Feb 25, 2015 | 2020 Relevant, Abuses of Power, News
For years, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side operated as something civil liberties attorneys would come to describe as the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. Known as Homan Square, the facility housed special police units that, according to...
Dec 9, 2014 | Anonymous, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
The PayPal 14 are a group of defendants allegedly connected with the hacktivist group Anonymous, thirteen of whom pled guilty in a San Jose court in California, United States in December 2013, to charges of conspiring to disrupt access to the PayPal payment...
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Norman Finkelstein Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political scientist, activist, professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.Norman Gary Finkelstein is an American political...
Dec 9, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Taboo Terminology
The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers...
Oct 18, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Activism, News
Across the United States, organized groups of citizens have taken to filming police officers on duty as a form of community accountability. Operating under names like CopWatch, Cop Block, and the Peaceful Streets Project, these decentralized organizations use police...
Jun 21, 2013 | DCMX Radio
Show Recap On the June 21, 2013 broadcast of Decrypted Matrix Radio, Max covered a wide-ranging slate of stories, from the controversial awarding of the World Food Prize to a Monsanto executive, to UFO-like drones surveilling protesters in Brazil, the emerging...
Nov 8, 2012 | Activism, Survivalism
The DHS Push to Transform Local Police Into Intelligence Arms In early 2012, the Department of Homeland Security delivered testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence titled “Homeland Security and Intelligence: Next Steps in Evolving the...
Nov 1, 2012 | Globalist Corporations
It is known that for at least two years Monsanto, the company that specialises in genetically modified organisms, contracted Blackwater (later renamed Xe, then Academi) to spy upon anti-GM protesters (see below for details), though what Monsanto do not like is when...
Oct 31, 2012 | Anonymous
23 July 2012 – Statement from Jeremy Hammond, alleged Anonymous hacker – read in Foley Square, NYC Thanks for everybody coming out in support! It is so good to know folks on the street got my back. Special thanks to those who have been sending books and...
Oct 13, 2012 | Video
http://youtu.be/xH8T8zaJjhU Information about tactics can be derived from accounts of battles, but the very military manuals known to have existed and to have been used extensively by commanders, have not survived. Perhaps the greatest loss is the book of Sextus...
Oct 3, 2012 | Satire
Tupac Shakur, Bob Dylan, Lucille Ball, Jimmy Hendrix, Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Malcom X, Janice Joplin, Marylin Monroe, Martin Luther King
Oct 2, 2012 | Activism, News, WAR: By Design
Everyday Actions That Could Flag You as a Suspected Terrorist Since the September 11 attacks, a staggering number of anti-terrorism statutes have been enacted across the United States. The sheer volume of these laws makes it nearly impossible for ordinary citizens to...
Oct 2, 2012 | Activism, Video
This is the official video for Lowkey’s single Tears to Laughter which has been supported by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Viva Palestine and others. The song has been a huge hit amongst supporters of the Palestinian cause and Lowkey has...
Sep 28, 2012 | News
Hungary Takes on Monsanto and the GMO Industry In 2011, Hungary became one of the few countries in the world to take aggressive action against genetically modified crops by destroying nearly 1,000 acres of maize that had been planted with GMO seeds. The move was part...
Sep 28, 2012 | Activism
I will not idly stand by while law enforcement is administered only to the poor and disenfranchised while the rich flaunt their immunity. – Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain, Arrested at Occupy Wallstreet Protest, NYC
Sep 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Secret Service Relocated Student Protesters Away From Biden Event During a 2012 visit by Vice President Joe Biden to Wright State University in Ohio, Secret Service agents directed a group of protesting students to move away from the event area not once but twice,...
Sep 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda, Video
While we in the civil liberties community disagree strongly with private investigator Steven Rambam’s admonition to “Get Over It,” after listening to him describe electronic surveillance powers it’s hard to disagree with the first part of the...
Sep 13, 2012 | Anonymous, News, Video
In September 2012, journalist and activist Barrett Brown was arrested by the FBI during a live online video chat, creating a dramatic scene that was captured in real time by other participants in the session. The raid marked the second time that year that Brown had...
Sep 5, 2012 | Anonymous, Video
You can Make a Difference. Everyone Has An Opportunity To Affect Change During this Crucial Time on Earth. ...
Aug 23, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Secret Database Used to Screen Out Union Members and Activists More than 3,200 workers in the United Kingdom were placed on a covert blacklist maintained by an organization called The Consulting Association. The database, which was used by over 40 leading employers to...
Aug 16, 2012 | Anonymous
For years Anonymous worked hard to protect our world and its peoples. NOW LISTEN CAREFULLY, This is an ALERT ABOUT SURVEILLANCE. Privacy of the people all over the world is suffering more and more outrages. We should not tolerate it. Cameras are everywhere even in our...
Aug 14, 2012 | Activism, News
Assange Sought Asylum After Exhausting Legal Options in the UK In the summer of 2012, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested political asylum from Ecuador after the British Supreme Court declined to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden. Swedish...
May 23, 2012 | Government Agenda
The May Day Bridge Plot: FBI Arrests Five Self-Described Anarchists On April 30, 2012, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested five individuals in Ohio on charges of conspiring to destroy a bridge near Cleveland. The arrests of Douglas L. Wright (age 26), Brandon...
May 23, 2012 | Activism, Globalist Corporations
Polish Beekeepers March on Warsaw With Dead Bees On March 15, 2012, more than 1,500 beekeepers and anti-GMO activists marched through the streets of Warsaw, Poland, culminating in the dramatic act of depositing thousands of dead bees on the steps of the Ministry of...
Jan 27, 2012 | Activism, Video
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