January 2012
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This Is Why We Protest: Department of Homeland... →
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EPIC’s FOIA lawsuit forced the DHS to disclose 285 pages of records. The documents include contracts, price estimates, Privacy Impact Assessment, and communications concerning DHS Media Monitoring program. These records make public, for the first time, details of the DHS’s efforts to spy on social network users and journalists.
The records reveal that the...
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This Is Why We Protest: How Private Prisons Game... →
Click on title for link. Infuriating how the Republicans keep insisting that “free market capitalism” is a “survival of the fittest” - and yet continually resort to subsidies, bailouts, and lobbying for public policy changes to bolster businesses or sectors that would otherwise be failing.
The worst part of taking this approach to private prisons is that, by creating a...
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This is Why We Protest: "Some reflections on my... →
[reposted from the blog of Matt Bieber, a graduate student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, who received criminal charges of trespassing for merely attending a Romney event]
On Friday, January 6, I took a bus from my home in Boston to Manchester, NH. I was planning to attend a few Republican primary events, write a few posts for this blog, maybe cross-post them on HuffPo, and...
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U.N. Envoy criticizes United States for not... →
WASHINGTON — December 2, 2011 — The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to know why federal officials are not protecting the rights of Occupy demonstrators whose protests are being disbanded — sometimes violently — by local authorities.
Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. “special...
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This Is Why We Protest: Chilling first-person... →
Albuquerque International Sunport Security Checkpoint:
I pass a camera crew filming the ticket counter. I stop and consider telling them what I am about to do, but decide against it. They probably won’t care. Instead, I wheel my baggage to the security area.
I can feel my heart beat in my chest. I’ve never done anything like this. I’ve always said “Yes sir,” even when I...
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This is why we protest: Chase Bank, in a class... →
Links to PDF of the class action lawsuit and related press by clicking on the title of this post.
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This is why we protest: Utica Cops Caught Planting... →
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Eric Cantor spanked on 60 Minutes while trying to... →
ouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor set out to “humanize” his image by doing a 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl that aired on New Years Day. This is how Stahl explains the context of the interview, “President Obama has made Eric Cantor the face of Republican inflexibility.”
Although it did not go entirely as planned, it’s clear what Cantor and his press team...