By Andy Worthington On July 5, I received a press release from the Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition in Oakland, California. Under the heading, “Prisoners Across at Least 6 California Prisons Join…
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)
The U.S.Congress and the Dangerous Drive Towards Creating a Military State
By Andy Worthington “Some issues,” the New York Times declared in an editorial on June 25, “require an unwavering stand. Preserving the role of law enforcement agencies in stopping and punishing terrorists…
Isolation, Indeterminate Sentences Used to Extract Confessions at California Supermax Prisons
By Jeff Kaye Adding to Kevin Gosztola’s recent coverage of the hunger strike at Pelican Bay prison (which has spread to at least six other prisons, including Corcoran California Correctional Institution and…
Letter from a Pelican Bay SHU Hunger Striker
The psychological effects from supermax cannot be reversed by rehousing into a regular general population in another prison, yet some have been here in shu for decades, this in a country that…
Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Shines Light on True Character of U.S. Prison System
By Kevin Gosztola Harold Koh, legal advisor to the US State Department, went before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in November of last year and declared that the US is…
The Living Hell in Pelican Bay Prison
Thousands of prisoners in mulitple prisons in California are engaged in hunger strikes. See Revolution newspaper for details about their demands and ongoing coverage. By Li Onesto Crescent City is far north…
5 Outrageous Examples of FBI Intimidation and Entrapment
In the 10 years since the Sept. 11th attacks, the FBI has expanded its powers, transforming into a massive domestic spying agency. By Kevin Gosztola In 2010, the FISA court approved all 1,506 requests…
The true definition of “Terrorist”
By Glenn Greenwald | June 22, 2011 In late May, two Iraqi nationals, who were in the U.S. legally, were arrested in Kentucky and indicted on a variety of Terrorism crimes. In…
Entrapping Innocent Muslims
By Stephen Lendman A recent New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) report is titled, "Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the ‘Homegrown Threat’ in the United…
Sheriffs and FBI Raid Home of Chicano Activist in Los Angeles
From Revolution There have been significant new developments in the targeting of antiwar and international solidarity activists by Obama’s Justice Department. On May 17 the LA County Sheriff’s SWAT team and members…