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  1. Amnesty International Responds to U.K. Government Surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A British tribunal admitted on Wednesday that the U.K. government had spied on Amnesty International and illegally retained some of its communications.
  2. Anti-Capitalist Demonstration of May 1, 2013 in Montreal
    Journée des Travailleurs et Travailleuses: Manifestation Anti-Capitaliste
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2013
    Montreal 2013: police state. Montreal's municipal goverment passes a bylaw that suspends the right of citizens to assemble unless they have received advance permission from police. Citizens who assert their right to assembly are kettled by police and arrested.
  3. Big Brother's Getting Bigger
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years.
  4. Bill C-51: A Legal Primer
    Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Bill C-51, the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015, would expand the powers of Canada's spy agency, allowing Canadians to be arrested on mere suspicion of future criminal activity.
  5. Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
    The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
  6. Canada's Creeping Police State
    Capitalist Repression and War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
  7. Canada's Proposed Anti-Terrorism Law
    An Assessment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A Statement to the Standing Committee on National Security & Public Safety regarding the dangers Bill C-51 poses to many of Canada's democratic freedoms.
  8. The Canadian Ministry of "Truth": "Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The government and corporations operate as if truth and reality are what they say it is. Guerin analyzes and provides examples of this propaganda, including Canada's Bill C-51.
  9. Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
    Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
  10. The CIA's Memory Prison
    A Perverse Logic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The U.S. government has ruled that the prisoners kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. cannot talk about their experiences because those experiences are the property of the U.S. government, which has classified them as secret national security information. This means the prisoners’ personal stories, recollections and experiences cannot be told in any open court, recounted to journalists or human rights groups, nor can they be heard by international bodies like the United Nations.
  11. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
  12. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  13. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
  14. Crossing Rafah
    Heading to Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  15. Data Mining You
    How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
  16. Doing Time for Peace
    Moral Lights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Hundreds of Americans, young and old, are regularly going to prison, sometimes for months or years or decades, for nonviolently resisting U.S. militarism.
  17. #DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protesters
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Non-conformists across the UK are taking to social media to declare themselves #DomesticExtremists in a bid to raise awareness about secretive police powers.
  18. Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2016
    Dawn Paley’s book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
  19. Eavesdropping on the Planet
    The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
  20. Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
    CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
  21. Fascism, American-Style
    One-Step from the Third Reich?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel.
  22. Foreclosures and the Police State
    Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The story of the Hernandez family, who became local heroes in their determination to keep their Van Nuys home from foreclosure.
  23. Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    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 homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
  24. Government Spying Aims to Silence Us
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    What the ruling class is aiming at, with these occasional "leaks" about its spying on us, is not so much to collect information about us but rather to make us feel so totally spied upon that we will be afraid to do or say anything we know the government doesn't want us to do or say.
  25. Here come the thought police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
  26. How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
    Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
  27. How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
    Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
  28. How the Government Secretly Demanded the IP Address of Every Visitor to Political News Site Indymedia.us
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Secrecy surrounds law enforcement's communications surveillance practices like a dense fog. Particularly shrouded in secrecy are government demands issued under 18 U.S.C. § 2703 of the Stored Communications Act or "SCA" that seek subscriber information or other user records from communications service providers.
  29. ICE: The making of an American Gestapo
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and co-author with Mike Davis of No One Is Illegal, takes an in-depth look at the troubling history and practices of a government agency that more and more people are calling to be abolished.
  30. If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
    Snowden Coverage
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
  31. Increasing Legal Suppression of Freedom of Thought and Expression in So-called Free and Democratic Societies
    As evidence for increasing totalitarianism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    That freedom of speech is the foundational individual right for a truly democratic system to exist or emerge. And that this freedom must be defended without compromise, and without bias against any particular view, no matter how distasteful or disturbing the particular view might be to some or most people.
