Washington Post: Advocates go to court in fight to protect protest space outside Trump hotel
“This is the public space. Donald Trump cannot own the sidewalks, he cannot own the street.”
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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The Right to Protest at the Inauguration: Against the Privatization of Pennsylvania Avenue
PCJF established that the National Park Service (NPS) violated its own regulations in order to give preferential treatment to the government-approved group, the private Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC), and that it engaged in illegal discrimination by excluding those whose views do not conform to the administration.
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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
The Brutal Arrest and Political Targeting of Ray McGovern
After his brutal arrest at a Hillary Clinton speech, the State Dept. put him on a list to be stopped and questioned on sight, citing his political activism.
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Video: major legal victory can be model for reforms in police departments around the country [CBS/WUSA-9]
Watch and Share: the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund's recent $2.2 million settlement with the federal government has national implications because it reforms police handling of protests.
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