MacLaren Hall & L.A. County's Child Abuse
kirsten anderberg,

MacLaren Hall was a child abuse institution, run by L.A. County, that was closed in 2003. At this point, thousands of us live with adult trauma from severe child abuse in MacLaren Hall, at the hands of L.A. County as children and we want an apology, a public hearing and restitution. Survivors from San Diego to San Francisco need to band together to force this restitution...
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Activist San Diego Film series Presents:
Activist San Diego,

Free film series and discussion on WTO, IMF, World Bank and Free Trade Area Agreements........


Jan. 5th- Breaking the Spell – Anarchists and the radical Left at the
1999 WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle.

Jan. 12th- This is What Democracy Looks Like – A holistic account of the resistance and reasons for it that shut down the 1999 WTO
ministerial meeting in Seattle.

Jan. 19th- Praha 2000 – People from around the world converge in Prague and use diverse tactics to resist the IMF and World Bank’s
efforts to colonize the globe.

Jan. 26th- The Miami Model – Folks come from all over to stop the FTAA
(free trade area of the Americas) and learn about what a police state looks like.
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SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom
Saoirse,

Keep informed on Irish Republican activism--Read SAOIRSE!
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Human Rights Training in Vista, Sat Jan 7
copwatch sd c/o sd indymedia,

As many of us are aware, the violence from our law enforcement officers and many other groups, towards our communities is still ongoing. As with this incident last week in carslbad...

LA COALICION DE JUSTICIA, PAZ Y DIGNIDAD WILL OFFER A SERIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING ALONG WITH AFSC, AND THE ESCONDIDO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE. THESE COURSES WILL BE TAKING PLACE DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY. WE ENCOURAGE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS CAMPAIGN AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PART OF THE MOVEMENT TO BRING JUSTICE, PEACE, AND DIGNITY BACK TO OUR COMMUNITIES.
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Salvadoran Refugee Tells His Story … Again
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Oskar Torres, actor and screenwriter whose remarkable personal story formed the basis of the film "Innocent Voices," came to San Diego December 30 to introduce the film at a showing sponsored by Activist San Diego to raise money for Salvadoran textile workers. The film tells the story of Chava, an 11-year-old boy growing up in El Salvador during that country's civil war in the 1980's and trying to avoid being kidnapped and forced to serve in the U.S.-backed military against a popular armed struggle.
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radio Antifascista, thursdays, 6pm, rasd
dj lotu5,

Tune in to radio Antifascista, a new radio show from dj lotu5 on radioActive sanDiego, thursdays at 6pm.

radioAntifascista will bring you the finest in revolutionary international hip-hop and radical news.

Listen online at  http://radioActiveradio.org
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Bad Cop, No Donut! Fri's, Noon, radioActive
radioActive sanDiego volunteer,

Tune in to radioActive sanDiego, Fridays at Noon for your weekly wrap-up of North American police misconduct!
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Another Fatal SDPD Shooting
sd@narchist,

Police fatally shoot pedestrian on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad

CARLSBAD ---- An officer-involved fatal shooting on southbound Interstate 5 Tuesday caused major traffic delays through the evening rush hour.

For other police brutality news, tune in to www.radioActiveradio.org to hear Bad Cop, No Donut every Friday at noon!
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U.S. Spying Is Much Wider, Some Suspect
la times,

WASHINGTON — President Bush has acknowledged that several hundred targeted Americans were wiretapped without warrants under the National Security Agency's domestic spying program, and now some U.S. officials and outside experts say they suspect that the government is engaged in a far broader U.S. surveillance operation.
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New Jersey Death Penalty Moratorium Is Likely
Nat'l Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty,

New Jersey would become the first state in the 'modern era' to enact a moratorium law. (Two other states – Illinois and Maryland – enacted moratoriums as a result of executive orders).
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Tuesday at Noon is Tookie's funeral in L.A.
LA IndyMedia ,

The memorial service for Stanley Tookie Williams will take place Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 12 noon. The service will take place at Bethel A.M.E. located at 7900 South Western Avenue in Los Angeles. The service will be open to the public, but seating is limited.
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John Brown and Tookie Williams: Call to Aboli
Geof Bard,

Ballade of the Abolitionists

Dedicated to John Brown, for the Abolition of Slavery,
and to
Tookie Williams, for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.

