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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
Letter to Congress: Do Your Job and Curb Domestic Spying
It’s time for Congress to act! Over two dozen civil rights and civil liberties groups sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee asking for common sense reforms to curb improper spying on law-abiding Americans and to “enhance protections of … Continue reading
BORDC/DDF, MCCRC oppose announced anti-BDS legislation on 1st, 14th Amendment grounds, circulate open letter to MD General Assembly
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation (BORDC/DDF) and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition sent the letter below to all members of the Maryland General Assembly yesterday. It concerns reported plans by some of those members to legislate … Continue reading
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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States can boycott — but not to penalize protected rights
After the November 18th Montgomery County Legislative Priorities hearing in Rockville, one Freedom2Boycott speaker’s statement was met with a somewhat confused critique by “Seventh State” blogger David Lublin. Responding to Thomas Nephew’s call for “efforts to explicitly guarantee that political … 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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Legislative hearing — or legislator hectoring? Del. Kramer vs. Freedom2Boycott
Freedom2Boycott in Maryland has released excellent, point by point answers, by chairperson Alison Glick, to Maryland Delegate Ben Kramer’s questioning of Peace Action Montgomery’s Whit Athey at the November 18th “legislative priority hearing” in Rockville. As such, the statement serves … Continue reading →