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Truthout> When Did Dissent Become a Crime? America’s Police State on Steroids at the Conventions
When Did Dissent Become a Crime? America’s Police State on Steroids at the Conventions Thus, the decision to give protests some breathing room in Tampa and Charlotte is notable because of past convention experiences, as well as the police attacks on Occupy camps in the last year. That may explain the absence of outright police […]
Alexander Reed Kelly> Privacy by Design
Privacy by Design By Alexander Reed Kelly July 24, 2012 truthdig.com Furryscaly (CC BY-SA 2.0) NEW YORK—Nicholas Merrill wants to change the world. So he tells me over rice and beans at Lupe’s East LA Kitchen in Soho, roughly a dozen blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. He is perfectly serious. At 39 […]
Glenn Greenwald> Extremism normalized> How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce
Extremism normalized How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable BY GLENN GREENWALD JUL 31, 2012 salon.com Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney after McCain introduced Cheney during a campaign stop, Friday, July 16, 2004, at the Lansing Center in […]
Raw Story> Horses used against demonstrators in ninth day of Anaheim protests
Horses used against demonstrators in ninth day of Anaheim protests By Arturo Garcia Monday, July 30, 2012 9:26 EDT The Raw Story Anaheim police arrested nine demonstrators, at one point using horses against protesters during a march, during the ninth day of protests over police shootings Sunday. The Orange County Register reported that more than […]
Tom Burke> 15,000 march against NATO in Chicago
15,000 march against NATO in Chicago By Tom Burke | May 21, 2012 FightBackNews Carlos Montes, Los Angeles activist targeted by FBI repression, at Chicago anti-NATO protest. (Fight Back! News/Staff) The contingent against political repression lines up to march against NATO in Chicago. Chicago, IL – In the largest anti-war protest ever held in […]
Tomgram> Noam Chomsky, A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
Tomgram> Noam Chomsky, A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? Posted by Noam Chomsky at 7:39am, May 8, 2012 TomDispatch If you had followed May Day protests in New York City in the mainstream media, you might hardly have noticed that they happened at all. The stories were generally tucked away, minimalist, focused on a […]
UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released> Campus Police Force ‘Very Dysfunctional’ | Common Dreams
UC Davis Pepper Spray Report Released: Campus Police Force ‘Very Dysfunctional’ Pepper spraying incident ‘should and could have been prevented’ Common Dreams staff April 11, 2012 Common Dreams Months after students at UC Davis were filmed being soaked in pepper spray and arrested by police in riot gear after peacefully protesting at their […]
Video> Amy Goodman> OWS Activist Cecily McMillan Describes Seizure, Bodily Injuries in Arrest by NYPD
Uploaded by democracynow on Mar 23, 2012 Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan suffered a seizure when New York City police officers pulled her from the crowd and arrested her as hundreds attempted to re-occupy Zuccotti Park on Saturday, to mark sixth months since the launch of the movement. In her first television interview since her arrest, McMillan […]
Video> Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine
What the mainstream media won’t tell you. A brief and crucial history of the United States Please send this video to your contact list and tweet often, so that we send it viral. Let us remember “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people” – John Adams – Second President – […]
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