Major Free Speech Court Victory in Brooklyn Bridge Occupy Mass Arrest Class Action
In a major victory for free speech rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling today denying the City of New York’s effort to dismiss the lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s mass false arrest of 700 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators on the Brooklyn Bridge in October 2011.
Interim Victory for Free Speech: Federal Court Rejects City's Motion to Dismiss First Amendment Lawsuit
Rev. Bruce Wright has filed a federal lawsuit against the city for its trespass ordinance which has prevented him from exercising his First Amendment rights in Williams Park.
The Government's Under-the-Radar Mass Surveillance Program
What if the executive branch's authorities were defined not by legislation nor the Constitution, but by opaque and loosely interpreted Executive Orders, the application of which were deemed "confidential?"
Justice Dept.'s disingenuous denial of spying on Muslim and Arab Americans
The statement issued today by the Justice Department and Director of National Intelligence in response to Glenn Greenwald's just-released story in The Intercept about NSA and FBI spying is disingenuous.
We have the momentum against mass surveillance, but we must take action
The legislation passed by the House shows that progress is possible. But it is not enough. We have to keep organizing, fighting and encouraging others to join this effort.
PCJF joins Reset the Net campaign for internet privacy
Reset the Net is a global movement to take our privacy back and secure the Internet to defend against mass government surveillance.
Fusion Centers Approached 2011 Black Friday Consumer Boycott Like a Terrorist Threat
The documents reveal that Fusion Centers and their personnel even conflate their anti-terrorism mission with a need for intelligence gathering on a possible consumer boycott during the holiday season.
National police chiefs collaborated with counter-terrorism Fusion Center targeting peaceful protest
The documents reveal that the police chiefs of major U.S. cities created an “Emerging Issues” Subcommittee and that “The first issue the committee is working is the Occupy Movement.”
Exposed: The Hidden Role of Fusion Centers in the Nationwide Spying Operation Against Occupy
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-funded Fusion Centers used their vast anti-terrorism and anti-crime authority and funding to conduct a sprawling, nationwide and hour-by-hour surveillance effort that targeted even the smallest activity of peaceful protestors in the Occupy Movement.
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern sues State Dept. for Putting Him on Watch List
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of former CIA analyst Ray McGovern challenging his brutal arrest at a speech by Hillary Clinton, and his subsequent placement on a State Dept. watch list.
