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POPSLA Police Fail to Use Funds to Test Rape Kit
US: LA Police Fail to Use Funds to Test Rape Kit "Why add to the suffering of rape victims by making them wait years to investigate and prosecute their cases -- or letting a prosecution go forward without this evidence?" said Sarah Tofte, a US Program researcher at Human Rights Watch who is researching the rape-kit backlog in Los Angeles and around the country. "The department needs to use its own budget and any future grants to make sure the job gets done." Timely testing of rape kits can be critical to bringing justice to sexual assault victims. It is often difficult to solve or prosecute a rape case effectively without this forensic evidence. Furthermore, under California law, there is no statute of limitations for bringing a case if the rape kit is tested within two years. But if it is not tested in that time frame, the statute of limitations is 10 years. "I want to thank Human Rights Watch for effectively pushing this issue into the forefront of the public arena," sai
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POPSPlainclothes Police at the March for Our Lives in St. Paul (Theyt even had a pemit) "There was nothing subtle about the undercovers. The guy on the right in the black with glasses approached my black-clad comrade and asked, "hey can I get a quick pictures". The response, "hell no." Then he asked me, "well can you please do me a favor?" To which I responded some of the same and we both pointed our fingers at him to call it out. Also to note, there was at least one person dressed in all black (hood and bandanna too) who was definitely wearing an ear piece. There was a woman not in your photos who was wearing black clothing (not bloc style but more plainclothes like, maybe sunglasses too, can't quite remember) who was walking by me, not looking directly but I could tell she had me in the peripheral vision. Camera was held down by her waist as if she were 'just carrying it', but I noticed that the lens was pointed near my face as she was nonchalantly walking. I definitely saw her click the shutter at this point. Did anyone else notice the "window washers" on the
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POPSMarcella "Sali" Grace Eiler Raped and Murdered in Oaxaca "Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca. Thursday, September 25 Justice for our sister Marcella Sali Grace! Brother and sisters, Our hearts are full of sadness and rage because our sister Sali was brutally raped and murdered 20 minutes from San Jose del Pacifico and up to this moment the Oaxacan Attorney General's Office, as is its custom, is not doing anything regarding the fact that there exist witnesses who have information to identify those responsible. Marcella Sali Grace was born in the United States, with a big heart in solidarity with just causes. She had many friend because she was always inclined to help, using her artistic talents to paint a banner or a wall or dancing Arabic dance to raise funds for the struggle, or putting on punk shows, or giving self-defense courses to the women because she knew very well how the men accosted them. This was one of her struggles, that women were free and respected. Sali was so involved in the struggle that she was an international accompan
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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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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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POPSSanta Cruz Sleeping Ban Debate Rages In subsequent stories--the Sentinel highlighted graffitists who painted “F#ck the Sleeping Ban” on City Hall. In their on-line forum subsequently, the bigots that rule over the Sentinel forums offered up solutions from lining up the homeless to be shot, pesticiding them, and returning to the “troll busting 80’s”. As Bob Patton of the Human Rights Organization wrote in response, “The South will not rise again.” The continued flow of money and consumerism has become more important then human life or the basic rights we are all supposed to equally share in, or so it seems from the perspective of those that run our city. Every time we allow a right to be taken away from any class of people we are destroying our own rights. By allowing the government to make and keep such laws we only open the door for more.
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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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POPSEnd the Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban - open letter to council laws the criminalize poverty go against the very ideas this nation was founded upon. Remember, Poverty was illegal from the Country we fled. Remember debtors prison from 4th grade history? Please help us and call our City Council or e-mail them. If you call ask for the voice mail box for the entire City council. Visit Indybay.org or humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com to watch the first public debate regarding this issue. 831-420-5020
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POPSCrippled Measure K ("Lowest Priority Enforcement Marijuana by SCPD") Measure K was supposed to make the City Cops make marijuana busts the LOWEST possible priority. A key issue to for your agenda, after demanding that the Measure K Commission's powers be restored, is to clarify exactly who gets to examine the police marijuana bust records. It seems that it's the police and city attorney rather than your commission who are making the determination, according to the third paragraph from the bottom . This seems to me to directly subvert the intention of the Initiative (even the damaged one that came out of the May Rice court settlement).
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POPSTaser death in Victoria being investigated. We have heard of two tasering deaths from the homeless community in Victoria. Only one is being reported on as it was video taped. We hope to hear more from our homeless brothers in Canada on this issue. Visit - www.humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com and http://www.loveandfearlessness.com/ Http://www.huffsantacruz.org - for more information on homelessness and the right to sleep.
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POPSInternet radio BATHROBESPIERRE'S BROADSIDES Free Radio Santa Cruz The most independent you can get. Pirate radio station Free Radio Santa Cruz streams internet radio show BATHROBESPIERRE'S BROADSIDES. Host Robert Norse deals with Civil and human rights of the poor and un-housed. One of the the most aggressive activists in Santa Cruz since 1980 around the Sleeping Ban and other homeless rights issues. Listen over the net, call in and share your voice. This is Pirate Radio where you can say anything. Video commercial at clipped source http://www.humanityforhomeless.blogspot.com. Archives available at http://www.freakradio.org. Thursday Eve. 6:00-8:00pm Pacific Time. Sundays 9:00am-1:00pm.
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POPSPRN in ‘World of Pain’… Videos Click om source for videos. As a chronic pain patient, this is very important to me. Untreated pain can be far worse then the medicines currently available and vilified in the media. It is a human right to be treated for pain compassionately and effectively.
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POPSSanta Cruz passes Parking Lot Paranoia Expansion Law This law may sound like no big deal, but think about you, like I was last week not feeling like shopping with your significant other and choose to wait in the car, as I did. After 15 minutes, this public space that you technically own, along with the rest of the public, is off limits to you. You are not allowed to be in your car, 30 min if disabled. This is aimed at the homeless, despite the lack of evidence for any violent crime happening there, it was a place people could get out of the rain using the overhangs, the homeless. Call the City Council (831) 420-5020 City of Santa Cruz: City Council www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us 809 Center St # 10 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Get directions
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