Care not cash AKA fucking the poor

Peace be with you and happy Beltane

Today’s May day and that means Beltane celebrations and labor struggles. The longshoremen are planning on shutting down every port in California today in their “No Peace, No Work Holiday” to oppose US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan. Rock-on brothers and sisters I support you 100% on this one.

On a sadder note the SF Chronicle today praised Gruesome Newsom’s theft of San Francisco’s poorest resident’s pennies as a “success.” In May of 2004 Newsom reduced homeless General Relief benefits from as much as $410 a month to $59 a month. Newsom then “remov[ed] SRO hotels (where poor people live) from the open market and placing homeless people in them to great media fanfare . . . charg[ed] the homeless for electricity when they sleep on a mat on a shelter floor under the auspices of Care Not Cash, and . . . set aside services for homeless people who make contact with the mayor’s outreach workers rather than any of the dozens of other outreach workers who are out in the streets every single day,” as reported in this San Francisco Bay Guardian article. This claim of success is based on questionable homeless counting practices like not allowing counters in city parks. While the visible homeless are reduced in downtown San Francisco outlying areas like the Mission District are “overflowing with homeless.” Newsom and his bean counters claim that the shift from homeless services to mental health drugs is working, but it is based on leaving homeless precariously housed with less then $2 a day to live on. Affordable housing is housing that costs no more then 33% of one’s income, not 85% from those least able to pay it.

I would be irresponsible not to mention that Humboldt County does the same screwing of General Relief recipients every winter, except in SF one is guaranteed to get housing and in Humboldt it’s more likely a camping ticket.

love eternal
tad

Yee Haw in Court Monday!

Peace be with you

Yee Haw will be in court again over “code enforcement violations,” on Monday April 28th, at 8:30 am. And well, you’re all invited! I especially hope people who are dealing with and/or have dealt with Connors and Desadier will attend to show support for their fellow code enforcement victims. Yeehaw is the first and probably won’t be the last of the code enforcement lawsuits brought against a small rural land owner. Let’s show the county council and code enforcement that we will stand together.

AND: Remember the court bailiffs are pricks and won’t let you bring in or leave any bags, packs, or briefcases - so you might want to leave them in your car.

love eternal
tad

Liles testified at Cheri Moore’s inquest

Peace be with you

From Humboldtherald blog comes this request. I don’t know how to fulfill it but by posting a picture here.

# photo of Liles, please Says:
April 20, 2008 at 11:51 am

Every dangerous murderer should be easily identified - will someone please post a link so we can see what this pathetic failure of a human being Liles looks like?

love eternal
tad

Urgent! Ontario Tent City Announces Two-Day March on County!

