87 -Autumn Gonzalez of NorCal Resist (9.1.2020)

In times of rising fascism and a capitalist state that refuses to care for its most vulnerable, the people come together to take care of one another.
 
We're joined by Autumn Gonzalez of NorCal Resist, an incredible nonprofit working to protect our undocumented neighbors and, more recently, supporting our friends and leaders in the streets fighting for Black liberation. Autumn gives us the history of NorCal Resist, and then talks us through some of the more recent work they've been doing to help get demonstrators in jail with bloated bail back into their homes.
 
Sacramento saw multiple nights of demonstrations in support of Jacob Blake over the weekend. In response, California's largest adult thumb--Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones--said he was going to crack down on them. We saw a few arrests over the weekend, but two of them strike us as particularly concerning.
 
Despite NorCal Resist posting bail for them, two people are being kept in jail on a 1275 hold, which is usually used on people that the prison system believes got their bail money through illegal means. Defense attorneys all over the state are gobsmacked at the audacity of using such a measure against demonstrators, and Autumn reminds us that the California Highway Patrol pulled the same fascist nonsense against demonstrators fighting for undocumented rights outside Governor Gavin Newsom's home just a few weeks back.
 
Want to support the two people in jail? There's a demonstration outside the Sacramento County Jail on Tuesday, September 1, at 3 p.m.
 
Did you hear about the confounding piece of legislation (AB 6) that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is trying to push through the state legislature? It would succeed in doing a number of unrelated things: 
 
Consolidate power to sue the drug companies responsible for the opioid crisis to the California Attorney General's office (pulling it away from local governments)

Increase Becerra's office's power over the California Department of Fish and Wildlife 

Increase his staff by 16 people

All of this while he fights against AB 1506, which would allow county district attorneys and police forces to enlist the state attorney general to conduct independent investigations into police shootings. Why? Because he apparently doesn't have the bandwidth.

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