No one has been charged in the three years since searches of antiwar activists’ homes. The Star Tribune also seeks access to case documents. By RANDY FURST Star Tribune.com Updated: January 31, 2014 Anti-war activists Mick Kelly (left) and Jess Sundin talked in 2011 about what they said were detailed plans regarding the FBI raids. (Photo: Jim Gehrz, Star More
In recent years, undercover informants have infiltrated antiwar movements targeted as "domestic terrorists". Posted by sosadmin PrivacySOS.org Fri, 01/31/2014 Back in 2012, the ACLU of Massachusetts published a report called ‘Policing Dissent’, exposing the Boston Police Department’s ‘red squad’ surveillance operations, directed at antiwar and economic justice organizers. Among the documents we obtained through a public records lawsuit were so-called ‘intelligence More
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience is a great American tradition. Editor's Note: It is not only environmental activists who are being charged with being "terrorists." All over the country—at the Republican National Convention in 2008, during the Occupy movement, and ongoing—activists who are arrested in acts of civil disobedience for dissent from animal rights, antiwar and antidrone More
Edward Snowden. Image by None via CrunchBase Blocked in the U.S. mainstream corporate media. To see click here. LiveLink.com January 26, 2014 German Television Channel NDR does an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden. Uploaded on LiveLeak cause German Television thinks the rest of the world isn't intereseted in Edward Snowden. Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f93_1390833151#wIJhycYEsjOavgmD.99 More
He was politically conservative, a gun owner, a geek – and the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in history. In this exclusive extract from his new book, Luke Harding looks at Edward Snowden's journey from patriot to America's most wanted: The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man Luke Harding The Guardian, Friday More
Director of national intelligence condemns NSA whistleblower in blistering testimony to Senate intelligence committee. Above photo: On Wednesday January 29th, CODEPINK activists attended an Intelligence Committee hearing on “Current and Projected National Security Threats Against the United States.” The witnesses included John Brennan, Director of the CIA, James Clapper, Director of National Intelligences, James Comey, Director of More
Beale AFB, April, 2013 TRIAL DATE: Monday, Feb. 3, 9:00 am Occupy Beale AFB Anti-Drone Protestors to Put Drone Warfare on Trial (Defendants: Martha Hubert, Robin Ryan, Bill Doub and Toby Blome) In April, 2013, 5 activists were arrested while attempting to deliver a letter to the Commander at Beale AFB during a nonviolent protest of drone warfare. The letter More
Editor's Note: Google's home page logo today honors Harriet Tubman, the African-American woman who is best known for her work with the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s before the Civil War, bringing slaves from the south to freedom in the northern United States and Canada. She also worked with Susan B. Anthony in the suffragette More
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The activist nun put her beliefs on the line, even if it meant going to jail. Betty McKenzie with the blanket that was crocheted for her by the other inmates she was arrested with. They presented it to her on the day they were released, which was coincidentally her birthday. (Photography by Sarah Whiting.) "I More
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. ... A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding More
It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader." By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon January 17, 2014 (January 4, 1995) FAIR.org The remarkable thing about this annual review of King's life is that several years More
