http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq46DY4GXio

It was a very standard and mainstream campaign speech, but it was great to see thousands of excited supporters of liberty in Davis, CA.

May 14 Update: Ron Paul will stop campaigning, but will continue delegate hunt. So this was one of the last speeches on his campaign.

Video and editing by Morgan Lesko for the artists, Occupy Sacramento, Wiki World Order, We Are Change, Peace Revolution, and peaceful Occupations everywhere.

Description by Brian McNally and Kimberly Sloan of Occupy Sacramento…

Occupy Sacramento invites you to an unusual night of diverse musical acts expressing in many unique ways our individuality within one unified community of many minds. See below for descriptions, bios, and links to the work of featured performers and show details. Please help us Occupy Coffee Garden and see for yourself without media filter who we are. People new to Occupy (in person) are most welcome). We promise you won’t get arrested.

FREE to ALL, but $5 Suggested Donation (no pressure!) will be solicited from the audience between acts to pay the artists.

SHOW DETAILS

Show starts promptly at 7:00 pm, and ends at 9:30 pm, Coffee Garden closes at 10 pm. Show will be in the outside back garden. Seating is limited and we may exceed capacity, so please arrive early. Volunteers wishing to help out with onsite arrangements – please message either one of the admins of this page.

MORE DETAILS on our PERFORMERS:

FREEDOM MOVEMENT featuring KNEEL and the STRAWMEN is a local Sacramento post hip hop group dedicated to personal freedom and financial liberation of the economically oppressed. They have performed for many community events in Sacramento focused on social justice. Influences include T-Reazy, DUC, Benner, and William Hung. Although several members are dedicated Occupy Sacramento organizers this will be their first performance at an Occupy Event. Much credit goes to Kim Sloan, Co-Producer and one of two lead organizers on the April 22nd Project for recommending and obtaining their participation. Like all our guest performers they prove that showcasing talent and an entertaining program are best achieved through a truly diverse offering of music styles. Our youngest performers on stage also invite you to check out their music tracks on FB:
http://www.facebook.com/kneelandthestrawmen/app_178091127385

JOE STEVENS, SPECIAL GUEST OF THE OCCUPY

Joe Stevens, performing solo on April 22nd, is a Sacramento local now taking a break from his band of many years, Coyote Grace. He has toured from coast to coast and recorded an impressive number of CDs, mixing bluegrass, blues, soul, and southern twang into a unique sound that hovers just beyond the edge of familiar. His touring schedule is very generous to small audiences in small towns. Whether solo for Occupy Sac or with his band on tour, he combines virtuoso craft as a musician, inspirational and introspective song writing, with a humble, warm, charming and humorous stage presence. Mr. Stevens is also seriously funny on stage in between songs and knows how to break the ice with some gentle, humble humor.

Website for Coyote Grace, featuring Joe Stevens and Ingrid Elizabeth
www.coyotegrace.com
Joe w/Coyote Grace performs DaughterSon at Marilyn’s on K, January 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWD3MyLadFU&feature=related
Joe performs Ghost Boy solo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa5bec5CsxQ&feature=related

“Talented and devoted musicians, Joe and Ingrid move forward into the mainstream public eye with personal integrity and a musical sound all their own. In honoring who they are, they refuse to be told who or what they should be as people. It is that candor, combined with impressive musical craftsmanship, that transcends boundaries and speaks to a wide audience.”
–Performer Magazine
http://performermag.blogspot.com/2009/08/coyote-grace.html

“There’s a yearning, freight-train-hopping, propulsive energy to many of (Coyote Grace)’s songs that suggests not only an indie-band road tour, but the road to one’s true identity, a destination on a map still being written. These youthful travelers depend on the kindness of strangers and of lovers, and on their journey they’ve experienced enough joy and heartbreak to last a lifetime (…) If wholeness and grace are forms of political power, Stevens and Elizabeth are wielding it with quiet intensity, in a growing community of kindred spirits. An army of lovers cannot fail.”
– Sylvia Sukop, Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sylvia-sukop/transamericana-from-folk_b_424035.html

Sounds like my time in the Occupy, but you decide.

EVAN GREER (Of Riot Folk, Now on tour with Bonfire Madigan):

Evan Greer, taking time out of a busy schedule to perform for Occupy Sac, is a radical gender queer singer/songwriter, parent, and community organizer based in Boston. (S)he writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance. At 25 years old, Evan tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin’ bluegrass singalongs, Evan has been honored to collaborate, tour, and share stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Immortal Technique, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Pamela Means, Boots Riley of The Coup, Anne Feeney, Oi Polloi, State Radio, Leftover Crack, Emma’s Revolution, The Mammals, Defiance Ohio, Holly Near, Chumbawamba, and Vicci Martinez (featured on NBC’s “The Voice”.)

