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Audio
12/12/05
Press Conference
1/27/06
Press Conference - Community Response to the
Abrupt Ending of HRC Hearing on 1/24/06
Support
the De Anza Arrestees and
Attend the Santa Clara County
Human Relations Commission Meeting
on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006, 6:00pm
70 West Hedding St. San Jose
Click on one of the 3 pictures below to view larger
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Police
Beat and Arrest
Muslim and Black youth
at De Anza College Protest
Police
brutally arrested 8 people on Friday, 11/11/05
on the last day of a 3 day protest against Colin Powell
at
De Anza College in Cupertino, CA.
Terrance Helm, spokesman for the Santa
Clara County Sheriff's Dept,
watches in approval as police brutally arrest a young
muslim man
(11/11/05 Friday, 10:51 pm)
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the flyer... 31 KB ]
After almost everyone else had
left,
the police brutally arrested their targets from
among those they had corralled in the parking lot:
Muslim and
Black youth
LEGAL
AID IS EXPENSIVE!
Please donate to support the legal expenses
to defend the 8 people brutally arrested
and racially profiled at De Anza College
on 11/11/05!
Our
suggested donation is $50.00, but give what you can.
Thank you.
PLEASE
DONATE TO THE DE ANZA LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
You
can also make a donation by mail.
Please write your tax-deductible check to SBM and
in the memo write, De Anza 8 Support Committee
Mail your check to:
South
Bay Mobilization
P.O. Box 641163
San Jose, CA 95164
Questions?
Call South Bay Mobilization: (408) 998-8504
What
Happened:
On the night of November 11th at De Anza College,
Santa Clara County Sheriffs tackled and
beat a number of young Muslim men and
one African American non-Muslim man. The night
was part of three days of anti-war events and
protest around the former Secretary of State Colin
Powell's appearance at the Flint Center.
In a shrinking crowd of mostly white protesters,
sheriffs singled out and targeted men of color
in the crowd with brutal arrests. Included were
two Muslim students not participating in the protest,
but walking to their cars after attending a class.
Sheriffs justified the attacks and arrest by charging
seven of the men with various offenses. Two
required hospital treatment and one was left unconscious.
This post-September 11 flavor of racial
and religious profiling is an attack
on communities of color and everyone's right to
speak out. We should be able to participate in
protest against the crimes and deceptions of Colin
Powell and the Bush administration without fear
of police brutality. Take
Action:
Call
the Santa Clara County District Attorney,
George Kennedy, at (408) 299-7400, and demand
they stop racial profiling and drop all the
charges against the 8 De Anza arrestees from
November 11th, 2005.
The Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission
held another public hearing on December 12th
at 5:30 PM, at 1880 Pruneridge, San Jose. The
community support of those that were brutally
arrested and racially profiled was heartening,
but we need to keep the pressure on. Please
attend the next full Human Relations Commission
Meeting on January 24th, 2006 at 6:00pm at 70
West Hedding St, San Jose. |
Important!
If you or someone you know was
at the protest and
took pictures or video
of the protest on Friday, 11/11/05,
please send an email to:
endprofiling @ yahoo.com (remove
the spaces)
(Your identity and privacy will be preserved.)
Look for yourself...
Examine the 214 photographs below from the IndyBay website
of the brutal arrests
made by the Santa Clara County police at the
very end of the COLIN
POWELL PROTEST in CUPERTINO
on Friday, 11/11/05.
Local
copy of the IndyBay
photos. (South
Bay IndyMedia also has information.)
Each photo below has been lightened so you can see them.
Web pages 10 and 11 show brutal arrests, and one person
who collapsed when
a police officer sprayed mace into his face and mouth
and he couldn't breathe.
Fri,
Nov 11th:
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- local copy
Original photos on IndyBay website (many are
too dark to see, so look above):
Fri, Nov 11th:
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on IndyBay
For
more information, visit:
powelldeanza.blogspot.com
Read
the article by Aman Mehrzai below for more details
on what happened.
Important Articles and
Press Releases:
11/15/05 - "Minorities
Beat by Police at Powell Protest", by
Aman Mehrzai
11/15/05 - "The
Message of the Demonstrations, the Targeting of
Activists", Students for Justice - Press
Release, De Anza College
11/27/05 - "County
Commission to Investigate Powell Protest. Appeals
Made to Drop All Charges", by Aman Mehrzai
12/9/05
- "Press
Conference (on 12/12/05) with Muslim & Youth
of Color Who Were Racially Profiled & Brutalized
By Police.",
by De Anza 8 Support Committee
- Listen to the Audio from the 12/12/05 Press
Conference Below!
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Part
1 of 12/12/05 Press Conference, 14
min, 31 sec
(2,553 KB)
Dan
Mayfield described what happened
on 11/11/05 at De Anza College and the arrestees
speak about their brutal arrests.
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Part
2 of 12/12/05 Press Conference, 12
min, 12 sec
(2,145
KB)
Dan
Mayfield answers questions
from the media. Additional arrestees speak
about their arrests.
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Important Related Radio
Programs:
| 12/21/05 |
Nora Barrows-Friedman
of Flashpoints on KPFA interviewed
Brian Helmle, one of those arrested on 11/11/05
inside the Flint Center, Aman Mehrzai reporter
for La Voz at De Anza College and Attorney
Dan
Mayfield, lawyer for the arrestees.
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Flashpoints
on KPFA, 12/21/05
(12
min, 36 sec, local copy, 2,215 KB)
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| 11/16/05 |
KPFA
Voices of the Middle East segment on
the arrests at De Anza College on 11/11/05.
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KPFA
Voices of the Middle East, 11/16/05
(18
min, local copy, 4,220 KB)
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| 11/14/05 |
KPFA
news segment on the arrests at
De Anza College on 11/11/05.
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KPFA
News Segment, 11/14/05
(5
min, 12 sec, local copy, 1,222 KB)
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| 11/14/05 |
Amy
Goodman of Democracy Now! interviewed
Aman Mehrzai, a student at De Anza College,
about the racial profiling and excessive
force used to arrest activists during the
Colin Powell demonstration on Friday, 11/11/05.
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Democracy
Now!, 11/14/05
(7
min, 56 sec, local copy, 1,397 KB) |
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Click
here for general info about the 3-day protest against
Colin Powell.
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