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.
haiti
Rushed From Haiti, Then JAILED in U.S. for Lacking Visas
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 4:05pmMarch 31, 2010
By Nina Bernstein, NY Times
More than two months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, at least 30 survivors who were waved onto planes by Marines in the chaotic aftermath are prisoners of the United States immigration system, locked up since their arrival in detention centers in Florida.
In Haiti, some were pulled from the rubble, their legal advocates say. Some lost parents, siblings or children. Many were seeking food, safety or medical care at the Port-au-Prince airport when terrifying aftershocks prompted hasty evacuations by military transports, with no time for immigration processing. None have criminal histories.
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
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.