Picket Line Song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8KlKTZqp0g
Never Surrender - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XuuNFf0tUM
Evan Greer – Love Me I’m a Liberal (Phil Ochs Cover)
UPCOMING SHOWS – Evan’s Current Tour with Bonfire Madigan on the Tiny Fists Tour:
http://www.riotfolk.org/?m=evangreer&p=shows
Evan Greer on the Riot Folk Website
http://www.riotfolk.org/?m=evangreer&p=about

Reviews: Evan Greer
“Evan Greer is an eloquent and energetic writer. (S)he reminds me of Phil Ochs.” –Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People’s History of the United States
“Evan Greer continues to write inspiring folk music in the tradition of the great protest singers. ‘Never Surrender’ contains an urgency and earnestness that is uniquely her’s…and (s)he’s a heck of a guitar player. I suspect that songs like ‘Ya Basta!’ and ‘Picketline Song’ will be heard at the barricades for years to come.”–Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine
“Evan feeds off the energy of the crowd, putting some of the punk back into the sound with a raw and passionate performance. Being in the crowd at an acoustic show where the kids genuinely care about the message and dance and sing along with fists in the air in a crowded basement or open performance space, is a whole different type of folk show from the typical coffee house style. It’s refreshingly alive and a striking contrast to sitting down and listening to someone singing about their feelings.”–Urban Folk, NYC
“Current folk is sometimes stereotyped as sappy, weak, and boring. Despite this contemporary betrayal, the Riot Folk collective champions the genre’s radical roots … Behind all the exclamation points and proclamations of anarchy, lies a genuine sense of revolution. The Riot Folk Collective may just re-establish folk music as a revolutionary staple.” –VenusZine
“Phenomenal activist folk!” –Pacifica Radio KPFA-FM
“Examples of modern day singers who use their music to make political points.” –MSNBC, Today.com

Download Video: http://wikiworldorder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Mar21-Tent_Action.divx

On the morning of March 21, a few members of Occupy Sacramento setup the information table along with two tents. After about two hours, a friendly neighborhood police officer asked us to take down the tents even though they were just props (and propping up signs).

Even though Occupy Sacramento had at least several tents setup throughout the day for the first couple of months, we did not push it much and did not think the citation and court date(s) were worth it this time.

http://OccupySac.com

PRESS ADVISORY

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Contact:  Rev. Ashiya Odeye, Executive Director, Justice Reform Coalition, 916 893-9793 cell therev – AT – justicereformcoaltion.org       www.justicereformcoalition.org

attention: daybook/assignment desk

SACRAMENTO – US Bank – which Monday announced it would be leaving UC Davis because of protests by Occupy – is the target again Tuesday….this time in Sacramento as Occupy supports the fight to save a local farm from foreclosure and eviction.

A news conference is set for 1:15 p.m. TUESDAY (3/30/12) in front of the courthouse (800 9th St.). The hearing to get an injunction preventing the eviction begins at 1:45 p.m. in Dept. 54.

Late last week – as Occupy Sacramento was preparing to occupy the land to prevent eviction – the Sheriff’s Dept. announced it would not do an eviction as it previously had said it would, according to the Rev. Ashiya Odeye, a spokesperson for the Justice Reform Coalition.

Odeye said US Bank does not have “recognized title to the property and won’t be able to prove they have any standing in Court. In addition they have now committed fraud on the Court with multiple case filings.”

The property has been the home to a Sacramento area family for nearly 40 years, and a spiritual center for many others, according to  Odeye. He called US Bank a “corporate criminal.”

He said “It is time to bring attention to the crimes the banks and their servicers are committing . All across the country people are taking the opportunity to stand against the corporate gangsters that have ripped the hearts out of our communities, and caused a near meltdown of our economy and the quality of our lifestyles.”

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Download Quality Video File: http://wikiworldorder.org/video/Occupy/Mar16Monsanto-LabelGMOs.org.divx

Filmed at the 2012 Millions Against Monsanto protest/occupation in Davis, CA.
MONSANTO, 1910 5th Street, Davis, CA

JUSTICE FOR CONSUMERS!! JUSTICE FOR WORKERS!! JUSTICE FOR OUR MOTHER EARTH !!

55 minute mix tape with footage from throughout the day…

General Assembly held during the afternoon at the protest/occupation…

MONSANTO, 1910 5th Street, Davis, CA

JUSTICE FOR CONSUMERS!! JUSTICE FOR WORKERS!! JUSTICE FOR OUR MOTHER EARTH !!

Demands To Monsanto:
STOP COMPLETELY !
STOP POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT !
STOP POISING OUR DRINKING WATER !
STOP CHOPPING DOWN RAIN FORESTS !
GET OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT !!

