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.
communities of color
January 1st, 2012: Oscar Grant 3rd Anniversary Memorial March and Rally
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 11:40pmJanuary 1st, 2012: Oscar Grant 3rd Anniversary Memorial March and Rally
Stand Up to the Watchdogs of the 1%--Your Local Police Department!
1pm March from Oscar Grant Plaza at 14th & Broadway to Rally at Fruitvale BART
Angela Davis Speaks About PRISONS
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 11:38pmAngela Davis on WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show May 16, 2011
Angela Davis, activist, scholar, and author of Are Prisons Obsolete?, marks the 40th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising with her critique of the "prison-industrial complex."
http://www.wnyc.org/audio/m3u/134778/
Angela Davis will be speaking as part of a panel at a May 20th Critical Resistance event called "The World We Want is the World We Need."
Pat-Downs: Intrusions Long Before the TSA
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 1:19amPat-Downs Hit Middle America Where It Counts
Nov 24, 2010 By David Coleman
The recent outrage expressed by white males and females over intrusive airport pat-downs may have an upside. At least at the nation’s airports, non-minority airline passengers who seek to board an airplane are being sensitized to the indignities that are a routine part of the lives of some men of color who merely walk or drive down a street.
AP / Ted S. Warren
Good times: A traveler endures a pat-down during a TSA security screening on Nov. 19 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
National Day of Action Against Racist SB 1070: May 29, 2010
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 2:27pmEND BORDER MILITARIZATION CONTINGENT
DEMANDING DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS & MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
O'odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective sends you greetings from occupied O'odham lands,
Feeling for the Edge of your Imagination: finding ways not to call the police, by Caroline 2010
“So I continue… seeking to make, or to create, revolutionary connections between the full identity of my love, of what hurts me, or fills me with nausea, and the way things are: what we are forced to learn… trained to ignore”
- June Jordan
Feeling for the Edge of your Imagination: finding ways not to call the police http://imaginealternatives.tumblr.com/
Dear friends, family, acquaintances and people with whom I share house party dance floors and supermarket lines,
A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine attended a police lineup, pointed at someone, and sent them to jail or prison. Last night, a friend’s roommate called the cops about something happening outside, and the effect of that action was a young man getting tasered.
