Category: Police State Repression

via Revolution: The Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) website reported on November 17 that in the month after the second phase of the California prisoner hunger strike that ended on September 22,…

by Elaine Brower    Of course this practice of targeting individuals who look “suspicious” or may “pose a threat” to police and the public, in other words walking “while black”, has been…

by the ACLU Hastily passed 45 days after 9/11 in the name of national security, the Patriot Act was the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for…

by Lance Ciepiela   "We have to view this as an opportunity", George W. Bush was quoted as saying on 9/11 and for him and his administration, 9/11 became their "golden opportunity"…

from the website of Gore Vidal     It is fair to say that few developments in the current century have troubled civil libertarians, including especially Gore Vidal, more than the enactment of…

by Kenneth J. Theisen  On October 28, 2010 the U.S. government announced that it expended $80.1 billion on national intelligence activities during the fiscal year which ended on September 30, 2011.  Sixteen…

by Debra Sweet In this season of 10-year anniversaries, one almost got by me, just as it almost got by many of us on October 26, 2001.  The Ashcroft Justice Department, which…

by Matthis Chiroux When I read the headlines yesterday evening, I felt as though I were in a time warp. "Police Fracture Iraq Vet’s Skull Clearing Intersection of Protesters." But the location…

by Glenn Greenwald  When President Obama announced the killing of Osama bin Laden on the evening of May 1, he said something which I found so striking at the time and still…

from The Stop Mass Incarceration Network STOP “Stop & Frisk” Illegal, racist, unconstitutional, intolerable.And it must be stopped!!! The NYPD is on pace to stop and frisk over 700,000 people in 2011!…