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_24800.cfm

The Objective: To bring local awareness to the corporation Monsanto’s control and involvement with the toxins in our food and water supplies and the ties they have in the government. We must start acting locally and thinking globally to bring down this tyrant of the food industry. We are in worldwide solidarity with the Millions Against Monsanto (www.MillionsAgainstMonsanto.org) and several other groups, organizations, foundations, and individuals who feel that something must be done to stop the evil practices of the Monsanto Corporation.

“Corporations are Not People and Money Is not free speech”

The Goal: To unite local communities, as consumers, voters and organizers to continue the push to remove Monsanto and other Corrupt Corporations from our government. Along with other campaigns all over the globe to create a world governed for, of, and by the people, not the corporations. One tactic is to strategize and take action utilizing the power of the Boycott to send a strong message we will not do business with Corrupt Corporations. We are urging for monthly and biweekly protests; Workshops, teach-ins, film showings; Canvassing, flyering, training organizers, and recruiting more people to the peaceful fight.

We ask Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California, “What solution excites you the most?”

During the large Occupy Education events inside the state capitol building in Sacramento on March 5, 2012.

A Wiki World Order collaboration with Independent Media and Occupy Sacramento.
WikiWorldOrder.org – IndependentMediaBroadcast.org – OccupySac.com

GAVIN NEWSOM:

I think the most exciting thing is real civic engagement and civic participation. And I think the tools of technology are going to aid and advance those voices in a dramatic way, and scale them. I think it’s the most dynamic and extraordinary thing that will happen in our lifetime…and it’s happening NOW.

And we saw that amplified, obviously, in the Middle East. But I think increasingly you’re going to see that not just with dictatorships overseas, but in terms of the limited engagement that exists here in America. I think people are going to have to wake up that it’s a new day and a new dawn, and technology is going to create a framework where you can’t hide, and you can’t run. And you’d better engage and listen and procure a framework of solution or you’re not going to be around a lot in terms of, you know, political life.

So I think that’s the most extraordinary thing that is happening.

Download funky music accidentally created while editing: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/music/Gavin_Newsom-Wake_Up.mp3

First ‘Pro-Occupy/99%’ candidates officially announce campaigns for Sacramento County Board of Supervisors

SACRAMENTO — Occupy Sacramento attorney Jeff Kravitz and high school government teacher Gary Blenner officially announced Wednesday that they are running for Sacramento County Board of Supervisors — as the first “pro-Occupy/99%” candidates in the area, and possibly the state of California.

Kravitz, who is a volunteer attorney for Occupy activists arrested at Cesar Chavez Park, is a civil rights lawyer and former constitutional law professor. He is running in District 3.

Blenner is a government teacher at Rio Americano High School, and a former school board member in the Center Unified School District. He is running in District 4.

Both said they will be running “for the 99%,” not corporations, promising to hold a series of “99% community forums” over the next few months to find out what the 99% want them to do if they are elected.

In a joint statement released Wednesday, they said:

“The 99 percent are under-represented in Sacramento. The 1 percent, corporations and the wealthy, are over-represented. We are going to ask the people — the 99 percenters — in our districts what they want. We will hold a series of 99 percent town halls to listen to the people, the 99 percent who are working men and women often ignored and exploited by the very politicians they elect.

“We will not support cuts in our county that harm those already under-represented and who need the safety net that has been shredded in recent years. We will not support cuts in our county that hurt those in need, whether they be the homeless, taxpayers caught in a bind or others, such as the sick and elderly, who must rely upon county funded services.

“We will not support a sell-off of public property to pay for millionaire and billionaire arenas.”

After marching to the California state capitol, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, Bay Area Moratorium and Occupy Sacramento deliver ten packets documenting illegal foreclosures to the California Attorney General.

Stream On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fupv8lO1b3g
Download Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/OccSac-Feb29-Foreclosure_March.divx

COME COLLABORATE WITH US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com — @OccupySacto — facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Please come show your support for Tat at the farm on Saturday night, March 3rd for an Occu-Farm party with live music!

Download Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/OccSac-Feb29-Tat.divx

COME COLLABORATE WITH US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Kim from Occupy Sacramento documents Congressman Dan Lungren’s Feb 22 Town Hall in Fair Oaks, CA.

Stream on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PT8Kqc0To
Download Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/OccSac-Feb22-Dan_Lungren_Town_Hall.divx

COME COLLABORATE WITH US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Given by occupier, Dave.

Download Higher Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Feb25-Visions-4.divx
Stream Video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ELdFcHviTE

Recorded with the help of Tayeh and edited by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere.

You should be here. COLLABORATE WITH US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Download Higher Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/shorts/WhyRonPaul.divx

Why Ron Paul?

Even though the puppet President position of the United Corporation of America, can do little alone to change the game.

Even though we ALSO need to VOTE OUT AT LEAST 95% OF CONGRESS with millions of simple steps (voting absentee in advance is relatively easy).

I’m registering Republican this election and voting for Ron Paul because he is the ONLY “electable” candidate talking about PEACE!

