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Inside: ~~ Kampbell's 'n KOPE's Kops . jj7~ Guns, Roses, 'n Riots ~~ Kops Anack Victoria Squatters ~~.local And International News lend my voice and the authorityof myoffice withLarry," Graham said. "He's an extremely hard worker. He's very focused on c PB-Van change, and I'm looking forward to standing shoulder to shoul Collective Opposed to Police Brutality - Vancouver der with him and supporting him on issues and haVing him do the same on policing issues." And since Larry got the power he worked so hard for (i.e. We welcome your comments, suggestions, stories, and promising everyone eve drawings. rything theywant: social housing; no eviction of Contact Info: squatters, a referendum Phone: 604-682-3269 extension 8397 on the Olympics) he can e-mail: [email protected] now get down to real Website: http://resist.ca/-copb-van/ business - stealing from Statement and demands: please visit our Website. the poor, adding more police (44 more to the existing 1,200 in the Downtown Eastside), not having a referendum, etc. What do you expect from an ex-cop? Once a cop... We are deeply disturbed by the display ofsupport for COPE, from people involved in grassroots politics lending legitimacy to an Capitalists illegitimate state, who should know better after getting their asses kicked by the State's goons. These 'left-leaning' political parties Opposing MoreKops are not different from any others. Minor concessions do not create = the real necessary changes. People On The Way Do we need politicians? When someone marks an 'X' beside the name of one who becomes mayor, they are then directly re Everyday sponsible for every fascist gesture of the kind that leads to further violence, bloodshed and repression. Already, for the past week, O, Larry Campbell, the ex-coroner is now the new mayor, after there has been a police car parked on the sidewalk right in front of Sless than half of the population that is 'legally able' to vote Carnegie Centre (at Main and Hastings) 24hours a day. This is not turned out at the ballot boxes.(Only 280,000 people registered to an isolated incident. When the 44 new cops get hired there will be vote and not even all of them turned up). Everyone else was prob a continuation of the calculated violence that has been emanating ably doing something important like looking for food, sleeping, from the business-owners and politicians in the name of the state taking care ofchildren, sabotage or having sex. Maybe there were under the directions of a few. Remember, they are hiring all these some who wanted to vote but when they considered they would new cops and there still isn't a single safe injection site up and only be voting for the "lesser" evil anyway, they stayed home. running in the Lower Mainland. And if they've been in prison for amore than two years they don't We accuse the mayor and ex-cop, Larry KKKampbell, in his even have a choice. The electoral process is totalitarian: free will plunder and affiliations with police chief Jamie Graham, and his cannot be tolerated: police conditions are inevitable. In fact be emulation already apparent of Gordon Campbell, of continuing fore Larry was even in office, he and Jamie Graham were having a the brutal legacy of Philip Owen. We accuse his party, COPE, of love-fest. "I'm very, very hopeful and I'm more than prepared to being the largest parasitic landlord in the city of Vancouver. "WhyAnarchists Hate The Cops" narchists by nature are anti-authoritarians, this means that ties preach to us everyday from birth to death. As Emma Goldman A we don't think it's necessary for anyone to force us to do said, "a society gets all the crime it deserves." what they think is best for us (or more often then not, what's best Those in power stoke the publicls fear of crime in order to for them). We believe that authority functions only to serve itself extend their own power. By putting more "undesirable" people and merely gives the illusion of serving society when in reality in prison or more police on the streets they make our society easier itls leaching off it. It's pretty obvious why we don't like police, to control and dominate. the military, prisons, etc. These are institutions whose sole pur- The real reason for the existence ofpolice is to make sure only pose is to control and dominate the people arouQd them. They the right people can steal (like the corporate execs and corrupt spread violence and terror in our neighborhoods, abusing and kid- politicians and of course the biggest thieves and drug dealers in napping people, forcing us to live by their rules and under their the world, the cops). They use violence to enforce the rules that thumb. their powerful masters created to make sure they always win. It's Anarchists don't buy the argument that cops protect us from obvious that cops are here to protect something, but it isn't us. It's crime. It's a fact that most crime is a result of the fucked up soci- to protect the rich and powerful and this miserable world they've ety that police and their masters impose on us. 2/3 of crime is built, from us. economic. Is this surprising in a world where many people must In place of violent bands of heavily armed cops, we anarchists starve so that a small elite can have a little more? Some steal for suggest that we startgetting more involved with the people around fun, most steal to eat. us. The anti-social values of the authorities will never do anything Another primary reason for crime is the anti-social values of but create more anti-social crime. Peace will nat come from more violence, competition, dominance, and slavery that the authori- continued on next page page 2 Obstruction of In-Justice December 2002 police, from more laws, from more restric tions on what we can say and do. It will Send the Pigs to the Pig Farm! take a society based on positive values like by Jane Doe cooperation and liberty, ideals that nour ish the growth of healthy and happy peo small army of investigators is sifting through tonnes of earth at a Port Coquitlam ple, in order to get rid of 'crime'. Itwill take A pig farm, searching for all that remains of 66 missing women. They're searching for the destruction of this economic system bones, teeth, tissue, clothing, jewelry, anything that might identify the women who died. thatwith the gun and baton, police impose Robert "Willy" Pickton stands charged with the longest string ofserial murders in Cana on us, with the only decision being to slave dian history. or starve, but never to live free. Many people are grieving; many more are tom by fear and uncertainty over the dis To accomplish this, we need to start appeared. All of us are questioning why. the police failed to take the disappearances building this vision now, to begin to strug seriously. Why wouldn't the police admit what the community already knew, that a se gle against the need for groups like cops rial killer was murdering women, year after year? How could this happen? Worse, what's and replace it with sane intelligent commu to prevent it from happening again? nity-controlled policies that emphasize The police stand charged with obstructing justice, neglecting their duty, ignoring evi healing and actually fixing the problem, dence and allowing a serial killer to murder women unhindered. Lawsuits filed by fami rather then mindless punishment by pro lies of the missing women are piling up in Be Supreme Court. The communityis seeking fessional armies. We do not want our to expose the racist and classist system in which the wealthy and their property are the neighbors or friends beaten, murdered, or only priorities, and the lives of the missing women (most of them native, all of them imprisoned anymore. We want a world poor) are worth nothing. where we can walk down the street with The cops are trying to bury the outrage of the survivors under months and years of outfear ofharassment, arrest, orworse. We delays and denials. The judge has agreed with the cops to deny a hearing for the civil want to live as we choose, without being suits until the Pickton murder trial is concluded, or longer. Forever, if the cops get their threatened or assaulted in order to keep us way. in our place. Most of all we want to be Vancouver police are attempting to cover up evidence of their patriarchal corruption. happy, to control our lives and destinies, How long will we allow this to go on? and to live free of the violence and brutal The stench of guilt hangs over the Vancouver Police Department. There is only one ity that police enact in the name of "order". way the cops can make amends to the cammunityand th!,! families of the missing women. As another person gets sent to prison, an Every officer in Vancouver needs to take a drive out to Port Coquitlam, getdown on their other kid gets shot in the back by cops, or knees in the pig crap, and start searching for those women. Cops in Vancouver need to another demonstration is tear gassed and take a break from harassing homeless people and beating up school kids. beaten, it becomes more obvious, exactly If the police board or the mayor had any integrity, they would fire the entire depart whose "order" it is they are protecting. ment and implement real citizen involvement in law-making and social justice. As it is, the police are mercenaries collaborating in class war, genocide and gynocide. Soun:e A-Infos
