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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Message To All Police Officers from Occupy Wall Street [VIDEO]
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 8:13pmLocal Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 11:25pmA decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting report.
Dec 21, 2011 Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communities. North Dakota’s largest city has averaged fewer than two homicides a year since 2005, and there’s not been a single international terrorism prosecution in the last decade.
But that hasn’t stopped authorities in Fargo and its surrounding county from going on an $8 million buying spree to arm police officers with the sort of gear once reserved only for soldiers fighting foreign wars.
Humboldt Juvenile Probation Department's “Undocumented Persons” Policy VIOLATES CIVIL RIGHTS
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 7:21pmHere is a link to the letter below, in its entirety:
http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/files/Letter to Probation 7.26.11 .pdf
To view the rest of the letter, go to
http://redwoodcurtaincopwatch.net/node/867
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
The Quality of Whose Life?
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 7:53am
Linocut by Art HazelwoodApril 2nd: BAR NONE Art Show Benefit
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 11:35pmHello friends, 
We are pleased to announce that Bar None will be hosting an art show/benefit at Kyoto's Japanese Restaurant (320 F St. in Eureka) on Saturday April 2nd during Arts Alive! from 5-9 pm.
There will be sushi, wine, music, raffles, and artwork from "inside."
Free admission! (but donations of cash, postage stamps, and envelopes welcome).
URGENT: Nov 9 Hearing to decide between execution or life without parole.
From the Global Women's Strike
URGENT...URGENT...URGENT
On Tuesday November 9, an oral hearing in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia will decide whether award-winning journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal will face execution, despite compelling evidence of his innocence, or be given life without parole. Demonstrations and other events in support of Mumia are being organized across the US and in other countries (see list below). The Global Women's Strike (GWS), Women of Color in the GWS, and Payday men’s network who have worked with Mumia for a new trial will be attending the rally and hearing in Philadelphia, as well as participating in a protest outside the US Embassy in London England. We urge you to show your support.
The Quality of Whose Life? Part 2
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 5:41pmBy Paul Boden Organizing Director, Western Regional Advocacy Project
What images do the words "quality of life" bring to mind? A peaceful beach? A beautiful park? A farmers market full of healthy produce? In the realm of policing, the phrase "quality of life" carries different connotations. It means a veteran getting hauled in for sleeping on the sidewalk, a homeless woman being prohibited from resting on a park bench, or even brutal scenes like these from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Fresno.
2010 National Days of Action To Stop Police Brutality: Art, Photos, Media
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 11:58pmLocally and All Over the Country
Brothers of Chris Burgess, killed by Eureka cop 4 years ago, Oct 23rd
Christopher Jan 6 1990 ~ October 23 2006
California Street, Eureka CA October 23, 2010
Black Student Union and CopWatch Host Film Screening at HSU, Wednesday Oct 20th
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 10/17/2010 - 9:49amOn Wednesday, October 20th, in preparation for the National Days of Action Against Police Brutality (Oct 22-23), join the Black Student Union and Redwood Curtain CopWatch for the film...
"We're Still Here, We Never Left"
"Todavia Estamos Aqui, Nunca Nos Fuimos."
*This Free Event starts at 6:00pm
*Location: Gist Hall, Room #219 Humboldt State Campus, Arcata
*All are welcome (students and non-students alike)
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!
"We're Still Here, We Never Left" has footage never before seen on the mainstream media- documenting the truth about the police repression on May 1st, 2007, and showing the growing popular movement in oppressed communities.
Oscar Grant's Murderer (cop Johannes Mehserle) Wants a New Trial
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 8:56pmMehserle lawyer moves for new trial: What the defense is arguing
Published on Monday, October 04, 2010
file photo, Johannes Mehserle
Police Have Murdered at least 140 people in L.A. County Since 2007
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 10:54amLA Times Article including interactive map and info on each victim:
http://projects.latimes.com/homicide/circumstance/officer-involved-shooting/
You can browse by: age, gender, cause, day of the week, jurisdiction, neighborhood, race/ethnicity, circumstance or crime scene
Source: The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles County coroner's office
The 2010 LA Pico-Union Rebellion
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 09/26/2010 - 7:39pmMonday, Sept 20 2010 Contributed by:Frotchie
On September 5th, 2010, Manuel Jamines was murdered by cops. LAPD Rampart Division police gunned him down, in broad daylight and in cold blood, at the corner of 6th and Union Ave in Pico-Union, a working class neighborhood in LA known for its Guatemalan and indigenous population. Manuel was a 37-year-old indigenous man from Guatemala working as a day laborer in the US. He didn’t speak English or even Spanish very well, and he had three small children in his home country. The pig who shot him, Frank Hernandez, was notorious in the community as a violent, racist, unpredictable hazard. Locals call him El Pelon, or “The Bald One.”