The ONLY candidate in either party talking about ending our current wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and others…and NOT starting new ones!

Even if Paul doesn’t get elected, we deserve a real challenge to Obama in the general election and NONE of the other candidates have a chance at beating the incumbent.

If nothing else, this Air Force veteran can bring a radical policy of PEACE to a wider audience than the republican “debates”.

Try listening to a Ron Paul highlights reel on YouTube for a debate on one of the Cartoon News Networks,

and even if you don’t agree with all his very consistent positions, SURPRISE!…you will hear rational discourse!

I know his vision of dramatically reduced government may scare many. But since the revolving doors surrounding most regulatory agencies allow them to be used more as a tools FOR the corporate-industrial complex to maintain hegemony…is less of THAT really worse?

Why Ron Paul?

Not just because he is the only mainstream candidate in both parties with any real empathy for the worldwide Occupation of the 99.99%.

Not just because the mainstream still insists that nobody predicted the “Great Recession.”

I’m voting for Ron Paul because he is the ONLY candidate in either party talking about the FEDERAL RESERVE.

Because he tried to prevent this extra radical consolidation of wealth and the “Great Recession”…at least ten years ago.

I don’t agree with him on every single issue, but he nails all the ones that matter most [urgently].

Not just because all the other “electable” candidates support the continued expansion of the war on drugs, war on terror, and cybersecurity.

I’m voting for Ron Paul because he was one of the few who voted AGAINST THE USA PATRIOT ACT and the recent treasonous National Defense Authorization Act!

I’m voting “Blue Republican” without expectations or HOPE for CHANGE by replacing one seat in corrupt government.

But if nothing else, it will send a message to the world that WE THE PEOPLE of America want PEACE!

Not because paperless electronic voting machines are intended to be rigged, and our votes don’t matter as much as they used to.

I’m voting for Ron Paul AND TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT IT, because he really could win as a Constitutionalist right now in this year of 1776 — I mean 2012.

Why Ron Paul?

I’m voting for Ron Paul because when he speaks, he almost always speaks from the heart…unlike most politicians.

You can feel him telling you what he truly believes, instead of just what his polls or handlers say.

So who should he choose for Vice President?

Who else speaks from principled and good positions?

I would LOVE to see him run with Dennis Kucinich

…or Cynthia McKinney, another of my few heroes in Congress.

…or maybe Buddy Roemer, who is running on the single issue of campaign finance reform and backs Occupy Wall Street.

I would trust most compromises found with such a team of “rivals” in the White House…

at least wildly more than any other “electable” options presented in any election in my lifetime.

I would LOVE to vote for such a team of allies for PEACE in 2012.

Even though we must also outgrow the octopus, and occupy the world.

Even though we must also apply critical thinking to more of our thoughts and daily dollar votes.

Even though we must also spread love and solidarity for our fellow humans around the world.

Not to immediately realize the world we want..

But to at least help shift the consciousness towards PEACE.

That’s Why Ron Paul.

Sacramento citizens gathered on February 4th, 2012 to protest the sanctions and other escalations towards the start of a hot war with Iran. Organized by ANSWER Coalition, Sacramento chapter, and attended by several dozen peace-mongers including some of us from Occupy Sacramento.

Please bring your voice out into the real world wherever it is needed!

http://AnswerCoalition.org

http://OccupySac.com

Download High Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Feb4-IranWarProtest.divx

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Recorded with the help of Tayeh and edited by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere.

You should be here. COLLABORATE WITH US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Download Higher Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Feb11-Visions-2.divx
Stream Video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlKSI7FSMnE

Recorded with the help of Tayeh and edited by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere.

You should be here. COLLABORATE WITH US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Download Higher Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Feb4-Visions-1.divx
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Recorded with the help of Tayeh and edited by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere.

You should be here. COLLABORATE WITH US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Stream Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4jfJvK_e68
Download High Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Jan28-Econ104.divx

Recorded and edited by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere.

You should be here. JOIN US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com - @OccupySacto - facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Download High Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccSac-Dec7-First_Amendment_Rally_My_Third_Arrest.divx
Stream on YouTube: http://youtu.be/Vwlg26_7MxA

On December 7th,  just five days before many of us had trials starting for earlier arrests, more than 20 occupiers were arrested in Cesar Chavez Park. Some peaceful occupiers were arrested for the first,  second, third, fourth, or fifth time. Many of us were charged with resisting arrest. This night marked my third arrest for Occupy Sacramento, and my first charge of resisting arrest.

Those arrested and/or cited: “Brother” Kevin Carter, Sean Thompson, Gary, David Witkin, Steven Payan, Morgan Lesko (me), Dee, Amy Anderson, Robert, K, Faygo, Candle, Cesar Aguirre, Sean Laney, Kim Sloan, Karen Bernal, Cres Vellucci, Danny Garza, Russell Rawlings, Greg Adams

This mixtape starts with the soundbites captured by the mainstream media, followed by highlights from the several hours of footage from the night.

