From Revolution For many months leading up to the May 20-21 NATO Summit, Chicago news has been filled with stories about new laws passed, new police equipment obtained, and military training exercises…
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)
What Law & What Process for Muslims in America?
The Justice Department has escalated the criminalization of First Amendment activities. by Kevin Gosztola Ahead of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Chicago, hundreds gathered for a People’s Summit hosted…
FBI Wants Greater Surveillance Powers
by Stephen Lendman FBI Director Robert Mueller wants Congress to enact greater surveillance powers following the false flag underwear bomb plot blamed on Al Qaeda. In May 9 testimony before the House Judiciary…
Illinois Appellate Court Upholds Political Persecution of Gregory Koger
from Revolution The Illinois Appellate Court in February continued and intensified the unjust persecution of Gregory Koger by upholding his conviction for three misdemeanors and upholding the outrageous 300-day sentence for documenting…
Surveillance State Democracy
by Glenn Greenwald CNET‘s excellent technology reporter, Declan McCullagh, reports on ongoing efforts by the Obama administration to force the Internet industry to provide the U.S. Government with “backdoor” access to…
New York Court Finds Defendants Guilty
by Li Onesto 20 Freedom Fighters Expose Crimes of Stop and Frisk 24-7-365: Police Precincts, USA—Black and Latino people, especially young males, shackled, pulled out of paddy wagons and from the back…
“Stop and Frisk” Activists Reflect on Guilty Ruling
From the Stop Mass Incarceration Network Following Judge Robert Mandelbaum’s ruling yesterday that all twenty were guilty of disorderly conduct, defendants in the "stop and frisk" trial conveyed to the court that…
Occupy-Style Repression Hits Brooklyn College, My Home
by Matthis Chiroux Two non-violent student activists were arrested yesterday and a dozen others brutalized by campus police at Brooklyn College when they peacefully congregated in a hallway outside the president’s office….
No Justice for Muslims in America
by Margaret Kimberley The FBI and the Justice Department are still up to their old tricks. Not only do they continue to entrap Muslims in terror cases that wouldn’t exist without…
First They Come for the Muslims
By Chris Hedges Tarek Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced Thursday in Worcester, Mass., to 17½ years in prison. It was another of the tawdry show trials held against Muslim activists since…