hung upside down on the jail cell doors, dren. With the homeless, they treat them Letter with hand cuffs used for hanging. Many very badly. Many of them are homeless as Indigenolls people have no teeth, as a re a result of the police action. These poor s the spokesperson for the Bear Clan sult of the brutal police batons, and flash homeless people, are helpless, and they tell A Families of Maxan Lake BC canada, I lights, and pepper spray, and la tely the stories of how the police pick them up on have heard so many ugly stories about the taser gun. I was told of rapes that were welfare day, and sometimes beat them, and police, in vancouver B.C. alone. 1969, was done by the police, themselves. Rapes of then steal their welfare cheques andmoney. the year we were freed from the reserva young women. Lateley I have heard the I witnessed a police robbing a homeless tion system. So, we were the first genera samestory from a hornless, white lady. She person in a park on commercial drive, just tion to be able to leave the reservation sys was raped by the police, and a video tape after welfare day. Just tonight I was at the tem. When we left the reservation system, was taken of the rape. She Britannia swimming pool, we were not really free. We had to begin to said a blond lady cop was I had an ugly fight be assert ourselves in a white man's world, present during the rape tween a girl, and a life which was very foreign to us, as we spent and the taping. She passed guard, who also admitted most of our young lives, liVing in and out through out the rape. that he was a policeman. around the wetsuweten and carrier moun Later she found out that The girl wanted the spot tains and hills. We knew only our own they also shoved a coke that I was in, in the whirl wetsuweten language. When we started the bottle, up her private parts. pool. She got pushy and Indigenous sovereign movement, in the She said they said some shovey, and I got mad. The 1970s, there were about a couple of thou thing about life guard came and tried sand of us, all Indigenous of B.C., all very "snuff"movies. She said to calm us down. Being a young, and we knew how to speak and the blond cop was very sar- disabled person andIndig understand english very well. This helped castic, and rude toward her. I think it is very enous, is hard on me. But I do not put up us to understand the white man's way of strange, that this story is much the same with other peoples abuse toward me. I can life.Because of our stand, against the poli story, that we heard from some of the now still stand up, even though I have no feel cies of the three level of governments, missing, murdered women, whose DNA, ings in my legs. I am very much Interested many were eliminated in one way or an were found on the Pickton Pig farm, in in getting involved In International Police other. So many were beaten up severly in Coquitlam. As I have been living on Com brutality day. I have so many ugly stories, the vancouver jails. The beatings took place mercial Drive, for some time now, I can see with regards to police brutality. There is no in the old elevators of the jail, and thick how the police treat indigenous people, one policing the police, and they get away phone books were used for between their who are homeless, and how they treat the with any thing and every thing. MeciCho, punches, so there would be no marks on younger Indigenous children. I think they telquaa. the bodies. Some told me stories of being put fear in the younger Indigenous chil-
December 2002 Obstruction of In-Justice page3 Then insult our dignity with petty taunts. 0 person was released Saturday, another released Sundayand three people hadbail hear ing on Monday and were released. Alan Lowe's Personal Security Force Victoria Memorial Arena Squat The evening of the November 16 campaign party for Alan Lowe, the group from the Memorial Arena squat intended to make a On election day Nov. 16, five people were arrested and charged statement to Alan Lowe that justbecause he won with 60% doesn't with break and enter at the closed down and boarded up Victoria mean that he can run ram shod over the needs and rights of the Memorial Arena. And later that evening, in a community support other 40%. People were in jail for addressing the housing crisis in action, five more arrests were made outside the newly re-elected Victoria in a tangible and reasonable way, squatting an empty mayor, and head of the Police Board,Alan Lowe's Campaign head building that was set for demolition. The group went to Alan quarters. Lowe's campaign party to demand the release of the 4 prisoners. People were quietly waiting to speak to Lowe, but before they Court November 20 could even sayone word, he called in his personal security force, The first court appearances for the five arrestees is December 20, the Victoria Police Department, and arrested us for speaking too 2002 at 9 am courtroom 126. Charges include break and enter loudly, swearing in public (when one person said "this is bullshit" (maximum sentence 14 years) obstruction of in-justice, and wear as they watched someone being arrested for no reason) and other ing a mask with intent (to what? sleep in a warm, dry place for the bullshit charges. All five were released without charge. One of the night?) arrestees asked "If the bottom line for this 'new era' is saving tax dollars, how much did it cost Alan Lowe to have 30 cops arrest !Homes NotMulti-Plexes! and imprison us in order to avoid answering up to his shameful The Huge building had been boarded up and the interior gutted. policies?" Piles of refuse lay on the disused ice rink floor. The seating had been removed. Empty boxes lined the walls. The interior was lit, National Squatting Movement dry andheated. There were kitchen and toilet facilities. There were Keep up the struggle, keep fighting and organizing in your com many rooms and seemingly infinite space. This building could munities and organizations. Squatting has become a national house every homeless person in town and act as a community movement. Squats have been opened in Halifax, Sudbury, Mon centre for the under - housed living in cramped over-erowded treal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto's Pope Squat, and Vancou apartments. Itcould serve as an office space for community groups, ver's Woodward's tent city is still going! Victoria Pandora Squat as shelter space for women, a detox centre/safe injection site, art and now, the arena. space, day care, free school, food bank, soup kitchen, floor hockey !TAKE ACTION! for poor people... This empty building houses endless possibili ties. Instead, it now sits empty and those possibilities have been Housing Cheaper Than Homelessness squashed by the harsh and violent response of the Victoria Police - "When the costs of housing are included, the data showed that Department. providing adequate supportive housing for these homeless indi Instead of allowing us to build this dream of desperately viduals saved the government money."{From2001 BC Govemment publica· needed services and resources for poor people's suffering under lion on the Costs of Ho~lessl\ess) the Liberal cut cut cut regime, and the City of Victoria's anti-poor - "When combined, the service and shelter costs of the homeless polices and attitudes, Victoria City Council and the police decided people in this study ranged from $30,000 to $40,000 on average a multiplex development is more important. per person for one year (including the costs of staying in an emer gency shelter)." Priorities? - "The combined costs of services and housing for the housed in According to City Hall, it is more important to build a sports arena dividuals ranged from $22,000 to $28,000 per person per year, as for wealthy patrons who can afford luxuries like minor league suming they stay in supportive housing. Thus, even when hous hockey and second rate concert tickets. $20 tickets let alone an ing costs are included, the total government costs for the housed, average of $80 to $200 ticket price is far out of reach for people on formerly homeless individuals in this studyamounted to less than welfare or with no income at all. the government costs for the homeless individuals." CityHall prioritizes a mammoth development for tourists over - "Providing adequate supportive housing to the homeless peo the health and integrityofpoor and working