[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrXyLrTRXso&w=560&h=315] National Day of Protest Against the NDAA February 3, 2012. In Minneapolis at Obama’s Campaign Headquarters, 4:30 pm, 2722 University Ave SE. Uploaded by anonymous04210 on Dec 3, 2011 Dear brothers and sisters. Now is the time to open your eyes! In a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has just More
The National Occupation of Washington, DC: Occupy Power! Submitted by Margaret Flowers on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 19:14 NOWDC.org March 30, 2012, people from across the country will gather for an American Spring in Washington, DC. The National Occupation of Washington, DC (NOW DC) opposes the corruption of both parties in conducting U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Our most precious safeguard, the More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQfJcRNwqM&w=420&h=315] Uploaded by MiloWolf on Jan 17, 2012 An impressive coalition of organizations -- unions, anti-war, human rights, churches and neighborhood groups -- held a press conference today (Jan. 17, 2012) at Chicago's City Hall. They were protesting the proposed new ordinances against demonstrations targeting the upcoming spring NATO/G8 meetings here, but now possibly to become permanent More
English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Date: January 16, 2012 Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjtBP3R2DY&w=420&h=315] Website for more information: EPIC.org Uploaded by TheBigPictureRT on Jan 17, 2012 Ginger McCall, EPIC's Open Government Program, joins Thom Hartmann. While Progressives may enjoy reading the Huffington Post - and Conservatives may enjoy reading the Drudge Report - the Department of Homeland Security apparently enjoys reading BOTH websites..as well as social networking sites like Twitter More
The evil of indefinite detention and those wanting to de-prioritize it BY GLENN GREENWALD SUNDAY, JAN 8, 2012 5:18 AM CST salon.com (updated below – Update II – Update III [Mon.]) This Wednesday will mark the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo prison camp. In The New York Times, one of the camp’s former prisoners, Lakhdar More
WTF? (What the Fawkes?) Kade Crockford, ACLU of Massachusetts Dec 29th, 2011 ACLU Rosa Luxemburg famously said that those who do not move cannot feel their chains. This morning in Suffolk county court, the ACLU of Massachusetts and our client moved. And we felt our chains. I had gone to court to listen to our More
Arrests at White House Over NDAA Military Detention of Americans, Occupy Wall Street Joins Fight By Ralph Lopez (about the author) January 2, 2012 OpEdNews Buried by the television news media but visible on Youtube, at least three days in a row of protests over NDAA law allowing indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge More
Protest NDAA! Tell Obama Stop Support for Political Repression Friday, January 6th @ 4:30 PM @ Obama for America Office, 2722 University Ave. SE, Minneapolis Join a picket in front of the "Obama For America" campaign office in Minneapolis to protest the president's track record trampling on our civil liberties. Last week President Obama's More
Police State 2012: No Need to Wait, It’s Already Here by James Corbett The Corbett Report BoilingFrogsPost.com 03 January, 2012 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkFoSt6aKQ&w=560&h=315] A TV station in Boston airs a story about a library that sent a police sergeant to collect overdue library books from a 5-year-old girl. The Associated Press reports on a 70 year old woman in More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7Ekz2ABFc&w=420&h=315] The highly controversial National Defense Authorization Act is still awaiting the President's signature. The act contains an indefinite detention provision - giving the President of the United States the power to use the military to indefinitely detain you without trial if is says that you're a suspected terrorist. There've been protests across the More
Obama NDAA OK Draws OccupyMN Protest At Reelection HQ [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyV_MKzPR4&w=560&h=315] Think bad thoughts about the government and you could go to jail...forever. That may sound like a Soviet-era law, but civil libertarians say it's possible under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which is awaiting President Obama's promised signature. The NDAA, was passed by More
