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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Why The National Defense Authorization Act Now?
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 11:00pmWHY THE NDAA NOW?
By Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken January 6, 2012
Barack Obama just signed into law one of the most repressive and right-wing pieces of legislation ever passed in the history of the country: the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It allows the military, a.k.a. the Pentagon, to determine who is a “terrorist” and to detain that person in prison, indefinitely, without trial, under its jurisdiction. It makes no difference whether the person is a U.S. citizen or a foreign “enemy combatant.”
Gordon Hirabayashi, Historic Resister of US' arbitrary and indefinite detention dies
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 8:00pm[Only a few days after President Obama signed into law provisions for arbitary and capricious seizure and indefinite detention of US citizens--throwing out habeus corpus and other "Constitutional rights"--one of the most prominent and courageous opponents of such a repressive policy--the US' detention of Japanese American citizens during World War II--has died. --Frontlines ed.]
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Gordon Hirabayashi, shown in 1985, was vindicated in his challenges to internment.
The Transparency Problem: The Government will not tell you why it’s Legal to Kill You
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 4:57pmBy Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie
President Barack Obama has leveraged heavy rhetoric on the subject of transparency for some time now, even going as far as to publish on the official White House website that his “Administration is committed to an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
If this is open government, I can’t begin to imagine what a closed government is.
After Anwar al-Awlaki was allegedly assassinated in Yemen, the New York Times sought to find out the legal basis for the Obama administration’s secretive “kill list” which apparently can now include United States citizens.
US Senate Passes 'INDEFINITE DETENTION' Bill [Videos, Articles]
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 11:13amStop Sept 21 Execution of Troy Davis!
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 8:47pmOur calls and petitions have worked before. They must work again! STOP THE EXECUTION! FREE TROY DAVIS!
Stop Sept 21 Execution of Troy Davis!
On March 28, 2011, the US Supreme Court failed to take up the appeal of Troy Davis. He could be executed at any time.
AND NOW HIS EXECUTION HAS BEEN SET FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTMEBER 21!.
TELL THE GEORGIA GOV., LEGISLATURE, PRESIDENT OBAMA, ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDEN, CONGRESS AND THE MEDIA: STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS!
Police State Much? by Cindy Sheehan
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 11:43pm“Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.”
Steve Allen
“Patriotic” Americans are still berating me for “demeaning” my son’s “sacrifice.” A typical message goes something like this:
“Your son died to give you the right to spew your filth against this country. If it wasn’t for the military and people like your son, you wouldn’t have the freedom to protest.”
Communication Management Units (CMU's) in the U.S.
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 04/10/2011 - 8:52pmGitmo in the Heartland
Alia Malek, March 10, 2011 Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.
Police are the Greatest Threat to the American Public
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 2:22amWhen We Gonna Wake Up…..Americans are Oppressed, Too
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02042011.html
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person murdered by the police. Serrato was the wrong man, but the Monterey County, California, SWAT team killed the 31-year old father of four and left the family home a charred ruin.
Government Plans for National Internet ID System
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 12:01amBig Brother Obama: White House Plans Internet ID System
by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, January 18, 2011 Antifascist Calling...
Urged by one and all to "tone down" what media pundits and political elites describe as "strident," even "violent" rhetoric that has "poisoned" our "national conversation" and "sharply polarized" the population, the shooting rampage in Tucson which claimed six lives, including that of a nine-year-old girl is, in fact, emblematic of the moral bankruptcy and utter hypocrisy of those selfsame capitalist elites.
Obama Seeks More Eavesdropping on Internet
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 9:50amObama is seeking more control of the Internet, a "frontier of freedom" he seeks to control.
President Barack Obama and his national security team are seeking to expand the government's role in eavesdropping on the Internet including emails, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as BlackBerries.
According to reports, the Obama White House plans to submit a bill after the new congress takes over both houses next January that would require all online services that provide communications between users to be enabled to comply with federal wiretap orders.
The proposed monitoring measures will affect encrypted e-mail, such as the popular BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, as well communication sites such as Skype.
U.S. Soldier Imprisoned for Releasing Video Of U.S. Military Slaying of Iraqi Civilians: VIDEO & PETITION included
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 12:20amBradley Manning is the U.S. soldier now in a US military prison in Kuwait who has been arrested and charged with two violations for releasing classified information (the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video) and facing 54 years in prison. He is being held in isolation from the outside world - with no contact with his civilian attorneys working to defend him.
If the allegations are true, Bradley Manning is a hero for bringing to light the realities of the crimes being committed in the U.S. occupation.
We call for his immediate release and that his attorneys be allowed to talk to him.
Sign-On In Support of Bradley Manning & His Right to Counsel
Supreme Court Miranda Ruling: Suspects Must Explicitly Tell Police They Want To Remain Silent
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 3:36pmThe case is Berghuis v. Thompkins, 08-1470. CLICK HERE for the Supreme Court Ruling
Want to invoke your right to remain silent? You'll have to speak up.
In a narrowly split decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority expanded its limits on the famous Miranda rights for criminal suspects on Tuesday – over the dissent of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said the ruling turned Americans' rights of protection from police abuse "upside down."
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,
IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING ATTACK ON WOUNDED KNEE- from AIM Santa Barbara
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 9:46amMay 2, 2010
To the Original Peoples of the Fourth World and all International Press Services:
At high noon today US Army helicopters of the US Seventh Cavalry air division attempted to land their Blackhawk aircraft upon Lakota Sacred Burial grounds in South Dakota. The presence of military aircraft from this unit... See More is a sad and insulting reminder of the slaughter of more than 300 American Aboriginals on December 29,1890 when soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry gunned down more than 300 Aboriginal Minneconjou Lakota refugee children, women, infants and the elderly at what is now called Wounded Knee in South Dakota Indian Country. The military then left the bodies of their victims to decay unburied in the driving snow.
Free Mumia NOW! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty
Partisan Defense Committee Statement 24 January 2010
Mumia Is Innocent—Free Him Now!
Supreme Court of Death Rules Against Mumia Abu-Jamal
Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!
On January 19, the U.S. Supreme Court took a clear step toward the legal lynching of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Court vacated a 2001 decision by federal district court judge William Yohn overturning Mumia’s death sentence. Yohn’s decision had been previously upheld by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The new ruling by the Supreme Court underscores our insistence that fighters for Mumia’s freedom must place no faith in the courts, which, at every level, have colluded with the police and prosecutors to see through the execution of this innocent man.
for Labor Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Feb 2010
Top US Court Sends Mumia Abu-Jamal Closer to Execution
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man on death row. In two recent decisions, the US Supreme Court has ignored both evidence of his innocence and it's own precedents to deny Mumia's appeal and bring him closer to execution. In this statement, the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal lays bare the truth behind these actions, and proposes a course of workers' and mass action to free Mumia.
Cops, Courts and Politicians To Mumia:
URGENT: Sign these PETITIONS for MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
SIGN PETITIONS TO: President Obama and Attorney General Holder
To Obama: (in many languages) Mumia Abu-Jamal and The Global Abolition of the Death Penalty http://www.petitiononline.com/Mumialaw/petition.html
Obama Praises Oakland Cops, Apparently Has AMNESIA to Their LEGACY OF ABUSE AND MURDER
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 12:06amCan someone remind "Bro Prez" that police work is only the 17th most dangerous job in the Nation ??? (more work related casualties among gardeners than cops....)
See OAKLAND CA FACT SHEET, POLICE
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