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Tag Archives: defending dissent
Big Brother is Watching (Your Tweets)
While attention has been paid to the military-grade equipment that finds its way to local police departments, less emphasis has been placed on examining how police are constantly monitoring (and storing) information they find on social media. Police across the … Continue reading
Van Hollen, Raskin, Flowers, twenty other MD candidates respond to MCCRC/Peace Action questionnaire
Twenty three candidates for Senate and 3d, 6th, and 8th Congressional District Representative seats have responded to a 13 part questionnaire circulated by MCCRC and Peace Action Montgomery. The questionnaire and links to election pages and candidate questionnaire pages can … Continue reading
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MCCRC joins “Activism is not Terrorism” national letter urging investigation of FBI
MCCRC is among over 60 civil rights and civil liberties groups co-signing a letter to Congress expressing concern over revelations of FBI and DHS surveillance of nonviolent protest groups and movements, and calling on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees … Continue reading
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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) (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 note that law enforcement agencies have also taken it on … 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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