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 Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 11:19amWhat the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary activities are illegal when performed in American streets.
Demonstrators sleep in Zuccotti Park. Bryan Smith/ZumaThis story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
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
