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

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

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

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.

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.

Checkpoint response is looking for volunteers. Please contact noretenes@gmail.com if you have an hour a week to spare. Checkpoint response está buscando voluntarixs. Favor de comunicarse con noretenes@gmail.com si tiene una hora a la semana disponible para colaborar.

Jamie Scott, 38, is suffering from kidney failure. She has received no indication that a kidney transplant is being considered as an option, though her sister is a willing donor. Jamie Scott's family and legal advisors believe the poor health care she is receiving in prison places her life at risk.

Humanist Hall, 390 - 27th St., Oakland

150 - 200 people are walking southbound on 880, when they neared the jackson st. exit the cops stopped them, about 200 cops in riot gear.

Eyewitnesses report seeing man pushed off freeway by police.

one person fell out of a tree trying to escape. people are currently being arrested on the freeeway