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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Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 8:06pmDownload the Handbook: http://jailhouselaw.org/
HEARING ON RACISM AND POLICE VIOLENCE Oakland • February 19-20, 2011
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 10:35am
Join us for a HEARING ON RACISM AND POLICE VIOLENCE
Oakland • February 2011
Come share Testimony and Demand Accountability on the Issues of Racist Law Enforcement and Police Suppression of Civil Liberties. Testimony will include witnesses to police killings across the country and experts on the impact of racial profiling and mass incarcerations.
THE HEARING (originally planned for January) HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH & 20TH
Oakland High (1023 MacArthur near Park Blvd) Oakland, CA
SPONSORED BY:
• Mieklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
• New Years Movement
• East Side Arts Alliance
• Onyx• Collision Course Video
• African People’s Socialist Party
• National Lawyers Guild
• Hard Knock Radio
• US Human Rights Network
Several So-Called 'Prison Abolitionists' from the U.S. Secretly Try to Ban Mumia from Speaking at 4th World Congress Against the Death Penalty
The Politics of Death: Throwing Mumia Abu-Jamal Under the Bus
Created 06/29/2010
By Dave Lindorff
"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
--Frederick Douglass
On the evening of February 25, participants at the Fourth World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Geneva, Switzerland had assembled from all over the globe for a dramatic Voices of Victims evening. It got more dramatic than they had anticipated though, when suddenly a cell phone rang and Robert R. Bryan, lead defense attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, jumped up on the stage to announce that his client had called him from death row in Pennsylvania.
The audience sat in rapt silence as the emcee held the phone up to the microphone. Abu-Jamal, on death row for 28 years after a widely disputed conviction for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, greeted the delegates and then, as he has done on many occasions before, described to them the horrors of life in prison for the 20,000 people around the world who are awaiting execution.
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