Monitoring Peaceful Demonstrations and Activists as a Matter of Policy Government documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) through its FOIA records requests reveal that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency created after the September…
The CIA will neither confirm nor deny whether it had knowledge of, or involvement in, a plot to poison or otherwise assassinate the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. In response to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by…
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even…
Totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent Reprinted from The Guardian It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at…
Reprinted from CNN New York (CNN) — The FBI extensively monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement around the United States, using counterterrorism agents and other resources, according to recently released FBI internal documents. The heavily redacted documents indicate that FBI counterterrorism agents…
Reprinted from The New York Times The Federal Bureau of Investigation used counterterrorism agents to investigate the Occupy Wall Street movement, including its communications and planning, according to newly disclosed agency records. The F.B.I. records show that as early as September…
Occupy Wall Street Edition Reprinted from New York Observer It turns out that all you crazy, post-hippy Occupy Wall Streeters were right: the government does not have your best interest at hearts. In fact, the FBI just released a heavily redacted…
Reprinted from Washington Post A federal judge on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional the District’s regulations for hanging political signs on lampposts. U.S. District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s ruling finds that the city’s rules governing how long signs can…
Reprint By Zoe Tillman, Legal Times Blog Criticizing the D.C. Office of the Attorney General’s “dilatory, wasteful action,” U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth published an opinion yesterday blasting city attorneys for violating a discovery order. According to the opinion, Lamberth…
Reprinted from The Final Call The one-year anniversary of the Occupy Movement came, went, and left a lawsuit in its wake. There were more than 180 arrests in mid-September as demonstrators took to streets in New York City in efforts to…
Reprinted from New York Times Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, the police commander sued in July for pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters, has been sued again. On Thursday, two people, who claim that their rights were violated when officers under Inspector…
PCJF Challenges Unlawful Police Tactics, Sidewalk Arrests, Orange Netting Corral The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) has filed a federal lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging the New York Police…