Privacy Matters

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On April 27, 2013, the ACLU of Massachusetts co-hosted an event at Harvard about Jeremy Scahill's new book and film 'Dirty Wars'. Professor Noam Chomsky and independent journalist Amy Goodman joined Scahill after his talk to have a discussion about the book and the broader political and historical context. You can see Scahill's talk and the subsequent conversation below.

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Note: The video embedded above comes from a 2009 press conference organized to support Koch's grand jury resistance.

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In early April 2013, the Obama administration announced an ambitious plan to "map the human brain." Most media reports focused on the incredibly exciting, possible medical advancements that could result from the funding. But buried or ignored in many of the stories was a hugely important detail: exactly half of the funding will come from the Department of Defense’s far out research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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According to the person who uploaded this video to YouTube, the clip shows Cotati, California police officers busting down the door at a home and then tasing the person filming.