We support Berkeley CopWatch and so should you! Know Your Rights and kick down a few dollars so others can learn their rights too! Dear Copwatchers and Friends, Our Razoo fundraiser ends on January 31st and we need your help to put us over the top! We thank everyone who has already donated and we are halfway there! Please help us to pay for the literature we need to help Cal students, Berkeley residents and people all over the Bay Area to know their rights when dealing with police. In fact, we will be traveling to Santa Rosa to speak on a panel put together by activists in response to the police murder of 13 year old Andy Lopez. They have asked us to do a Know Your Rights training there and the literature we bring will help them to mobilize resistance to police brutality in their community. Our UC Berkeley Copwatch class starts on Monday and we need to give these students a copy of the handbook as part of the class curriculum. Please help us to help them! Spread the word!Donate today! Go to this page to donate and for more details on the campaign and why we need your help: razoo/story/Berkeleycopwatch In addition to Santa Rosa and the DeCal class, we are preparing a campaign to increase the number of copwatchers in every neighborhood in Berkeley. We will do Know Your Rights workshops for community, school and activist groups. We are also promoting Peoples Investigations as a way out of the total control that the government seems to have on police accountability efforts. We are bringing the struggle back to the people. For more information on the work we have been doing towards this end, check out this new video by Pete Eyre: copblock.org/40709/berkeley-copwatch-setting-precedent/ Berkeley Copwatch is the original Copwatch group. In addition to teaching a UC DeCal class each Monday on Community Based Police Accountability, Copwatch initiated a Peoples Investigation into the in-custody death by Berkeley police of Kayla Moore. We held protests and rallies and ultimately released a truly independent and credible report of our findings about the death of this Berkeley born, transgendered, African American woman in her own home. We also received recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists who gave us the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for 2013 for our use of the Public Records Act to stop Berkeley Police from acquiring an armored personnel carrier. Related to this was our involvement in trying to stop the Urban Shield police/military training and trade show that happened in October of this year. In September, we attended the National Copwatch Conference in New York City and shared our materials with people from across the country. We are doing the work, but we need your help. We operate on a shoestring and most folks think that Copwatch has paid organizers. Not so! We are all volunteers who are willing to confront police misconduct and, besides our video cameras, our literature is our main form of self defense. EVERYTHING YOU GIVE TO US WILL BE USED TO PRINT INFORMATION THAT WE WILL GIVE TO PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY. Thanks for your continued support! ---------------------- Berkeley Copwatch 2022 Blake St Berkeley, CA 94704 510.548.0425 berkeleycopwatch@yahoo berkeleycopwatch.org
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:40:58 +0000
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