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.”
MARCH 19th, EUREKA: Rally to End Obsessive Wars, Stop Naval Testing, Stand Up For Bradley Manning
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 03/17/2011 - 11:34am" Joining This National Resurgence!"
Sat. 1:00 Mar. 19
Ending Obsessive Wars
of Exploitation and Ruin!
'On The Waterfront'
End of F. St, Eureka, Ca.
RALLY Against Navy's Five Year Warfare Testing Program, Sunday morning Oct 31st
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 9:55pmWe only have until the end of October to submit public comment on the Navy's intent to do war testing 12 to 50 miles off our coast.
*Please help to get the word out.*
EPIC's website has more detailed information:
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/blog/navywarfaretraining/
The official to email with your comments is: jane.lubchenco@NOAA.gov.
Call members of Congress at: 1-866-220-0044 (toll free)
Ask them for a Congressional hearing on this issue.
*Rally at the Samoa Cookhouse* Sunday morning (Oct. 31) when Jerry Brown and MEDIA will be there. Get there by 7am, bring signs protesting the Navy's Five Year Warfare Testing Program.
Those Who Ignore the Past Are Bound to REPEAT IT -from PEOPLE PROJECT blog
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 11:59amThis is from a July 6, 2005 PLAZOID. The Plazoid was a brilliant independent, self-published pamphlet/zine that circulated in Arcata in the mid 2000's.
SOON Nazi authorities and the police began to consign members of other groups to the new camps: homosexual men arrested as criminal offenders; Jehovah's Witnesses who refused to obey demands to cease their activities; women accused of prostitution; people labeled "asocial" because they were homeless, begged, or for some other reason did not fit into Nazi society.
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.
HORRIFIC: Obama Legalizing Federal and State Military Control and Collaboration in U.S.
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:43amTHE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release Jan 11, 2010
Haiti Needs Water, Not Military Occupation!
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 7:55pmHaiti Needs Water, Not Occupation!
The US has never wanted Haitian self-rule, and its focus on 'security concerns' has hampered the earthquake aid response
Pentagon Wants to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in Communities Throughout U.S.
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 11:44amThe 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.
