KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING:

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From our good friend Verbana.

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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

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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

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PL’s Roger Rodoni’s Reelection Platform is Bigotry

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Halliburton Confirms Concentration Camps Already Constructed

The Redwood Times, a SoHum weekly rag, printed a headline story Tuesday *(3-18-0 titled, “Rodoni calls impromptu meeting: The homeless and trash problems on the agenda.” It is an article about 2500 words or so long. It would take two to three times that amount of space to refute all the lies, contradictions, and stereo-typing it included. This spur of the moment “meeting” was so quick that only the Chief Administrative Officer, the Public Works Director, the Branch Director of Mental Health Branch, and representatives from the Health And Human Services Department, Environmental Health Department and Sheriff’s Department, were able to drop what they were doing and drive all the way from Eureka to Redway.

The articles starts out claiming “Rodoni began the meeting by talking about the problems the homeless cause on the streets, the river bars, and creeks of Southern Humboldt” The article goes on to present the case of an organized run-the-transients-out-of-town assault on the homeless. Business owners, cops, and Rodoni explained how SoHumers should target and profiled the homeless.

SoHum Sheriff Deputy Sam Williams perhaps the most bigoted homeless-hating pig to disgrace this County since Ranger Bob got busted for too many drunk drivings and demoted to “Bob the Bailiff.,” said “as a law enforcement officer it is not acceptable for us to walk down the street and say ‘Your kind isn’t welcome here. Get out.’ But the people of the community can make it known to them that they (the homeless) aren’t welcome here.”

Private mercenary Lt. Commander Mark Hazelton of the Eel River Conservation Camp Company claimed he would provide slave labor for $160 – $200 a DAY! At this weeks board of supes meeting one public speaker accidentally, but accurately, called the other slave labor company, which Rodoni supports, the “High Rock Concentration Camp.” Those big red CCC vans you see in your community are prisoners who get less then a dollar a day to cut down homeless camps. These prisoners, of which the 2005-06 Humboldt Grand Jury Report says “most of the inmates are serving a sentence for substance abuse or property related crimes,” are given axes and sent into your neighborhoods to work as Supervisors Rodoni and Smith’s slaves. Smith said Tuesday that the slaves “like working” for master Smith, though he never juxtaposed that against how they would feel supporting their families with the “in excess of $2,000,000 per year,”instead of making one private business owner rich.

The whole meeting was about how Rodoni and his bigoted cop buddy wish to blame the homeless for all the trash (ie cars, furniture, appliances etc.) in SoHum. The ideas of giving food, survival equipment, or shelter to the homeless were attacked as the source of some homeless scourge.

All you compassionate, caring, generous SoHummers watch out, a small group of Rodoni reactionaries are setting their sights on you. The solution for trash pick-up is no different for homeless then for the housed. Give the homeless a place to throw away their trash and go to the bathroom and the problem is solved. But it seems that spending large unaccounted sums of public money on police harassment is the best we can hope for from the supe who gets corporate graft from PL. The entire houseless population of California couldn’t do anywhere as much environmental damage to Humboldt County as Rodoni supporter Maxxam has.

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*the Redwood times happened to forget to post this lead story on their website.

** Anyone who gets a “camping” ticket in SoHum you can get hold of me at theplazoid@yahoo.com for info on lawyers. case law and legal defenses

Der Geist von Hitler zurückgekommen!

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Here’s the promised video of Ms Geist’s attempt to use government control of speech prior to said speech happening. The morning session:

The Afternoon session:

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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation

March 13-16

http://warcomeshome.org/

Iraq Veterans Against the War

http://ivaw.org/

Crandall still inflating Humboldt County’s Mental Health numbers

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Pictured - Barton Schink - Edelweiss Pirate. Executed aged 16 by the Nazis

 

After having to rip up one MOU (Memorandum Of Understanding) between Humboldt County’s Department of Health’s, Mental Health Branch and the Probation Department just one week earlier, at Tuesday’s supes meeting the supes unanimously voted in another Health Department/Probation MOU. This MOU, though pushed through under the pretext of the Health Department, is using funds expressly advertised up until now as mental health funding. With the county’s Mental Health budget accounting for one quarter of the county’s total budget, it takes little imagination to see why they hide Mental Health expenditures under the regular Health Department’s expenditures.

The supes agenda item D-12 refers to three “healthy” programs. The first, “Healthy Returns Initiative,” is a program designed to put juvenile offenders on anti-psychotic drugs. The linked PDF states in 23 font letters that “The California Endowment has set out to change the paradigm, making the system—traditionally focused on punishment—consider mental health issues front and center.” Is jail the “trigger event as a catalyst to create a paradigm shift?”