Much recorded by Alex Leach, and all editing by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere.

You should be here. JOIN US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Sources for all video not taken by my cameras:

OccupySacto Livestream by Ricky Ng – Live Show [Procaster] Thu Dec 8 2011 01:30:38 AM - http://www.livestream.com/occupysacto/video?clipId=pla_7173ed31-d56c-4309-b2f6-a9c3ea80ba12

April Junio’s Ustream, first person view during her arrest - http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19004275

KCRA 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL_by8J1tSQ

News 10 ABC – http://www.news10.net/news/article/167002/2/23-Occupy-Sacramento-members-arrested-Thursday-morning

FOX 40 (with Cindy Sheehan) - http://www.fox40.com/videobeta/6101e82c-f904-49a4-b2dd-ac4c165b51fc/News/Cindy-Sheehan-Joins-Sac-Occupy-Again
FOX 40 - http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-occupy-sacramento-protester-occupies-a-tree-20111208,0,5175960.story

Download Occupy One Love: (PNG large) (PNG small) (PDF) (AI – Illustrator)

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<3 As with all my creations, you are totally free to remix and reuse these as you like. <3

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Recorded and edited by Morgan Lesko for Wiki World Order, We Are Change, and Occupations everywhere.

You should be here. JOIN US! Cesar Chavez Park, every day.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Download PDF: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/dox/Occupy_Sac-Transcript_12.12.11_Hearing.pdf

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Nine Occupy Sacramento defendants with 20 curfew (civil disobedience) cases were dismissed on December 12th, the day before our first round of trials were supposed to begin. But the City Attorney’s Office can evidently not handle the volume of our cases, and has dismissed dozens, including those related to my first two arrests.

I just received a copy of the hearing transcript. I feel bad here for the city’s attorney, Mr. Lindsey, scolded by the judge for the office’s lack of preparation. He did not order the unconstitutional arrests in the first place, and likely did not make the decision to prosecute.

In the end he explains how they will try to slap us with $100 administrative fees anyway, even though the charges are being dropped. Our lawyers explained they could have gone that route earlier instead of bringing the charges to court, but it is way too late for that. We are in the process of appealing those fees.

My understanding is also that the resolutions the city was hoping to get but didn’t, were the $100 deals we were each offered in the weeks before. None of us took the offered deals, we wanted jury trials. The city could not handle this.

Five days before this hearing, Occupy Sacramento held an action resulting in 20 more arrests, putting us past the mark of 100 arrests in two months. That night of December 7th was my third arrest. It has not been resolved yet (unlike the two resolved in this transcript), and I am due back in court for that on Feb 10th.

“THE COURT” means the judge. Gary Lindsey is a Deputy City Attorney. Linda Parisi is one of the lawyers defending one of my brothers and sisters in civil disobedience. This excerpt starts on page 20 of 33 in the attached PDF document.

Superior Court of California – County of Sacrmaneto
Honorable Ernest W. Sawtelle, Judge, Department 9
—o00—
The People of the State of California, Plaintiff,
-vs-
Amy Anderson, Kathyrn Coke, Julio Escobar, Daniel Garza, Morgan Lesko, Tracy Rice-Bailey, Evan Talmage, Sarah Thomas Prodan, Sean Thompson, Defendants.

THE COURT: All right. Miss — Miss Parisi –

MS. PARISI: Yes.

THE COURT: — what’s your position?

MS. PARISI: Yes. I — I would indicate to the Court that really we are ill-equipped to argue these motions. There is a discovery order that was pending before the Court and granted with a compliance date of December 5th. If my recollection is correct, we have not been provided with discovery.
And as a result, we are incapable of articulating the full arguments to the Court because therefore their failure to comply with discovery.
Additionally, when I review their pleadings, they articulate no facts as required by statute in order to suggest why joinder of these two cases would be appropriate.

…

MR. LINDSEY: It’s not that we haven’t provided discovery at all. We have provided discovery. There may — there may not be as complete as the defense has sought, and there — maybe the Court may decide to do something short of dismissal.

THE COURT: Are there other items coming? I mean, was — you — they asked for some things in discovery. Apparently it was granted.
Did you turn over everything? Some?

MR. LINDSEY: Some.

MS. PARISI: Two of the 13 requested items have been complied with. There are 11 items outstanding.

THE COURT: All right. Let me talk to Mr. Lindsey a second.
Are you planning on discovering the other items to the defense or have you changed your mind and you want to — and you can’t do it or you won’t do it?
What’s the issue?

MR. LINDSEY: Well — well, for instance, with the videotapes, they’re — unfortunately, this is on VHS tape. That would take real-time to –

THE COURT: Who uses VHS?

MR. LINDSEY: Apparently Sacramento Police. Don’t ask me.
And it would take real-time to reduce — like to reproduce it, but would take an extreme amount of time because somebody has to actually do it in real-time.