class neighborhoods ple in this sample saved the provincial government money. Again, of Quadra/Blanshard, North Park and Fernwood. this is a conservative estimate since all services and service pro Allan Lowe would rather let a city owned building sit empty viders were not included." for months before it is demolished, than allow homeless people to - Criminal justicecosts for homeless individuals averaged "$11,410 live in it, at least until it is razed to the ground. per homeless person per year". - "These preliminary findings suggest if minimizing govemment !Homes Net Jails! costs is a goal, public policy and service delivery must be focused an account from the arrestees: on the prevention of homelessness." "We, five arrestees, were confined in a police van at the police station. One person had been severely pepper sprayed - an entire Homelessness Kills canister ofpepperspray had been emptied into his eyes. We yelled "Homeless men between 45 and 64 \'; ere more than twice as likely through an air vent demanding our release and immediate medi to die as men in the general population, with cancer and heart cal attention. The fumes from his pepper spray drenched clothes disease as the main causes." and face were making us all sick. Our shouts 'this area is chemi cally contaminated. Let us out now!' were met with police taunts For more info and to support the squatters, contact them: -'It's just like a home!'" victoriasquatter
December 2002 Obstruction of In-Justice page4 lOCAL NEWS *lOCAL NEWS *lOCAL NEWS *lOCAL NEWS *lOCAL NEWS * lOCAL NEWS Cops Run Amok for Guns and Roses the cat outta the bag and force his "resignation". Yes, it was re vealed in November that Scott brings lucidity to the term "sexist fter a last minute concert cancellation, Guns and Roses fans PIG". The misogynist cop made derogatory comments about expressed their outrageby attacking one ofVancouver's sym A women, conjuring up a punch line abouthookers and certain parts bols of corporate greed, General Motors Place. In response, VPD of a woman's body amongst a crowd ofwhat he thought were "a go ballistic. Enraged and sick-and-tired ofNo-Fun Corporate Van bunch of crusty police people". Realising that his role of police couver, fans smashed glass doors and threw pieces ofbroken con spokesperson for the Vancouver missing women is notabout truth, crete at the cops. The cops claim that they were facing "lethal honesty, or respect, Scott tried to smooth over the faux pas by force", failing to comprehend that deep down ordinary people writing 96 letters ofapology to the audience attendees (I mustnot understand the illegitimacyofpolicing to protect corporate greed. hate women, I must not hate women, I mustnot...). The storywas The cops also don't understand that peoplewill defend themselves leaked to the media and the teary-eyed pig announced his "resig when faced with attack, and that this is normal human behaviour. nation". Gushing words of praise for his beleaguered fellow cop, Unfortunately, the thick-headed VPD really did it this time. Take Chief Jamie Graham whined and squealed: "Detective Driemel's the case ofDetlef Schroeder, 52 and his 22 year old daughter. They dedication has never been questioned and I know that he is sup chose to leavewhen fans started their corporate attack. When they ported by many people in the community, including many of the tried to get away peacefully they were knocked down by cops family members of the missing women." Ya right, add that to the with clubs, Schroeder was hit in the back of the head. He is still VPD mound ofpigshit 'n lies! If Graham were to have lived in the unable to return to work at his job with Air Canada. Schroeder's 1940's he would have undoubtedly lied for Hitler (if given half an opportunity), so long as doing so would preserve the VPD image, anything to preserve the Right's honour! Some image: the VPD is a symbol of death, destruction, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and on and on. Fill the oceans of the world with silver polish and ya still couldn't remove the tarnish of ha tred and death that hangs over the VPD! Constable Sarah Bloor takes over from Driemel while Jamie Graham runs to fluff-up the cushions in Human Resources where Driemel will be relocated. More Tales ofSexist PIGS n RCMP cop has been "reprimanded" (probably told to go A home for a day so he could watch porn) for lecherous, old boy, sexist harassment of a fellow female RCMP officer. Sgt. Jack Nisbet violated the RCMP code of conduct by yanking fellow of ficer Christa Roll's trousers up by a belt-loop and then referred to her bullet proof jacket as "nothing more than a glorified bra." It's bad enough that a woman would betray her sisters by joining a View ofGM Place after Fan's attack misogynist force of oppression, and we hate to say to Christa -we told ya so, but Christa, "we told ya so!" Apparently Christa never daughter was also hit when she tried to tend to her father's aid. complained because, as a witness testified, "she never wanted to We also cite the example ofRobertParent, 40, who required emer be seen as a rat or a whiner." This is further evidence of the right gency dental work at Vancouver Hospital after the same cop who wing anti-woman RCMP thatmaintains its culture ofwoman hat beat Schroeder and his daughter (constable Reg Forrester ran up ing by these unspoken codes of silence; speak and you're ostra to him and hit him in the teeth. Parent was also trying to get cised as a rat, and a rat amongst pigs is in danger indeed. The cop away from the mayhem and was actually complying with VPD lovin' Vancouver Province reported on the reprimand of Sgt. orders to cross the street when he received the unprovoked at Nisbet by making no reference whatsoever to the incident but tack. Corporate media reports state that Schroeder and Parent are rather spent most of their time discussing Nisbet's defense, he filing complaints against police (good luck on that one) and howe did it 'cause he has stress, anxiety, depression and so on'. What secured a lawyer to sue the VPD. On television, one VPD officer more can one expect from the woman-hating Province? laughed at the news that these folk are filing complaints knowing full well thatnothing will come of it. Silly people, don't they know City and Cops Lose their Case Against cops are immune to complaints? The fans' corporate attack achieved $100,000 in damage to G.M. Place! Hurrah for the brave .the Woodwards 54 fans!!! Power to the workers smashing the corporate state! Unfor ustice Janice Dillon of the B.C. Supreme Court has ordered the tunately the 120 cops who fled to the scene (incidentally repre owner of Woodwards, the Provincial Rental Housing Corpora senting all on-duty cops with RCMP from Burnaby and the north Jtion to pay the legal costs and a measly $100 in compensation to shore taking on duties in the rest of the city) made twelve arrests each of the Woodwards 54. All charges of "contempt of court" and are promising to review video tapes to pick off others. against the 54 in relation to the raid on the inside Woodwards squat were dropped. While the actions ofJustice Janice should be Sexist Pig Resigns applauded, they should not be too loudly. The liberal legal sys tem that the corporate state is enmeshed with has done little to ust when Detective Scott Driemel thought he was amongst the nothing to deal with underlying causes ofpoverty, homelessness, brotherhood of friends, where he could let his hair down and hunger, sexism, racism, and so on. !onestly reveal his true feelings about women, someone has to let pageS Obstmction of In-Justice December 2002 LOCAL NEWS * LOCAL NEWS * LOCAL NEWS * LOCAL NEWS * LOCAL NEWS * LOCAL NEWS Privacy Commissioners Warn of Woodwards Update Expanding Police Powers he Woodwards tent city is still standing even after the city Treceived an injunction he Federal Privacy Commissioner in Ottawa, George and an enforcement order ,. - ..._.- --.--.