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categories: AROC in the News, Blog, Campaigns, Immigrant Rights, News, Repression

AROC Celebrates Civil Rights Victory Achieved Through Community Organizing!

Posted April 10, 2012 / AROC

Today, new legislation was introduced by Supervisor Jane Kim at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that is the result of a compromise between community advocates and the Mayor’s office on the issue of San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) engagement

categories: Action Alerts, AROC in the News, Blog, Campaigns, Coalition for a Safe San Francisco, Immigrant Rights

Hundreds Rally and Pray Jumaa Outside Civic Center to Support Ordinance

Posted April 1, 2012 / AROC

Friday, March 30th, hundreds of community members rallied and prayed in Civic Center Plaza to tell Mayor Ed Lee to support the Safe San Francisco Civil Rights. Despite repeated requests to listen to community needs, Mayor Lee has not yet

categories: AROC in the News, Blog, Campaigns, Coalition for a Safe San Francisco, Immigrant Rights

Ordinance to Prevent SFPD-FBI Abuse Passes Board of Supervisors with 6 Votes!

Posted March 15, 2012 / AROC

For Immediate Release: San Francisco, March 13, 2012 Community disappointed by “No” votes from Progressive Supervisors Cohen and Wiener, and look to Mayor Lee for future support (SAN FRANCISCO, CA – 03/13/12) Earlier today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

categories: Allies, Blog, Coalition for a Safe San Francisco

Proposed law would restore local control over intelligence gathering

Posted January 25, 2012 / AROC

(San Francisco, CA, 01/25/12) – Supervisor Jane Kim introduced legislation before the Board of Supervisors today that would prohibit members of the San Francisco Police Department working with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) from collecting intelligence on San

categories: Action Alerts, Blog, Campaigns, Coalition for a Safe San Francisco

Safe SF Civil Rights Ordinance, Introduction Upcoming!

Posted January 18, 2012 / AROC

(Photo from SafeSF.org) The Coalition for a Safe San Francisco has been working with Supervisor Jane Kim on a local Ordinance addressing the relationship between the SF Police Department and the FBI, through the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The Ordinance

categories: Blog, Repression

Why Is Carlos Montes Being Targeted By the FBI? And what does it have to do with immigrant Rights and International Solidarity?

Posted August 9, 2011 / AROC

UPCOMING EVENT! On May 17th, the SWAT Team of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and members of the FBI raided the home of Carlos Montes, a long time Chicano activist and leader of the famous student walkouts in East

categories: Blog, Campaigns, Coalition for a Safe San Francisco, Repression

What you need to know about San Francisco’s Joint Terrorism Task Force

Posted April 6, 2011 / AROC

By Rina Palta, from http://informant.kalwnews.org Should Bay Area cities continue supplying local police officers to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force? That’s a question that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took on Tuesday, and one that privacy groups

categories: Blog, Coalition for a Safe San Francisco

SF Human Rights Commission Passes Report on AMEMSA Communities

Posted March 1, 2011 / AROC

Last week, the SF Human Rights Commission passed a report based on testimonies of dozens of Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian community members and our allies. This report includes recommendations for the City and County of SF to

categories: Repression

Anti-War Activists Whose Homes Were Raided To Refuse Orders To Testify

Published on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 by the Associated Press Anti-War Activists Whose Homes Were Raided To Refuse Orders To Testify by Michael Tarm CHICAGO – Anti-war activists whose homes or offices were raided as part of an FBI terrorism

categories: Repression, Uncategorized

We Won’t Tolerate FBI Repression!

The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) condemns the FBI raids on the homes and offices of social justice activists early morning on September 24th and any continued action the FBI may be taking to investigate or interrogate others. (Read

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