THE COURT: You’ve videotape that you need to copy and turn over?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: Well, so when will you have that ready?

MR. LINDSEY: I believe by next week, your Honor, if we — if we –

THE COURT: I don’t understand entirely what the issue is with the tape. It seems, you know, pretty easy to copy a videotape.
But is this some unusual videotape?

MR. LINDSEY: It’s not the direct — let’s say if you had like a CD and you directly burned it in a matter of minutes. It’s sitting there the entire time. Somebody has to sit there for hours on end.

THE COURT: Is this a videotape that was down at the park of incident?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes. Yes, your Honor. Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: So who — was this city police took –

MR. LINDSEY: That’s correct, your Honor.

THE COURT: There was like a C.S.I. officer or some officer was taping the incident?

MR LINDSEY: That’s correct, your Honor.

THE COURT: And now they don’t have the technology to make a copy of that?

MR. LINDSEY: They do.

THE COURT: And so why would it take more than — I don’t know, a couple hours to get that done? I don’t understand.

MR. LINDSEY: It would take not more than a couple hours.

THE COURT: So why haven’t you turned that over yet?

MR. LINDSEY: I see your point, your Honor.

THE COURT: Well, what — what do you want to do about that?
I mean, are you gonna have it — can you get it today? What’s the issue?
You are ordered to turn over to — did Judge Frawley give you a day to turn over –

MR. LINDSEY: Yes.

THE COURT: In other words, you have a certain amount of time.
Did he give you a day to discover it?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: What was the deadline?

MR. LINDSEY: It was the 5th, your Honor.

THE COURT: He gave you until the 5th?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: Of December?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: Today is the 12th. So you’re — a week has gone by and you haven’t been able to do it.
Can you explain why you haven’t turned it over?

MR. LINDSEY: We were in negotiations for resolution that looked like they were gonna go through as far as actual resolution and they fell through.

THE COURT: Do you understand Court Orders is not a suggestion, Mr. Lindsey?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, I do, your Honor.

THE COURT: I mean, it’s certainly understandable, a huge backlog or there is a reason for getting some information.
But when it doesn’t sound like you’re explaining there isn’t any difficulty in getting that information, you just didn’t discover it.
So tomorrow’s the day of trial. What were you gonna do, show up tomorrow and — without giving the discovery?
The defense seems to say they want trial tomorrow, but help me out, Mr. Lindsey.

MR. LINDSEY: I — I see your point, your Honor.

THE COURT: So where is the tape?

MR. LINDSEY: The tape is –

THE COURT: Can you get it today?

MR. LINDSEY: Reproduced or the physical tapes, your Honor, are you saying — you’re asking reproduced?

THE COURT: Yes.
Can you make a copy and turn it over to defense today? You’ve got a trial set tomorrow.

MR. LINDSEY: I don’t believe so, your Honor.

THE COURT: Why not?

MR. LINDSEY: The tapes — I believe the tapes are such length as far as duration of time that they wouldn’t be ready for everybody.

THE COURT: Not particularly acceptable, Mr. Lindsey.
You contact the police department and tell them there’s a Court Order. They must have it. That’s the way it usually works. And then they make a copy.
And if there is some problem with it, then you come to court and explain what the problem is, if there is a technological problem or something like that.
So you have 10 out of — uh, actually two out of 13 items?

MS. PARISI: Right. I was mistaken. I believe we made a request for it looks like 22 items and two have been complied with.

THE COURT: So two out of 22 items.
What — what are the other items and why haven’t you turned them over?
Let’s start with why haven’t you turned the other 20 items over?

MR. LINDSEY: Well, there are items that we did turn over.

THE COURT: Two?

MR. LINDSEY: It was more than than two.

THE COURT: Okay. Whatever the number, where is the balance of the items that the Court ordered you to turn over by December 5th or was it by December –

MS. PARISI: December 5th.

THE COURT: Yeah. You were told that you must turn them over by December 5th and here you are seven days later.
So where is the rest of the items?

MR. LINDSEY: They still need to be fully compiled, your Honor.

THE COURT: Okay.

MR. LINDSEY: And it would be in the possession of parks and recreation.
For instance, your Honor, the city of Sacramento –

THE COURT: Are they physical items?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: I mean, in other words, these items of evidence that the defense — you could show the defense. I don’t even know. I don’t [know] what the issue is now.

MR. LINDSEY: For example, permits going back five years for all the park permits, that kind of thing.

THE COURT: Okay. So these aren’t difficult things to obtain it doesn’t sound like. You just need to make photocopies of them.
Is that what you’re saying?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: So again, Mr. Lindsey, why hasn’t all this been turned over? I fail to understand why it hasn’t been turned over up to this point.
Have you asked anybody to turn it over? Have you asked parks and rec. –

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, I have, your Honor.