By Geoffery Bard
California, USA
December 11, 2005

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Stanley Tookie Williams, Killed by the State of California
repost from indymedia.us,

Stanley Tookie Williams III was executed early this morning by lethal injection administered by the state of California. Williams, who was weeks from his 52nd birthday, is said to have been a co-founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. In 1981, he was convicted of the 1979 murders of four people in the Los Angeles area. After 6.5 years in solitary confinement on Death Row at San Quentin, he renounced his past gang affiliation. He wrote several books and started programs to discourage youth from joining gangs. A film starring Jamie Foxx entitled "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story," was made to tell his story. Williams never admitted to having committed the murders for which he was convicted. This was one reason that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cited for denying him clemency. Supporters of Williams tried to submit issues to various legal bodies in hopes of being granted a stay of execution. If a 60-day stay had been granted, it would have given time for courts to examine the legal issues that are outstanding in the case. It would have also given California's legislative bodies a chance to vote on AB 1121, the California Moratorium on Executions Act. Read more

Coverage of People's Clemency Hearing and 12/12 Protests | More about Tookie on Indybay's Police State and California News Pages
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Globally -- Death Penalty is being Abolished
Amnesty International ,

The death penalty is being abolished in country after country. In 1977 only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty for all crimes, while today the number is 86. More than 60 percent of the world’s countries have abolished the death penalty. Every western European country has abolished the death penalty. An average of three countries per year are currently abolishing the death penalty.

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Three More Days to "Save Tookie"
indybay,

Three More Days to "Save Tookie"12/04/2005 CALIFORNIA AWAITS GOVERNOR'S DECISION ABOUT CLEMENCY On December 8th, Governor Schwarzenegger held a clemency hearing for Stanley Tookie Williams with defense lawyers, Los Angeles County prosecutors and other involved parties. Schwarzenegger has the authority to commute a death sentence to life without parole. The governor will announce his decision soon, but Williams is scheduled to be executed late Monday night. The People's Clemency Hearing for Stanley Tookie Williams took place on the steps of the State Capitol Building in Sacramento on December 8th, just before Schwarzenegger's hearing.

Snoop Dogg visited Williams at San Quentin on December 7th. Davey D's interview with Snoop from after the meeting.

There will be events in cities all over the country in the next several days. "Redemption" will be screened at the Long Haul in Berkeley on Saturday night. If clemency is not granted, there will be a vigil outside of San Quentin on Monday. If clemency has not been granted on December 12th, there will be a 4:00pm March for Tookie from the Mission Church in Santa Clara University to the Cathedral on Market Street in San Jose.

Democracy Now's Interview with Stanley Tookie Williams | Sparing the Crips Founder: The Fight to Save Stanley "Tookie" Williams, by Matt Gonzalez

Read about more events to Save Tookie on Indybay's Police & Prisons Page
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Tookie Must Live!
Geof Bard,

A California based human rights activist deconstructs the central argument of the "howling mob demanding Tookie's execution", which is that he has not confessed and expressed contrition. The writer contends that demand runs counter to American Constitutional tradition against coerced confesssion, reminiscent of witch dunking.
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ISO Discusses "Tookie" Williams’ Case
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Stanley “Tookie” Williams, co-founder of the notorious Crips street gang turned anti-gang activist and children’s book writer in prison, is scheduled to be put to death through lethal injection on Tuesday, December 13. The only person who can spare him this fate is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who alone has the power to pardon him or commute his sentence to life imprisonment. This was the subject of two community events in San Diego, a public forum November 30 and a meeting of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) at San Diego State University December 1, featuring some of the same speakers.
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Dec 15 Bill of Rights Day
JPFO,

Spokane, Washington. Payson, Arizona. Topeka, Kansas.
Sandusky, Ohio. The states of California, New Jersey, and even Massachusetts. What do all of these localities have in common? They're all observing December 15 as Bill of Rights Day!
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Create Peace! Puppet Shows & Cheap Art Sale
Puppet Insurgency,

Come celebrate and create peace with the San Diego Puppet Insurgency FREE PUPPET SHOWS AND CHEAP ART SALE! All proceeds benefit the High School Leafletting Project helping kids stay out of the military.

