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.
Homeland Security
HORRIFIC: Obama Legalizing Federal and State Military Control and Collaboration in U.S.
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:43amTHE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release Jan 11, 2010
Important Supreme Court Ruling for Undocumented Workers
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 3:54pmSupreme Court Limits Identity Theft Law
The Supreme Court has ruled undocumented workers using false papers cannot be charged with aggravated identity theft unless they knew their fake IDs belonged to a real person. The Bush administration frequently charged undocumented immigrants with felony identity theft, which carries a two-year sentence. Prosecutors had used the threat of a felony to persuade undocumented workers to plead guilty to lesser charges of document fraud.
Democracy Now! Headlines
May 5, 2009
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Pentagon Wants to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in Communities Throughout U.S.
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 1:44pmThe Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
By Matthew Rothschild, August 12, 2009
http://www.progressive.org/wx081209b.html
The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster.
This request has already occasioned a dispute with the nation’s governors. And it raises the prospect of U.S. military personnel patrolling the streets of the United States, in conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