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—-Original Message—–
> From: Worldatpeace @hotmail.com [mailto:worldatpeace@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:56 PM
> Subject: Urgent! Sunday 7pm –Ontario Tent CityAnnouunces Two-Day March on
> County!
>
>
> Sunday Night in Ontario CA,at Ontario’s Tent City,you are invited to
> attend –or immediately call us to find out how you can endorse this
> emergency march –and show your support, at our Pacifist’s
> Organizer’s/Supporter’s Meeting.
>
> CALL TENT CITYNOW!!: David at (805) 284-6859 or (310) 403-6883
>
> NewHopeCity@gmail.com
>
> (see our directions to Ontario’stent city below this announcement)
>
> (Please forward invitation to attend, or support, our pacifist march –to
> only your most trusted colleagues)
>
> thanks!
> ————————————————-
>
> Over 200 of Ontario CA’sFormer Tent CityResidents To Be Given
> Final Kick-Out By City On Tuesday April 22!
>
> Your Help and Support for California’sHomeless is Needed Now!!!
>
> Join Or Support, our Colorful Two-Day March From Ontario CA:
>
> Starting Monday April 21st!
>
> The Homeless People of Ontario’s Tent Cityare Announcing A Humanitarian
> Plea to the Officials of San Bernardino County:
>
> ‘If You Can’t Affordably House Us; or Even Provide Emergency Shelters–Our
> Time is Now Up in Ontario–And We Need the County to Give Us Another Tent
> City Now!’
>
> In the midst of America’snationwide foreclosure crisis, and the exploding
> global food crisis, Ontario’s Tent Cityhomeless encampment has made
> worldwide headlines in the last 7 months since it exploded: from a half
> dozen homeless people to over 400 –and now, after months of controversy,
> the City of Ontariohas decreed that starting Tuesday, Earth Day, all
> ‘non-Ontarians’ now still there must completely vacate Tent City–or face a
> final wave of arrests.
>
> A score or more of the homeless people there now, and their community
> supporters, including poor women and children; and representing over 200
> homeless people who have been forced out of Ontario’sTent City, and the
> hundreds of thousands of homeless people, like them, without any shelterto
> sleep in throughout Californiaand millions on this planet –are launching a
> two-day homeless march on Monday, April 21st, to a still undisclosed Fontana
> CA location: to set up Southern California’sfirst environmentally and
> socially sustainable Tent City –and announce to the County of San
> Bernardino’
>
> ‘We Give the County Six Months:
> House Us; Give Us a Legal Place to Sleep –or Arrest Us Now!’
>
> Sunday night, 7pm, at the Ontario CA Tent City, there will be a
> organizers/supporters strategy meeting. You are invited to attend this
> meeting –for this historic, two-day, ‘Poor People’s March’–and to help
> launch this historic Six-Month Encampment to make Food, Clothing, Housing,
> Universal Single-Payer Medical Care, a Free Education, Equal Rights, and
> Justice for All –and an End to America’s Wasteful MilitarySpending, Now!
>
>http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&output=html&hl=en&q=1010++Washington+Ave+Ont
> ario+CA
>
>
> If you cannot attend, but want to get more info –we urge your endorsement
> and support –please call (805) 284-6859 or (310) 403-6883
>
> We expect thousands of homeless, and their supporters, will be with us for
> this
> Six-Month Siege!
>
> NewHopeCity@gmail.com

love eternal
tad

I’m looking for 18 ticketed homeless to fight their camping tickets

Peace be with you

Wednesday April 17, 2008 the Eureka Police Department ticketed 18 people for “camping.” If anyone can locate any of these accused please send them my way. Eureka, as well as Arcata, has lost these cases in court already and have done nothing to bring local laws in line with constitutional guarantees. If you are homeless and have no place to sleep you can not be convicted of “camping” when there is no legal place for you to sleep.

Though many potential crimes were reported by the EPD in the press release nobody was arrested for any such crimes. Camping was the only crime people were cited for. Help us stop the illegal ticketing of homeless for life sustaining activities.

If anyone in Humboldt County wants to fight their camping tickets I can hook you up with a lawyer and help you with all the court shit. Contact me.

love eternal
tad

Supes use code warrant moratorium as red herring for more invasive pot raids

Peace be with you

My computer has had a virus lately, so please forgive the lengthly absence.

As everyone knows that on April 8th 2008 the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors declared a moratorium on all code enforcement raids. By the next meeting on April 15th the Supes decided to change the moratorium to only prohibit new code enforcement warrants. What most people fail to realize is that as of Monday April 14th the District Attorney Paul Gallegos un-deputized the code enforcement “officers.” Which means that they can’t get warrants even if they were not under a moratorium. In other words the moratorium does absolutely nothing that wasn’t done by the DA anyway.

Why are the supes, who constantly support marijuana eradication grants, trying to make us believe they are doing shit about code enforcement abuse? Expect the same cops to brow-beat the citizens into giving consent to search their properties. And worse expect constant harassment of those already victimized by the heavy handed abuse of code enforcement.

love eternal
tad

Garr “POP ‘em” Nielsen remains head goon at 11th hour meeting

Peace be with you

The merger of Corporate Power (the economy) and Government Power (the military) is what Benito Mussolini called Fascism. Nobody likes fascism, so fascist sneak around in order to implement their agendas. One of the ways in which they accomplish this is the last minute emergency meeting to “decide” something that would have to be decided in a more open and legitimate forum at the appropriate time. Last night the fascist city council of Eureka did just that. The cowards called an emergency meeting to decide if a contract with Garr “POP ‘em” Nielsen should be extended for five more years. Some within the Eureka Police Department believe the “emergency” was an attempt to quiet dissent among the Eureka Police Officers Association members.

