Brookfield E-Mailed Feds 48 Hours Before Eviction Of Zuccotti
Reprinted from The Gothamist According to 77 pages of documents released by the U.S. Park Police in response to a FOIA request, the owner of Zuccotti…
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Jai Shankar, D.C. Man In Deportation Case, Is Free —For Now
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…
5 Freedom-Killing Tactics Police Will Use to Crack Down on Protests in 2012
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…
DC judge orders police to release policy documents in ruling that chastises department
Reprinted from Associated Press WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia judge has ordered the release of documents related to police policies in a blistering ruling…
PCJF Opposes Blatantly Unconstitutional Anti-Protest Law
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…
Organization Accuses D.C. of Hyping Occupy-Related Costs
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…
Occupy Wall Street Monitored By U.S. Conference Of Mayors, Emails Show
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…
Michael Moore Joins PCJF in OWS FOIA Effort Seeking Records on Occupy Crackdown
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…
Documents Reveal DC Mayor Gray, U.S. Conference of Mayors Dramatizing and Inflating Cost of Occupy DC to the District
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…
Documents Reveal DC Mayor Gray, U.S. Conference of Mayors Dramatizing and Inflating Cost of Occupy DC to the District
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…
Control of the Mall’s Union Square changes hands
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,…
Nonprofit Wants to Know if CIA Is Responsible for Evicting Occupy Camps
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…