----- Radwanski warns that the Kanadian State's anti-terrorism T following rulings by the laws are a "Trojan horse" in expanding the powers of the state B.C. supreme court. How and its police and intelligence agencies. In examining bill C-17, ever, homeless folk camped the proposedPublic SafetyAct, the commissioner is warning about out around the vacant serious infringements to privacy. Radwanski states: "In Canada, building, to which they it is well established thatwe are not required to identify ourselves were forcibly evicted in to police unless we are being arrested or we are carrying out a September, continue to licensed activity such as driving. The right to anonymity with re show strength and solidar gard to the state is a crucial privacy right. Since we are required to ity As ofDecember 4 (when identify ourselves to airlines as a condition of air travel and since we went to press) the section 4.82 [bill C-17] would give the RCMP unrestricted access Woodwards squatters have to the passenger information obtained by airlines, this would set reached day 84. According the extraordinarily privacy-invasive precedent of effectively re to the Friends of the quiring compulsory self-identification to the police." David Woodwards Squatters (see: Loukidelis, the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC www.woodsquat.net): "The adds, "Under the proposed section, the RCMP would also be em new Mayor and Council powered to seize information regarding persons for whom cer have announced that they tain warrants have been issued. This extends the' power beyond will not act upon the en anti-terrorist activities and into ordinary law enforcement." forcement order. They say they need until Tuesday American Drug Czar December 10 to obtain Preaches in Vancouver money to move the squat indoors. Stay posted." It's the least this bloody council can do. ervous at the prospect of safe injection sites, U.S. white house After all they made blatant use of the Woodwards squatters to get N anti-drugs and pro-prison czarJohn Walters was recently In elected, then after getting elected made stupid anti-squat com Vancouver to address a meeting of the Vancouver Board ofTrade. ments to media and did nothing to quell police threats and innu Walters repeatedly attacked the proposal to set-up a safe injection endoes to take the tent city down. COPB-Van does not support site in Vancouver as well as B.C.'s massive marijuana trade. In capitalist COPE and remains transparently suspicious oftheirmo tum, a table occupied by Marc Emery, Marijuana Party big wig, tives, after all Mayor elect Larry Campbell is a former RCMP of persistentlyheckled and booed the czar. It made fascist Odd Squad ficer, is preparing to hire more (!44!) cops to add to the mob of kop Toby Hinton outraged, VancouverSun columnistFrances Bula macho thugs alreadybeating and harassing poor folk in the hood. observed him yelling at the capitalist marijuana party, to "shut Lets see, COPE is capitalist, cop loving, middle class folk, some of up". 'Course the fascist wants to hear all about the prison indus whom live in leafy Point Grey, ya give me a break! Kudos to tha trial complex and howAmerikkka manages to send countless mari juana users into these corporate prison camps where theycan work woodsquatters! with no rights for a dollar a day producing gear used my multina tional corporations. It gives fascist cops like Hinton a boner lis tening to such things. Worse than dogs they are! Way worse! Four More Names added to List ofMissing Women here are four more names on the list of poor women from TVancouver's downtown eastside, presumed murdered. Thankfully one of the women on the list surfaced alive recently in HAVE YOU BEEN HARASSED central Kanada. The rest are undoubtedly no longer with us. And . DR'~""" the Vancouver police are just as guilty as Robert Pickton may be .BRUTAllZEDii ARlYDU AWITNESSii CAll OUR HOTliNE: 1604] 682-3269 EIT. 8391
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or any other monster who snuffed out the lives of these women. you're a crack addict, yes that's a big deal!), welfare money, and Now, there are a total of 66 women on the list. Can you imagine if dignity. Many get the living daylight kicked out of them. Some it were 66 cops missing? We'd all be on rations under martial law, are already traumatised for life by police, the mere sight of the the FBI, U.s. National Guard, the army and Scotland fucking Yard cops sends some into waves of anxiety, panic and despair. The would be at it 24 hours a day! But since it is poor women and not kops couldn't even wait until a safe injection site were actually up cops missing, we remember the words offormer Vancouver mayor and running. Chomping at the bit to brutalise community mem Philip Owen who said, a few years back at a police board meet bers liVing in the "quarantine", the cops went to work. Their pleas ing: "What! You wanna spend all that money on a couple of miss ure is your pain. ing prostitutes!" Now its comin' back to bite the male powerstruc ture in the ass. You see, all of the U.S. televison networks have recently come to Vancouver and NBC's Nightline criticised the Community Policing Centre VPD stating that the cops knew all along it was Pickton yet did set to Close nothing. Chief Graham moaned and whined, "what [NBC] said fter the Mount Pleasant community police centre in Vancou was inaccurate and hurtful." Last year the Vancouver Scum re A ver failed to recruit volunteers to conduct patrols and keep vealed that inexperienced, inept and overworked cops were as the centre running, and due to internal infighting and strife, the signed to the case. Trouble is that the Scum failed to point out the centre announced that it is set to close. We at COPS-Van are de role VPD have had in pushing these women into vulnerable situ lighted with the decision. CommunityPolicing may sound touchy ations to begin with, whereupon they became prey to unsafeJohns, feely to some (who knows why) but its economic cleansing func a serial killer, and so on. Chief Graham admits that he is under tion reeks ofpure self-interested gentrification. Ofcourse the busi pressure to make the department look good. Too late, this one is ness community is up in arms. For the people, one down, several not going to pass by as a fleeting cop faux pas. No, this one can't more to go. Every community policing centre that closes means be allowed to pass ever as more than any other incident it lays safer hoods with lower rents, less expensive and useless shops bare the violence, the indifference, the misogyny, and the hateful pushing up property values and displacing poor folk. Displaced ness of the VPD. There is only one solution, the VPD needs to people often end up in despair, poverty, drugs, and so on. Com disintegrate permanently. munity policing centres are extremely bad for all communities. The best community building you can do is to work actively to Carnegie displacements subvert, undermine and push for the end to the local community policing centre, permanently. Missing guns worry Victoria Cops ops in Victoria are a little red-cl1eeked over some missing guns Cafter a Vancouver gang member was found with one, loaded with police-issued ammunition. Victoria Police.. Chief Paul Battershill has filed a complaint (!) with the Police Complaints Commissioner after it was revealed that some retiring cops failed to tum-in their weapons after leaving the force. Up to 20 firearms went missing since 1995.. Abbotsford Cops Strand Family hocked by the rude behaviour of Abbotsford police, a family Sincluding a disabled 71-year-old woman, her daughter and granddaughter were abandoned on the side of a road after their or weeks now, a cop car has been stationed, parked on the car was towed on police orders. Everyone was left crying after Fpavement, at the Carnegie Centre, Main and Hastings where receiving a $575 ticket and their car seized and left abandoned. the heart of the "quarantine" is located. Opportunistic cops took One of the women commented, "Nobody was mean, nobody was benefit of the city elections to move in and displace an already rude to the police. They werejustso rude and so mean to us. They displaced and vulnerable group of poor people. The cops have treated us like criminals". Yes, it is a rude awakening when peo been up to their usual thuggery, stealing people's drugs (and when ple discover just how contemptible the cops really are. 3 ') ." ...:. ~ .. ,. ~ ';1 t&) i• .. ~ .* :l ,;i ~ ~ } ... 1:") ., ~.. • ~ . a9J.~.~g.1' ~~ta •••• ~o,.t •• I Assembly to End Poverty I Aboriginal Day ofProtest ; January 31 - February 2,2003 I June 21,2003 ~ Victoria, Be This is a nation-wide day ofprotest .. '" For more info contact: [email protected] for aU Indigenous tel. 250-721-8629 For more info, please contact Chief GrayWolf: • Register on-line: www.vipirg.ca/endpoverty http://galileo.spacesports.com/-cimaim/ .l, Billeting available e-mail: [email protected] page 7 Obstruction of In-Justice December 2002 NATIONAL NEWS * NATIONAL NEWS * NATIONAL NEWS * NATIONAL NEWS
