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News ReleasesPress Conference: First Hand Accounts of Mass Arrests and Intimidation in Toronto2010-06-28 Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network, Movement The Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Movement Defence Committee will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events that have been takin... Protection of Journalists' Sources and Materials2012-07-20 National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Advice offered by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to all journalists who are covering the Olympic Games which are due to start in London on 27 July 2012. Sources Select ResourcesDefending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices Article 2011 Electronic Frontier Foundation Our lives are on our laptops – family photos, medical documents, banking information, details about what websites we visit, and so much more. Thanks to protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, ... #DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protestersArticle 2015 RT Non-conformists across the UK are taking to social media to declare themselves #DomesticExtremists in a bid to raise awareness about secretive police powers. Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powersAppleton, Josie Article 2015 The Ecologist UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being home... Know Your Rights! Fakhoury, Hanni Article 2011 Electronic Frontier Foundation Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. This is sensitive data that's worth protecting from prying eyes - includi... No News is Not Good NewsCops Taping Protesters & Journalists Lindorff, Dave Article 2010 CounterPunch If cops photograph and videotape protesters and journalists, it's news if it happens in China, but when it happens in the U.S., as it routinely does, the media are silent. On Handcuffed and Felonious ChildrenMcElroy, Wendy Article 2005 ifeminists.net Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law i... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014Arms Trade Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2014 Connexions Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015Organizing Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work ... Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activistsForces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities Lewis, Paul; Evans, Rob; Taylor, Matthew Article 2009 The Guardian 'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "ter... Police Militarism in AmericaIn Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists Lindorff, Dave Article 2014 CounterPunch The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands... Police Ripped Off More Stuff Than Burglars Did Last YearCivil asset forfeiture is big business for cops Smith, Phillip Article 2015 Alternet Law enforcement use of asset forfeiture laws to seize property -- often without a criminal conviction or even an arrest -- has gone through the roof in recent years, and now the cops are giving the cr... Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more powerDiemer, Ulli Article 1984 Ulli Diemer The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read. State Law BreakersViolating the Law While Enforcing the Law Carson, Kevin Article 2013 CounterPunch Police routinely break the law under the pretext of enforcing the law. Unlawful DissentNew Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech Warnke, Brett Article 2012 CounterPunch The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen. US has a new tool to control the massesNo one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court Wolf, Naomi Article 2012 The Guardian Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a t... |
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