Immigration advocate to be charged with human trafficking

From the Joe Callahan defense committee:

DHS’ license plate tracker program quietly expands nationwide

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Return of the ‘underwear bomb’: why are they telling us this?

How did you react to the news that the “CIA reportedly thwarted new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot”?  

Say NO to SCOMM: Friday 11 May, JFK Plaza, Boston

So-called "Secure Communities" is just the opposite. It is a dragnet intelligence gathering scheme that will unfairly discriminate against Latino immigrants, make police work harder and cities more dangerous, and destroy families.

Letter from an Oakland activist

The following was posted on the website Building Liberty this morning. This grand jury subpoena comes in the context of an expanding FBI war on the green and animal rights movements in the United States. For context, see Green is the New Red.

How “Secure Communities” makes us all insecure

The Massachusetts version of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has something to celebrate. 

Spooks conference comes to Massachusetts

“The goal is to get people thinking beyond the simple stuff,’’ said Mark Menz, a computer forensics specialist who will be leading a session on Internet investigations. “Many people will check a suspect’s Internet history, for example, but it’s important to know that with a warrant you can also look at the logs of the Web servers that the suspect was visiting.’’

“Why didn’t black people Just Say No, then?”

Ending the war on drugs would not only alleviate over incarceration, it would also slow the rapid expansion of the surveillance state. 

Listen to Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, break it down.

Surveillance metropolis: NYC’s ‘Ring of Steel’

Twitter strikes back in favor of user privacy!

Three cheers for Twitter's legal team!

The social networking company has filed a memorandum in support of Malcolm Harris' motion to quash a NYC district attorney's subpoena for his account information, marking what appears to be the first time a large third party content holder like Twitter has fought an administrative subpoena on behalf of a user.