Kidnapper Cops who effectively confront capitalism and the poverty it creates. As a ormer Saskatoon cops, and current racists Dan Hatchen movement, we can not allow this to happen. We must "Fight To Fand Ken Munson were found guilty last year of forcible con Wm" in the courts and the streets! OCAP's legal defence team is finement, and sentenced to 8 months in prison, but are free from asking for support and endorsements. custody awaiting an appeal that won't go to court until January or www.ocap.ca. email: [email protected] February of 2003. The two cops were fired from the force when they were con Cops Collide and Attack Bystanders victed of driving Darrell Night, a First Nations man, to the out hen two speeding police cmisers collided in Ottawa on No skirts ofthe city and dumping himoffin -25 degrees Celsius weather vember 15, 2002, one spun into a lightpost that fell and hit a on January 28, 2000. He survived and came forward knowing that W man on the sidewalk. As bystanders approached the man and the two other men had frozen to death from the same police practice. two police cars to help, the stupid pigs whipped out the pepper Rodney Naistus, and Lawrence Wegner, another native man, spray and started to hose down their rescuers. Witnesses saythat4 were found dead on the outskirts of town, but no charges were laid cops were shooting the spray and that the cops even pepper-sprayed against the police. Inquests in both cases were "unable to deter each oth~r by accident. mine the cause of death" but made "recommendations to change Not satisfied to just attack concerned bystanders, the evil cops police procedures." then decided to attack the man injured by the fallen lightpost as he The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says that the lay bleeding on the ground, pepper-sprayed him right in the eyes RCMP investigations. can't be trusted by First Nations people and and arrested his girlfriend because she was screaming for help. have slammed the inquiry process as flawed and inadequate. Maybe the next time Ottawa police get irl an accident, the citi Hatchen and Munson ~ere "cleared" ofany involvement in the zens will just leave them to bleed to death on the pavement. deaths of Wegner and Naistus, and are asking for acquittal, or a new trial by judge and jury in the case of Darrell Night. It's already painfully clear that these pigs' idea of community Pigs Beat Homeless Man involvement is racist kidnapping and murder, and that the only homas Kerr, a homeless Toronto man, will finally be able to bring true justice can come from the resistance of the people to the colo T a $750,000 lawsuit to court this winter against 9 cops who took nial police state. him from the 51 Division headquarters to a parking lot near Cherry Beach on August 21, 1996, and beat him with their fists and boots, Cops Squat Buildings in Calgary leaving bruises and swelling all over his body. The beating is al leged to have been payback for a fight a week earlier between Kerr s cops across Canada stmggle to s-Llppress and control the grow and an officer that left the cop with a broken arm. ing squatter's movement, police in Calgary are planning to A "I wanna cmsh them like a champ; I wanna kill the bastards." squat some buildings of their own. Kerr said in an interview November, 2002. The Calgary Police Service's tactical unit is looking to take over "If we prove Tom's allegations, it's going to be the blackest eye 11 houses in the southeast community ofLynnview Ridge, that have on the police force. This is not a renegade cop, it's a concerted con been abandoned due to contamination to use as a training ground spiracy." said Kerr's lawyer. for the "crisis response squad." The Imperial Oil company owns The police and their lawyers deny the incident ever happened, the buildings and is allowing the Calgary police to use them with but an internal police probe has found fingerprints, blood and hair out charge. "The houses are vacant and it just makes sense," says that will be introduced as evidence at the trial. Imperial spokesman Shawn Howard. Residents in the area aren't too happy with the idea of black clad hooligans squatting buildings in the neighbourhood and run Racist Cops Assault Native Youth ning around with weapons. "I don't want to see policemen run he Red Nations Women's Council of Manitoba and Southern ning into everybody else's yards with guns and things," said one T Chiefs' Organization say that Winnipeg police are racist and woman. beat up native youth without provocation The cops say that tactical team squatters will help keep the neigh "I think racism is very ingrained within the Wirlnipeg City po bourhood safe. "It's also an opportunity for a higher police pres lice force," said Grand ChiefMargaretSwan of the Southern Chiefs' ence in a neighbourhood where there's so few people residing." Organization in early November. The group has photograph evi says police inspector Kevin Brookwell. dence ofbmised and battered native youth who were assaulted by We at COPB fully encourage Lynnview citizens to draft a "peo police, but charged with "assault on a police officer"; a common ple's injunction" once the cops move in, and then evict the squatter tactic for cops. kops. Kick 'em to the curb! . Natives are also challenging the police complaint process. The Law Enforcement Review Agency isn't good enough, Swan says. OCAP Queen's Park Riot Trial She suggests that something new must be set up with indigenous participation. "I really believe thatour people have to be involved." hree members ofthe Ontario Coalition AgainstPoverty (OCAP) Nahanni Fontaine, an employee of the Southern Chiefs' Organiza will appear in court on January 13, 2003 to face charges of"par T tion researched a case ofpolice brutality that took place in October. ticipating in a riot", "counselling to participate in a riot" and "coun She says that 16 cops burst into a home where 3 youth were sleep selling to assault police". Each charge involves potential jail terms ing and beat them. "The youth were taken outside, were handcuffed, of two to five years. were stomped in the face, were kicked in the stomach, were choked." OCAP members John Clarke, Gaetan Heroux and Stefan Pilipa The lying kops say they were swarmed by 20 people when they were charged after the infamous "Queen's Park Riot" in Toronto on entered the place. June 15, 2000. OCAP raised the call of "Fight To Win!" as they led Swan says that the demands of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, an anti-poverty demonstration that attempted to address the pro which have been ignored for 12 years, must be put into place. Its vinciallegislature, but were met with police batons and mounted main recommendation, a separate justice system for First Nations police attacks. Many people were injured by riot police that day people, was rejected both by proVincial and federal governments. and over 40 demonstrators were charged criminally. The State has dug up old charges in hopes of imprisoning those
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. Pigs Rewarded for Killing Save The Store, crimes, as well as a fine of as much as $1 million, that the rest of us lowly mortals ortland, Oregon- On Nov.26, 2002, rep KiUThePoor would receive. resentatives of the Latino community P leveland, Ohio - Jameel Talley, 35, a called for Portland Police Chief Mark kop, has been charged with murder Kroeker to resign for awarding medals to C Kops kill Naked man after beating to death a man he arrested two officers who shotand killed immigrant nohomish County, California - Mylo while working security. It will be an ironic worker Jose Santos Victor Mejia Poot on Harvey, 19, stopped breathing after victory if the cop actually rots behind bars. S April 1, 2001. Mejia, who suffered from cops pepper sprayed him when he ran na Guy A. Wills ill's, 41, last words, as he epilepsy, died at the hospital after he got ked from an apartment building throwing bled to death from a head injury, were "po arrested in a scuffle with cops on a TriMet beer bottles. Three cops jumped him lead lice brutality". Talley first received a paid bus. ing to Mylo being hospitalized where he leave. Later the mayor sent a "second "The Portland police still use deadly died the next day. One cop involved, chance" letter to the police department, force. There is no independent citizen re Prentiss, said "in the process ofhim being saying he "recommends 100 percent that view board looking atcases ofpolice shoot restrained, he just went unconcious." Oh Talley continue his career in law enforce ings or deaths in custody, and now, to top gee, Prentiss, it appears in the process of ment." it off, Chief Kroeker is rewarding the offic you being cop trained, youjustlost all brain ers that killed Mejia Poot," said Martin ftmction. Gonzalez, a spoke~person for the Latino , Network. A Loving Role Model 12 murderers were awarded medals for llegheny, Pennsylvania - On Nov.l3 their fatal shootings in the last few years, an Allegheny County probation of including the two cops who killed Mejia: A ficer, William Knox, got punched in the eye Jeffrey Bell and Christopher Davis. requiring stitches to close gashes above and below his eye, by 17-year-old, Henry Just Doing Their Job Williams. As Henry was leaving the hear ordan, Minneapolis- When the overzeal ing room, where it was decided he would ous poor-despising defenders for the rich be held for a formal hearing on a narcotics Jshot down and killed an ll-year-old boy, possession charge, hepunched andchased because his dog was barking, with M5 Knox. A caring motherwas presentfor her submachine