This Is How You Can Tell Congress To Undo The NDAA OpEdNews Athens Report January 6, 2012 The NDAA amendments 1021 and 1022 allowing indefinite detention ofAmerican citizens is now law, signed by Obama on New Year’s Eve. The list of people opposed to the signing is as long as it is diverse, so with a few suggestions More
Petition to Supreme Court of Alaska to Block NDAA Indefinite Detention Provides Model For All by VVV PR Â Â Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Â Â RSN Writing for Godot While the mainstream media blackout keeps millions of Americans clueless about the consequences of NDAA 2012 and Constitutional Rights groups do little more than milk the issue, in Alaska More
[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
Sen. Franken and Conservatives Unite to Fight Indefinite Detention By Joe Picard and Jeremy Herb, The Hill   28 January 12     RSN trange bedfellows on Capitol Hill, ranging from Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.), are joining forces to change controversial detainee language that was signed into law by President Obama last More
Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure BY GLENN GREENWALD   SATURDAY, JAN 21, 2012   Salon.com   Two events this week produced some serious cognitive dissonance. First, Congressional leaders sheepishly announced that they were withdrawing (at least for the time being) two bills heavily backed by the entertainment industry — the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIjWNDlxUzE&w=560&h=315] Uploaded by UpTakeVideo on Jan 20, 2012 Occupy St. Paul had planned to deliver a protest letter to Senator Amy Klobuchar about her voting for NDAA (The National Defense Authorization Act). The plan was amended when they found out she was sponsoring a bill to remove some of the most egregious provisions of the act. They More
Why I’m Suing Barack Obama By Chris Hedges  Posted on Jan 16, 2012  truthdig Detainees pray at the U.S. military detention facility known as Camp Bucca in Iraq in this 2009 photo. (AP / Dusan Vranic) Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York More
Continuing Protests Against NDAA Indefinite Military Detention of U.S. Citizens, Recall Efforts On by Ralph Lopez   WED JAN 11, 2012    Daily Kos Revealing the failure of the coordinated campaign by defenders of the National Defense Authorization Act 2011 (NDAA) to lie about its applicability to U.S. citizens, protesters at the White House continued to More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdoCuEFsxPs&w=560&h=315] Published on Jan 11, 2012 by AssociatedPress Ten years after the arrival of the first detainee at Guantanamo Bay, protesters are calling for the military detention center in Cuba to close. (Jan. 11) Minneapolis 2008 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyWtGrCzHOg&w=420&h=315] Uploaded by PrudenceChastity on Jun 25, 2009 A January, 2008 protest of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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
 A Betrayal of the Founders By Ray McGovern (about the author)  January 4, 2011  opednews.com George Washington crossing the Delaware, in Emanuel Leutze’s iconic (though historically inaccurate) painting President Barack Obama desecrated the Constitution that he and I swore to defend when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which includes language violating the Bill 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
