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.
Chicago
August 23rd: Hearing on Torture and the Pelican Bay SHU!
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 2:13pmSacramento Tues, August 23rd:
Legislative Hearing on Torture & the SHU at Pelican Bay.
Please join us and support a statewide mobilization to Sacramento on August 23rd for an informational legislative hearing held by the CA State Assembly's Public Safety Committee!
Support Statewide Mobilization to Sacramento August 23rd
Monday Aug 1st: DAY OF PROTEST AND SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISON HUNGER STRIKERS
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 1:35pmAugust 1st: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST & SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISON HUNGER STRIKERS
List of Actions for August 1: Day of Protest and Solidarity with the Prison Hunger Strikers
LOS ANGELES:
View Secret FBI Documents Revealing Targetting Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:59amDocuments Released on May 18th (PDF format):
"It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out."
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 9:03pmMay Day turns 125 years old this year. tells the story of the fight for the eight-hour day--and of the Haymarket Martyrs who gave their lives for it.
April 29, 2011
ON MAY 1, 1886--125 years ago this month--hundreds of thousands of workers were taking the streets of cities around the U.S. to demand an eight-hour day.
The epicenter of this great labor struggle was Chicago, where the eight-hour movement inspired defiant protests and strikes--and inspired fear and repression from bosses and their loyal servants in law enforcement.
Chicago Police: Tape Us, Get Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 2:01pmJanuary 24, 2011: Class 1 Felony of recording a conversation is just below the prison time you'd spend for murder.
Jan. 25: National Day of Action- with International Solidarity- Protest FBI and Grand Jury Repression!
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 4:02amJoin the National Day of Action on Tuesday January 25, 2011
READ MORE TO SEE THE LIST BELOW OF PROTESTS PLANNED ALL OVER!!
In December 2010, under the direction of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the FBI delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists. Patrick Fitzgerald’s office is ordering the nine to appear at a Grand Jury in Chicago on January 25.
Denounce FBI Raids on Anti-war and Solidarity Activists Homes
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 8:13pmActivists Denounce FBI Raids on Anti-war and Solidarity Activists Homes
Subpoenas, Searches, and FBI visits carried out in cities across the country
By Staff of Fight Back! News| September 24, 2010
Call the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-353-1555 or write an email to: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.
Demand: Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists. Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc. End the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.
SF Labor Council Condemns FBI Raids on Trade Union, Anti-War and Solidarity Activists
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 3:50pmSan Francisco Labor Council Resolution
[Note: The following resolution -- submitted by David Welsh, NALC 214, and Alan Benjamin, OPEIU 3 -- was adopted unanimously by the SFLC Delegates' Meeting on Sept. 27, 2010.]
Condemn FBI Raids on Trade Union, Anti-War and Solidarity Activists
Whereas, early morning Sept. 24 in coordinated raids, FBI agents entered eight homes and offices of trade union and anti-war activists in Minneapolis and Chicago, confiscating crates full of computers, books, documents, notebooks, cell phones, passports, children's drawings, photos of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, videos and personal belongings. The FBI also raided offices of the Twin Cities Anti-war Committee, seizing computers; handed out subpoenas to testify before a federal Grand Jury to 11 activists in Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan; and paid harassment visits to others in Wisconsin, California and North Carolina; and
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.
One Argument for Making Complaints Against Cops
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 3:18pmIllinois: Judge Finds Police Official in Contempt
A judge found Chicago’s top police official in contempt of court for refusing to turn over lists of officers who have had repeated complaints filed against them by the public.
The judge, Robert W. Gettleman, ordered the official, Superintendent Jody Weis, to produce the lists by Monday. Judge Gettleman initially ordered Mr. Weis to turn over the information by Feb. 19.
But Mr. Weis sent a statement one day after the deadline saying the lists would lower morale and harm some members of the police force by branding them as “repeaters.”
Interview with RICHIE PEREZ (1944-2004)
<h2>INTERVIEW WITH RICHIE PEREZ</h2>
Founder, National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
& The Justice Committee
Edited by Blanca Vazquez
Contents:
1. Personal History
2. Policing in the Rudolph Giuliani Era
3. Anthony Baez: Organizing for Justice
4. The Families
5. Alliances with Street Organizations
6. Cover-Up
7. The Blue Wall of Silence and the Courts
8. Civil Disobedience
9. Rudolph Giuliani and the NYPD
10. Safety
11. Zero Tolerance
12. Arrest Quotas
13. Crime Rates
14. The Social Justice Movement
15. Police Accountability
16. Amadou Diallo
17. Gary (Gidone) Busch
18. Two Societies, Separate and Unequal
19. Racial Profiling
20. The Power Over Life and Death
