October 22nd Coalition in the San Francisco Bay Area October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation

Cryptome.org is a venerable New York based anti-secrecy site that has been publishing since 1999. On Feb 24, 2010, the site was forcibly taken down following its publication of Microsoft's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook", a confidential 22 page booklet designed for police and intelligence services. The guide provides a "menu" of information Microsoft collects on the users of its online services. Microsoft lawyers threatened Cryptome and its "printer", internet hosting provider giant Network Solutions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA was designed to protect the legitimate rights of publishers, not to conceal scandalous internal documents that were never intended for sale. Although the action is a clear abuse of the DMCA, Network Solutions, a company with extensive connections to U.S. intelligence contractors, gagged the site in its entirety. Such actions are a serious problem in the United States, where although in theory the First Amendment protects the freedom of the press, in practice, censorship has been privatized via abuse of the judicial system and corporate patronage networks.

http://tinyurl.com/y965dhx Toronto officers created dangerous situation, judge finds Man acquitted of gun charge after judge finds Charter breaches Published

Uhuru House, 7911 Mac Arthur Blvd, Oakland

People's park at Hast and Bowditch

An panel of 10+ judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2-1 decision. The new decision requires a new 3-judge panel to rehear the mock-Nazi salute case at City Council, for which I was falsely arrested in March 2002. The case has never gone to trial--being stymied repeatedly by Judge Robert Whyte in San Jose, who gave summary dismissal both times to the the defendant City of Santa Cruz, Councilmembers, and arresting police officers. A new panel may now rule that the trial go forward, holding the guilty politicians and police accountable for their false arrest and repressive behavior.

Communities United Against Police Brutality ACTION ALERT March 12, 2010 ********************************************** THANKS TO YOU, BILL HF2609 IS DEAD We

at P.A.R.C. [Peoples' Action for Rights and Community] on Q street, take a right into the alley between 3rd and 2nd streets in Eureka

2 cents from an old comrade

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2484007 Court grants officer three-week adjournment An Ottawa cop accused of assaulting two young

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/03/10/yukon-sex-assault.html#ixzz0hodQgnKr Alleged victim testifies in RCMP sex-assault trial Wednesday, March 10,

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1171384.html Province won?t hold inquiry into fatal shooting by Mountie By LAURA FRASER Cape Breton Bureau Nova Scotia

state-sponsored terrorism against children

http://tinyurl.com/y98bedb Police move toward $35 million encrypted radios New system may shut out public eavesdroppers starting with the G20 summit Published

For more than 37 years, two prisoners, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, have been locked down in Angola's maximum security Closed Cell Restricted (CCR) block - the longest period of solitary confinement in American prison history.

The UCSC Admin reports protestors had "clubs and knives." Judge for yourself.

March 4th is over, but we've only just begun.

On the grass, fools.

Sheriff Stanek landing Fed cash for KingFish military cellphone tracker in Hennepin County; National Guard intelligence analysts fuse to metro police departments; Lobby for warrantless wiretaps in St. Paul

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.