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POPS40 Year Anniversary Reunion of AIM "The theme of the gathering is “Somos Un Solo Rio” (We Are One River), and “No One Is Illegal.” This includes recognition of Indigenous Nation’s inherent right to self-determination, honor and respect for treaties ratified by the US Congress, protection of sacred sites, and freedom for political prisoners.'
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POPSPublic parking paranoia law used to disperse drummers and Food Not Bombs The Drum circle they speak of has been going on for over 10 years in the same place. Its where Food Not Bombs was feeding. They were drove away on two occasions, so were not present at this particular incident. Basically the Santa Cruz PD was successful in running of a peaceful group that was feeding the hungry on public property. This law means I cant wait in my car as a friend shops, even know I am disabled and often need to rest in my car. This law is aimed at the poor who often use the overhangs to get out of the rain. There has been no horrible acts of violence to spawn this law, which the local ACLU is against, but doing nothing about. It is another loss of our commons, that have been traditionally used hroughout history by the poor and homeless.
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POPSTaser time on America's public lands With taser deaths on the rise. Its important to note that the forest service often are in charge of taking down homeless encampments and citing the homeless for camping or sleeping at night. Here in Santa Cruz, Ranger john Wallace has given more Sleep Crime tickets then all the City police officers combined. He now has a force of officers. They do not need Taser guns to do their job. The Police have killed people in jails, on the street and recently in the airport in Canada using a taser gun on a tired polish immigrant after he waited 10 hours with no translator after a 15 hour flight. These are OUR public lands, and OUR money being used to police them.
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POPSParkling lot paranoia We are loosing our public space, our commons. Our country was founded with the idea of free commons. Free Speech zones are real, we have them in my City, a zone where you can use free speech. Does that seem right to you?
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POPSDisabled and Seniors pressured into new bus system This may seem to you as not that relevant, but I assure you it is to the thousands of disabled who reply on public transportation to give them the freedom to get out like anyone else. This article comes from Beyond The Chronicle. An online paper that tends to show the other side of stories printed in the very bias San Jose Chronicle.
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POPSMore Attacks Being Planned Against Wild Buffalo in Montana he agencies are also prepared to heavily haze, capture and slaughter buffalo this year based on Yellowstone's estimate of 4,700 individual buffalos. Though Yellowstone biologists have stated time and again that the Park could sustain well over 5,000 buffalo, the Interagency Bison Management Plan's politically derived population cap for wild buffalo living in Yellowstone is 3,000. Based on this, the agencies could capture and kill upwards of 1,700 buffalo.
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POPSLakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status Its good to see this happening. I suggest people e-mail The Department of interior. They have been referred to them. See -- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Lakota_activists_declare_secession_from_US ) People should write, call, and e-mail. They DESERVE our support. Mailing Address: Department of the Interior 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington DC 20240 Phone: 202-208-3100
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POPSFun Questions to ask the Cops when being harrased for sleeping. These questions come from the time tested "Know Your Rights" role playing format, pioneered by Rico Thunder and Jason, who often teach Free School classes on your rights and how to use them. They role play in uniform. Free School is a concept used in Santa Cruz for everything from learning a foreign language, to knowing how to face the cops with the knowledge of your rights. The "ask to be taken to the Magistrate" is a great tool, just not on a Friday, or you may wait in jail until Monday. Start a free School in your town.
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POPSEnd the Sleeping Ban - open letter to council We are moving to bring a lawsuit against the City of Santa Cruz to end the Sleeping Ban. The Human Rights Organization along with HUFF(Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom) and volunteers have been collecting data on tickets and destruction of property and gathering plaintiffs.
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POPSThanksgiving Suspends Chronicle’s Homeless-Bashing It’s a two-decade old tradition: come Thanksgiving, the Chronicle starts trying to create reader sympathy for the Bay Area’s low-income residents. After spending the first eleven months of the year opposing laws to protect the poor, the Chronicle spends the last month seeking public donations to assist this vulnerable population.
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POPSPesticides to Rain Down Over Santa Cruz County Although I do not fear this chemical, I do believe we are bing tested. If they can get away with aerial spraying in the most liberal town in the US, they can do it anywhere. I do not want politicians and corporations making the decision of what can and cannot spray on me and my family.
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