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Press Conference: First Hand Accounts of Mass Arrests and Intimidation in Toronto
2010-06-28
Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network, Movement
The Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Movement Defence Committee will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events that have been takin...
Protection of Journalists' Sources and Materials
2012-07-20
National Union of Journalists (NUJ)
Advice offered by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to all journalists who are covering the Olympic Games which are due to start in London on 27 July 2012.

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Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices
Article
2011
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Our lives are on our laptops – family photos, medical documents, banking information, details about what websites we visit, and so much more. Thanks to protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, ...
#DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protesters
Article
2015
RT
Non-conformists across the UK are taking to social media to declare themselves #DomesticExtremists in a bid to raise awareness about secretive police powers.
Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
Appleton, Josie
Article
2015
The Ecologist
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being home...
Know Your Rights!
Fakhoury, Hanni
Article
2011
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. This is sensitive data that's worth protecting from prying eyes - includi...
No News is Not Good News
Cops Taping Protesters & Journalists
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2010
CounterPunch
If cops photograph and videotape protesters and journalists, it's news if it happens in China, but when it happens in the U.S., as it routinely does, the media are silent.
On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
McElroy, Wendy
Article
2005
ifeminists.net
Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law i...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work ...
Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities
Lewis, Paul; Evans, Rob; Taylor, Matthew
Article
2009
The Guardian
'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "ter...
Police Militarism in America
In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2014
CounterPunch
The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands...
Police Ripped Off More Stuff Than Burglars Did Last Year
Civil asset forfeiture is big business for cops
Smith, Phillip
Article
2015
Alternet
Law enforcement use of asset forfeiture laws to seize property -- often without a criminal conviction or even an arrest -- has gone through the roof in recent years, and now the cops are giving the cr...
Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1984
Ulli Diemer
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
State Law Breakers
Violating the Law While Enforcing the Law
Carson, Kevin
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Police routinely break the law under the pretext of enforcing the law.
Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Warnke, Brett
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
US has a new tool to control the masses
No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court
Wolf, Naomi
Article
2012
The Guardian
Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a t...


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