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In the Mercenaries’ Own Words: Documents Detail TigerSwan Infiltration of Standing Rock

Excerpt from The Intercept | Read the full article at here. The weekend before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, a secret private security initiative called “Operation Baratheon” was scheduled to begin. A PowerPoint presentation laid out the plan…

Protesters Were Supposed To Hear Warnings Before Federal Police Moved In. They Didn’t

PCJF’s Mara Verheyden-Hilliard spoke with NPR’s Morning Edition about the police clearing of Lafayette Park. As heard on NPR’s Morning Editionwith Dina Temple-RastonSept. 11, 2020 Federal police officers who cleared a crowded park near the White House with smoke and tear gas…

Long-Awaited Win for Water Protectors

Standing Rock civil rights class action against Morton County Sheriffs moves forward after four years.

Lafayette Square Was Just the Beginning: Trump and Barr Turn to the “Occupy Model” to Crush Protests Against Police Brutality

The Nation Magazine turns to Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on how the current administration is using the “Occupy Model” to in efforts to crush the burgeoning racial justice movement.

States Have Put 54 New Restrictions on Peaceful Protests Since Ferguson

“When you have mass movements and a lot of people in the street, you see false arrests and heavy-duty charge stacking to get people to plead to lesser charges. ... These laws are a gift to that type of prosecution,” said Verheyden-Hilliard.

Wash Post: U.S. Park Police Standards Imposed Through Litigation Violated by Lafayette Park Assault

Excerpt from The Washington Post | Read the full article here. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard said that if the police offensive was, as it appeared, an effort to clear a path for Trump, “presidential security does not give a pretext for wholesale…

BREAKING – PCJF: Civil Rights Groups to Announce Federal Free Speech Lawsuit Against Georgia’s Unconstitutional ‘Israel Boycott’ Law

PCJF and CAIR plan to sue the University System of Georgia in federal court over a state law restricting First Amendment activity.

Washington Post Editorial: A victory for free speech on the Mall

The National Park Service has withdrawn a proposal that would have imposed onerous restrictions on protests on the Mall and other federal land in Washington.

Trump Administration Rescinds Planned Anti-Protest Rules

The Trump Administration is fully withdrawing its massive anti-democratic plan to block free speech and assembly through proposed regulations that would have crushed protest on federal land in the nation's capital.

Human Rights Legal Organizations Demand Immediate End to U.S. Violations of Law and Siege at Venezuelan Embassy

International and domestic human rights legal organizations issued a letter to the government demanding an immediate cessation of the violations of human rights against peace activists in the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Defending American peace and anti-war activists staying inside the Venezuelan Embassy in D.C. to protect it from illegal seizure

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has been defending the rights of the Embassy Protection Collective made up of U.S. peace and anti-war activists inside the Venezuelan Embassy.

PCJF Demands Police Stop Facilitating Mob Violence at Venezuelan Embassy

Right-wing mobs have been assailing the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the people inside and outside the Embassy who are part of the Embassy Protection Collective.