guns, an angry crowd didn't son's courageous act, being supportive as hesitate to attack. The cowardly bastards she sceamed "Kill him! Get him! He de were forced to retreat as bottles and debris serves this!" The upholder of oppressive were thrown at them. At least five vehicles Law ended up needing stitches. were damaged, including a torched corpo The bad news is that Henry was rate media van. Ten people were injured, 4 charged with agg·ravated. assault and his arrested.. This shooting was the 4th mur A Busted Slaughter mother, Kimberly, 37, was charged with der of a black person in one month. criminal solicitation to commit aggravated eattle, Wash. - We shall see the outcome In the aftermath of the riot many dif assault, retaliation against a prosecutor or of Steven D. Slaughter'S, 27, an Army ferent groups with different interests S judicial officer, disorderlyconduct and cor veteran and former sheriff's deputy in sprouted up, from surreal speeches by rich ruption of minors. N.C., multiple charges of distribution and politicians to landlord groups making possession of heroin, illegal possession of statements about the necessity of police a firearm and attempted extortion. Sense The RightTo tactics. Later in the week it was revealed less Slaughter, anArmyveteran and former that the police chief had given 20 tempo Remain Dead sheriff's deputy in N.C. admitted taking rary police badges and paid about 6,000 ashington, DC -Supposedly the Fifth drugs from street dealers without arrest dollars to the 'community' policing groups. Amendment, which states that any ing them and skimming drugs from law W "The police are, as usual, not only vi one arrested by authorities has a right to ful seizures. So perhaps corruptible Slaugh cious and irresponsible, but accessories to remain silent, exists in the US injustice sys ter will receive some good old-fashioned the war of the rich on the poor, enforcing tem as a preventive measure to the brutal brotherhood compassion and end up in thelandlord's and yuppies'street-cleaning' force of police. We may see this changing drug-rehab with an extended paid vaca by harassing and assaulting poor people, in the near future. There's a case in the Su tion, instead of the minimum of five years especially poor black male people." preme Court that could see cops legally in prison for the firearms offense and a have more freedom with their fists. maximum of 20 years for each of the other Oliverio Martinez, a Californian page 9 Obstmction of In·Justice December 2002 INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS farmworker, was shotin the head, back and When other pigs went ahead and arrested Kentin to a 10' X 10' interrogation room leg five times by a kop. As'Oliverio was Stephen, Delacruz said, "1 won't arrest an with the window covered with newspa being transported to the hospital a cop su undomiciled person." Harassment and ar per, where Dursthandcuffedhim toa rail pervisor, Ben Chavez, continually ques rests of homeless people has constantly es ing on thewall. Durst repeatedly slapped tioned him. Not once did Chavez advise calated. Many advocacy groups, including Kentin's face and kneed him in the groin Oliverio of his right to remain silent. No the Coalition for the Homeless are trying to shouting, "fucking faggot" and charges were laid and no trial date set. end what they call a deliberate practice of "cocksucker". When Durst put Kentin in Oliverio sued Chavez for using coercive in arresting more homeless people. A suspen the lock-up, he said he might be raped terrogation tactics in violation of his con sion of a cop doing just that doesn't give while there. stitutional rights. "So long as the govern hope to any voluntary backing-off by the Kentin sued these sick cops and on ment makes no use of a compelled state Force. Nov.1, 2002, the jury found Daniel Durst ment in a criminal case, the Fifth Amend guilty of "excessive force" and sentenced ment is not violated," says Solicitor Gen "He Just Stopped to $500,000; Sergeant Prusank was found eral Theodore Olson. So this is whatis sup guiltyoffailing to interveneandwas fined posed to make victims of police brutality Breathing" $1,500,000. Andy Thayer, co-founder of feel safe. That as long as the violations stay ochester, NY- The Rochester Police De the Chicago Anti-Bashing Network said, on the street and outofcourt the kops have Rpartment can carry on to kill another "As long as Mayor Richard Daley fails to legal impunity.A broader significance is ap day. Noteven a slap on the wrist for the mur fire cops whobeat up gays, AfricanAmeri parentwhen we look at the 'war on terror'. derersofLawrenceRogers. Even though 100 cans, Latinos and others, people like TheU$ government is implementing more people witnessed Lawrence being arrested Kentin will be forced to seek redress in the and a video recording was made, the lying .courts, with occasional big settlements like butchers said they had a better recording on thIS.o " their surveillance camera. Assistant District More information aboutKentin Waits' Attorney Mike Green said, "Police officers' case and other survivors of gay-bashing actions did not cause the death of Mr. bypolice can be found in the archives sec Rogers." Their excuses were that Lawrence tion ofCABN's website, www.CABN.org. had smoked some pot that day and used cocaine a few days before so he just stopped breathing. Monro CountyMedical Examiner Thomas Smith said, "The typical story is that peoplewhen they are subduedor restrained, they then rapidlywithin a few minutes [sic) and they are extremely difficult to resusitate." In simple terms - strangled to death. Gay-Bashing Kops hicago, Illinois - On July 23,2000, Of C ficer Daniel Durst and Sergeant Michael Prusank, a more than 20 year vet Andros F6A, anew $150,000 lethal gadget eran of the Force, attacked Kentin Waits, a for Reno police. The robot can pop a tear gay activist with the Chicago Anti-Bashing gas canister and be outfitted with a gun. Network, a gay direct-action group, in an interrogation room of the 19th District pig An officer would use remote control from headquarters. The 'highly terroristic' inci an $80,000 mobile command centre. dent that was cause for such extreme re sponse occurred on July 22, 2000 when and more legal tools to detain and interro if gate individuals aimed at intelligence-gath Kentin asked a cop directing traffic he Rebel, Rebel could make a right tum, but the arrogant ering, not prosecution. athmandu, Nepal- On Thursday No A decision could be made as early as June. kop just cursed at him and waved him vember 14 and FridayNovember 15. along. Kentin drove back and squirted wa K Rebels attacked police posts and govern ter at the hothead. Sergeant Prusank made Never Disagree mental offices after 3 days general strike. the arrest of Kentin his tactical team's top Rebels called the strike against the ruling With the Brotherhood... priority. Officer Daniel Durst abducted Nepali Monarchy who they have been Kentin from his home saying, "Sorry about ew York, New York- A homeless man battling since 1996. In Gorkha district, 95 the damage to your truck." It turned out his Stephen Neil, 44, who refused t~ miles west of Kathmandu, 23 cops were N truck had been towed to the pig pound and 'move along' was not killed. In Khalanga, 375 miles northwest ransacked. On the way to jail Durst said, arrested.. .immediately. And the cop who of Katmandu 56 cops were killed. The "We're a big family here. If you mess with didn't do his job, Eduardo Delacruz, who rebels blew up and burned government one of us, you mess with all of us. Don't was part of the Department's Homeless buildings, killing dozens of pigs. mess with the Chicago Police Department." Outreach Unit, was suspended for 30 days. "It is the Rebels who need to respond At the station Durst and Prusank took positively. Violence will not get them any- December 2002 Obstmction of In-Justice page 10 INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS where," Deputy Prime Minister Badri and rioters made barricades from chairs highest standard police sports meet at the Prasad MandaI said (!) But the state vio taken from outdoorcafes near the embassy, international level that China everhosted. lence killed 7,000 people, after the king which was blocked off by cops. The police 'free combat', handy and prac imposed a state of emergency in Novem The pigs have arrested 18 alleged mem tical close fight (we wantblood, bruisesand ber 2001 and ordered the army to join the bers of the November 17 Movement, bones), is developed from a puresport to a police in fighting the rebels. "blamed" for 23 killings and dozens of useful tool in accordance to the needs of Chop crowned heads and put them in a other attacks since 1975, only rich capital their work (=bash the poor, smash the garbage bag!!! ist bastards and politicians, including four weak, protect the