Reprinted from Huffington Post WASHINGTON— Jai Shankar is no longer wearing the ankle bracelet that had been tracking his every move since 2010. Shankar was ordered to wear the bracelet after he did a good deed in 2009: He reported a crime to…
Many cities and police forces are eyeing new ways to crack down on protesters Reprinted from AlterNet The First Amendment right to assemble and protest is going to get a black eye in 2012—as it has every time there has…
Reprinted from Associated Press WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia judge has ordered the release of documents related to police policies in a blistering ruling that accused the department of making “transparently false” statements in an effort to keep the…
Executive Director to Testify at D.C. Council Hearing Today Opposing Bill 19-645: Criminal Code Amendments Act of 2012 that targets demonstrators and the Occupy movement in Washington, D.C., Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is…
Reprinted from DCist The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, a civil-rights watchdog group, released yesterday a set of emails from District officials that it claims as proof that Mayor Vince Gray’s administration is “[inflating] the cost of the Occupy movement.” Several of…
Reprinted from Huffington Post WASHINGTON— After denying that they are coordinating responses to Occupy Wall Street, the U.S. Conference of Mayors recently surveyed city administrations across the country about the movement. In late November, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information…
Demands Seek Disclosure of Federal and Local Coordination The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) announced today that it is being joined by award-winning filmmaker and author Michael Moore in the Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA) demands to federal…
Revelations Come in Wake of DC Officials Testimony at Rep. Issa’s Hearings As the Mayor of the District of Columbia came to the aid of Tea Party favorite Congressman Darrell Issa at his political hearing today designed to demonize the…
Costs rise from $21,000 to $1.6 million in 15 days As the Mayor of the District of Columbia came to the aid of Tea Party favorite Congressman Darrell Issa at his political hearing today designed to demonize the Occupy movement,…
Reprinted from Washington Post Union Square, the photogenic parcel of the Mall that the National Park Service had envisioned as a First Amendment demonstration space, is quietly being transferred to the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol. Control of…
Reprinted from SF Weekly That’s been the rumor circulated among groups of Occupiers who were rousted from their encampments over the last month — from New York to San Francisco — as they protested Wall Street and its big banks. The Partnership for…
Reprinted from Huffington Post WASHINGTON — 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…