Ani DiFranco help us!

Peace be with you

Andrew, an antagonizer, pointed out to me that Ani DiFranco’s show at the Arcata community center is being put on by a group who has a “full time employee,” Micheal Moore, who is also a DJ on KHUM, and runs several blogs, including one profiling houseless people. I wrote about it here in a post I titled Boycott KHUM. During the discussion a “tiny fish” pointed out Micheal Moore was a full time employee of Center Arts. I don’t particularly blame Center Arts, or know squat about them for that matter. Nor do I necessarily want people to boycott Ani DiFranco, but I bet she’d play in the parking lot if we did. I do really feel however that Micheal Moore’s hate blog is a bigoted attempt to incite hate, and possibly harm, towards those forced outdoors. And when it comes between entertainment and community, sorry Ani.

Moore’s latest post is trying to label houseles people, whom he demeans by calling “transients, and plazoids,” as people who lure Co-Op clerks blocks from their stores because of some “unruly or inappropriately” behavior, and then get the clerk to produce a weapon and stab the “transient.” When I first heard this story I assumed the chased pinched an apple, or something to that effect, but shit they were being chased for being unruleable. It was after all the clerk who had the knife. A lot more really needs to be said about this Co-Op incident, and many others involving the Co-Op’s overreaction to community member’s eccentricities. If this mention of the boycott KHUM is anything like the last, then I’m sure I will.

I titled this post as I did in hopes of delivering a message to Ani DfFranco. I’m not so much the “starstruck” type that I would have a clue on how to contact her. I do believe she is most likely contactable. So I’m throwing it out there with full belief that the universe, aided by my brothers and sisters, will manifest as it should be:

Peace be with you Ani,

Hi, or as we sometimes say here in the redwoods,” high? ” (it pretty much sounds the same), I’m tad. I am asking you to take a look at Micheal Moore’s blog here. I happen to know the person who lives in the “white whale.” He is a local houseless man with deep roots in the community (loved). He is currently recovering from a stay in the hospital. Though the hospitablization was not directly related to the “whale” publicity, the constant police harassment, en-couraged no doubt by the deeds of mister Moore’s blog, has not helped his uncertain conditions.  His name is Soul, though that may be just how you pronounce it. Could help us stop this un-humboltian type of bigotry, and convince mister Moore that shutting down his blog is in everyone’s best interest.

Also Ani, if you would give a shout out about our upcoming Days of Action Against Police Brutality, Reppression, and Criminalization of a Peoples!, it would be really cool.  You can get me here at the e-ddress in the upper corner of this blog, or you can get hold of Redwood Curtain Cop Watch at 707-633-4493.  Thanks for all you do – it helps.

love eternal
tad

New Legal Challenge against Arcata’s Anti-sleeping Law

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I had the honor yesterday of serving a new motion challenging Arcata’s camping ban – AMC §10004. The motion filed on behalf of two ticketed houseless people from Arcata, Brent and John. The basis of the motion is “seek[ing] discovery of specific evidence within the possession, custody or control of the Arcata City Attorney’s Office that is material to the defense of selective prosecution” (emphasis added).

The pro bono lawyer Tracy Rain (formally know as Tracy Herrin, and congrads on the new family Tracy) has again come to the aid of the city’s most persecuted, and least represented, residents. She file a motion for discovery based on a case from 1975 called Murgia Vs Municipal Court. It is really a two part motion. The first part is demanding to take a look at the records of the cops to see if the law is being enforced evenly among the population. That’s what Tracy filed yesterday. In fact the discovery as outlined in the motion is: “a. The name of each individual cited by Arcata Police Department (hereinafter “APD”) since March 13, 2006 for violation of Arcata Municipal Code, Title X, Chapter 1, Sec. 10004; and b. Address of each individual described in item 1a; and c. Address of alleged violation for each APD citation described in item 1a.”

The second part of the motion comes after the discovery is received and reviewed. It is a motion to dismiss (and declare AMC §10004 unconstitutional) on the grounds that the law is used to prosecute only selected members of the community.

Hopefully Tracy will win this first motion and be able to proceed with the second part. Even if she doesn’t she still has the other three constitutional issues she outlined in her the People vs. Peoples case from Eureka.