The Power of the People vs. Police Abuse of Power, by Michael Zinzun 2002
Presentation On The Inglewood, California Police Beating of Donovan Jackson-Chavis by Michael Zinzun, Coalition Against Police Abuse, July 13, 2002
On Saturday, July 6, 2002, shortly after Donovan Jackson-Chavis was beaten by the Inglewood P.D., his father Coby Chavis and his cousin, Taliba Shakir, a woman who had been a member of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in L.A., called CAPA. What is CAPA?
R.I.P. Francisco Moran: Murdered by Modesto Police
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 09/26/2010 - 11:27am|
From Modesto Anarcho Francisco Moran, a 45 year old man was shot and killed by police [Modesto Police Department officers Joseph Lamantia, Robert Laxton] in North East Modesto on early Monday morning [Sept. 6, 2010], as officers responded to a civil dispute at his home. In the newspaper on Tuesday, police claimed that Moran was "belligerent" and "intoxicated," and after being tasered, came at police with a knife that was taken from his pants. This forced them to shoot Moran dead. Seems like we've heard this story before haven't we? In 2003, police shot and killed Eustolio Aguilar, after they claimed he was reaching for a gun. After he was dead, it turned out he was reaching for a cell phone.
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Oscar Grant was MURDERED, but Verdict for Killer Cop was Involuntary Manslaughter
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 07/11/2010 - 3:10pmCommunity Responds to U.S. Systemic Racism as Evidenced by the MURDER of Oscar Grant, then Reinforced by the Mehserle Verdict
First Cop Tried for Murder in California -On the Witness Stand (LYING through his teeth); Johannes Mehserle, the cop who murdered Oscar Grant
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 8:24pm
Listen: Special Radio Hour on Oscar Grant!
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 8:50pmHave a listen to this Special Radio Hour on Oscar Grant! Includes music,
interviews with family spokesperson Jack Bryson, father of 2 of Oscar's
friends, and Aidge & Erinn Carter, organizers for the LA Coalition for
Oscar Grant...
Last night on "Beautiful Struggle," on KPFK 90.7fm in Los Angeles,
www.kpfk.org
On the web:
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_100511_190030beautifulstruggle.MP3
NATIONAL WEEK OF ART FOR OSCAR GRANT!!
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 5:44pmMost of you know by now of Oscar Grant, the young father who was murdered by BART police in Oakland last New Years. And that the cop who shot Oscar while he laid on the ground, Johannes Mehserle, is the 1st cop in CA history to
face a Murder Trial.
BUT did you know the Trial has been moved to LA in an apparent cover-up, and is starting on June 14th?!?! Well if not, now you do... LA it is OUR time to stand up & finally DEMAND Justice for Oscar!
On Monday, June 14th we will be gathering in MASS in front of the LA
Superior Courthouse in Downtown LA, in support of Oscar Grant¹s young
daughter, girlfriend, mother, family, friends & community in their uphill
battle for justice.
June 10-17, 2010, the week of the start of trial, has also been declared the
NATIONAL WEEK OF ART FOR OSCAR GRANT!!
Artists of all types (Visual Arts, Music, Poetry, Film, Theatre, Dance, etc), all capabilities, and all ages will be dedicating their art & events that week in a Nationwide show of support for Justice for Oscar Grant & All Stolen Lives.
Justice for Oscar Grant! June 14th Killer Cop's Murder Trial Begins!!
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 4:03pmJustice for Oscar Grant!
Murdered by BART Officer Johannes MehserleAll out to Court
Monday June 14th! Starting at 7am, come thru all day!
Drop All Charges Against Holly Works!
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 6:07pm
Please post and distribute widely -
A message from the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal -
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All -
DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST HOLLY WORKS!
31 Year old Mentally Ill Man TAZED to Death in LA
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 9:26amMarch 19, 2010
ALBERT POLENCIA, 31 YEAR OLD MENTALLY ILL MAN, WAS TAZED TO DEATH BY
DOWNEY POLICE
CHASED from Downey to South Gate
KILLED in FRONT OF HIS HOME
Check out the Redwood Curtain CopWatch Taser file (a resource in process) We need volunteer help with this important database.
Letter to Humboldt Juvenile Probation Department Regarding Its “Undocumented Persons” Policy
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 07/31/2011 - 8:02pm
Lessons from the Oscar Grant Tragedy – We Need to Get to Work, by Kokayi Kwa Jitahidi / Feb 2010
In many instances, the second pre-trial hearing for Johannes Mehserle could be seen as a victorious day for the family and supporters of Oscar Grant, who was fatally shot by Mehserle as he lay unarmed on a platform in Oakland on New Year’s Day 2009.
After weeks of nervous speculation, presiding Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Perry rejected motions put forth by Mehserle’s legal team to reduce his bail amount and remove the Alameda County district attorney from the case.
While Perry acknowledged that prosecutors employed some questionable and perhaps unconstitutional tactics during their investigation, those acts failed to substantiate the extreme requests of defense attorney Michael Rains.
Victory also extended to outside of the courtroom as scores of activists and supporters braved the early morning chill to hold signs, recite chants, and talk to onlookers — all in the name of making the often-apathetic L.A. populace aware of one of the most significant court cases in state history.
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!
