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.
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California Plagued with Racist "Secure Communities Program"
All of California now linked up to immigration enforcement network
By Matt O'Brien Contra Costa Times Posted: 02/25/2011
MARTINEZ -- The federal immigration agency has finally linked all California police agencies to reveal immigrants -- legal or not -- arrested for violating laws and subject to deportation.
The action, to be announced Friday morning in Southern California, enables U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to tag arrests and travel to all of the state's county jails to pick up immigrants accused of committing crimes.
In essence, local police, willingly or not, have become an arm of the federal immigration agency.
Republicans Attack Birthright Citizenship of Babies Born to Undocumented Parents
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/08/2011 - 2:26pmState Lawmakers Outline Plans to End Birthright Citizenship, Drawing Outcry
By JULIA PRESTON Published Jan 5, 2011
WASHINGTON — Conservative legislators from five states opened a national campaign on Wednesday to end the automatic granting of American citizenship to children born in the United States of illegal immigrants.
At a news conference here timed to coincide with the start of a new Congress, Republican state lawmakers introduced two model measures curtailing citizenship rights for children of illegal immigrants. The legislators said the measures would be introduced in at least 14 states.
Hey Humboldt! OPT OUT of "Secure Communities Program": S-Comm Out of Humboldt!!
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 09/26/2010 - 4:02pmHere are a few links about S-Comm:
So You *Can* Opt Out of Secure Communities Fingerprinting Program. Will San Francisco Be Allowed?
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Local officials are awaiting a response to San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey's letter yesterday, which once again asked federal immigration officials to allow San Francisco to opt out of the fingerprint ID program that targets illegal immigrants booked into jail.
National Day of Action Against Racist SB 1070: May 29, 2010
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 2:27pmEND BORDER MILITARIZATION CONTINGENT
DEMANDING DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS & MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
O'odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective sends you greetings from occupied O'odham lands,
National Statement from October 22 Coalition on Arizona SB 1070
| Stop Attacks on Immigrants!
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation condemns the new Arizona immigration law and all other laws and policies in place or in the works throughout the nation that criminalizes immigrants and many people of color. SB 1070 promotes racial profiling and expands the criminalization of people based on how they look, what they wear, their skin color, language, and/or nationality. This law doesn't just give police the right to stop anyone they think looks "suspiciously illegal," it makes it mandatory for police to do so. |
Stolen Lives
There are many people who have been killed by police.
Only some of the local victims of police murder are discussed below. These are the names of some people who are not (yet).
Angel Farias Hernandez Daniel Sylvester David Sequioa Eloy Infante-Toscano
Gabriel Muldenado James "Hans" Peters Jonni Honda Mariano Lopez Fernandez
Robert Garth
Click on names in large green letters to read more.
NO BORDERS! Migration is NOT CRIMINAL!
MANY ARTICLES IF YOU CLICK HERE
Behind the Redwood Curtain, ICE (Dept of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has terrorized many individuals and families. Even before the creation of ICE, cruel U.S. policies and U.S. invasions throughout the world have paved the way for local toxic industries (for example: cut flowers-Sun Valley Floral Farms and corporate logging using pesticides-Simpson, Sierra Pacific, Pacific Lumber) to exploit the labor and hurt the lives of many people who have migrated to the North Coast from all over the world.
Read (or Download)
Over Raided, Under Seige
U.S. Immigration Laws and Enforcement Destroy the Rights of Immigrants
Hunger Strike at the Port Isabel Detention Center
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:37amSouthwest Workers' Union FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2010
Indefinite Hunger Strike at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Bayview, TX:
Began On National Day of Action Against Sherriff Arpaio,
The Hunger Strike grows in Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.”- MLK, Jr.
We're Still Here, We Never Left, April 3rd film screening
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 3:18pm"Todavia Estamos Aqui, Nunca Nos Fuimos"
("We're Still Here, We Never Left")
This film details the police riot in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles on May 1st, 2007- which led to the founding of the Revolutionary Autonomous Communitues (RAC). RAC's Food Program and events bring communities together in resistance to police brutality and for liberation!
Join Redwood Curtain CopWatch on Friday, April 3rd for this film.
Food and discussion too!
Evening starts at 7:00pm
Come to PARC, Peoples' Action for Rights and Community
Old Town Eureka
on 2nd Street, between "D" & "E" wooden complex, 2nd floor
(has elevator)
ALL AGES WELCOME!