Besides lying and covering-up the EPD’s beating of Martin Cotton to death, Garr has multiple accusations of sexual harassment, and the demotion of Captain Harpham Murl Harpham which angers even his own cops.

I hate to say it, but I agree with the cops on this one, that it is time to throw the Garr Badge out.

love eternal
tad

Eureka Police Department literally get away with murder.

Peace be with you

“He took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.”

Paul Gallegos enjoying a cup of spanged coffee

Yesterday the Humboldt County DA, Paul Gallegos, claimed that a half dozen or so still unknown Eureka cops who beat Martin Cotton to death in front of over twice that many witnesses at the Eureka homeless rescue mission “is insufficient evidence to determine when Cotton sustained the injuries to his head or who caused those injuries.”

Bullshit Paul! You would take anybody to trial, and probably win, with just the evidence that we the public know about. But you place the cops above the law - even in murder. You join the militarized cops and their goonish allies at the rescue mission to cover up a deliberate cold blooded murder. The blood is on your hands Paul.

love eternal
tad

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING:

Peace be with you

From our good friend Verbana.

love eternal
tad

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING:
HOW TO HANDLE ENCOUNTERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT

Saturday March 29, 2008

1:30pm - 5:30pm

hosted by Redwood Curtain CopWatch

at the P.A.R.C. Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community

Old Town Eureka
320 2nd Street, between D and E, upstairs

Do you know what to do if you’re stopped by the police? Do your children? Are you tired of your rights being violated? Do you know why it’s important to assert your rights, even if you’ve done nothing wrong?

This workshop focuses on the law “on the street” — what your rights are and how cops try to trick you out of them. We want to share strategies to ‘survive’ police encounters. Also, we’ll talk about being an effective observer, watching the police.

SATURDAY March 29th:

*Free
*All Ages Welcome
*Snacks, Coffee, Juice

For more info call: 707-633-4493

Know Your Rights pamphlets and pocket cards are available for free, all the time, at the PARC!!

“In the United States, far too many people are imprisoned, and far too many of the prisoners are low-income people of color. ….It’s particularly important to know your rights at this time, because the behavior of law enforcement toward the public has become increasingly militant and militarized. Law enforcement officers often rationalize their actions as necessary tactics in the wars on drugs or terrorism.

Predictably, as these campaigns progress, the primary casualties are people of color, people who are poor, and people who are activists. ….[Recent] changes in the law signal that the political climate is more accepting of ugly policing practices such as infiltration or manipulative interrogation practices. That’s why it’s critical to learn how to use the law to protect yourself- before you or the people you care about end up in jail.” [or worse] -from book “Beat the Heat” by activist attorney Katya Komisaruk [bracketed comment by Verbena]

In 1976, 250,000 people behind bars in the U.S.- the highest prison population ever. By 2005, prison populations in the U.S. swelled to over 2 million people. -info from Critical Resistance, “seek[ing] to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex. …challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe…”

Odd ends

Peace be with you

From the North Coast Journal: “There’s going to be a big town hall meeting in Eureka next week about crime and policing. It sounds really good. Chief Garr Nielsen will talk about the changes in the department since he took over last year, and there’ll be representatives from the county drug task force and other agencies. That’s on the evening of Thursday, March 20, 6:30 p.m., at the Wharfinger building (1 Marina Way, Eureka.)”

From the NY Times: “Dozens of Ontario police and code enforcement officers descended upon the homeless encampment known as Tent City early Monday”

From the ACLU: “Ninth Circuit Rules Drug-Testing Policy, As Applied, Unconstitutional” Piss testing is unconstitutional according to Lanier v. City of Woodburn

love eternal
tad