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.

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.

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

state-sponsored terrorism against children

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

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