I still don’t know why Judge Morrison hasn’t ruled on that motion yet. My guess is, he’s trying to find a way to make it lose, and is having trouble doing so. I posted that post back on March 11, 2009. It is over six months later and not a peep out of the court. My understanding is that they only have 90 days to rule on a motion, but I don’t understand what one can do if they don’t.

love eternal
tad

(update, I’m not good at proof reading this shit, so thanks for the heads up.)

G20

Peace be with you

Here’s a link to DN.

Huffington post

Bullshit Pittsburgh TV station, and other youtube.

love eternal
tad

AKA

Peace be with you

I wanted to say a few things about aliases. If you have ever read an article in a paper about some nefarious individual, you’ve probably noticed a big list of “he was also known as. . .”. I have a bunch of also known ases. Most are mistakes made, intentionally in all probability, by booking cops. I only have one name – tad. I do however have a mark on every file about me. Under that name, which I forsake, are files on credit, schooling, criminal, etc. etc. Those files are made by outsiders looking in. They’re clueless really, but they amass files none the less.

I occasionally have to use that mark. Here is an example of how I used it in a court filing:

Tad
a.k.a. Theodore Robinson
917 Third Street
Eureka, California 95501

Defendant, in propria persona

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT

THE PEOPLE OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
Plaintiff,

vs.

Tad aka THEODORE ROBINSON,

Defendant.
____________________________________/

TO: HUMBOLDT COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT; THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY of HUMBOLDT COUNTY and/or HIS REPRESENTATIVE:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Tad aka, THEODORE ROBINSON hereby appeals from the September 14, 2009 trial of the Humboldt County Superior Court finding Tad guilty of PC 148(a)(1).
DATED: September 14, 2007 Respectfully Submitted,

____________________________________
Tad
Defendant

If you know me by that mark, your looking at a file. If you know tad then we’ve made eye contact, and you know I am what I say I am. “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.” Thomas Paine

love eternal
tad

Derrick Jensen October 6th in Arcata

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“Derrick will be speaking at a benefit for the Buffalo Fields Campaign. Mike Mease, co-founder of the BFC, will also be talking about their work to save the Yellowstone Buffalo. Music by Good Shield, founder of 7th Generation Rise. At Old Arcata Old Creamery Building, 1251 9th Street, Arcata, at 6PM.” Link

If you haven’t read Derrick’s books yet you will after hearing what he has to say. If you think, “I’m green,” then you should be there. It might just change the way you view yourself.

love eternal
tad

PS I think I can crash Derrick’s gig, but I might need some help to get in to see Ani DiFranco October 20th – looking for a miracle.

Supes Censor Archives

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It seems that the County is picking and choosing what you can see on their archives. Why? I’m sure it is in attempt to slow the swelling dissatisfaction with their silencing of dissent. I think the supes meeting will re-air on tv Saturday. I guess they don’t want their constituents to hear what I have to say.

It is quite familiar to see suppression of dissent throughout the course of history. Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Russia, are two that come quickly to mind.

love eternal
tad

You Know Your Jailhouse Bound, 30 Days in the Hole

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I got 30 days for talking 30 seconds too long, and not backing down, at the January 27 Board of Stupid-visors. I was dumb founded! Fuck if I had known that it was only a month I would of really disrupted the shit out of that meeting. In fact I have some good ideas now on how to lock down in the courthouse.

Expect to hear about my up coming hunger-strike. I always hunger-strike in jail. Why? Two reasons: first I am allergic to jail food (it takes me three days of fig eating to shit after eating jail food), and second I’m a raw foodist and they don’t serve those kind of meals.

The bad news about all this is that everyone of you know that if a public official does not like what you said, then they can call the cops and play three-cop-monty with you too.

At the hearing today, I asked for a lawyer, but was refused by the judge (appealing). I also asked for a court reporter, again was refused (trying to work it out with the DA(I have about 50 witnesses)). And, I requested a continuance in my sentencing to allow me time to file a motion for a new trial, but was refused (maybe appealing).

I did file a motion for a new trial though. My motion was lacking many other reasons why I deserved a new trial, but I managed to get in a few reason why it is necessary. The reason I believe I deserve a new trial is because I received an e-mail from a friend that indicated he witnessed two of my witness being coached to lie by who we believe is a DA and definitely a County Counsel. That coaching is why Jimmy Smith couldn’t show the jury where he has sat for the last eight years on a map of the Supervisor’s chamber. That coaching is why I couldn’t get a truthful answer out of any of the county witness.

