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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Arizona's Governor Wants Supreme Court to Allow Racist, Immoral, Unconstitutional, Violent Law
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 9:35pmArizona taking immigration law to U.S. Supreme Court
Gov. Jan Brewer says Arizona is going directly to the Supreme Court to appeal a ruling by a U.S. 9th Circuit panel that the state's immigration law is unconstitutional.
May 9, 2011
New "Laser" Weapon in LA County Jail
Submitted by copwatch on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 8:25amThis is an article from
By JOHN ADAMS
Updated 7:17 AM PDT, Mon, Aug 23, 2010
New "Laser" Weapon Debuts in LA County Jail
"Assault Intervention Device" comes to Pitchess Detention Center
Guards at the Los Angeles County jail complex in Castaic will start using a newfangled weapon that produces a deep burning sensation -- which is not to be confused with a “warm fuzzy feeling” -- in whomever it is aimed at.
VETO APARTHEID BILL SB 1070! Callout for Massive and Ongoing Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 10:27pmStudents and Community Members Chain Themselves to Arizona State Capitol
ARIZONA’S APARTHEID STATE CALLS FOR A STATEWIDE AND NATIONWIDE CALLOUT FOR NONVIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE!
“Today we are chained to the Capitol, just like our community is chained by this legislation.”
20 April 2010 Phoenix, AZ —Nine students and community members chained themselves to the doors of the Arizona State Capitol today in protest of SB 1070, blocking the east entrance. They are calling for a national movement to employ nonviolent civil disobedience as the next phase of the Immigrant Rights Movement.
SB 1070 passed in the Senate and is on is scheduled to be signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. SB 1070 is sponsored by Russell Pearce and passed through the nation’s most extremist legislature—Arizona being the engine for all anti-migrant legislation in the country, with at least eleven states poised to follow suit, if Brewer signs this bill.
