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Video: Audience Q&A at Defending Dissent forum
(Part I) (Part II) The presentations by Kit Bonson, Saqib Ali, Max Obuszewski, and Sue Udry were followed by a series of questions from the audience, among them: What will the public do when these kinds of abuses are claimed? … Continue reading
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Video: Sue Udry (Defending Dissent Foundation) speaks at Defending Dissent forum
(Part I) Slideshow – click image to follow presentation: (Part II) Ms. Udry led off by discussing examples of environmental dissent chilled or disproportionately punished by laws, law enforcement, and the judicial system. She went on to notethat law enforcement … Continue reading
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Video: Max Obuszewski (Baltimore Nonviolence Center) speaks at Defending Dissent forum
Max Obuszewski recalled how he learned in 2008 that there were Maryland State Police files on him, via discovery by the ACLU of Maryland and a pro bono legal firm: …when I got back to Baltimore there was a message … Continue reading
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Video: Saqib Ali (CAIR-MD) speaks at Defending Dissent forum
Former Maryland Assembly Delegate Saqib Ali (now government affairs director of CAIR-MD) addressed the audience about the civil liberties challenges faced by American Muslims. He shared some of the questionable work products of the “Demographics Unit” of the NYPD’s Intelligence … Continue reading
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Video: Kit Bonson introduces Defending Dissent forum
Kit Bonson introduced the evening’s speakers Saqib Ali, Max Obuszewski, and Sue Udry, and then introduced the forum by noting that the issue of “defending dissent” is what sparked the formation of our group: The Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition … Continue reading
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Activists survey challenges to dissent at Wheaton forum, propose Rapid Response Network
If you’re one of those Americans with a belief or an opinion, you’re at risk these days. That was the take home message from an excellent panel of activists at Thursday night’s “Defending Dissent: A Public Forum” event at Wheaton … Continue reading
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This week: Defending Dissent — A Public Forum (Thursday 7pm at Wheaton Library)
Political Repression & Civil Liberties post 9/11 What effect has the “The War on Terror” had on free expression and grassroots political organizing in Maryland and across the United States since 9/11? Come to a public forum sponsored by Montgomery … Continue reading
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Thank you! to our new allies against the NDAA
We want to thank the leadership and members of each of these organizations for agreeing to join our coalition letter in support of HB558, the “Maryland Liberty Preservation Act.” We didn’t succeed this time — wait till next year! American … Continue reading
Anti-NDAA bill HB558 with ACLU support falls to party-line Democrat vote
The “Maryland Liberty Preservation Act of 2013” (HB558) has failed to pass a vote of the Maryland Health and Government Operations Committee. The bill would have prohibited “an agency of the State, a county of the State, an employee of … Continue reading
MD financial consumer privacy bill supported – meanwhile, do it yourself!
A week ago I was in Annapolis to testify on behalf of a simple bill that’s so good it’s already helped me — and it’s not even a law yet. That’s because “even” people like myself, Mr. So-Called Privacy Advocate, … Continue reading →