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.
Texas
US Execution Puts Death Penalty On Trial
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 11:50pmTroy Davis is set to die in under a week but advocates say there is 'too much doubt' to condemn him to death. Jesse Strauss Last Modified: 18 Sep 2011 14:02
A global campaign is asking Georgia to commute Davis' sentence from death to life imprisonment [WCADP]
Cops in Schools
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 9:24pmTexas School Police Ticketing Students As Young As Six
Jan 10, 2011 By Liz Goodwin
School police officers in Texas are doling out more tickets to children as young as 6, who under past disciplinary practices would have been sent to the principal's office instead, according to a report by a Texas nonprofit.
"Disrupting class, using profanity, misbehaving on a school bus, student fights, and truancy once meant a trip to the principal's office. Today, such misbehavior results in a Class C misdemeanor ticket and a trip to court for thousands of Texas students and their families each year," says the Appleseed Texas report (PDF). It examined data from 22 of the state's largest school districts and eight municipal courts.
Hunger Strike at the Port Isabel Detention Center
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 9:37amSouthwest Workers' Union FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2010
Indefinite Hunger Strike at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Bayview, TX:
Began On National Day of Action Against Sherriff Arpaio,
The Hunger Strike grows in Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.”- MLK, Jr.
