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Arkansas Town Enacts Martial Law, ID Checks Of Everyone In Public
The mayor explains that normal constitutional protections don’t apply, because, due to the high rate of property crime, anyone walking outdoors in his city is a criminal suspect. Via Russia Today: In...
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NYPD’s Staggering Stop-and-Frisk Stats
After much concern from nonprofit groups like the NY Civil Liberties Union (and public outcry), the NYPD has finally released the numbers of their precinct and racial demographics of all the 2011...
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Virginia City Is First To Pass Anti-Drone Legislation
Three years from now, will we be trusting urban police forces to use drones equipped with “Tasers and tear gas”? The Los Angeles Times reports: Charlottesville, Va., home to the University of Virginia,...
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Bigfoot DNA Hunters Push For Yeti Rights
Via Discovery News, a social movement is born: A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic...
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A Cheat Sheet For Dealing With Police
Via the Police the Police (A Community Project), a quick but invaluable guide to proper response in various police-related situations. There is no guarantee, of course, as to how officers will react to...
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California “Right to Know” Act Would Reveal What Companies Have Your Personal...
It’s time that Americans had data rights. The Electronic Frontier Foundation explains an initiative being introduced by Los Angeles-area Democratic representative Bonnie Lowenthal with support from the...
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ACLU Uncovers Illegal Debtors’ Prisons Across Ohio
Despite being blatantly unconstitutional, citizens are commonly being jailed for their inability to pay tickets and fines, wreaking havoc on people’s lives (and costing the state far greater sums than...
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China Releases Its 2012 Report On Human Rights In The United States
It may be a bit ludicrous for the Chinese government to criticize other nations over human rights, but that doesn’t mean that their observations are wrong. Via China Daily, excerpts from the State...
View ArticleWhy You Should Never Speak To The FBI Without A Lawyer Present
From the ACLU of Massachusetts comes words of wisdom from civil rights lawyer Harvey Silverglate, who explains quickly and clearly why activists (or anyone else) should never have a conversation with...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Portion Of Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court giveth some rights, and taketh others away. The Los Angeles Times reports: A sharply divided Supreme Court has struck down a key part of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965,...
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Republicans Now Seeking To Prevent Women From Voting
It’s no longer just about minorities, the poor, and college students; introducing the next target for disenfranchisement. The New Civil Rights Movement notes that Republicans in Texas (and a number of...
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The Next Civil Rights Issue: Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet
“The Troll King and the Princess” (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (PD) The internet can be a damn caustic place, especially for women. From disgusting comments, to threats, stalking and more. via Pacific...
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Far Above Cayuga’s Waters: Cornell Reprises Race At The Big Reunion Weekend
Ithaca, New York: How can you be in the past and present at the same time? Go to your college reunion. I did, this past weekend, up on the forever beautiful and very green Cornell campus in Ithaca, New...
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Government Agents ‘Directly Involved’ in Most High-Profile US Terror Plots
We’re shocked, just plain shocked, that the FBI and other US law enforcement agencies “targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism ‘sting operations’ based on religious and ethnic identity,”...
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The Woman Who Tried To Murder Dr. King
William Bastone, Andrew Goldberg, and Joseph Jesselli write at The Smoking Gun: On the eighth floor of a nursing home in Queens, New York, a 98-year-old woman sits slumped in a wheelchair in the...
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Want to Record The Cops? Know Your Rights
There are some very disturbing videos circulating the Internet right now, depicting the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of trained, armed men. Many of these videos even show individuals being...
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Emory Douglas: The Art of The Black Panthers
Emory Douglas: The Art of The Black Panthers from Dress Code on Vimeo. Emory Douglas was the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party. Through archival footage and...
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Cleveland Judge Recommends Charges for Police Who Killed Tamir Rice
“Tamir Rice family photo” by Source (WP:NFCC#4). Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. This post was originally published on Common Dreams. Read more of Deirdre Fulton’s posts here. A judge in...
View ArticleACLU Uncovers Illegal Debtors’ Prisons Across Ohio
Despite being blatantly unconstitutional, citizens are commonly being jailed for their inability to pay tickets and fines, wreaking havoc on people’s lives (and costing the state far greater sums than...
View ArticleChina Releases Its 2012 Report On Human Rights In The United States
It may be a bit ludicrous for the Chinese government to criticize other nations over human rights, but that doesn’t mean that their observations are wrong. Via China Daily, excerpts from the... The...
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