rich). Americans, two Turkish diplomats and There will be about 100 competitors From One Dictator prominent Greek political andbusiness fig from such countries and regions as the UI2S. The group's most recent target, Brit United States, France, Israel and To Another ish defense attache Stephen Saunders, was Kazakhstan. Cops from over 20 countries ort-au-prince, Haiti - On Thursday No killed in 2000. and regions will attend the contest. Whata Pvember 21, thousands of students in More than 5,000 cops infested the privilege to be able to attend the spectacle three cities took to the streets demanding streets of central Athens for this event. of pigs beating pigs. Imagine them full of PresidentJean-BertrandAristide's resigna Last week, about60 anarchists gathered bruises, pissing blood, with broken bones, tion, a day after four students were shot in at a police cordon outside the high-secu on their knees begging for relief... a clash with cops. "Aristide is a criminal! rity prison in Athens where the November Aristide mustgo!" high school and univer 17 suspects are being held for supporting Mapuche Shot Dead sity students disrupted a pro-government their comrades. On Friday, car windshields apuche territory, Chile - In the week demonstration with a hail of rocks. were smashed and gasoline bombs hurled of November 12, Chilean cops shot In Petit-Goave, where the four students in central Athens streets to get people in M 17-year-old Mapuche activist Edmundo were shot and six others were injured the spirit for the annual march. Alex Lemun Savedra in thehead, critically Wednesday, more than a thousand high wounding him. The shooting came during school students demonstrated through the East Timor Protest an attack against a non-violent land occu town calling on Aristide to step down. pation of the Mininco forest by the Indig They lowered the'Haitian flag at the and Riots enous Mapuche. This comes on the heels Gonaives police station. On Wednesday, ili, East Timor - On Monday Novem of the murder of two community leaders student protesters forced their way into a ber 25, cops fired warning shots to dis D in Alto Biobo and one arrest under the dic police station courtyard in provincial etit perse stone-throwing protesters after a tatorship-era terrorist laws being used by Goave,(44 miles) westofthe capital. A clash demonstration where dozens of angry ci the current, "democratic" government to resulted,leaving 10 people injured, four of vilians rallied to protestagainst unfairprac repress social andpolitical movements. The them with gun shot wounds. Thursday's tices in the recruitment of new cops in Chilean government and militaryare hold protests marked the fifth day of anti-gov Baucau, about (75 miles) east of the capital ing dozens of Mapuche political ernmentdemonstrations, reflecting a grow DilL The demonstrators then attacked a prisoners.The Mapuche have a strong tra ing antipathy with Aristide's leadership, police station, damaging three vehicles and dition of pacifism and have been occupy who called for "zero tolerance" against breaking windows on the building. Four ing land and engaging in othernon-violent those he accused of working against the cops were injured in the melee. direct action to protect their community, government. Haiti is the Western Hemi On Wednesday, Nov. 4, riots were land, economic livelihood and nation. Their sphere's poorest country. sparked in Dili. One thousand Outraged students marched on Police Headquarters territory spans the Andes and is occupied by both theArgentine and Chilean govern Celebrate November 17 to protest the arrest on Tuesday of a fellow student. The cops opened fire on the crowd ments. Extractfrom tile Declaration ofsolidarityfrom thens, Greece - On Sunday Novem killing 5 and wounding 9 other students. A ber 17, police used tear gas and ar The protesters saw red and in retaliation Comunieado Consejo de Todas las Tierras y Comunieado Red Urbana por la Lueha del rested abouta dozen protesters as partof a trashed the Parliament and torched hotels Pueblo Mapuehe. small contingent among more than 10,000 and shops. A state of emergency has been marchers commemorating the student-led imposed and local cops and the UN are Nov. 17, 1973 uprising crushed by the mili hand in hand in maintaining control. Student Leaders tary regime that ruled the country from The Indigenous people in East Timor Arrested 1967 to 1977. The student revolt, in which have suffered genocide for decades at the at least 23 people died, is credited with ac hands ofIndonesia, backed byCanada and ehran, Iran - On Tuesday November 26 celerating the junta's downfall. The U.S. the US, and continue to struggle for life and Tjudiciarycops snatched and took away Embassy is the traditional focus of the an freedom. COPB unconditionally supports at least five student leaders who had or nual march, led by the Greek Communist the students' actions. ganised Iran's largest pro-reform protests Party, because ofAmerican support for the in more than three years. junta. Anarchists and sympathisers in Sun Students have held two weeks of al day's crowd denounced the detentions of First Cops Free Combat most daily class boycotts and rallies of up suspected members of the November 17 International to 5,000 people, to call for freedom of Movement, an urban guerilla movement, speech and major political reform, since a eijing, China - Nov. 26. The First Inter which takes its name from the date of the hard-line court sentenced reformist aca national Police Free Combat Champi student rebellion. B demic HashemAghajari to death for ques onshipswill beheld in Beijing from Decem At least four businesses were setaflame tioning clerical rule. Student lead-ers ber 7 to 10. The championships will be the page 11 Obstmction of In-Justice December 2002 INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS Abdollah Momeni, Saeed Razavi Faqih, in an Ozarow cable factory. At least one of internal union documents and threat Mehdi Aminzadeh and Amir Hossein person was wounded and later taken to the ened the life ofMonge and his family. This Balali were kidnapped on the street in hospital. Volunteer firemen were called in incident is just the latest in an escalating Tehran in four different locationsand taken by the protesters and they sprayed water series ofparamilitary violence and threats into cars by groups of men wearing civil on the private police. against members of the Salvadoran Social ian clothes. One of the men was walking The state police came into action later Movement. Monge has received anony into a university in central Tehran when on and forced thier way through the gate mous death threats athis home and office, three cars screeched to a halt and blocked of the factory. and even on his cellular phone. his path. Tear gas was sprayed at the scene In the meantime, the protesters block At the same time, police violence and of one of the other arrests, student wit aded the main street Poznan-Warsaw next repression is also on the rise in£1 Salvador nesses said. Another student leader and to the factory. The trucks coming to d~sas since the passage of a new "National political activist, Akbar Atri, was arrested semble the production lines in the factory Defense Law" in August granted police at his workplace in Tehran. were attacked with bricks and stones. 10 and military broad repressive and surveil Being a student activist in Iran is a lance powers. hard fight. The conservatives control On Friday, November 8~ key state institutions such as the judici police took part in a simu ary and the armed forces. Supreme lated response to what of Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's ficials described as "Dem most powerful figure (closer to the con onstration, Peaceful or Vio servatives) has denounced the student lent": police academy stu rallies as evil. They might impose emer dentsholding blank picket gency rule if the university protests go signs, playing the protest on. A similar wave of student protests ers, were wrestled to the wasbrutallysuppressed three years ago ground and carted off by and many of the student leaders from police in full body armour that era are serving long jail sentences brandishing assault rifles. for public order offences. Meanwhile, the Salvadoran Social Move mentcontinues to mobilise "Land for the Rieh, in support of striking doc Death for the Poor" Police carry an injured student away during a protest on the tors, healthcare workers lan Ba tor, Mongolia - On and electricity workers de campus of Kabul University Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002. Hun fending the healthcare and U Wednesday November 13 cops dreds ofstudents are enraged over a lack offood and electric broke up a demonstration by hundreds electrical sectors from pri of farmers who parked their tractors in itt} Cops openedfire on protesters, killing one and wounding