisoners' Letters
Thursday Oct 13th 3:00–7:00pm Urgent RALLY In Solidarity With Prisoner Hunger Strike!
In front of the Humboldt County Courthouse and Jail!
825 5th St. Eureka, CA
Wear Orange, if possible!
Oct 14th EMERGENCY ACTION to Support CA Prisoner Hunger Strike, San Francisco
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 8:36amMedical condition of hunger strikers deteriorates, some days away from death
October 11, 2011
Join the emergency action to support the California Prisoner Hunger Strike on Friday, Oct. 14, 10:30 a.m.‐1 p.m., at McAllister and Van Ness in San Francisco and tell CDCR and Gov. Jerry Brown to meet the strikers’ five core demands
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
Sat & Sun (10/1 & 10/2) Show Support for Prisoner Hunger Strike Outside Pelican Bay!
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 3:42pmCalifornia prisoners are on hunger strike again! The hunger strike that started on July 1 of this year in support of 5 demands, has been resumed by thousands of prisoners at Pelican Bay, Calipatria, CCI Tehachapi, Centinela, Corcoran, Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, Ironwood State Prison, Salinas Valley State Prison.
The prisoners say that the California Department of Corrections has retaliated against prisoners for participating in the strike and made only nominal policy changes in response to the strike. Prisoners say it is necessary to continue to put pressure on the CDCR to meaningfully change long-term solitary confinement policies and practices. Up to date information can be found at http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/.
Oct.5th Sacramento Demo: Support the Prisoner Hunger Strike! End Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 10:29pmOctober 5th: in Sacramento
12pm to 2pm
CDCR Headquarters,
1515 S St.
More info call: 415-238-1801
Support the Prisoner Hunger Strike! Support the Five Demands!
All out to Sacramento!
In SOLIDARITY, a group of us will be leaving Eureka on Tuesday night (10/4) to participate in the Oct.5th demo. We'll stay the night in Oakland and rideshare with Bay Area folks to Sacramento on Wednesday morning! We will return to Eureka on Wednesday night (10/5).
If you want to go, please contact Redwood Curtain CopWatch at 707.633.4493 or email copwatchrwc@gmail.com.
Mon, July 18th- Mobilize to Sacramento; Demonstrate Outside Dept. Of Corrections!
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:07pmMOBILIZE to SACRAMENTO:
This MONDAY , July 18th from 1-3pm. Demonstration outside CDCR Headquarters 1515 S. St. Sacramento
RIDES from East Bay: Meet at West Oakland BART, 9:30 am
Meeting at NOON in Sacramento at Freemont Park on 15th & Q
For more info, for rides: Call Manuel (415-637-8195) or Linda (510-219-0297).
If you are in Humboldt or Del Norte County and want to go to Sacramento, please immediately contact Redwood Curtain CopWatch at 707-633-4493.
SUPPORT the HUNGERSTRIKERS!
March 21st: RALLY & COURT SUPPORT for Protesters of Road Widening Through Richardson Grove
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 11:19pm
CALTRANS is preparing to widen Hwy 101 thruRICHARDSON GROVE STATE PARK for increased industrial trucking & militarization. We will stop them!
CalTrans' plan threatens our rural lives and involves cutting & crushing ancient redwoods' roots, cutting 56 trees in the state park, & possibly changing old-growth forest on private property into road bed.
RALLY To Stop Highway Expansion Through Richardson Grove This Monday, February 21st
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 11:11pm
Richardson Grove Action Now invites all to a rally on Monday, February 21st, to stop the highway expansion through Richardson Grove State Park.
Expose CalTrans' lies and misinformation campaign!
Monday's rally will begin at NOON in the Garberville Town Square.
Rideshares to and from Garberville.
Bring anything you want to express yourself!
Resist Invasion!
For more info contact Richardson Grove Action Now, call
(707) 602-7551 or email rgroveactionnow@gmail.com.
Richardson Grove Action Now literature exposing CalTrans LIES and misinformation coming soon!
