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…
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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…
U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn’t Protecting Occupy Protesters’ Rights
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…
Civil Rights Lawyers Move to Fight Occupy Evictions Nationwide
Lawyers say authorities are citing obscure codes as pretexts for crackdowns Reprinted from The Guardian | December 1, 2011 Civil rights lawyers are ramping up their…
Police Want to Stay Out of Occupy Story
Reprinted from The Washington Post The videos have been viewed millions of times: protesters on a California campus sidewalk being pepper-sprayed by police as they sit…
PCJF Responds to Police Threat to Sue Protestors
Reprinted from Huffington Post NEW YORK — A union representing 5,000 New York City Police Department sergeants blasted Occupy Wall Street protesters on Thursday and threatened…
Here are 159 minor things D.C. officers can arrest you for
Reprinted from The Washington Post An outtake from the recent controversy over expired-tag arrests: One of the reasons the District’s erstwhile policy was both objectionable and…