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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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.
Protests Grow in Solidarity With California Prisoners As Hunger Strikes Enter Third Week, Democracy Now! July 15, 2011
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 12:40pmJustice In Dreamland
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 11:10pmBy LINDA GREENHOUSE
Police officers following a suspect into an apartment complex in Lexington, Ky., don’t know which apartment their man has entered. But wafting through one of the closed apartment doors is the familiar odor of marijuana. The smell provides reason to believe criminal activity is afoot, probable cause for a warrant to search the apartment.
Supreme Court Says, "Get Used To Living In A Police State"
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 8:37pmSupreme Court gives police a new entryway into homes
The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision in a Kentucky case, says police officers who loudly knock on a door in search of illegal drugs and then hear sounds suggesting evidence is being destroyed may break down the door and enter without a search warrant.
Help Save Troy Davis (Spread this VIDEO)
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 12:17amSpread the Word by Sharing This Video
Over the last week, more than 30,000 members of the NAACP family have spoken up and stood by Troy Davis. Now it's up to us to spread the word so that our collective voice can be even louder.
Arizona's Governor Wants Supreme Court to Allow Racist, Immoral, Unconstitutional, Violent Law
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 9:35pmArizona taking immigration law to U.S. Supreme Court
Gov. Jan Brewer says Arizona is going directly to the Supreme Court to appeal a ruling by a U.S. 9th Circuit panel that the state's immigration law is unconstitutional.
May 9, 2011
Troy Davis On Death Row Is INNOCENT; March 29, 2011 Bad Supreme Court Ruling [PETITION Included!]
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 12:43am
11-year-old Pennsylvanian is Youngest Person in the WORLD to Face Life Without Parole
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 2:31amTuesday, January 25th, 2011
Will Cops Be Required to Tell You Explicitly That You Have a Right To Have A Lawyer Present During Any Questioning?
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:57pmThis is an older article, and the court did not decide to make the cops tell you more when they are drilling you. No matter what the courts change or don't , always assert "I choose to remain silent and I want to see a lawyer." Then, say nothing else. Cops don't have to give a Miranda warning, anyway, until you're arrested and they want to further question you. Know Your Rights!
Miranda rights warning could get rewrite
Supreme Court weighs whether to make some parts more explicit
The Associated Press updated 12/7/2009
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday seemed headed toward telling police they must explicitly advise criminal suspects that their lawyer can be present during any interrogation.
The arguments in front of the justices were the latest over how explicit the Miranda warning rights have to be, as justices debated whether the warnings police gave Kevin Dwayne Powell made clear to him that he could have a lawyer present while being interrogated by police.
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."
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:
Pam Africa says: "The time is now for organizing... with all of the strength that you have" for MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
Pam Africa on the Supreme Court ruling against Mumia
On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal and granted the Philadelphia DA's petition for a writ of certiorari. Basically, the Supreme Court went against the lower federal circuit court's 2001 and 2008 rulings, which granted a new sentencing phase jury trial if the death penalty was to be reinstated in Jamal's case. Now the case goes back down to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, who will decide whether they will re-impose the death penalty without the jury trial.
Friday, Jan 15th: US Supreme Court will hold Conference about Mumia's case
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 11:58pmHans Bennett wrote:
Yesterday there was a huge development in Mumia's case.
According to a posting yesterday on the US Supreme Court's website, the Court has scheduled a conference for this Friday, January 15, to discuss Mumia's case. Specifically, they are looking at the Philadelphia DA's request to have Mumia executed without a new sentencing hearing.
Mobilize and Fight To Save Mumia's Life!
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 8:20pmPeople in the Humboldt area and wherever you are! Please mobilize rallies, media, strikes, shut downs, walk outs, etc to save Mumia Abu Jamal. If you've never spread the word before, spread it NOW!! Pass this email on to all of your lists. AT LEAST SIGN THE PETITIONS!! Listen to Mumia's radio commentaries from Death Row, and fight for his life!! There are many links at the bottom of this message.
And put MUMIA messages on your MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, etc!!
No Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal before January 11, 2010
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 9:46pmMichael Schiffman, a leading activist in Heidelberg, Germany, and also a member of Journalists for Mumia, generously translated a statement Mumia's attorney, Robert Bryan, gave at the International Defense Committee in Bremen on December 14, 2009
Breaking News: No Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal before January 11, 2010
Troy Davis Case Raising Novel Legal Issues
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 4:51pmThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Condemned inmate Troy Anthony Davis filed the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary when he petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a hearing on his innocence claims.
Important Supreme Court Ruling for Undocumented Workers
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 1:54pmSupreme 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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Aggravated identity theft was the tactic used against immigrant meat packers in the infamous Postville, Iowa raid of 2008.
Read about the Postville raid in these articles:
Troy Davis and the Meaning of 'Actual Innocence' by Amy Goodman
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 1:19pmTroy Davis and the Meaning of 'Actual Innocence'
August 19, 2009 by TruthDig.com by Amy Goodman
