The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"
A new portrait emerges of Snowden as a principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee at the NSA Hawaii Kunia facility, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.
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Boston PD's New Assault Rifles Raise Serious Questions About Paramilitarized Police
“Do we want police officers who are sent out into our streets to be trained as if — and equipped as if — the people they encounter on their patrols are enemy hostile targets, as if in a war?”
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Richmond Expands Battle for Eminent Domain To Save Homeowners From Foreclosure
The eminent domain plan—in which cities like Richmond will forcibly acquire mortgages at discounts, then help homeowners refinance into smaller and more affordable home loans—is gaining mainstream acceptance as a form of principal reduction.
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Why Is University of Pennsylvania Hosting Secret Meetings About Secret Surveillance?
Last month's conference here, entitled "On the Very Idea of Secret Laws," featured moderated discussions about secret courts, secret laws and America's rampaging surveillance apparatus—and was kept strangely, well, secret from the public.
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ACLU Report: Thousands Serving Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses
At least 3,728 prisoners in the United States will spend the rest of their lives in prison for nonviolent offenses, costing taxpayers $2 billion.
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Taking the Fight for Electronic Privacy to the Streets
On Oct. 26, a bipartisan coalition will stage the nation's biggest domestic protest against mass surveillance as thousands march on Capitol Hill to demand the right to private communication.
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Exposed: Smokers Banned From Government Employment In Florida County
The ACLU has cried foul, stating potential violations based on the 4th and possibly the 9th and 14th amendments, as Fagler County pushed ahead a law barring government workers from using any tobacco products.
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New Law Exiles Homeless People From South Carolina Capital
The Columbia City Council called an emergency meeting and passed a bill at 3:30am, now known as the “Emergency Homeless Response Plan,” which enables the forcible removal of homeless people from the city center.
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Wisconsin's Widening — And Misreported — Police Crackdown on Dissent
Since July 24, the Wisconsin Capitol Police have arrested over 150 people and issued more than 300 citations — all for participating in the two-year tradition of singing at the Capitol known as the Solidarity Sing Along.
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Exposed: NYPD Secretly Labels Mosques As Terror Groups and Spies on Them
Confidential police documents uncovered by the AP show at least a dozen terrorism investigations into mosques since 9/11, with the NYPD using informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