  32. Information Overload
    Driving a Stake Through the National Security State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Here’s an idea. Let’s all start salting all of our conversations and our written communications with a selection of those 300 key words. If every liberty-loving person in America virus were to do this, the NSA would have to employ all 15 million unemployed Americans just to begin to look at all those transcripts!
  33. The Institutionalization of Tyranny
    When Victory Has Nothing to do With Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if they have, they are comfortable with it and have no objection.
  34. IRS seizes hundreds of perfectly legal bank accounts, refuses to give money back
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Internal Revenue Service has been seizing bank accounts belonging to small businesses and individuals who regularly made deposits of less than $10,000, but broke no laws. And the government is refusing to return all the money taken. The practice - called civil asset forfeiture - allows IRS agents to seize property they suspect of being tied to a crime, even if no charges are filed, and their agency is allowed to keep a share of whatever is forfeited.
  35. 'Israel is a terrorist state'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
  36. Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own.
  37. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  38. Kurt Vonnegut and the American Police State
    Just Say "Hi-Ho!" as They Strip Search You
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The country seems to have crossed over a dark threshold. We are now a police state in all but name. Cops and wannabe cops are shooting innocent people and nothing gets done.
  39. The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A call to white Americans to unite with suppressed minorities who are incarcerated daily, killed in the streets, and who hold little political power against these militarized police forces.
  40. Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
  41. Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
    You are the Target!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
  42. Liberals and Ultra-leftists: A Marriage Made in Hell
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    What liberal defenders of ultra-left violence don’t realize is that it’s not the Nazis legally marching down main street that will sabotage U.S. democracy, but the paramilitary police state that will crush all legitimate dissent. Ultra-left violence plays into what apologists for police militarization have been saying all along -- that the police have to keep ahead of the increasing violence in the streets with updated weapons and paramilitary training. Ultra-left violence, far from stopping fascism, enables it. It makes martyrs of the right and helps white supremacists recruit more angry right wingers to their cause, just as every wedding party the U.S. bombs in the Middle East recruits angry family members to the jihadis. With every violent clash between ultra-left and ultra-right, the militarized police will grow stronger … and they’ve got minorities and peace activists in their sights.
  43. Lockdown London
    The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.
  44. The Lockdown Society Goes Primetime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Michael Schwalbe ponders the influence on society of incorporating authoritarian jargon into everyday use, with specific reference to the use of 'Lock down' normalizing the concept of restrictions on movement in non-prison situations.
  45. The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
  46. Meeting the Challenge of the Right
    Introduction to the October 9, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    When we talk about the Right, it is well to keep in mind that "the Right" is by no means a unified political force or organization, but rather a label used to describe a disparate collection of ideologies, parties, groups, and individuals.
  47. Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area.
  48. Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence
    In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America's spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s mother of all leaks -- which began in June and clearly won’t stop for months to come -- has taught us anything, however, it should be this: omniscience is not omnipotence. At least on the global political scene today, they may bear remarkably little relation to each other. In fact, at the moment Washington seems to be operating in a world in which the more you know about the secret lives of others, the less powerful you turn out to be.
  49. Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
  50. The National Security State Cops a Feel
    Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
  51. New anti-terrorism law takes Egypt into Orwellian territory
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders condemns a ban on media reports that conflict with official accounts of armed attacks and operations by Jihadi militants. The ban is part of an anti-terrorism law that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified yesterday
  52. The New Police Surveillance State
    The Rising Price of Political Assembly
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Police are increasingly being deployed to restrict if not prevent mass political actions, especially directed at the banks.
  53. The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy
    Snowden's Latest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Whistle-blower Edward Snowden prove that the NSA, working with its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters has conducted an intentional and largely sucessful campaign to destroy all privacy on the Internet.
  54. NSA's Path to Totalitarianism
    Ever-Shrinking Democracy in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The American National Security Agency (NSA) appears as a “rogue” organization, extremism in the putative service of liberty. Or better, call it, stripped of all cosmetics, the unerring mark of a Police State, itself become identical with Fortress America, the National-Security State.