Again I say it is bullshit convicting someone by deception. If the DA has to resort to dirty tricks to get a conviction then the person probably shouldn’t be tried. “Justice for all” was Gallgos’ campaign slogan, but it is all about the conviction. If you can’t convict someone on what they did, then a “justice for all” DA wouldn’t try them in the first place. But our’s thinks you can have what the defendant did suppressed, his witnesses lie, and his employees coach those witnesses in their lies, and it can be called justice for all. Bullshit Paul!

I will however tomorrow petition the court for a public appointed appeals lawyer. I am also starting the civil side of this costly county expenditure. A bunch of things came out in the trial that I didn’t know, and which I am pretty sure are illegal. I still have one little gap in the chain of events I haven’t worked out – where was Crandall for the 2 minutes I was talking?, after he an Smith stopped conspiring. The cool thing is that if the DA coached witnesses to convict me unlawfully, then he too is a conspirator. One more good-ol’-boy to shoot out of his saddle.

I am working on the full, start to finish, story of what happened. It is pretty easy to figure out what happened by just watching the video. Jimmy Smith didn’t like what I said, so he started a chain of lies and deception that involved half our elected department heads. I hope all you don’t want your potholes fixed, ’cause that money is earmarked for fighting tad.

Anyone who thinks this is a bullshit waist of money, and totally wrong, feel free to call Jimmy Smith (476-2396), Gary Phelps (445-7251), and Paul Gallegos (445-7411), and tell them your not voting for them again. Or just say fuck-you and hang up, what the hell do I care at this point.

The judge threatened me with a year. I diffused that bullshit when I just smiled, shrugged, and said “okay, well you are after all the sentencing judge.” Power can not handle those who speak truth to it. I believe judge Johnson sentenced me to 30 days because I wouldn’t take probation. He might of tried sentencing me to more, but after seeing how the bailiffs (one was ex-code enforcer/sheriff Desadier) didn’t even try to control the booing crowd, I knew I had more balls then he did.

Again I repeat – no regrets, and I’d do it agian! Thanks everyone, I so love my many friends and supporters. Ya’ll fucking rock.

“Get that hair cut, boy. Your gonna get thirty days boy.” Viva la revolution!

love eternal
tad

!5 Arrested in Sacramento Tent City

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The struggle to hold on to there homes has led 15 houseless people to chose jail over eviction. I think it is time to march on the state capital. I will write a little about Coxey’s army, and the first ever huge protest at the white house soon.

love eternal
tad

After 15 more arrests, homeless campsite still not resolved
By Julie Johnson and Cathy Locke
jjohnson@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Sep. 13, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 1B

Sacramento police arrested 15 more homeless people Saturday at a vacant lot just north of downtown. The campers were released the same day, and some soon returned to the lot that is morphing from a campground into a battleground.

Saturday’s arrests followed at least a half-dozen such raids where police have cited and rousted from 15 to 35 people who have occupied the lot at 1221 C St. since a local attorney opened the site to the homeless on Aug. 21.

Police say the campers are violating an ordinance that prohibits urban camping for longer than 24 hours. The homeless campers say they want a legal “safe ground” with basic services such as garbage pickup and portable toilets.

“Arrests aren’t going to solve it, but unfortunately we believe the continual violation of the ordinance isn’t going to solve it either,” said Sgt. Norm Leong, spokesman for the Sacramento Police Department.
Campers determined to stay until a legal camping site is created said Saturday that it’s up to the city to come up with a solution.

“We’ve got to change things,” 64-year-old Jim Gilland said. “So we might have to go to jail as many times as it takes to get this law overturned or amended.”

Lt. James Hendrickson said the arrests were made about 6 a.m. Police confiscated camping gear, as they did last week, and the items are being held as evidence, he said.

Joan Burke, director of advocacy for Loaves & Fishes, reported that all of the campers had been released by 7 p.m. Saturday.

About a dozen campers trickled back to the site early Saturday evening, some just after they were released. Many wore the green T-shirts advocates made with the movement’s slogan, “Safe Ground,” printed across the front.

The movement has attracted at least one person from out of town to join the homeless camp. “I heard what they were doing and I thought, ‘I need to put a mark in my life,’ ” Matthew Zink said. Zink, 25, traveled to Sacramento from out of state and has been staying at the camp for about one week. He said he’s been living outside for many years.

Zink said he wasn’t among those arrested Saturday, but he was prepared to face arrest to stand up for the cause.