THE COURT: What’s the status? Have you talked to them today? Where is this information? We’ve got trial set for tomorrow.

MR. LINDSEY: I did not talk to them today, your Honor.

THE COURT: All right. So what were you planning to do? Were you going to show up tomorrow morning without showing up (sic) the discovery and expect everybody to go along with that?
   You have to have a plan here. I’m not trying to be rude here.

MR. LINDSEY: I understand, your Honor. I understand.

THE COURT: You have — if you’re gonna go to trial, you have to be able to provide the discovery.
Did you object to giving the discovery over in the first place?

MR. LINDSEY: No, your Honor.

THE COURT: So you agree that this was discoverable information and the Court ordered it, and it sounds like you haven’t really taken that many steps to comply with the discovery order because you thought it was going to resolve apparently. But that plan doesn’t appear to be working out too well for you.
So tomorrow is the date for trial. I think the 45th day is the 19th, something like that.

MR. LINDSEY: That’s correct, your Honor.

THE COURT: So what — what’s your plan? You tell me what the plan is.

MR. LINDSEY: Come back tomorrow, see what we can get done and we go from there, your Honor, and whatever the Court’s decision is or decision as far as tomorrow as far as what we can physically produce for the defense.

THE COURT: Is — those motions came through this department at one point and before it was assigned out, and I do recall reading it.
It appears to me that everybody cut and pasted — everybody had the same exact same request from what I can recall. Everybody had the same items.

MR. LINDSEY: Pretty much, yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: So it wouldn’t be difficult if you can come up with one complete packet of discovery, you have to copy it nine times and you’re done, right?
So can you even complete the packet of discovery tonight?

MR. LINDSEY: I don’t know for sure, your Honor.

THE COURT: Mr. Lindsey, you’re representing the People on this case. This is your responsibility to do this.
And I don’t know what’s going on back in your office. Why don’t — you don’t have more support here where you’ve got nine defendants set for trial?
But right now I don’t know what you’re doing. You haven’t moved to join the defendants or to charge anybody under a single complaint.
You haven’t provided it sounds like 80 percent of the discovery that’s requested in this case.
I think everybody was gonna answer ready tomorrow.
Were you gonna try all nine cases yourself or were you gonna have nine different city attorneys over here trying these cases tomorrow morning?

MR. LINDSEY: We have to spread out, your Honor.

THE COURT: What were you going to spread out?

MR. LINDSEY: In between attorneys, your Honor.

THE COURT: You were gonna have nine lawyers here tomorrow?

MR. LINDSEY: Well, not nine.

THE COURT: Since you didn’t move to join these, and and it’s at the Court’s urging that they be joined, I just — I fail to understand your plan.
What is your plan?
How do you — how are you going to prosecute these cases in a way that the defense all gets the discovery they’re — they’re entitled to and where we have enough courtrooms to try ‘em and there are enough prosecutors to try ‘em?
And by prosecutors I mean city attorneys who are prosecuting these cases.
Do you need some time to talk to somebody?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor. I do.

…

THE COURT: Why don’t you take 15 minutes and — and talk to — this over with somebody and we’ll — we’ll come back on the record, okay?

MR. LINDSEY: Okay.

… (recess) …

THE COURT: All right. On — on the discovery issue did you want to be heard any further?

MR. LINDSEY: Actually, your Honor, I think I can resolve the whole thing if I can just make a brief statement.

THE COURT: That would be great.

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.
The City Attorney’s Office appreciates the Court’s dealing with the high volume of cases that came through in relation to “Occupy Sacramento”. I think it was over 50 maybe.
And there were attempts to resolve these cases, given that they were misdemeanors and so on and so forth, along the lines with something other than going to trial, having to do D.E.J. or potentially administrative penalties under the City of Sacramento administrative process.
As I mentioned before, that ultimately fell through. But at this time it’s probably obvious we should go through the administrative penalty process instead of the criminal court system in relation to these cases.
And on that I would make a motion to dismiss in the interest of justice.

THE COURT: So the nine cases or actually nine defendants, there is more than that. So there is a number of cases total here, but you’re just talking about the cases on calendar today?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: So that will be including — all the cases that are set for trial tomorrow, including all the trailing cases for each defendant?

MR. LINDSEY: That’s correct. Everything just Prodan and Thompson.

MS. PARISI: ThompsonProdan, she has two set for trial, one trailing.
I understand him saying he’s moving to dismiss as to all three.

THE COURT: Is that going to include any — everything with Amy Anderson?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: All cases with Kathryn Coke, Jolio Escobar, Daniel Garza, Morgan Lesko, Tracy Rice-Bailey, Even Talmage, Sara ThomasProdan and Sean Thompson?

MR. LINDSEY: That’s correct, your Honor.

THE COURT: All of the cases that are on calendar today, I’m not going through the numbers on each of those, but all of those cases at this time will be — is a motion to dismiss for interest of justice?

