by Glen Ford Humiliation is the law of the land. When you fall into the clutches of the police, for any reason, or no good reason at all, you can be compelled…
Category: Police State Repression
Know Your Rights!
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Booklet from the Center for Constitutional Rights |
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Also see:
Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the Homeland (a joint project of the ACLU of Massachusetts and Truthout)
Supreme Court’s Abominable Strip-Search Ruling
by Kevin Gosztola As widely reported yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that officials could strip-search individuals being admitted to jail, even if they had committed minor offenses. Justice…
Videotaping is No Crime! Gregory Koger Should Do No Time!
From dropthecharges.net: The Illinois Appellate Court just denied Gregory Koger’s appeal to reverse his conviction. It is time to speak out against this outrageous and dangerous ruling! As you may recall, Gregory…
The Homeland Battlefield: ‘Hedges v. Obama’ Lawsuit Challenging NDAA Begins in NYC
From The Sparrow Project: [NEW YORK, NY] The first rounds of statements from seven high-profile plaintiffs suing President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, House Speakers and DOD Representatives for…
Chicago Activists Take on City’s New Protest Ordinances
by Kevin Gosztola A battle over the city of Chicago’s new ordinances passed in the run-up to planned NATO/G8 summits is brewing. Activists that have been organizing protests for the upcoming NATO…
A Modern-Day Lynching – The Vigilante Murder of Trayvon Martin!
Chicago Protest for Trayvon Martin, 3/24/12. Photo by FJJ. by Carl Dix Trayvon Martin, a Black youth walking home with a bag of skittles and a can of iced tea, is gunned…
Trayvon Martin, Walking While Black, “Stand Your Ground,” and U.S. Foreign Policy
by Dennis Loo Trayvon Martin is the 17-year-old black teen carrying the suspicious and threatening weapons of a bag of Skittles and iced tea and walking while black in a gated, white…
Say No to Mass Incarceration: Organizing a National Day of Resistance
from The Stop Mass Incarceration Network: Organizing Meeting for a National Day of Resistance SAY NO TO MASS INCARCERATION Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1PM to 5PM Hunter College, Room 506 Hunter North,…
Dangerous Appellate Court Ruling Makes Us All Criminals for Recording with Cell Phones
You can send Gregory Koger messages of support at adhoc4reason@gmail.com – and let us know if we can use them on the website. Donate towards the legal and political defense at dropthecharges.net….
How to Fund an American Police State
by Stephan Salisbury At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. American…