Toward the back of the lot, Colin Reid rested in a tent he had just set up for the night. Reid, 48, said he would camp on the lot until the police “throw me in jail and don’t let me out or if (property owner) Mark Merin asks us to leave and I’ll leave.”

Others who had gathered on the lot late Saturday said they were exhausted from the constant fear of arrest, and had made plans to stay elsewhere.

“I needed a night off. It’s my birthday,” Carol Carlile said. Carlile, who turned 58 on Saturday, and several others said they would spend the night at Francis House, a shelter a few blocks away from the lot. Henry Harris, 46, said he got out of jail that afternoon and didn’t want to be arrested again. “It gets old,” he said. “But I will be back Monday. I’d rather be here fighting the police than out on the street where it’s dangerous.”

Sister Libby Fernandez of Loaves & Fishes, which has supported homeless efforts to occupy the “safe ground” campsite, said churches and other agencies are resupplying camping gear. Merin has given permission for homeless people to camp on the site. Merin, an attorney, has said he will challenge the city’s camping ordinance in court.

“As long as they’re prepared to risk arrest, I’m prepared to let them stay here,” Merin said Saturday evening as he visited the site.

The city attorney in court papers says campers have urinated on homes in the area and attracted rats, cockroaches and drug dealing. Leong said police have received several complaints from nearby residents. There is no indication of a solution soon. If the campers return, police are expected to return as well. “The police are charged with enforcing the law,” Hendrickson said.

Supervising City Attorney Gustavo Martinez said last week that city officials are open to mediation. He said campers must first eliminate the noise, odors and litter in the area.

He said a possible solution would be for Merin to build a structure on the site with “approved bathrooms, parking, lighting, a sewer system.” The lot is zoned for light industry.

Merin said he wasn’t sure that his “property is the best place to build a shelter” but that he “would be happy to do it if it made sense.”

The city tried to get a court order to shut the camp down on Thursday, but a Sacramento Superior Court judge put off a decision on the city’s request for at least 12 more days.

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Loren E. McMaster set a new hearing for Sept. 22. He said he had to delay the decision because the city had not properly served the lawsuit on Merin.

City officials have said they are working with the county and advocacy groups to come up with a plan provide more options for people seeking shelter. Under discussion is a legal campground with basic services such as garbage pickup and running water.

But members of a committee studying the issue have said such a project could not realistically be launched until April.

Meanwhile, as campers returned to the lot Saturday evening, Pedro Hernandez, whose home is next door to the lot, said he fears the resettlement and arrests won’t end.

“You tell me how you would feel if you had this problem in your backyard,” Hernandez, 72, said. “You can imagine how me and my family feel.”

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Boycott KHUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peace be with you

Heraldo over at The Humboldt Herald alerted us to a bigot working for KHUM, who is attempting to spread hate. It appears that one of KHUMs DJs is trying to agitate more hostility towards those who have lost their housing. Michael Moore, Jr. has started a blog in order to post pictures of houseless people he believes you should hate.

He titled his blog “Arcata Can Be Better.” His posts to date are titled “Drinking Near The Co-Op,” “Someone was Sleeping in the Speed Wash Parking Lot,” “The Great White Whale parts 1-4,” and “Homeless Man Sleeping In Arcata.” I believe Mr. Moore’s blog is self evident, but for those who can’t quite see the connection, imagine if he started a blog to run down any other class of people. Would his blog be acceptable if it was about brown people? No, you would run him off the air with a pitch fork.

This spineless person has created a blog to rial up hate against people who have no choice but to sleep. Come on people would you want you to do nothing if it was you who was being belittled by Moore? Find your heart before we become the gated Arcata Michael Moore Jr. wants.

I will hold Michael Moore, and KHUM responsible if anyone gets hurt because of his crusade. How did Arcate go from one of the most progressive citys in the country, to a bastion for right wing hate mongers? Maybe Moore is dating Hoover.

Call KHUM and tell them you don’t approve of their nazi-blog DJ. Tell them either he goes or you go. 707-786-5104

love eternal
tad

Tad found guilty

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I’ve never been very good at writing publicly about myself. I try to keep things on the issues, and not on look at what I did. But, as I said to someone (or fifty someones) during all this, “there’s two times in your life its okay to be ‘all about me’ one is your birthday, and the other is, every time they try you in their court.” Obviously I lost, though I see it as a good chance to identify and learn more about abuses in Humboldt County Correctional Facility, and teach those members of our community about the rights they possess. I’ll try to update you from jail.

