Search Results for ‘dissent’ — 171 articles
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When President Obama speaks on surveillance tomorrow, remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Tomorrow, President Barack Obama will address the nation on the NSA/FBI dragnet surveillance programs, which were revealed by former Booz Allen contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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How Boston’s new mayor can make our city safer and more free
Image: MartyWalsh.org
This morning the City of Boston got a new mayor. We at the ACLU of Massachusetts congratulate Mayor Marty Walsh, and respectfully offer a few ideas about how he can make this already great city even better, particularly regarding relations between the police and the people.
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Surveillance state trickle down and the urgency of now: we must support the USA Freedom Act
NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly plays war games at the Navy College
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Activist protesting police militarization exercise says police used surveillance footage to get him fired
UPDATE here.
According to an activist in Oakland, California, police officers produced surveillance footage of his participation in a political demonstration last week to his employers, prompting his firing. The activist, who goes by @Anon4Justice on Twitter, tweeted the following this morning:
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Boston Police Department releases social media monitoring policy, sort of
Muckrock's Michael Morisy requested a copy of the Boston Police Department Intelligence Unit's social media monitoring policy. In response, he got this uninformative and vague, one page document.
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Surveillance, security, and secret evidence: “Working it Backwards to Make it Clean”
This guest post was written by ACLU of Massachusetts legal fellow Nashwa Gewaily
In the name of security, the police state justifies its arbitrary oppressions on evidence that is secret, because security might be prejudiced if it were brought to light in hearings.
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