vatisation. front of Mongolia's parliament to pro five others. On Wednesday No test a law allowing the sale offarmland. vember 27 riot police at Some protesters drove tractors up to 400 tacked another protest. miles over snow-eovered roads to partici people were arrested. Some truck drivers More than a thousand protesters, includ pate in the protest. Banners hung from the refused to continueworking under the con inghospital patients, children and retirees, tractors saying, "Land for the Rich, Death ditions. were rallying in front of the Maternity hos for the Poor." The factory in Ozarow is one of the pital when the cops opened fire with a rain Cops moved in at about 4 a.m., detain thousands of examples of how profitable of rubber bullets and teargas. As protest ing 44 protesters and removing the tractors. factories were dismantled in the process of ers ran for cover, two more platoons ofriot Six journalists were among the detained, restructuring and privatisation. The laid cops blocked off the gate and began firing and one showed a videotape ofcops knock off workers in Ozarow resisted for 210 into the crowd with rubber bullets, shot ing protesters to the ground and being hit days, blockading the main gate of the fac gun pellets, teargas grenades and a water with clubs. tory to prevent the liquidation of the fac cannon. More than 35 protesters were seri The land-reform law, passed last sum tory. ously injured by rubber bullets. mer, means big companies will snap up Cops attacked again on Thursday land at prices too high for farmers. The law Paramilitaries and cops morning, using teargas and rubber bullets to disperse a highway blockade in sets the price of land at $164 per acre, and ojutepeque, £1 Salvador - On Friday Soyapango. Workers from the municipal a third of Mongolians live on less than $14 November 15 armed subjects raided C workers unionhad blocked the main boul a month. the house of Ricardo Monge, Secretary evard in protest against Wednesday's po "We all want land," said a farmer "But General of the STISSS healthcare workers lice brutality. Police arrested twelve union it is clear by now that the rich will get union and prominent leader of the two members, many of whom were badly all the land." month healthcare strike. Monge himself beaten. They are charged with "public dis was not at home when five men wearing order," although Mauricio Sandoval,Police ski masks, armed with rifles and handguns, Angry Workers Chief and previous director of the State L, burst into the residence, but his wife and zarow, Poland - On Wednesday No telligence Organism (OIE), has threatened two young children were terrorised. They vember 27 several dozen private po to increase their charges to "high terrorism" O turned over the house; they took a number lice attacked about 200 protesting workers for setting off firecrackers. Also on Thurs- December 2002 Obstruction of In-Justice page 12 INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS * INTERNATIONAL NEWS daymoming,police attacked a STISSS rally the US Embassy were in trouble with their iour and the effects impactwhen individu in front of the Zacamil hospital, with trun superiors Friday November 29 after about als get together in meeting places such as cheons swinging. Modesto Diaz Jovel and 30 demonstrators were able to march to the the War Memorial Gardens (...) High pro Rene Edgardo Rico, two STISSS activists, mission and bum a mock American flag file patrols will continue with officers on who escaped onto a public bus,werepulled without a cop in sight. Fifteen minutes into foot patrol paying particular attention to off of it and beaten by police; they are be the demonstration, heavilyarmed US Em the areas whereanti-social behaviour tends ing held for allegedly stealing a security bassy security and police special action to flare up." radio. force members rushed to the area. Riot po A National Policing Plan and High Profile For more information and support action lice normally assigned to guard surround patrols to track down, harass and arrest http://www.cispes.org/english/ ing areas did not show up during the rally. youth drinking beer...who is really anti index.html social? Anti-Social Behaviour "Black Blocers" ondon, United Kingdom - On Wednes Cops' Heads Roll aples, Italy- On Friday November 15, Lday November 20 Home Secretary ashmir, India - On Sat. Nov. 23 rebels N 42 anti-globalisation activists were ar David Blunkett made tackling street crime Kattacked the cops and military repeat rested, across southern Italy, for alleged a top priority and placed street crime, bur edly. Theydetonated anImprOVised Explo- subversive sparking of protests glary and anti-social behaviour at the top sive Device (lED), around across the country. The activists Srinagar, blowing up a cop vehi were accused of belonging to a sub cle, injuring a deputy versivenetwork thathad conspired Superintendant of police and 3 to undermine law and order by or other kops. In Shagari, rebels shot ganising protests like a march a total of 3 kops. On Srinagar against the Group of Eight summit Jammu highway the militants in Genoa in July of last year and a detonated one morelED blOWing march in Florence last week. up 5 soldiers and wounding 26. "1 don't see any doubt...that we The Bilar PolicemenAssociation's are lookingat more than a pure and general secretary and Police in simple ideological movement, but spector was also shot at but just at one with the capacity to injured. The day before, 2 gueril threaten... state security and public las dressed as cops stormed a order," the investigators' report hotel serving as a police camp in said. They also suspected the activ Srinagar killing 6 cops and ists of belonging to"a more violent wounding 12. They entered the fringe group known as the Black camp, lobbed grenades and Bloc." opened fire at the cops. In their 11 men were brought to Trani se Chinese riot police, wearing newly designed unifonns, take efforts to clean out the area, they curity jail, 2 women to Latina jail. 6 part in an "exercise". The exercise was part ofa ceremony died. people are under house arrest. Peo attended by more than 1,000 cops to take an oath to main ple were notpermitted to contact a tain "safety and stability." Police Powers lawyer as soon as they were de tained. ydney, Australia -On Wednes- of a new set of national targets for cops. day, S De The first ever, 'National Policing Plan' dic cember5, the Terrorism (Police Powers) Task Force Diplomatic tates the areas which each of the 43 forces bill was passed. Whole suburbs of innocent Security in England and Wales must prioritise when citizens could experience the terror ofhav setting out their local action plans. The ing their door broken down by unidenti anila, Philippines - On Tuesday De HomeSecretary has announced key priori fied assailants under the Carr Govern cember 3, Metro Manila police an M ties will be drug-related crime, car crime, ment's Terrorism (Police Powers) Bill. Po nounced the formation of a special task burglary, street crime and anti-social be lice won't need a search warrant or even a force to secure foreign missions and diplo haviour(!}. The documentalso reaffirms the reasonable suspicion that a householder is matic residences in the metropolis. Velasco, police's crucial role in encouraging vigi in some way connected with terrorism to Metro Manila police commander, said Task lance against terrorism. "The National Po undertake such a raid. They are not even Force Diplomatic Security (TFDS), which licing Plan is a working document, not a required to identify themselves or provide has been activated, is composed of some wish-list, informing local plans and putting evidence that they are police. On top of this, 300 military, police and United Nationsper people at the heart of policing," the Home if you resist the invasion of your home or sonnel. TFDS was formed immediately af Secretary said. However these new cops' refuse to cooperate you could be thrown ter the closure of the Australian and Cana priority was already implemented in Nor in prison for up to two years. The bill lacks dian Embassies, which supposedly re wich during the first two weeks ofNovem proper safeguards and is unconstitutional. ceived threats from terrorists. Besides a ber. Undercover and uniformed cops were The bill goes so far in removing the execu contingent of Metro Manila police person pounding the streets in the operation, tive from court scrutiny that it could be nel, the task force will be made up of men which has already yielded a number of ar challenged on that basis alone. It places the from the Special Action Force (SAF), the rests since it was launched. Gavin Tempest, Police Force and the Police Minister above Marines and a group from the United Na Inspector, said: "Drug and alcohol abuse the law. tions (UN). 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