The Eureka Reporter reported back in February of 2005 that Humboldt county along with only 4 other counties in California would become an experimental county, and receive a $950,000 Healthy Returns Initiative Grant from The California Endowment. The same article states “Of those juveniles, approximately half of the youth on field supervision and those being detained in Juvenile Hall, as well as between 80-100 percent of those in placement have ‘enough of a mental-health issue to require mental health related treatment or services.’” If my math is correct that means 150 – 160 children a month would be put on drugs. Phillip Crandall said in the article, “We’re real excited and happy that probation received the grant.”

On November 21, 2006 the Eureka Reporter ran a story which claimed only 900 children in Humboldt county qualified for the second program mentioned in the supes item; Healthy Kids Humboldt. Yet Crandall wants to dope 150 per month for four years? Again another example of Crandall’s fabrication of “mentally ill” numbers to pad his budget and justify his, the largest salary in the county.

These children’s health care programs are too important to be used as scams for Crandall’s scheme to dope a quarter of Humboldt county. These programs put children on Medi-Cal and Medi-Cal recipients automatically get put on the dope ‘em first CalMAP program when mental health diagnoses are utilized to get Crandall funding.

Crandall and the supes shouldn’t lie when the safety and well being of our children is at stake. Don’t we have enough suicides already in Humboldt County without giving more children drugs that increase their risk of suicide?

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I have changed the Plazoid to “wordpress.com” It was easy just go to wordpress and fill out some shit and enter the same old password you always use. What I’m trying to say, to those who have ears to hear is, the more shit changes the more it stays the same.

Let me know how you like it, I’m easy.

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Why are your pharmaceuticals in my drinking water?

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I got this link from Bill. All those scripts you’ve been taken have been pissed into the environment. The article states:

“While researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals, recent studies — which have gone virtually unnoticed by the general public — have found alarming effects on human cells and wildlife.”And; “some experts say medications may pose a unique danger because, unlike most pollutants, they were crafted to act on the human body.”

Also: “Many concerns about chronic low-level exposure focus on certain drug classes: chemotherapy that can act as a powerful poison; hormones that can hamper reproduction or development; medicines for depression and epilepsy that can damage the brain or change behavior; antibiotics that can allow human germs to mutate into more dangerous forms; pain relievers and blood-pressure diuretics.”

The article points out that human medicine is not alone in polluting, veterinary medicines and hormones also make it into the water supply.

The only drug that is tested for is nitroglycerin (a drug used only in the event of a heart attack).  The federal government doesn’t even have standards for all the rest of the drugs.

Pretty scary shit I wonder what Humboldt county’s water tests like?

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The Plazoid has moved

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The plazoid has moved to here

http://theplazoid.wordpress.com/

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Humboldt County Probation cops can’t be Case Managers.

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China’s MDU (Photo USA Today)
VAN SPECS

Cost: $37,500 to $75,000, depending on vehicle’s size
Length: 20 to 26 feet
Top speed: 65 to 80 mph
THREE SECTIONS
Execution chamber: in the back, with blacked-out windows; seats beside the stretcher for a court doctor and guards; sterilizer for injection equipment; wash basin
Observation area: in the middle, with a glass window separating it from execution area; can accommodate six people; official-in-charge oversees the execution through monitors connected to the prisoner and gives instruction via walkie-talkie.
Driver area
Production to date: at least 40 vehicles, made by Jinguan and two other companies in Jiangsu and Shandong provinces

At Tuesday’s Board of Supes meeting the Humboldt County boring Supes will give their subservient nod to revoking the probation department’s performing of “mental health” services. Of course they are not doing this act because they want to, they’re doing it because a higher legislature saw the stupidity of allowing probation officers to be simultaneously mental health case managers.

Although this is one of those “one step forwards” in the “one step forward two steps back dance,” separating those that are supposed to heal from those who punish is a good move. Unfortunately the cops and mental health are starting to forge bigger and more oppressive Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) to terrorize the mentally ill.

Soon the mental health will have their Mobile Drugging Unit (MDU) stocked with a couple of cops and a goonish, Haldol syringe packing mental health orderly. They will be able to declare anyone they choose “mentally ill,” and shoot them full of Haldol on the spot. Anybody, anywhere, for any reason can be doped and then brought before a Judge who will sentence them to a life of highly toxic nut-pills. It doesn’t matter how “sane” you were before, because the Judge only believes you’re sane now because you’re on anti-psychotics.

We must insist that the cops leave doctoring to the doctors. Law enforcers are not a very smart or compassionate way to help the mentally broken. Law enforcers are robotic mercenaries. They enforce laws designed to prevent the wealthy and ruling class from being “bothered.” That doesn’t bode well for those who truly need medical help.

Secondly we must insist that if the psychiatrists are going to force people to take anti-psychotics then we need professionals in place to get these people “off their meds” safely.

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