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POPSIndymedia Newsreal - media for the people by the people Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like air and water pollution, war, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more. Newsreal is comprised of segments submitted by video-makers throughout the world
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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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POPSRich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Blood I suggest people also visit http://www.whenicamehome.com/ to see how some of our vets are returning home and being treated. Host your own screening.
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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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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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POPS Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban Debate Videos
Click on "Clipped From" link for videos at top of this Clip. People in violation of these laws face $92 tickets, despite our Vice Mayors confusion. According to reports, tickets can be dismissed from court because the city of Santa Cruz does not offer any legal sleeping option for people who do not have a legal place to sleep. Although the tickets may be dismissed in court, rangers and police regularly destroy or confiscate items belonging to homeless people, wake them up while sleeping, harass them and drag them through a revolving-door court system. You have to have the proper letter, walk to the shelter and hope the right person is there. It is not a solution with any dignity or compassion. These laws are demoralizing, unethical and unconstitutional in nature. I have never seen this type of dialog happen in Santa Cruz, I hope to see more of it in the future. Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty came across as a representative of business, with no real compassion for the plight of people in pov
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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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POPSUCSC Police Officer Brian Hughes - excessive force? This officer has a long record of infiltrating peaceful organizations and protests. What happened at UCSC was a travesty. The Violence was unnecessary. 200 students peacefully marching, some dressed as butterflies, do not warrant the the violence used by the police. They would have been better to let them march. What would have happened? Nothing violent...
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