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Cryptome.org takedown: Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook

9 hours 33 min ago
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.

One Year Later: Police Containment and Resistance in the African Community!

Fri, 2010/03/12 - 2:28pm
Uhuru House, 7911 Mac Arthur Blvd, Oakland

POSTPONED Protest Prisoners' Poppin' Potluck Picnic Party at the People's Park

Fri, 2010/03/12 - 2:21pm
People's park at Hast and Bowditch

Court of Appeals panel Overturns Nazi Salute Ban Ruling--City Council May Face Trial Again

Fri, 2010/03/12 - 12:49pm
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.

Know Your Rights Workshop

Fri, 2010/03/12 - 12:28am
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

Open letter to M4 action critics

Thu, 2010/03/11 - 9:18pm
2 cents from an old comrade

Brutalizing Palestinian Children

Thu, 2010/03/11 - 12:11pm
state-sponsored terrorism against children

37 Years of Solitary Confinement: The Angola Three

Wed, 2010/03/10 - 7:57pm
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.

UCSC March4 SlideShow

Wed, 2010/03/10 - 2:23pm
The UCSC Admin reports protestors had "clubs and knives." Judge for yourself.

The Dawn of the Crisis Generation.

Wed, 2010/03/10 - 1:56pm
March 4th is over, but we've only just begun.

I-880 Prisoners' Perfect Potluck Picnic Party at the People's Park!

Wed, 2010/03/10 - 4:02am
On the grass, fools.

MN Sheriff Warrantless Cell Phone Wiretapping & Fake Anarchist Group on Facebook at RNC08

Wed, 2010/03/10 - 1:52am
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

Santa Cruz City Council Votes to Ban Additional Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Tue, 2010/03/09 - 7:57pm
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.

"$100 A Day" - A Film Showing and Panel Discussion with Senator Joe Simitian

Tue, 2010/03/09 - 1:38pm
Santa Cruz Police Community Room 155 Center St., Santa Cruz

Permanent New Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban in Santa Cruz

Tue, 2010/03/09 - 10:04am
Santa Cruz City Council Chambers 809 Center St. Santa Cruz

Afternoon Vote on New Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban Coming Up at Tuesday City Council

Mon, 2010/03/08 - 10:47pm
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.

Soledad inmates begin hunger protest against Three Strikes law

Mon, 2010/03/08 - 2:24pm
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.

Lynching Then and Lynching Now: The Roots of Racism and the Death Penalty in America

Mon, 2010/03/08 - 11:35am
Laney College, Room D200 - 900 Fallon Street, Oakland, near Lake Merritt BART.

Oakland Police attack protestors on 880 freeway after education protest

Mon, 2010/03/08 - 5:40am
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.

March 4th, 2010: Police Attack 880 Interstate Takeover

Sun, 2010/03/07 - 10:02pm
Riot Police Attack Demonstrators Blocking Traffic