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.
New York Times
Gordon Hirabayashi, Historic Resister of US' arbitrary and indefinite detention dies
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 8:00pm[Only a few days after President Obama signed into law provisions for arbitary and capricious seizure and indefinite detention of US citizens--throwing out habeus corpus and other "Constitutional rights"--one of the most prominent and courageous opponents of such a repressive policy--the US' detention of Japanese American citizens during World War II--has died. --Frontlines ed.]
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Gordon Hirabayashi, shown in 1985, was vindicated in his challenges to internment.
January 11: Day of Action Against Guantanamo
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 6:20pm10 Years of Guantanamo:
We Say No More!
Bradley Manning Support Group
January 11 Day of Action Against Guantanamo
Bradley Manning faces decades in prison for providing WikiLeaks with the Guantanamo detainee assessments. Based on those files, we know that the prison has held mostly innocent people and low-level operatives.
The Transparency Problem: The Government will not tell you why it’s Legal to Kill You
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 4:57pmBy Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie
President Barack Obama has leveraged heavy rhetoric on the subject of transparency for some time now, even going as far as to publish on the official White House website that his “Administration is committed to an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
If this is open government, I can’t begin to imagine what a closed government is.
After Anwar al-Awlaki was allegedly assassinated in Yemen, the New York Times sought to find out the legal basis for the Obama administration’s secretive “kill list” which apparently can now include United States citizens.
Thurs, Oct 13th EMERGENCY Eureka Rally: Support Prisoner Hunger Strike - Demand End to Torture!
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:04amSupport the Prisoner Hunger Strike -
Demand an End to Torture
October 13th Rally in Solidarity
A Reading of Prisoners' Letters
Thursday Oct 13th 3:00–7:00pm Urgent RALLY In Solidarity With Prisoner Hunger Strike!
In front of the Humboldt County Courthouse and Jail!
825 5th St. Eureka, CA
Wear Orange, if possible!
The Shame of California
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 9:01pmTHE SHAME OF CALIFORNIA
I’ve been eating well this summer, enjoying the local fruits and vegetables of northwest California, while sixty miles away a group of men risked their health by refusing to eat for three weeks. I’m in Big Lagoon, surrounded by ocean, lagoon, and forest in an area of coastal California described by National Geographic as among the top twenty “unspoiled” tourist destinations in the world. An hour’s drive north of here is Pelican Bay State Prison, a state-of-the-art hellhole that was recently the center of a three-week hunger strike led by prisoners in the Secure Housing Units (SHU).
Chicago Police: Tape Us, Get Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 2:01pmJanuary 24, 2011: Class 1 Felony of recording a conversation is just below the prison time you'd spend for murder.
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.