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Support Theresa Dang!
Thomas Paine!,

Support Theresa Dang by attending her trial on a bogus flashlight theft charge this forthcoming Monday! Let's show the Garden Grove Police department and the Orange County District Attorney's Office that we will not tolerate the harassment of activists exercising their constitutional right to free speech and assembly!
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Save Tookie Williams
Marsha Feinland,

Stanley "Tookie" Williams should not be executed.
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Senator No Fan of Cyclists, Defends Critical
Senator Jim Elliott,

Senator Jim Elliott from the red state of Montana is no fan of cyclists, so why is he concerned about what’s going on with Critical Mass in in NYC ? And why he thinks every citizen should be too. Find out what got this cowboy mad enough to write an article for CICLE.org
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830 Tasers for $825,000
TASER IMHO,

The latest news directly from Taser International via its paid Press Release service, PR Newswire, trumpets an astounding achievement in an “award to supply”.
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Paris Massacre of 1961
me,

One of the little known background events that is crucial to understanding the climate of racist repression to which North African immigrants are subject to in France is the bloody massacre of 200 unarmed protesters in the streets of Paris in 1961.
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France: Racism, poverty fuel rebellion
Fred Goldstein,

The working class leadership in France has been weak on this question and downright reactionary at times. Right now they need to stop retreating. They must not confine themselves to mere protests against reactionary measures of repression. They need to demand that all the cops be withdrawn, that the emergency decrees be revoked. They need to come out for the justified rebellion.

The rebellious youth must be embraced as part of the working class. They may be unemployed, underemployed and/or unorganized, but right now they are potentially the greatest allies of the organized workers. They have overwhelmed a part of the state. They are mobilized and if they were to be joined by a solidarity strike against racism, poverty and oppression, the entire working class could push the ruling class offensive back.

It would be a mirror, but on a grander scale, of when the French workers in 1968 followed the students with a general strike and shook the ground under French capitalism. It is the lack of understanding of the national question, of the colonial question, of the importance of coming out against national oppression, that now stands in the way of a united struggle against capitalist exploitation itself. This must be overcome.
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Update: Grand Jury Resister Nicole Fink
Bob,

Hearing has been moved up from 1030AM to 9AM.
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Anti-Torture Activist Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Jennifer Harbury, director of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church's Stop Torture Permanently [STOP] campaign and author of the book "Truth, Torture and the American Way," spoke at the First U-U Church in Hillcrest November 3. She argued that torture has been a consistent part of U.S. policy since 1947, when the CIA was founded and launched experiments in how to break detainees under torture that resulted in the techniques used in Viet Nam in the 1960's, Latin America in the 1970's through the 1990's and Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo today. She also said that torture simply doesn't work; it doesn't yield good information and it antagonizes the populations it targets and thereby makes them more, not less, likely to resist occupation.
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Open Letter to San Diego Police Officers
rocky neptun,

Dear San Diego Police Officer:
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Cops, gangmembers, and low intensity war game
crucial arts liazon,

The idea that western society is a 'chain-of-command' society and that the low intensity wars that happen here are played out by pawns of those wars appears to be a way of seeing what few seem to consider. To see this is to begin to not only understand why the feds have worked so hard to shut down and undermine the IMC projects (because we have here the *threat of a good example*) but also build a basis on which to envision truly serious alternatives.
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Paris Migrant Insurrection Continues, Spreads
lotu5, repost from various sources,

A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.

Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to restore order as the violence that erupted Oct. 27 spread to at least 20 towns, highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants.

Police deployed for a feared eighth night of clashes, after bands of youths lobbing stones and petrol bombs ignored President Jacques Chirac's appeal for calm a day earlier.

 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/03/ap/world/mainD8DL87FO3.shtml

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