Bring a resolution for civil liberties & against repression to your Feb. 7 precinct caucus! JANUARY 27, 2012 On Tuesday, February 7 at 7:00pm, Minnesota’s political parties will  hold their precinct caucuses. Anyone can attend their caucus, where they meet with their neighbors to discuss what issues their party should adopt for their platform, in More
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
Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Hedges Truthdigger of the Week   Posted on Jan 20, 2012  Late last year, President Obama pulled a fast one by changing his stance on the National Defense Authorization Act so suddenly and drastically that Americans were left with a bad case of legislative whiplash—and a very serious state of affairs with regard 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
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt_SKX0pzBg&w=560&h=315] Uploaded by ncftTV on Jan 17, 2012 more: http://www.AcronymTV.com On day #1 of Occupy Congress, Sgt Shamar Thomas (of 1 Marine Vs. 30 Cops fame) joined forces with members of from both Occupations in DC and Occupy Wall Street in a protest inside of Senator Carl Levin's office today, "detaining" Sen. Levin... indefinitely for Co- Sponsoring the More
A Rainy Day in D.C., Marching to Close Guantanamo By Coleen Rowley  Posted: 1/17/12  Huffington Post It’s hard to know what to do, as mere citizens, to try and fix things so many years after the United States government decided it did not have to follow its own laws, the Geneva Conventions or 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
