8 October 2018 — Craig Murray
The draconian sentencing to jail of anti-fracking activists for non-violent direct action has received insufficient attention. It is a confident state that can undertake to bring back a level of repression not seen for decades – eight decades, in fact, since environmental activists received this kind of lengthy jail sentence, despite generations of tree climbing and road blocking.
15 November 2011 — PALESTINIAN FREEDOM RIDERS
For Immediate Release
Palestinians who boarded a segregated Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem were arrested for taking action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides
5 October 2011 — Center for Constitutional Rights
Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) with co-counsel Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York and Albert Goins in Minneapolis, celebrated a landmark settlement in Goodman v. St. Paul, a federal lawsuit brought by Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Nicole Salazar against the Minneapolis-St. Paul police departments and the U.S. Secret Service, arising from law enforcement’s unlawful arrest and use of excessive of force during the journalists’ coverage of protests and demonstrations around the 2008 Republic National Convention (RNC). Learn more about the case here.
29 September 2011 — Statewatch
European conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary
http://www.statewatch.org/conference/videos/index.html
Statewatchs 20th anniversary conference was held at Conway Hall in London on Saturday 25th June 2011. More than 220 people from 18 EU countries registered and over 30 NGOs attended the conference.
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3. EU: Council of the European Union: Includes FRONTEX information exchanges with EU agencies and Member States
4. EU-UK: HoL Select Committee on EU: The United Kingdom opt-in to the Passenger Name Record directive
5. UK: Sixth police spy in protest movement unmasked
6. UK: Parliamentary Joint Human Rights Committee: Facilitating peaceful protests
7. EU Classified Information (EUCI): Agreement extending its Classified information rules to Member States
8. ECHR: European Court of Human Rights: Carlo Giuliani judgment
9. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
10. USA: US court validates spying fears of journalists, activists
11. EU: UK-OPT-IN TO TRAFFICKING DIRECTIVE
12. Netherlands-USA: SWIFT data and MLA treaty
13. ECJ: Highlights of the Access Info Europe judgment
14. ECJ: Major victory for openness
15. EU: ROAD SAFETY: European Commission
16. EU-COE: ECHR-ACCESSION
17. COE: Draft Outline Structure of the Recommendation concerning Foreign Prisoners
18. EU: SECURITY RESEARCH: Lobbyists delight
19 EU: Proposed Commission changes to Regulation on access to documents fail to meet Lisbon Treaty commitments
25 February, 2011 — RT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
A ‘rubber-stamping process’ – that is how the founder of WikiLeaks, whistleblower Julian Assange, described a London court’s decision to extradite him to Sweden to face questions over rape allegations.
He said the ruling did not catch him by surprise, and that he is planning to appeal.
Assange posed some interesting questions: ‘Why is it that I am subject, a non-profit free-speech activist, to a US$360,000 bail? Why is it that I am kept under electronic house arrest when I have not even been charged in any country?’
And he is not the only one asking those questions, particularly as the British government has a history of granting asylum to some fairly controversial characters, including Russian business tycoon Boris Berezovsky. Continue reading
25 February, 2011 — RT
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
A ‘rubber-stamping process’ – that is how the founder of WikiLeaks, whistleblower Julian Assange, described a London court’s decision to extradite him to Sweden to face questions over rape allegations.
He said the ruling did not catch him by surprise, and that he is planning to appeal.
Assange posed some interesting questions: ‘Why is it that I am subject, a non-profit free-speech activist, to a US$360,000 bail? Why is it that I am kept under electronic house arrest when I have not even been charged in any country?’
And he is not the only one asking those questions, particularly as the British government has a history of granting asylum to some fairly controversial characters, including Russian business tycoon Boris Berezovsky.
21 December, 2010 — Statewatch
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4 October, 2010 — Global Research
Crypto Wars! Obama Wants New Law to Wiretap the Internet
– by Tom Burghardt – 2010-10-04
We’re In a Global Currency War … But What Does It Mean?
– by Washington’s Blog – 2010-10-04
“We Demand Change in America”: The Real Significance of the One Nation Rally
– by Shamus Cooke – 2010-10-04
27 September, 2010 — Global Research – Antifascist Calling… – 2010-09-26
In a replay of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s infamous COINTELPRO operations targeting the left during the 1960s and ’70s, America’s political police launched raids on the homes of antiwar and solidarity activists.
Heavily-armed SWAT teams smashed down doors and agents armed with search warrants carried out simultaneous raids in Minneapolis and Chicago early morning on September 24.
Rummaging through personal belongings, agents carted off boxes of files, documents, books, letters, photographs, computers and cell phones from Minneapolis antiwar activists Mick Kelly, Jessica Sundin, Meredith Aby, two others, as well as the office of that city’s Anti-War Committee.
26 September, 2010
GETTING BENEATH THE SURFACE
Challenging the authoritarian thinking behind the ID scheme was always going to be much tougher than defeating ID cards. Repealing the Identity Cards Act is essential, but has not killed the database state. We are still seeing ‘new’ bureaucratic project that simply re-package the same mass-surveillance concepts.
Just this week, there was publicity about an academic research project, “INDECT”, that proposes the “continuous and automatic monitoring” of public resources – web sites, discussion forums, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers. It has obtained an EU grant.
21 August, 2010 — The Real News Network
Clayton Ruby defends Charlie Veitch, second person charged under Public Works Protection Act
Bio
Clayton C. Ruby is one of Canada’s leading lawyers specializing in criminal, constitutional, administrative and civil rights law. He currently practices law with the firm of Ruby & Shiller in Toronto
26 July, 2010 — Statewatch
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22. CoE: Parliamentary Assembly: Readmission agreements: a mechanism for returning irregular migrants
29 October, 2009 — The Morning Star Online
Introducing an inspirational civil rights campaigner whose life and work offer important lessons for the left
In an age when xenophobia and Islamophobia are being stoked by illegal wars and immigration myths, the need to wrench hidden realities from history in order to see today’s truths has never been more urgent.
And thanks to the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC) founded by artist Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre in 2007, a bit of this history became available to the public last week at the Lambeth Archives in Brixton, south London.
Olive Morris, despite her awe-inspiring short life, remains virtually unknown. And she is one of the greatest unsung heroes I have ever come across.
My encounter with Morris began when a friend switched on my radar for forgotten female protagonists. He mentioned a local project he was doing on four practically unheard-of women activists who left in their wake cultural, social and political improvements which are enjoyed not just in London but in some instances internationally.
Three of these women were black.
With my radar on standby, I stumbled across a website which asked me if I “remember Olive Morris?” above a picture of a young black woman smiling with her shades on behind a megaphone.
The New Dark Age 