The Quality of Whose Life? Final Part

May 20, 2011 WRAP Comms

Linocut by Art Hazelwood

Battle over the future of ethnic studies in Arizona rages on.

To watch a multi-part interview, click the link
below (if you don't see the segment you are
looking for, it's probably not yet published)US Student Protests

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!! Sunnybrae Middleschool Walkout  March 18, 2011

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS WALK OUT TO PROTEST WAR!!!!

Arcata, CA: Twenty five Sunny Brae Middle School students walked out of class today to demonstrate their opposition to war and to the Navy’s proposed weapons testing in the Pacific off the North Coast. At least one student also voiced solidarity with the Union organizers in Wisconsin. Today’s rally coincided with the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and was part of a nation-wide day of action against war.  At two o’clock students emerged from their classrooms and gathered in the eighth grade basketball courts. One rally participant said that they chose this location, which was on school grounds, to prevent being mispercieved as just an excuse to cut class.

Participants also said that the rally would have been larger but some students were kept from participating by teachers who prevented them from leaving class.  Although they did not participate, other students and even staff showed solidarity and support for the rally.

Testifying and Witnessing Poverty as a Human Rights Violation

Date: September 30, 2011 (exact dates and locations TBA)

The U.S. World Court will focus on the hidden yet, brutal issues of poverty in the United States, making visible the invisible, listening to those voices that have been dispossessed, denigrated.

The World Court of Women will put the United States on trial for human rights violations. They will connect the affects of globalization and struggles in the U.S. to the struggles of poor people throughout the World.

In 2011-2012 there will be four regional Courts in the West, Midwest, South and East, leading to a national Court in Philadelphia. The U.S. World Court will be the first World Court held in the United States following over thirty eight World Courts of Women.

Introduction

ZACHARY:  Remembered and Loved by many!

On January 4, 2007, Eureka Police officer Terry Liles shot Zachary 16 times, killing him.  Zachary had just turned eighteen years old.  Zachary left behind many friends and family who adored him.  Liles continues to be a Eureka Police Officer, now a detective.  Liles has continued his terror, harassing Zachary's young relatives and friends.

Just two months before Liles shot Zachary, he murdered, by fatally shooting in the heart, 16 year old Christopher Burgess.  Liles also continued to terrorize the Burgess family and Christopher's friends.

Happy to report that I receive phone calls today from 2 different high schools teachers to set up 15 hr internships for their students at Idriss Stelley Foundation, prompted by the Mehserle Verdict and the police assassination of Derrick Jones.

Our internship includes Youth Know your Rights interactive training so that the kids can later conduct their own workshops in their schools.

We also take the kids on mural sightings in SF , depicting the saga of police brutality in our city, and hook them up with Hermana muralist Laura Campos to participate in murals currently in process. We train kids on how to apply for YEFAB (Youth Empowerment Funding Advisory
Board), and the SF Youth Commission. We also take the kids on tours of the Office of Citizens Complaints and prepare them to make public comments at the SF Police Commission.

Many of the kids we mentor have PTSD due to sustaining the loss on Loved Ones on the street.

July 6, 2010  2:58am

Open Letter To Eureka Police Chief Garr Nielsen, Eureka City Council members, Eureka Mayor,
Eureka City Attorney, Sheryl Schaffner:

Re: EPD Sergeant Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez punches a young man in the side of the head and threatens teenage witness if he testifies to seeing the punch

On Wednesday night, March 31, 2010, Officer Justin Winkle of the Eureka Police Department [EPD], once again, went too far and hurt someone.

Winkle was one of the cops who killed Martin Cotton II in August of 2007- beat him to death. The other night, he abused a 20 year old woman who was happily skipping down the street. He stopped her and said that he was looking for a woman in particular (a “suspect”). He demanded ID, and when the woman gave him her name, he called it in. The EPD voice on the other end of the police radio informed Winkle that she was not the one- not the person the police were looking for. Nevertheless, Winkle continued to detain the young woman. She told him that she had done nothing wrong and wanted to leave, that there is no law against skipping, and she knew that she had a right to continue on her way.

BOOBY TRAPPED ROAD TO FASCISM

Mohawk Nation News June 14 2009.  

Fascism is when the oligarchs put together enough force to enslave society in the interests of a few.  It starts with fervent nationalism.  Scapegoats are picked. Genocide is planned.  Properties, authority and resources are seized.  Territory is expanded.

THE LEADER is charismatic and backed by huge corporations.  He’s an ideologue with an uncompromising belief system.  He seizes power and directs the state to implement his ideas on how the world should operate.  He becomes the supreme commander of the armed forces and the high court until a new election is called, if ever.

Christopher Arrion Burgess, 16 year-old Native American boy. He was
pepper sprayed by a probation officer who stormed into a house where
Christopher was watching a movie with friends. EPD officer Terry Liles,
who had pulled Christopher out of sleep about 3 years earlier (13 years
old) and beat him until the boy's skull was fractured, chased Christopher
on October 23, 2006, and shot him in the heart. Killed him. And this,
after years of Christopher being systematically criminalized, and still

"My child was beaten by (a police officer) in front of Eureka High School."

Excessive force against child

Letter to the editor

My child was beaten by (a police officer) in front of Eureka High School. Before numerous witnesses, (the officer) slammed my son's head against the pavement and against the door of his patrol car. My son is recovering from retinal reattachment surgery. We don't know whether his vision will recover.

This amount of force was unnecessary,since my son's offense was trespassing, roughly a half-block from the front door of our home, at 3:30 p.m. when school let out). In addition,(the officer) outweighs my son by at least 60 pounds and already had my son in a painful hold.

I have filed a formal complaint with EPD, but is it really possible for the Eureka police to investigate themselves fairly?

Know Your Rights Training for YOUTH

* how to handle encounters with cops*

Saturday, June 14th
1:00pm -5:00pm

*FREE*
*FOOD PROVIDED/SHARED*

at the P.A.R.C. office [Peoples' Action for Rights and Community]
320 2nd Street, wooden building
between D and E, upstairs
Old Town Eureka

For more information, call: (707) 633-4493
Parents, who are older folks (not youth themselves), welcome only WITH consent from their daughters or sons!

Please feel free to email in the next couple of days if there are particular situations you want to discuss on Saturday. Post this on MYSPACE!!