That bullshit being said, I would really like everyone who could support me to be at the Courthouse Monday, at 1:00, for a press conference, or hugs if there is only two of you. If you absolutely can’t show up for the PC, then please come and help me show the out of town judge my kick ass community at my 1:30 sentencing hearing in court room 7. I know it will help at sentencing if the judge knows freedom of speech is a two sided issue in Humboldt County.

Remember, I got pulled out of a Humboldt County Board of Supes meeting by the bailiff goon squad of the second floor court, because Jimmy Smith didn’t like what I said. Now I’m in that goon squad’s custody. So please come, hell it might be the last time you get a chance to see me.

I really enjoyed the trial and all the fucked-up hearings I had. If I wasn’t already involved in my life’s passion, I would seriously consider an internship in lawyering (one my life’s passions of course, is getting rid of the need for lawyers between community members). I suppose I would have to learn to speak the English (sic) first though. Anyway I learned a lot, and I’ll be even better next time.

I would also like to assure any juror who might be googling my name, I really do feel your pain. The thing that always makes me cry about this, and now since its me, even more so, is that in these types of situations jurors vote against their own heart in order to “following the ‘letter’ of the law,” and then can’t even look you in the eye afterwords. We’re activists, and are constantly standing up for things. That often leads us to court. I have been trained to be an activist, I know the score, you don’t. I am sorry you were put you in that situation, but it is our freedom I must struggle for. Don’t sweat it, I forgive you. Hell I forgave you when I decided that freedom of speech was worth protecting from our fortuna stupidvisor. I fucked with the big “good ol’” boys. I cordially invite any juniors to the 1:30 sentencing. None of my friends, who were at the trial, are the type who would do anything but welcome you, and maybe hug you. I would love to talk to each one of you. I also invite you to explore the idea of a well informed jury, you can follow your heart in the jury box despite what judges tell you. But anyway, I really did like you, and I hope you liked me. If you ever meet me on the street, I love talking with my community members.

I also feel bad that my beloved friends feel bad that I lost. I don’t really believe we ever lose when we stand up! Gandhi kicked the English out of India by filling up the jails. We establish justice, and further the struggle for an egalitarian reality! I stood up for my right to have the supervisor’s attention for a few minutes a week. And now it’s my turn to play plaintiff. I guarantee you the Brown act wont be left out of that one. Plus I get to appeal. Thank you to everyone who supported me – I love you too!

I personally view it, that I really won. I figured out their three cop monty game, and told you. Every defense lawyer I explained their strategy to said it was brilliant. Its pretty fucked up when prosecutors use sneaky maneuvers to convict someone. I thought it was about the justice, but the judge only talked about how “fair” it all is. Dollar for dollar we got the way bigger end of the stick. I prevented other people from being in that court, and I’ll take up space, and funds, in jail too. I learned a lot. I have no regrets, and neither should any of you.

Those who know griz already understand why I’m begging, but for those who don’t know him, he is my companion. He’s a 130 lb St Bernardish puppy who pulls me on a mountain board with bells around his neck (little kids think I’m Santa Clause in July). That’s just one of the cute things he does. Once he even got me threatened by the chief of the Arcata police department for disrupting a public meeting. He’s never been separated from me for very long periods, and I need to secure his comfort. He is a well behaved male, but still has his balls. He’s never been layed and he’s almost seven. I am responsible enough to prevent that myself, but I’m not sure responsibility alone would be enough to stop griz from jumping little fifi if the opportunity presents itself. Your presence will go a long way at convincing the judge that I have local ties, and allow me some time to find a nice secure yard for the Buddha incarnate before reporting to jail.

Thank you all for your good wishes, but Monday I could really use your body, and everyone you know that knows me, whose number you have. If you like me on TV, you’ll like me even better in person. Maybe we can all go together Tuesday for the 1:30 public comment and tell Jimmy Smith it’s a bullshit idea him giving verbal consent to Kathy Hayes to push the panic alarm “only when threat of bodily harm,” and then not only allowing letting Kathy Hayes to push the button because he didn’t like what I said, but then activity helping to prosecute me by him and his employees lying on the stand. I have noticed the archived meeting in question has rotated out of the choices, but I know for sure they still got the cd (1/27/09).

Life’s a journey, and the show must go on. I’ve been in jail before, and I like to think I survive it better than most.

love eternal
tad

Oh yeah, children are totally welcome – they’re family too.