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Jan 21, 2006
Counterdemonstration Against
The
Walk For Life
posted 1-20-06
by John Thielking
Anti-choice, anti-abortion marchers are scheduled to show up and go for
a march from Justin Herman Plaza to the Marina Green Park in San
Francisco on Saturday Jan 21, 2006. Many of these marchers will
be bussed in from around the state of CA and elsewhere. If you
believe in a woman's right to choose, you are invited to join a counter
demonstration that will be gathering in Justin Herman Plaza at 11AM at
the non-intersection of Embarcadero and Market Streets in San
Francisco. It is reccomended to park at the Civic Center at Polk
and Grove (near 9th and Market) and walk or take Bart to the foot of
Market St. For more info click here
or here.
Be forwarned. This counterdemonstration may involve civil
disobedience. So stay away from any cops or sit-ins if you don't
want to get arrested.
Pictures
from the Demo and Counterdemo
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Reprinted
with permission 1-15-06
Kevin Cooper
Saved From Execution
Still Fighting For Justice
Kevin Cooper was wrongfully convicted of the 1983 murders of the Ryen
family in San Bernadino, California. He came within hours of
execution on Feb 9, 2004. The 11th hour stay was granted after a
battle inside and outside of the courtroom shed light on his innocence
and the numerous problems that exist in the state's case against him.
The case has been sent back to the federal district court.
Further evidence testing has begun, and activists expect a long legal
fight to ensure that the issues of tampering and police and
prosecutorial misconduct are raised. Overall, the defense attorneys
have found new evidence and witnesses that corroborate Kevin Cooper's
innocence claim, and that show the errors and concious misconduct on
the part of the state of California.
Read more...
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Clarence Ray Allen: Due to be Executed Jan
17, 2006
by John Thielking
When first hearing about Clarence Ray Allen's case, both sides were
investigated a little bit and the disturbing conclusion was reached
that this would be a difficult case to argue about. Allen was in prison
for life without parole for the 1970's murder of a woman who gave him
keys to a market that he robbed. She was killed allegedly because she
was fingering him for the robbery.
He is accused of ordering the murders of one witness to that crime and
two other
employees of the same market while his original case was on
appeal. Some accounts describe the other two victims as witnesses
to the original crime, while another account describes the two as
employees of the market. Clarence Allen is currently 75 years old
and will turn 76 one day before his scheduled execution. He is
very infirm, has suffered from a heart attack and diabetes and uses a
wheelchair. He will be forced to walk the final few feet to the
death chamber at San Quentin. The prosecution's case rests primarily on
the testimony of some of the accomplices involved in the second crime.
They have all since stated at one time or another that they lied at Mr.
Allen's 2nd trial. That, plus the fact that Mr. Allen is an
American Indian has some very concerned that his execution is
unjust. Others simply say that while there is no excuse for how
the victims died, the death penalty is wrong and Mr Allen should be
given Clemency. Governor Schwarzenegger has refused to hold
any kind of Clemency hearing for Mr. Allen. Read
more on santacruz.indymedia.org...
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the rest of the story or leave comments in the Pagesincolor.com blog...
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SF Giants Welcome
Homeless Families To
Giants Stadium For Holiday Party
Posted 1-5-06
For more info check out the article at the San
Francisco Sentinel .
I always wondered why the Giants Stadium couldn't be used as a homeless
shelter for part of the time. Well, at least this small step is a
step in the right direction -- Ed
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Ace Washington
Brutalized by San Francisco
PD December 30, 2005
by Donna Wallach
posted 1-5-06
Greetings all,
Mesha of Idriss Stelley Foundation just called me to
inform me that Ace Washington, an African-descent man in his fifties,
who is well-known in the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood, and has
been a community activist for decades, was brutally beaten by SFPD
Friday night, 30th December 2005, outside Rassala's club, a jazz club
located at Divisadero and 7th Streets in San Francisco. I understand
that there were lots of witnesses.
Some of Mr. Washington's activities in and for the
community: he volunteers at KPOO radio, he is on the San Francisco
Community Policing Board (this might not be the accurate name), he is
the official cameraman for Court TV and City Hall on Channel 29 in San
Francisco and he is also the house manager for Idriss Stelley
Foundation.
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DIY
Last Night Parade Santa Cruz,
CA,
5PM Dec 31, 2005 at the Saturn Cafe at Pacific and Laurel St.
12-27-05
By John Thielking
Last year, on Dec 31, 2004 in Santa Cruz, there was a parade put on by
an Artsy-Fartsy group aligned with the city. It was called "The
River of Life". This type of parade was almost a tradition,
accompanying the "First Night" series of celebrations on New Years Eve.
First Night included not only a parade, but also included musical
performances in the various theaters around downtown Santa Cruz.
