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Communities United Against Police Brutality ACTION ALERT March 9, 2010 ********************************************** URGENT ACTION NEEDED: BILL WOULD

On Tuesday, March 9th, the Santa Cruz City Council voted 6-0 to support a recommendation from the city staff which bans the opening of an additional medical marijuana dispensary in Santa Cruz. This was the first reading of the vote and there will be a second vote in two weeks to finalize the ruling.

Santa Cruz Police Community Room 155 Center St., Santa Cruz

The Santa Cruz City Council will hold an afternoon session on Tuesday, March 9th at 3pm. On the agenda is item #17, the "Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Personal Medical Marijuana Use Ordinances." Though the law will have a second reading and vote in two weeks, any meaningful discussion needs to happen on the first reading, since the City Council is loath to make changes after it votes the initial law.

Santa Cruz City Council Chambers 809 Center St. Santa Cruz

Backing the "Marijuana as Menace" mentality of the Planning Department, Planning Commission, and prior City Council votes, city staff recommends voting for a total ban on any new medical marijuana dispensaries, giving Greenway and Limekiln, the existing two clubs a monopoly status. There is no examination of either club's prices, nor of complaints against the club by low-income customers who have been unsatisfied or turned away. Marijuana clubs are treated as some sort of dangerous hot potato, more lethal than alcohol or tobacco outlets or pharmacies-which vend far more lethal wares.

Barbara Brooks, a mother of a Three-Strike felon and founder of Sentencing and Justice Reform Advocacy, had said Sunday that about 480 CTF inmates will only be drinking water and juice for three days.

Laney College, Room D200 - 900 Fallon Street, Oakland, near Lake Merritt BART.

Towards the end of the March 4 'Day of Action' to Defend Public Education, over 150 people took over an Oakland freeway in a direct action that caused traffic to be shut down for an hour. When police closed in on protestors, some began hitting students with their clubs in their legs, arms and backs.

Riot Police Attack Demonstrators Blocking Traffic

UC Berkeley Dwinelle Hall

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/776346--winnipeg-police-shoot-machete-wielding-man-dead?bn=1 Winnipeg police shoot machete-wielding man dead

A rebuttal to "Why Did the March onto the 980 Freeway Happen".

I was a legal observer at the March 4th rallies and was doing legal observation on the march that ended up blocking 880. I did not go on the highway, as many people who were on the march chose to not go when we saw this decision being made. I am very concerned at the message below and felt a need to respond.

Two Brief NY ABC News stories that are very much worth watching & passing on! NYPD Quotas Part 1 - http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7305573 NYPD Quotas

Executives at CBS broadcasting have quietly reversed their decision refusing to air a NORML's Times Square advertisement advocating legalizing and regulating marijuana.

Friday March 5 2010 four SF policemen suddenly file into leftie/queer neighborhood bar, no apparent reason, stand together on back patio looking at people, then stand at front door, eventually leave w/o incident.

At Death-Threat Trial, Internet Radio Host Says F.B.I. Encouraged Rants By A. G. SULZBERGER Published: March 3, 2010 The family of a federal judge had just