Richardson Grove Action Now pamphlet: http://www.box.net/shared/6xyyml02vu
RIDESHARE INFO:
Mon, Feb 7th: RALLY at CalTrans, NO Highway Expansion Thru Richardson Grove!
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 12:53pm
Mass RALLY at CalTrans in Eureka
NO ROAD WIDENING THROUGH RICHARDSON GROVE!
Protect the forest and our future. Resist Invasion.
Monday, Feb 7th NOON
CalTrans District 1 Headquarters
1656 Union St. (Union and Wabash)
Eureka
Bring anything you want to express yourself!
For info or to get more involved contact Richardson Grove Action Now: (707) 602-7551, rgroveactionnow@gmail.com
January 1st Community Rally: Justice for Derrick Jones and Oscar Grant!
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 12/24/2010 - 8:51pmSocial Justice Activists & All Other Outraged People!
On Jan 1st two years ago, Oscar Grant was Murdered at the Fruitvale Bart Station by the BART police. The "Oscar Grant Committee To Stop Police Brutality and State Repression" will be joining with the Families of both Oscar Grant and Derrick Jones, as well as others, to commemorate their slain loved ones and Demand Justice and an END TO POLICE TERROR.
Make a New Years resolution to stand up to racism and unjustified police
shootings and brutality. Join us and make a difference!
Meet at Fruitvale BART station at 12:00pm NOON.
For more info, contact the Oscar Grant Foundation: 510.599.6357
Police Use Cameras To Intimidate Peaceful Demonstrators
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:55amNo News is Not Good News: If Cops Tape Protests and Journalists and No One Reports It, Is It Intimidation?
Created 11/19/2010 by: Dave Lindorff
Is it news when police photograph and videotape demonstrations?
Apparently for American editors and reporters, making that news judgement depends on where the demonstration occurs and what nationality the police are.
When a hundred artists gathered outside a Beijing courtroom in mid-November to protest the jailing of artist Wu Yuren, who had earlier been beaten by police and jailed because he had gone to a police station to file a complaint against a landlord, the New York Times ran an article by reporter Andrew Jacobs which pointedly noted that police officers had videotaped the crowd, and then quoted a demonstrator, artist Dou Bu, as saying, “I was scared to come out here today, but you have to face your fears.”
Johnnes Mehserle, Cop Seen On Video by Thousands Murdering Oscar Grant, Gets Slap on the Wrist in Court
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 2:16pmJohannes Mehserle sentenced to two years with double credit for time served
Nov 5, 2010 by Davey D
Protest FBI Raids and Harassment of Antiwar Activists
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 9:06amThe following message was sent by United for Peace and Justice (www.unitedforpeace.org),an antiwar coalition. It includes a list of demonstrations planned by local groups in approximately 20 different cities over the next few days in response to last Friday’s FBI raids, described below. The report by the Office of the Inspector General’s, referred to in the third paragraph, is online at http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1009r.pdf.
Seven Murders by Police in Seattle -Within Two Weeks
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 09/26/2010 - 10:54amCops Kill in Washington Again and Again and Again and Again and Again - on the Police Murder of John T. Williams
Submitted by anon on Mon, 2010-09-06: anarchis news dot org
http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/12125
*Warning: the following article contains news mostly taken from mainstream sources. Apologies if any of the statements contained below misrepresent John T. Williams life in any way.
In the last week alone, 5 people were killed in “officer-involved” shootings in the Puget Sound region. On August 31, John T. Williams became the first of this last string of killings by police. John Williams, age 50, was a native man from the Dididaht, Nuu Chan Nulth nation on the west coast of Vancouver Island. He was shot four times in the chest by Seattle police officer Ian D. Birk, age 27.
Demo in Philly on the 4th of You Lie!!
Attorney General, Eric Holder will be in Philadelphia on July 4th.
DEMAND that Holder do a Civil Rights Investigation into Mumia's case!
*July 4th, 2010
*11:00am
