BEGINNING MARCH 23RD Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC)

Posted on March 22, 2015 by uaptsd

Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) will start Monday, March 23, 2015 and will happen on the 23rd of each month.

This date emphasizes the 23 or more hours every day, for years and decades that people are kept in solitary confinement in 7 x 11 foot concrete cells.

In San Diego, California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC) will hold an Informational demonstration including photosof men in SHU along with some who used to be in SHU but are now in General Population

Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm, Location: at Rosa Park (the park is next to library) in City Heights, San Diego

Co-sponsors: California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC); ACLU of Northern California; Anti-Racist Action-LA; California Prison Focus; Critical Resistance Oakland; Food Not Bombs; Global Women’s Strike; Human Rights Pen Pals; LA Laborfest; Payday Men’s Network; Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community (PARC); Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS); Project: Pollinate; Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization (SCRAM!); Sin Barras; Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike.

We suggest you choose a high visibility area and reach people with leaflets/information. Include Agreement to End Hostilities issued by Pelican Bay State Prison-SHU Short Corridor Hunger Strike Representatives, Statement to the Streets and All Youth Lock-ups from Youth Justice Coalition, Frequently Asked Questions, etc.

Organized, community-based pressure is a core strategy to end solitary confinement. We are holding CA statewide actions from San Diego to Eureka, including Eureka, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Cruz… We have cosponsors nationwide and internationally, and are asking for people to hold actions wherever you are.

Endorsers: United Against Police Terror San Diego; Ramona Africa and The MOVE Organization; Dr. Nancy Arvold, PhD, MFT, member Psychologists for Social Responsibility; Black and Pink San Diego; Cabrillo College Justice League; Cafe Intifada; Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB); California Peace and Freedom Party; Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA) Restorative Justice Institutions; Darrell and Karen Darling; Family of Frank Alvarado Jr., killed by Salinas Police, July 10, 2014; Freedom Archives; Free Our Minds, Free Radio Santa Cruz; Rabbi Borukh Goldberg; Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace; Justice for Palestinians, San Jose; National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)-Santa Cruz County; National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT); Dylcia Pagán, former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner held in US prison; Leonard Peltier Support Group Silicon Valley; Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC); Queer Strike; Redwood Curtain CopWatch; San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper; Santa Cruz County Community Coalition to Overcome Racism (SCCCCOR); South Bay Committee Against Political Repression (SBCAPR); US PROStitutes Collective; Donna Wallach; Women’s Council, California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

Attached is a handbill to print (double sided to save trees/water if you can) and distribute among your organization actions To End Solitary Confinement. https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com, http://www.prisonradio.org

For a pdf file please go to https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/

Uaptsd.org Working Meeting

Posted on March 22, 2015 by uaptsd

Please join uaptsd.org as we implement the leg work with allies both in San Diego and statewide for change in the fight against police terror and to create a safe space for victim support.

These meetings will take place on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month and the next one is Wednedsay April 1st at 7:00pm at the City Heights Library

Agenda Items
Gang Injunctions
Curfew Sweeps
Letter to Editor Training
YJC Justice Statewide for ‪#‎Stolenlives‬ by every branch of Law Enforcement https://uaptsd.org/v…/victims-murdered-by-sd-law-enforcement/
Carpooling to On 4/7/15 to ‪#‎DeathByCop‬ Coffins March in LA

The United Families for Justice (UFJ) is organizing a 4-Directions March: North, South, East, West-That will start at 9:00AM and converge in Downtown L.A. at 12:30 in front of the LA County Board of Supervisors at 500 W. Temple L.A. 90012. We will also stop by the District Attorney Office Jackie Lacey Office at 210 West Temple St.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1570427123195485/
UFJ:

The United Families For Justice (UFJ) is a collective of family members from Southern CA who have lost loved ones to police murder #DeathByCop and community members who have been personally affected by police brutality, including community-based organizations, organizers, students, teachers, clergy, faith-based leaders, activists, LGBTIQ folks, houseless folks, and so on. We have been meeting since the Winter in response to the massive outcry for justice after Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Ezell Ford’s families were denied justice.

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From The Che Cafe Collective Please join us on Tuesday, March 24th at the Che Cafe for a rally to support the space at 5am,

Posted on March 21, 2015 by uaptsd

Dear friends,
As many of you may already know, we received our formal eviction notice last week. We will not go out without a fight. Please join us on Tuesday, March 24th at the Che Cafe for a rally to support the space. We will be meeting at 5am, and we expect the UCSD administration to come at 6am.
Come help us make some noise. Come help us make our voices heard. Come help us save this space.
There is no education without community.
We love you all.

Thank you,
The Che Cafe Collective

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April 15th, CITY HEIGHTS is Rising for $15

Posted on March 21, 2015 by uaptsd

April 15th, CITY HEIGHTS is Rising for $15

National Day of Action: Fight for $15 – San Diego! Promo Video https://youtu.be/qO-oeYnubzg
Edited & Produced by Aaron Leaf IRATE Productions
Video Footage by Syd Stevens

The Fight for $15 for All! is a national movement that is forcing the big corporations to rethink how they do business in America. People all across the US are participating in a historic day of action on 4/15. Together we can make sure all workers have access to good jobs that pay $15/hr so we can all support our families and live with dignity.

We will unite as a community at 1:30 here in City Heights at Rosa Parks 3795 Fairmount Ave. We will RISE UP in support of a Better City Heights for All and then get on the bus! We will join dozens of other communities at San Diego State University in a solidarity rally as workers and communities who are fighting to win Good Jobs, $15/hr and Union Rights for All!

We will travel as a community to SDSU.
Free chartered buses and food will be provided.
The bus will depart at 3:00pm and return at 8:00pm. Bring your family and friends!

