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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Madison Area AFL CIO Votes to Prepare For General Strike
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 11:04pmThis evening in a press release from IBEW Local 2304 President Dave Pokilinski, I received word that the 45,000 member Southern Central Federation of Labor, the local chapter of the AFL-CIO for the Madison and Southern Central Wisconsin area, has voted to make preparations for a general strike.
The press release reads as follows:
Around 10:50PM Wisconsin Time on February 21st the South Central Federation of Labor endorsed the following motions:
Motion 1: The SCFL endorses a general strike, possibly for the day Walker signs his “budget repair bill,” and requests the Education Committee immediately begin educating affiliates and members on the organization and function of a general strike.
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Behind the Redwood Curtain, ICE (Dept of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has terrorized many individuals and families. Even before the creation of ICE, cruel U.S. policies and U.S. invasions throughout the world have paved the way for local toxic industries (for example: cut flowers-Sun Valley Floral Farms and corporate logging using pesticides-Simpson, Sierra Pacific, Pacific Lumber) to exploit the labor and hurt the lives of many people who have migrated to the North Coast from all over the world.
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Over Raided, Under Seige
U.S. Immigration Laws and Enforcement Destroy the Rights of Immigrants
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:
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:
