Here are those four recommendations from the July 18-19, 2020 Community Forum on Racism & Interactions with the Petaluma Police Department. These recommendations still await a response from the City of Petaluma and the Petaluma Police Department. The full September 2020 report of the forum can be found in pdf form here. The forum was…
Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice
Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice, Petaluma, Sonoma County
Monday January 13 Special IOLERO meeting on the killing of Petaluma Resident David Ward, 6 pm
by Christopher Fisher •
Notice of this important meeting regarding the November 27, 2019 killing of Petaluma resident David Ward by Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies just arrived from Santa Rosa activist and community organizer Susan Lamont, former director of the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County. Susan’s message is below, followed by the public notice from the county.…
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Human Rights, Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice
Trump, Arpaio and Human Rights
by Christopher Fisher •
He’d been in the office and the news headlines so long, it’s easy to forget just how reprehensible and inhumane was the man’s treatment of the detainees and inmates in his charge over the years, but former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona Joe Arpaio has now become the recipient of a presidential pardon from Donald…
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Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice, Native American
Harry Belafonte to President Obama: Free Native Activist Leonard Peltier Now – Democracy Now!
by Christopher Fisher •
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Capital Punishment, Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice, U. S. History
Time to Pardon Ethel Rosenberg – by Filmmaker John Sayles
by Christopher Fisher •
John Sayles, the independent filmmaking genius behind Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star, posted this about Ethel Rosenberg recently. This is a historic injustice which President Barack Obama is uniquely well-positioned to at least partially correct with a presidential pardon. Grand jury testimony recently made public has now proven that Rosenberg’s brother lied on the…
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Capital Punishment, Human Rights, Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice
Pfizer blocks drug sales to American executioners – Reprieve
by Christopher Fisher •
This just in from Reprieve: Pfizer blocks drug sales to American executioners Friday May 13, 2016 The world’s second largest pharmaceutical firm has today officially withdrawn from the lethal injection drug trade, imposing strict distribution controls to prevent its drugs reaching execution chambers across the USA. In a strong statement released this afternoon, global giant…
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Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice, Sonoma County
The Andy Lopez Task Force Minority Report You Won’t Read About in the Press Democrat
by Christopher Fisher •
You might think this letter from Caroline Banuelos and Robert Edmonds would merit some discussion or at least mention in the local daily newspaper monopoly, and you’d be right. It just hasn’t happened yet. As Chair and Vice Chair of the Sonoma County Community and Local Law Enforcement Task Force (CALLE), we are very proud…
