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Audio: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard discusses DHS spying documents

April 4, 2013

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard discusses documents newly obtained by the PCJF on the extent of DHS spying on Occupy Wall Street and other protest activities.

Democracy Now: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on FBI's Secret Surveillance of Occupy

December 28, 2012

PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard joins Amy Goodman and Juan González to discuss the FBI documents just obtained by the PCJF via FOIA demands revealing that the FBI treated the Occupy movement from its inception as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did “not condone the use of violence” at occupy protests.

Surveillance Nation: The Experts Face Off. Hear Carl Messineo

December 13, 2012

Carl Messineo, Legal Director of the PCJF, debates the expansion of state surveillance on "Richard French Live," alongside Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild; Jethro Eisenstein, Attorney; and Clark Pena, spokesman of Security USA.

PCJF on Metro Watch News

December 3, 2012

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on the legal case of the Cuban Five

November 15, 2012

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund which has been instrumental in filing FOIA lawsuits to uncover information about secret government payments to Miami journalists at the time of the trial of the Cuban Five, speaking at a meeting in support of the Cuban Five at Howard University School of Law sponsored by Howard and the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Nov. 13, 2012.

WBAI Evening News, PCJF Discusses New Lawsuit Against NYPD, Criminalizing Dissent

September 20, 2012

Big Brother America, WBAI News Interview with Carl Messineo

August 15, 2012

Court Victory, WBAI News Interview with Mara Verheyden-Hilliard

June 8, 2012

Homeland Security spies on the Occupy movement

May 16, 2012

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director for the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, joins RT America to analyze what DHS hopes to uncover.

DHS Monitoring Occupy Movment, WBAI News Interview with Mara Verheyden-Hilliard

May 15, 2012