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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Interview with RICHIE PEREZ (1944-2004)
<h2>INTERVIEW WITH RICHIE PEREZ</h2>
Founder, National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
& The Justice Committee
Edited by Blanca Vazquez
Contents:
1. Personal History
2. Policing in the Rudolph Giuliani Era
3. Anthony Baez: Organizing for Justice
4. The Families
5. Alliances with Street Organizations
6. Cover-Up
7. The Blue Wall of Silence and the Courts
8. Civil Disobedience
9. Rudolph Giuliani and the NYPD
10. Safety
11. Zero Tolerance
12. Arrest Quotas
13. Crime Rates
14. The Social Justice Movement
15. Police Accountability
16. Amadou Diallo
17. Gary (Gidone) Busch
18. Two Societies, Separate and Unequal
19. Racial Profiling
20. The Power Over Life and Death
Film about Angola 3: "In The Land of the Free" - Angola Prison aka Slave Plantation
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:05amNew Film on Angola 3
Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, of the "Angola 3" have been in solitary for 37 years and a new film has now been made about them and is due to be released later this month. Robert King, one of the Angola 3, was finally released in 2001. These three men have all been activists behind bars.
Zapatista in the U.S.
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 12:43amThe Other United States: repression, marginalization and grass-roots resistance in the US
Alejandro Reyes - 16-april-2009 - num.576
Radio Zapatista, KPFA, berkeley, california
Between February and April 2008, the informational campaign EZLN: The Fire and the Word travelled through over 11,000 miles of the United States, visiting 25 cities in 10 states. The main purpose of the campaign was to share the history and current reality of the Zapatista struggle, especially with the country’s youth.
