Dennis Loo | November 26, 2014 Many years ago when a group of political activists (dubbed in the press the “Mao Zedong Defendants”) were arrested and put on trial for allegedly attacking…
Category: Police State Repression
Know Your Rights!
Booklet from the Center for Constitutional Rights |
Also see:
Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the Homeland (a joint project of the ACLU of Massachusetts and Truthout)
The World According to Officer Darren Wilson
Dennis Loo | November 25, 2014 Officer Wilson, why did you shoot and kill Michael Brown, when he had his hands up and was telling you he gives up, why did you…
Ferguson, MO: Gov Declares a State of Emergency Before the Grand Jury Rules
Dennis Loo | November 17, 2014 Updated November 18: Upon hearing that Missouri’s governor Jay Nixon has today called upon the National Guard, declaring a state of emergency for Ferguson and St….
From San Quentin to Guantanamo: the New Carceral State
Dennis Loo | October 23, 2014 “The Drug War was indeed the New Jim Crow” This is a transcript of Dennis Loo’s prepared remarks at a Cal Poly Pomona Symposium on Stop…
The Execution of Michael Brown
Dennis Loo | August 18, 2014 Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot at least six times, all of which he could have survived, including the terrible bullet to his eye, save for the…
Primer for Demonstrating on the Streets of NYC
Antonia Cedrone | July 24, 2014 The following are accepted rules of practice and do not constitute legal advice. When demonstrators are in the streets of NYC they are confronted by one…
Inventing Terrorists: a Movement of Creationism
Johanna Bon | June 28, 2014 Recently, the Center for Constitutional Rights held a press conference, hosting lawyers Steve Downs and Kathy Manley of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms. Based…
‘Inventing Terrorists’ Study Offers Critical Examination of Government’s Use of Preemptive Prosecutions
Kevin Gosztola | June 9, 2014 Nearly ninety-five percent of individuals on a Justice Department list of “terrorism and terrorism-related convictions” from 2001-2010 included some elements of preemptive prosecution, according to a…
Students vs. NSA Internet Spying
Revolution Newspaper | June 9, 2014 Students Against Surveillance has begun a nationwide campaign against Internet spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). The campaign began on June 5, the one-year anniversary…
Examining and Understanding the Arrest of Moazaam Begg, Former Guantanamo Prisoner and Human Rights Activist
Jill McLaughlin | March 2, 2014 Moazaam Begg was captured in 2002 in the western imperialist “war on terror”. The British citizen of Pakistani descent was held for a time at Bagram…