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

The small file is a 70 second PSA about the Film showing on Wednesday 5-26-10 at Stevenson Classroom 175 and Barrios Unidos at 3 and 5:30 pm respectively. The larger file is a MP3 of "The Global Local" from 5-24-10 with Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo interviewing JR Valrey, the Minister of Information in the Prisoners of Consciousness Committee.

Helia Rasti and Stacie Szmonko from Critical Resistance write about the proposed "gang" injunction targeting North Oakland. On Thursday, May 27th at 2:00 p.m., attorneys representing both sides of the gang injunction will appear before Judge Robert B. Freedman, in Dept. 20, at the Superior Court, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA. A rally will be held outside the courthouse starting at 12:30 p.m.

The inaugural pamphlet by the Raider Nation Collective is out now!

There were scarcely 20 people at the vigil today at Frank Ogawa Plaza. There should have been hundreds.

Some of us over coming great hurdles - gather whatever resources we have and travel 160 miles to CHOWCHILLA the WOMEN"S STATE JAIL. In all our previous missions - we entered the premises, met and touched the inmates. In humility reported details of our mission. This time the authorities went at great length to clear our group - the core group being the same - and when we reached the enterence - were told that we could not go in - because we had not reached on time. We had until 3 pm to volunteer our services - but the man in charge thought we should have been there by 11 am - and we arrived a little after 12 noon. The inmates were awaiting our arrival and the moment of denial - brought tears and heart throbs to those volunteers - a class group of dedicated - women and men

On Thursday, May 20th, the East Park 17X NCPC (Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council) hosted City Attorney John Russo to discuss the gang injunction he is seeking for members of the Northside Gang which operates in North Oakland. Of the 15 or so attendees, several, it seemed, were not members of that NCPC and drew the rancor of some of the 17X NCPC members who were there.

We mourn because a little girl is dead for no reason. We mourn because a little girl is dead for terrible reasons. We mourn for Aiyana Jones, because she is yet another victim of police violence, and because as a community, we want to stand in solidarity with her community and her family - and all those who suffer at the hands of the prison-industrial complex in America.

San Rafael First United Methodist Church, 9 Ross Valley Drive & 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94901

On the evening of May 20, the notorious Shock Force of the Puerto Rican Police brutally attacked a demonstration of hundreds of students and workers protesting against Governor Luis Fortuño. The assault took place in the luxurious Sheraton Hotel, where the privatizing, anti-worker governor was presiding over a fancy fundraising dinner. As our reporter recounts, the police brutally beat demonstrators with riot clubs and pepper-sprayed everyone with tear gas and pepper gas. This was the response of the government to the workers strike two days ago in support of the student strike at the University of Puerto Rico, which has lasted almost a month. It is urgently necessary to translate the worker-student unity that was on display on May 18 into powerful strike actions that shut down key sectors of the economy of the U.S.' Caribbean island economy. We publish here the on-the-spot report from our correspondent who witnessed and participated in the protest.

Aiyana Jones, a 7-year-old Detroit resident, was murdered by police during a botched raid on her house. She was asleep on the couch in the living room when police threw a flash-bang grenade through the front window, burning her before they opened fire from the front porch into the house. She was shot in the face in front of her grandmother, who was then arrested as the police fabricated a story to make the killing seem more legitimate. Their story matters little as the whole tragedy was caught on film, as they had been a part of a reality-drama-cop show, "The First 48."

Panhandlers busted at Soquel and Pacific streets downtown Santa Cruz a place I have always seen people panhandle without harassment until today. Also small crowd gathers people sound off and cop talks down to person opposing them. Are the cops cracking down again before the tourists come for the summer?

Five courtrooms will be closed at least until Monday

Ghost Town gang's turf generally has been along Martin Luther King Jr. Way between 25th and 35th streets

The Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala emphatically denounces the MURDER of our top leader, Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez (44 years old) and his wife Cleriberta Castro (35 years old).

George Donnelly, the Pennsylvania videographer who was arrested last week for videotaping federal officers in front of an Allentown courthouse, is facing eight years in prison for his deed.

Muslims are target one in America for their faith and ethnicity

Word on the street is that from May 26th - 31st, UC Berkeley maintenance workers will begin the first phase of removing plants from the west end of the Park (the garden section of the Park). People will be needed, especially in the early mornings, to guard the Park against the UC.