Redwood Curtain CopWatch, based in the north coast of California, is part of a larger movement of self organized CopWatch groups throughout the US. Our local efforts seek to intervene in the drastic rise of the presence, militarization, and violence of the police, and build support networks based on self-determination, caring, and concrete needs.
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Eureka Cops Plan Raids of Houseless People's Sleeping Spots ; Raids Will VIOLATE Human & Constitutional Rights
Submitted by copwatch on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 12:22pmThe word is that raids will begin on Monday, July 19th. Cops hunt down outside-sleeping people every night, but these raids will be broad-sweeping and perhaps more orchestrated.
These raids will violate the rights of the houseless people. There are no legal, free-of-charge places to sleep in Eureka (or Arcata), so there are no options for almost all people who have no shelter except to sleep where they can find a hidden piece of ground. Then ya gotta be able to protect yourself from the rain, wind, cold, dew.
This is not a new situation. But all too often, people who are housed dismiss the reality of the situation by simply saying, "Well, there are homeless shelters for them to go to." That is completely INACCURATE.
- camping
- civil rights violation
- constituitonal rights
- eigth amendment
- Eureka Police Department
- fourth amendment
- homeless
- houseless
- human rights
- John Cassali
- John Shelter
- necessity defense
- police abuse
- raid
- sleeping
- sleeping ban
- theft
- UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- unconstitutional
- unreasonable search and seizure
National Day of Action Against Racist SB 1070: May 29, 2010
Submitted by copwatch on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 3:27pmEND BORDER MILITARIZATION CONTINGENT
DEMANDING DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS & MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
O'odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective sends you greetings from occupied O'odham lands,
- arizona
- border
- border patrol
- checkpoint
- communities of color
- criminalization
- deportation
- dignity
- elders
- ethnic cleansing
- genocide
- Homeland Security
- human rights
- ICE
- ID verification
- immigrant
- immigration reform
- indigenous
- labor
- march
- migrant
- militarization
- O'odham
- obama
- racial profiling
- raid
- repeal
- SB 1070
- solidarity
- sovereignty
- terror
- Tucson
- undocumented
Important Supreme Court Ruling for Undocumented Workers
Submitted by copwatch on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 2:54pmSupreme Court Limits Identity Theft Law
The Supreme Court has ruled undocumented workers using false papers cannot be charged with aggravated identity theft unless they knew their fake IDs belonged to a real person. The Bush administration frequently charged undocumented immigrants with felony identity theft, which carries a two-year sentence. Prosecutors had used the threat of a felony to persuade undocumented workers to plead guilty to lesser charges of document fraud.
Democracy Now! Headlines
May 5, 2009
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Aggravated identity theft was the tactic used against immigrant meat packers in the infamous Postville, Iowa raid of 2008.
Read about the Postville raid in these articles:
