Baltimore’s covert spy plane program: a national crossroads for privacy and free speech
Using private funding, the Baltimore Police Department was able to use the dragnet surveillance technology off-the-books.
Washington Post: Will a traffic plan at Trump’s new D.C. hotel block free speech?
From Op-Ed columnist Colbert King: "The whole thing would be laughable, a real thigh-slapper, if the danger weren’t so real."
Lawsuits Filed Over Donald Trump's Privatization of Pennsylvania Avenue, “America’s Main Street”
Civil Rights Group Challenges Buffer Zone that Restricts Free Speech at New Trump International Hotel
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How the FBI greenlighted the crackdown on Black Lives Matter
Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, under the Obama administration, are continuing to fuel and encourage a repressive crackdown on peaceful demonstrators.
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Remembering people's lawyer Michael Ratner, 1943-2016
He devoted his entire life to fighting for radical change in America, as well as an internationalist supporting the struggles of people everywhere demanding liberation and justice.
Tell Congress: Activism is Not Terrorism — End federal law enforcement spying on social justice organizing
The PCJF's multi-year investigation has uncovered and exposed the covert efforts of the FBI and DHS-funded Fusion Centers, as well as other law enforcement and intelligence agencies' abuse and misuse of their "counter-terrorism" funding and authority to target peaceful social justice organizing.
Based on these revelations, a coalition of civil liberties groups is joining together to demand that the Judiciary Committee investigate, and put an end to, these unconstitutional attacks. The PCJF is initiating a grassroots letter-writing campaign for people across the country to call on Congress to impose restrictions to stop this assault on democracy in America.
Your voice needs to be heard in this debate!
Recipients
- Your Congressional representatives in the House and Senate
Exposed: ATF Spying on Occupy and 'Known Anarchists and Protestors' List
ATF and U.S. Marshals geared up to spy on Occupy a month before it began; list of 'Known Anarchists and Protestors' circulated
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Newly released emails on assault and ejection of veteran from Clinton speech
These documents were not turned over to the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund when it sought emails related to Mr. McGovern's arrest in the wake of the incident.
Listen Now: Is the United States a Police State?
On Loud and Clear radio: PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard joined Heidi Boghosian, director of the AJ Muste Institute, for a discussion of the ongoing attacks on civil liberties.
