Liberties
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Ramsey Orta Can’t Breathe By Josmar Trujillo
When we went to a New York state prison to visit Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed a police officer choking Eric Garner to death on a Staten Island sidewalk in 2014, we didn’t even make it past the metal detectors. When we arrived at Fishkill, we put our belongings into a locker and… Continue reading
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Ramsey Orta Can't Breathe By Josmar Trujillo
When we went to a New York state prison to visit Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed a police officer choking Eric Garner to death on a Staten Island sidewalk in 2014, we didn’t even make it past the metal detectors. When we arrived at Fishkill, we put our belongings into a locker and… Continue reading
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Stop Internet Censorship! KIll the Link Tax! Make the Call to your MEP Now!
Next week, MEPs on the European Parliament’s powerful Civil Liberties committee will vote on whether to approve the Link Tax and mass content filtering. With your help we’ve been relentlessly fighting to put a stop to this disastrous duo of copyright policy, and this is what all that pressure and hard work comes down to. Continue reading
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Seni’s Law – please share the campaign
This should never have happened. 23-year-old Seni Lewis died in a mental health hospital after being held down by 11 police officers whilst seeking help for his mental health. His death was ruled the result of excessive force, and too often, too much force is used on vulnerable people who are struggling. Continue reading
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Britain to Criminalize Reading Online Extremist Content By Stephen Lendman
The latest civil rights abuse came from hardline home secretary Amber Rudd. She’s spearheading a Tory effort to criminalize readership of so-called extremist content online – punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Continue reading
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The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges By David North
6 October 2017 — WSWS On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former New York Times correspondent. Among Hedges’ best-known books are War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, The Death of the Liberal Class, Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy… Continue reading
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Update: David North responds to NYT article on Google blacklisting; Indian workers oppose censorship
“The WSWS’ exposure of Google’s attack on democratic rights is being widely followed and is having a substantial impact. The article that appeared in the Times was in preparation for a month. Its own research confirmed that traffic to the WSWS has fallen dramatically. When asked by the Times to answer our allegations, Google chose… Continue reading
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48 hours to stop the US govt from spying on its visitors!
This is urgent: There’s less than 48 hours until the U.S. State Department closes public feedback on whether they should be gathering the social media history of people applying for U.S. visas. Under new rules, 65,000 people a year are being asked to provide every social media handle they used over the past five years… Continue reading
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Google is intensifying its censorship of left-wing web sites
The world’s biggest corporations like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are intensifying efforts to block internet users from accessing left-wing web sites like the World Socialist Web Site. Continue reading
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The New York Times sets out its brief for Internet censorship
In the US, the drive for Internet censorship has been spearheaded by the so-called “liberal” wing of the political establishment, concentrated in the Democratic Party, whose chief media organ is the New York Times. On the eve of the UN assembly, the Times published an unambiguous brief for censorship of the Internet in the form… Continue reading
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Sign to Protect Encryption!
Five powerful countries — the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States — have just recently agreed to combine their efforts to break the encryption that keeps our daily lives safe and private. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 19 September 2017 (11/17)
19 September 2017 — Statewatch.org/ Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/sep/email-19-9-17.pdf ANALYSES, BRIEFING & VIEWPOINT: http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm 1. EU: New report: Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex 2. Analysis: A Pyrrhic victory? The ECJ upholds the EU law on relocation of asylum-seekers Continue reading
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Video: UK Activist Risks Prison Challenging ‘Digital Strip-Search’
CAGE International Director Muhammad Rabbani is about to stand trial for refusing to give UK police the password to his laptop, which contained information about torture survivors. He’s using his case to challenge Britain’s anti-terrorism legislation, Schedule 7 (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Oppose the Great Repeal Bill!
7 September 2017 — 38 Degrees Theresa May wants new powers, so she can change UK laws behind closed doors after Brexit. [1] It’d mean swapping murky backroom deals in Brussels for more of the same in Westminster. Tomorrow her plan will be debated by our MPs for the first time. [2] Some of Theresa… Continue reading
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Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
New data compiled by the World Socialist Web Site, with the assistance of other Internet-based news outlets and search technology experts, proves that a massive loss of readership observed by socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites over the past three months has been caused by a cumulative 45 percent decrease in traffic from Google searches. Continue reading
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It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us By Bruce A. Dixon
Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost certainly including Black Agenda Report. In fact, Black Agenda Report is by all accounts the ONLY black owned, run and oriented left web site so targeted. Not Blavity. Not theRoot, which are not left and in the case of… Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin 30 June 2017
30 June 2017 — medConfidential So, we have a new Government (after a fashion). And, whatever else, there’s some continuity at the Department of Health… Given this continuity, the completely unambiguous Conservative Manifesto commitment, and cross-party support for the National Data Guardian, it was a bit disappointing that a statutory footing for NDG was absent… Continue reading
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