MR. LINDSEY: Yes, your Honor.

THE COURT: As to all of those defendants, no objection is being heard from any of the defense. Defense attorneys all do appear to be present at this time. That will be granted.
And there are no bonds I assume.

MS. PARISI: I don’t believe so.

THE COURT: Thank you.

MS. PARISI: Thank you, your Honor.

MR. LINDSEY: Thank you.

http://OccupySac.com – @OccupySacto – facebook.com/OccupySacramento

Abolitionism, by Ari Kelman

Stream on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SVJcH3p3CA
Download High Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccUCD-Nov28-Day12-UC-Strike-Teachin-Abolitionism.divx

CRD 2: Ethnicity and American Communities, by Dr. Laurie B. Lippin

This circle turned out to be an official UC class, relocated to the quad on the day of strike, one of the Courses in Community and Regional Development (CRD).

Stream on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHUrATw7Kbs
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9am, Nov 28, 2011 – Day 12 of Occupy UC Davis

Ten  Days  After Lt. John Pike Pepper  Sprayed Peaceful Protesters

UC Regents Meeting, Public Comment / Open Forum

During the start of the University of California regents teleconference meeting, over an hour and a half was provided for public comments at all four locations: UC Davis, UCLA, UC Merced, and UC San Francisco-Mission Bay. While this video includes some voices from each campus, it does include all of the speakers from Davis. Attendance included Chancellor Linda Katehi, provost and executive vice chancellor Ralph J. Hexter, student regents Alfredo Mireles and Jonathan Stein, and California State Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez.

Stream on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzqucSRnmPE
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UC Regents Meeting Taken Over As Peoples’ Regents Meeting

Once the financial committee began their meeting, public comments were no longer sought out. Occupiers at each of the four locations (UC Davis, UCLA, UC Merced, and UC San Francisco-Mission Bay) took turns mic checking, and declared “peoples‘ regents meetings” in place of the hierarchical meeting which had proceeded. After a bit of time, the official regents meeting moved behind closed doors as occupiers continued to hold general assemblies.

Stream on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqTq6BZA848
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Interesting Pepper Spray Info: CA PENAL CODE SECTION 12403.7

( ~Side Note ) leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=12001-13000&file=12401-12404

California PENAL CODE SECTION 12403.7 - Notwithstanding any other law, any person may purchase, possess, or use tear gas and tear gas weapons for the projection or release of tear gas if the tear gas and tear gas weapons are used solely for self-defense purposes, subject to the following requirements:
   (a) ...
   (g) Any person who uses tear gas or tear gas weapons except in self-defense is guilty of a public offense and is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for 16 months, or two or three years or in a county jail not to exceed one
year or by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment, except that, if the use is against a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, engaged in the performance of his or her
official duties and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a peace officer, the offense is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for 16 months or two or three years or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.

And One More WWO Contribution To The Meme

Alex Gray Pepper Sprayed by Lt. John Pike at Occupy UC Davis

You should be here too. JOIN US! UC Davis Quad, every day.

http://OccupyUCDavis.org
@OccupyUCDavis
http://facebook.com/pages/Occupy-UC-Davis/262907633759444

Almost all raw, uncut footage captured from Town Hall organized by Chancellor Linda Katehi in response to pepper spraying of peaceful protesters by Lt. John Pike on Nov 18 (and following protests). The event was held in Freeborn Hall, a primary auditorium next to the student union. Katehi shared the stage with

• Fred Wood, vice chancellor of Student Affairs
• Lt. Matt Carmichael, UC Davis Interim Police Chief
• Ralph J. Hexter, provost and executive vice chancellor
• and later joined by John Meyer, vice chancellor for Administrative and Resource Management

Stream on YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=InlJZub1mOg
Download High Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccUCD-Nov22-Day6-Katehi-Town-Hall.divx

You should be here too. JOIN US! UC Davis Quad, every day.

http://OccupyUCDavis.org
@OccupyUCDavis
http://facebook.com/pages/Occupy-UC-Davis/262907633759444

Stream on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gubu_PNsw5s
Download High Quality Video: http://WikiWorldOrder.org/video/Occupy/WWO-OccUCD-Nov21-Day5-Rally-GA.divx

Nov 21, noon – Highlighted speakers and moments from the huge Occupy UC Davis rally and general assembly in response to pepper spraying of peaceful protesters by Lt. John Pike on Nov 18. A resolution was passed with 1,729 votes recorded to have a general strike on Nov 28 in hopes of blocking the UC regents meeting on campus that day.

Occupy University of California, Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi. In the long run, she only pepper sprayed herself.

You should be here. JOIN US! UC Davis Quad, every day.

http://OccupyUCDavis.org
@OccupyUCDavis
facebook.com/pages/Occupy-UC-Davis/262907633759444