The festivities may have seemed open to some, but in reality they were
for the most part a closed minded event. The parade organizers
decided that they would not allow any political signs in the parade and
pointedly discouraged and attempted to exclude any type of political
themes from the parade in 2004 and the one in 2003 as well. The
venues hosting the other events were also not open to various guerilla
tactics such as serrepetitiously plugging in a TV in the lobby to play
the Arnold Beverly confession. (That year the Arnold Beverly
confession was aired on the public sidewalk with the aid of a battery
and inverter). In 2005, it was announced that the people
organizing the traditional First Night celebration had run out of money
and that the events would be cancelled. Click here to find out what people are
going to do this year to replace the traditional First Night Parade.
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Major
court victory for Mumia Abu-Jamal
BY JEFF
MACKLER
12-07-05, posted 12-11-05
In a decision that will likely
stun the Pennsylvania legal establishment that has been trying to
railroad
innocent death row political prison and award winning journalist, Mumia
Abu-Jamal to the execution chambers for 24 years, the U.S. Court of
Appeals
of the Third Circuit, reversed two critical Federal District Court
rulings. Read more...
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America loves a reformer! But Arnold
Schwarznegger may simply be vindictive, or overly concerned with
proving to his "base" how tough on crime he is.
Aside from the dozens of reasons why the death penalty is wrong
generally, in Tookie's individual case, there was prosecutorial
misconduct involving comparing Tookie to a tiger in a jungle for the
all-white jury. That death penalties are awarded black men
disproportionately to any other segment of the population is a known
fact. That hundreds of former death row inmates were cleared completely
by DNA tests which were unavailable at their convictions shows that we
cannot trust this verdict (or any other verdict for that
matter) sufficiently to take a human life for it. Read more...
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PLEASE
DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!
Subject: [Ppnews] Solidarity with
Political Prisoners events - SF
Date: November 16, 2005 11:09:46
AM PST
DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
Friday, December
2nd
12 - 2 pm
Oakland Federal
Building
1301 Clay Street
INTERNATIONAL DAY
IN SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
Saturday,
December 3, 2005
7 pm
First Unitarian
Church
14th and Castro,
Oakland
EVENTS HELD IN 25
CITIES WORLDWIDE!
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Posted 11-15-05
On Friday November 18th, from 3-5PM,
TAKE SOME TIME OUT TO HELP STOP THE WAR IN IRAQ!
Enough is Enough. It is Time to Say NO louder and stronger to the War
and the Bush Regime!!! Our tax dollars are funding it - WE must stop
it!
PLEASE JOIN PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY FOR NATIONAL STAND DOWN* DAY (NSDD), a day of
coordinated actions calling for an end to this war, being held at
Military Recruitment Centers all over the United States!!
THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ACTION happens on Friday, November 18th at the
Military Recruitment Center on 41st Avenue (2121 41st Ave) - from 3 to
5PM.
Read
more at http://www.santacruz.indymedia.org...
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Execution of
CA Death Row Inmate Stan
"Tookie" Williams set for Dec 13th, 2005
11-06-05
John Thielking
The co-founder of the Crips street gang in Los Angeles is set to be
executed on Dec 13, 2005.
This case sets a precident for courts nationwide being allowed to look
the other way when allegations of prosecution misconduct surface after
a murder conviction. Specifically, in this case the Supreme court let a
9th Circuit court ruling stand that affirms that it is ok for
prosecutors to exclude blacks from a black defendant's jury on the
basis of race* and it is ok for prosecutors to have prisoners shackled
in front of the jury, that it is ok for prosecutors to make strongly
biased statements to the jury likening the defendant to a wild animal
in a zoo, and that it is ok for the police to beat witnesses until they
give the story that the prosecution wants (as long as a couple of years
pass between the beating and the trial). It also raises
disturbing allegations that Williams may be innocent of the crimes he
was convicted of as numerous pieces of physical evidence point to his
innocence. The 9th circuit court did make history, however, when
it reccomended clemency for Tookie, citing Tookie's work writing
children's books urging kids to avoid joining gangs and avoid
violence. This work has inspired former gang members from around
the world to give up on being members of a gang.
Read more, including an analysis
of the Governor's denial of clemency...
Stan Tookie Williams was executed at 12:35AM, Dec 13, 2005, despite
massive
protests in opposition to his execution, including the assembly
of
over 3000 people at the gates of San Quentin on the night of his
execution.
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Post
Katrina Relief Efforts Underway
John
Thielking
9-7-05
The Red Cross is not the only game in town when it comes to hurricane
relief efforts. While some stores such as Rite Aid are matching
contributions 50/50 for those who donate to the Red Cross, there
are some concerns that the Red Cross siphons money off from the
donations received from one disaster and uses the money to prepare for
the next disaster, sometimes with ideological twists added such as
preparing for the war on terrorism after the Sept 11
attacks. The Red Cross did for instance donate an
additional $10 million to the city of San Francisco after the 1989 Loma
Prietta Earthquake,
in response to the mayor's complaints that not all of the money raised
was going to help earthquake victims. After Sept 11, there was
controversy when it was revealed that only $150 million had been spent
to help vicitims of Sept 11, after $500 million had been received. (footnote)
If you want to contribute to a number of groups that are locally
focused on New Orleans and are accountable to the people, check out this link.
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