Oakland: "No Curfews No Cages"

Under Brown's plan -- which he apparently hopes will help boost him into the state Attorney General's office -- thousands of probationers and former prisoners, faced with the task of rebuilding their lives after serving time, would face arrest and seven to thirty days of jailtime simply for being on the streets after 10 p.m. The "martial law" plan would rack up as of yet uncalculated costs for police, jails and other local government departments.

Propaganda circulated on the street by the Mayor's office claims that the curfew plan would make probationers "safer" since they accounted for a "large percentage" of homicide victims.

Protesters call the new curfew plan a Gestapo-like suppression of liberties, and compare it to South Africa's "pass laws" and the post-Civil War "black codes."

Residents of the old Sears building at 27th and Telegraph, where Jerry lives in his girlfriend's live-work loft, appear to have the mayor's back. Two spat on the crowd of protesters, and one came outside to argue angrily with organizers. Another even came outside, threw what appeared to be a bottle of mustard at a corporate news truck and knocked over a camera.

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