{"article":{"id":137378,"heading":"First LA Cop Watch Meeting 10\/24","author":"A","created":"2005-10-19 03:55:39","modified":"2005-10-19 13:44:33","last_modified":"Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:44:33","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>First meeting to begin planning for a Cop Watch in Los Angeles on Monday October 24 at 7pm at the YJC Center 253 W. Martin Luther King Blvd (cross street is Broadway off the 110 fwy) contact:Joaquin Cienfuegos at <a href=\"mailto:morph3030@yahoo.com\">morph3030@yahoo.com<\/a> <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> We want all people who are interested in planning and organizing in a proactive way to empower our communities to stop police brutality and murder.   <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> This is a project of the STOP Coalition (Stop Terrorism and Oppression by Police) -- which includes the Youth Justice Coalition, the Southern California Anarchist Federation (LA), and other organizations and individuals.  This project was initiated by SCAF-LA.   <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> The meetings will be used to plan patrols, and plan trainings on organizing a cop watch in other communities -- our efforts are for particular communities to start organizing themselves and provide tools to help in that process.   <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> What is a cop watch: <br>  <br> - community members, and supporters, patrol police when they're carrying out their business as usual (harrassing, and profiling) <br>  <br> - they observe with cameras, and\/or legal observers <br>  <br> - take down police badge numbers and license plates <br>  <br> - take direct action to stop police brutality and police murder <br>  <br> - they help give resources to communities who are organizing to stop police brutality <br>  <br> - its a concrete way that a community can organize itself, and be proactive  <br>  <br> - they eventually take their communities back from the police <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> www.scafla.communityfeast.org <br>  <br> www.copwatch.com<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"First meeting to begin planning for a Cop Watch in Los Angeles on Monday October 24 at 7pm at the YJC Center 253 W. Martin Luther King Blvd","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/10\/137378.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}