  55. Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  56. Obama signs police state legislation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
  57. Obama's Liberty Problem
    Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
  58. Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Novels may be the best medium for describing a distopian world in which everyone is under constant surveillance.
  59. The Other Police State
    Private Cops vs. the Public Good
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
  60. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
    Refugees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
  61. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
    Ukraine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
  62. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
    Organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    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 toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
  63. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
    Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
  64. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
    Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
  65. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
    Greece and thd debt crisis
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
  66. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
    Meeting the Challenge of the Right
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
  67. Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
    Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
  68. Police Militarism in America
    In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    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 up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
  69. Police State India
    Robert Clive and the Forbidden
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Describing security-mania in India.
  70. The Police State is Real
    It Has Happened Here
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
  71. Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
  72. Preparing for a Digital 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First, there were the "Olympic Games," then the Stuxnet virus, then Flame, and now it turns out that other sophisticated malware programs have evidently followed.
  73. Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
  74. Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
  75. Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  76. The Smile of Policeman Agadi
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
  77. Snowden leak: MI5 has gathered so much data it may actually be missing 'life-saving intelligence'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    British spies may have missed potentially "life-saving intelligence" because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed, a leaked classified report reveals. The document, given to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was sent to top British government officials, outlining methods being developed by the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, to covertly monitor internet communications.
  78. Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    There is plenty to be said about living under a giant system of government surveillance. Just don't expect the corporate media to explore the full extent of what it really all means.
  79. Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    This report is an effort to document something about corporate espionage against nonprofit organizations. Law enforcement should prioritize investigating and prosecuting corporate espionage against nonprofits.
  80. Spying by the Numbers
    Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
  81. Spying on Democracy
    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself.
  82. The Stasi could only dream of such data
    Britain, the birthplace of liberalism, has become the database state
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    As technology increases the flow of stored data about individual actions, assurances of the "right to informational self-determination" must be hard won from governments. Government surveillance of citizens has become an accepted 'counter-terrorism' measure.
  83. Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Control Over Blacks and Latinos
    Hobbes on Trial in New York City
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Nicholas Peart is one of the plaintiffs in the federal class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department’s policy of stop-and-frisk, where officers use their power to roam the streets and stop, search and question people they believe may be connected to crime. Their allegation is that the application of this method is racially biased and unconstitutional.
  84. Surveillance USA
    NSA and the PRISM Project
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The government is merrily going about its business of keeping tabs on you in virtually every conceivable way.
  85. Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. Here are thirteen examples of how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people.
  86. 12 most absurd laws used to stifle occupy movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.
  87. Unlawful Dissent
    New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
  88. Unmasking the Five-Eyed monster, a global and secret intelligence-sharing regime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Privacy International is proud to announce our new project, Eyes Wide Open, which aims to pry open the Five Eyes arrangement and bring it under the rule of law.
  89. War Against the People
    Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
  90. War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
    Free Press and the National Security State
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2013
    During his election campaigns, Barak Obama promised the most transparent administration in U.S. history. Cynics can rejoice in the fact that the Obama administration has indicted more people for violating government secrecy than all previous administrations combined. This is the story of four whistleblowers who who traded their careers and life normalcy for slander, danger, legal prosecution and an opportunity to expose the crimes of the US government.
  91. The Watchers
    The Rise of America's Surveillance State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    An exploration of how and why the American government increasingly spies on its own citizens.
  92. Whose Streets? Their Streets
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    If people don’t believe that the police in America are the greatest threat to civil society then they've been asleep for years, and comatose just this week. Or they're white, privileged and/or accepting of brutality against their own fellow citizens.
  93. Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
    The Anti-Empire Report
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  94. Will the government's counter-extremist programme criminalise dissent?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies - from nursery schools to optometrists - will be legally obliged to participate in the U.S. government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Under the fast-tracked Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, schools, universities and health service providers can no longer opt out of monitoring students and patients for supposed radicalised behaviour.
  95. With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
  96. You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.

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