“The same people being constantly victimized by police brutality are also being consistently victimized by deprivation of resources and not having access to living wage jobs,” Montague Simmons, Organization for Black Struggle

WE RISE UP for Good Jobs & Self Sufficiency

Because the average household income is $26,538, below the poverty line.
Because Africans, African-Americans and Latinos have been displaced to City Heights and like areas by gentrification. The rent is too high city-wide.
Because City Heights has the highest concentration of nonprofit service providers in San Diego County, with more than $265 million invested in service providers, but little evidence shows they’ve improved the lives of residents.

WE RISE UP for an END to Racial Profiling and the Systemic Criminalization of Our Communities

Because Blacks are stopped twice as often as their driving age demographic representation and are searched at three times – and Latinos at twice – the rate of Whites.
Because Racial profiling, also in the form of curfew sweeps and gang documentation make engaging in activities that are normally considered innocent, such as walking, and being out after certain hours, unlawful. Having such a record makes it hard for people to get and keep a legitimate job, attend school and maintain their housing. Often forcing people back onto the streets in order to survive, leading to prison and/or deportation.

WE RISE UP because it is time for San Diego to EMBRACE all its people

City Heights became home to many immigrants and refugees fleeing violence in their homelands: Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Central Americans, East Africans, and Kurds. More than 30 languages and 80 dialects are now spoken in City Heights. Making it one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the nation.

Sources:

“Average Household Income – $26,538” http://www.sandiego.gov/redevelopment-agency/cityhts.shtml

“Blacks are stopped twice as often as their driving age demographic representation.  Blacks are searched at three times – and Latinos at twice – the rate of Whites. ” http://voiceofsandiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ACLU-Letter-to-City-Council.VehicleData.2014.05.13.pdf

“City Heights has the highest concentration of nonprofit service providers in San Diego County, with more than $265 million invested in service providers, but little evidence to show they’ve improved the lives of residents” http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/nov/18/san-diegos-richest-poor-neighborhood-two-decades-l/

http://www.lamaestra.org/city-heights/new_americans.pdf

http://www.environmentalhealth.org/index.php/en/where-we-work/local/city-heights

About April15.org

We are fast food cashiers and cooks, retail employees, home care providers, and airport workers who have come together from all over the country – and the world – to fight for $15 an hour and the right to form a union without retaliation.

We work for corporations that generate tremendous profits, but don’t pay employees enough to cover basic needs like food, health care, rent, and transportation. Most of us are adults, many of us have families to support, and far too many of us are forced to rely on public assistance to scrape by.

Low-wage jobs like ours are the fastest growing jobs in the nation, and they need to pay more so that workers like us can make ends meet, and rebuild the middle class and get the economy working again.

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Police Chief Zimmerman Briefs Committee on Officer Retention and Body Cameras

Posted on March 19, 2015 by uaptsd

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INDICT THE SYSTEM

Posted on March 19, 2015 by uaptsd

Overpass Light Brigade - San Diego

A small group of protesters from – San Diego and OLBSD gathered at the San Diego Hall of Justice in San Diego on New Years Eve to make a statement against the perpetuation of a criminal justice system that allows for cops to practice unwarranted violence with impunity.

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HANDS UP – DON’T SHOOT

Posted on March 19, 2015 by uaptsd

Overpass Light Brigade - San Diego

In Solidarity and with respect for Mike Brown in Ferguson

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Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Transfer at-risk LGBT Prisoner to save his life.

Posted on March 19, 2015 by uaptsd

https://www.change.org/p/texas-department-of-criminal-justice-transfer-at-risk-lgbt-inmate-to-safe-keeping-to-save-his-life

By Shannon Snyder San Diego, CA

Shannon Snyder San Diego, CA

On February 3, 2015, my queer and gender-nonconforming friend filed an Offender Protection Investigation (OPI) due to multiple threats on his life. An officer took advantage of his vulnerable position and coerced him into giving information in exchange for a transfer to the Safe Keeping unit. My friend kept his end of the deal, but the prison ended the investigation and ordered him back into general population where two gangs had orders to “smash him on sight.” The prison benefited from the information he told, but decided his life was not worth the effort.

My name is Shannon Snyder, and I will do everything in my power to make sure that my friend Tyler Hearne receives the basic human rights he deserves. He has been targeted as a member of the LGBT community for years, enduring theft, violence, and sexual assault. Tyler knew that the system was not designed to help him, so he stayed silent until this abuse became so unbearable he had no other choice. But the system that is in place to help at-risk inmates has made it very clear they do not care about his safety. They claim that the only way for him to prove he is at risk is to be raped or attacked again.

Due to repeated calls to the prison and the PREA Ombudsman Office, they have opened another investigation. Tyler has been placed in transient housing pending the results, but if the past investigation is any indication of how this one will it end, it is likely he will soon be back in the same life-threatening situation. The justice department has an obligation to its inmates, and it has repeatedly turned its back on them.

Please help me demand that Tyler be moved to Safe Keeping – an area designed to protect inmates who have been or are likely to be targeted for sexual assault or extortion. This is the only way he may be able to survive his sentence, repay his debt to society and move on with his life.

PETICIÓN PARA

Huntsville PREA Ombudsman Office PREA Coordinator

I am writing to voice my concern about an inmate named Tyler Hearne who is incarcerated at the Michael Unit. Tyler has been targeted for his sexuality and gender identity, and has endured theft, violent attacks, and multiple sexual assaults. He currently fears for his life and safety. I urge you to move Tyler to Safe Keeping so that he can complete his prison sentence without the fear of assault or brutality.v

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