Sometime late Monday night July 23 or in the early hours of Tuesday July 24, 2012 ANSWER Coalition’s Los Angeles office was broken into and thoroughly ransacked. All ten of their computers,…
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)
Stop Stop and Frisk! Drop the Charges Against the Protesters!
from the New York Chapter of World Can’t Wait The synergy created by the Fathers Day Silent March against "Stop and Frisk," the Center for Constitutional Rights’ class action lawsuit against the…
“The Third Degree” and Exporting Torture
From Salvador Option Police Interrogation and American Justice by Richard A. Leo is a detailed analysis of modern police interrogation methodology in the United States. Although the book primarily addresses the constitutional implications…
Report from Chicago NATO Protests
from Defending Dissent The attempt to stifle the voices of dissent started months before the May 20-21 NATO summit. Federal and local officials aggressively raised alarms about the people planning to travel…
The Long Roots of the NYPD Spying Program
by Ramzi Kassem On February 8, 2006, the imam at a Bronx mosque advised congregants to boycott Danish products in response to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by a Danish newspaper….
Andy Worthington on Democracy Now: No Justice For Guantanamo Prisoners
by Andy Worthington Yesterday, I made my way to a TV studio opposite the Houses of Parliament to take part in an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! — my first…
Reforms and Tweaks Won’t Cut It – STOP-AND-FRISK HAS GOT TO GO!
by Carl Dix Stop-and-frisk has been much in the news in New York City. A federal judge ruled a civil suit against it could go forward as a class action suit, saying…
Criminal Injustice System
by Margaret Kimberley There are so many things a miss in the United States that one hardly knows where to begin discussing them all. Yet of all the calamitous situations faced by…
Guantánamo – the Basis for Mandatory Military Detention Provisions in the NDAA
by Andy Worthington Yesterday, I was rung by a journalist from Press TV, asking me to discuss my recent article, US Judge Rules Against Military Detention of US Terror Suspects – But…
Obama’s War: Criminalize the Left
by Glen Ford The Obama administration is methodically erecting the legal structures of a police state. The president late last year smoothed the way for bipartisan passage through Congress of a preventive…