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WeCopwatch live reports from Ferguson, Missouri - August 15, 2014 
WeCopwatch has arrived in Ferguson, Missouri, where on August 9 a Ferguson police officer shot down and murdered 18-year-old local resident Michael Brown, in cold blood, in broad daylight, in the street in front of numerous witnesses. After days of protests and violent racist attacks by police against demonstrators, today, the focus has shifted to the police cover-up of the murder. After previously refusing to release the incident report on the shooting and the name of the killer cop, Fergu...
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2014 4:04pm PDT
Police in Ferguson to the Media: "We Don't Want You Here" (video/mp4 39.4MB) Police in Ferguson ramp up all out assault on media covering police brutality. St. Louis County Police Department pigs deliberately fired tear gas and rubber bullets at an Al Jazeera news crew. They also began dismantling the Al Jazeera media equipment, that is until they noticed another media team was recording them from across the street, then they jumped back into their armored vehicle and took off. Police then chased off the KSDK news crew filming the attack on the Al Jazeera crew, tel...
Posted: Thu, Aug 14, 2014 6:28pm PDT
Signatories Call on White House to Investigate Beating and Detention of Tariq Abu Khdeir 
The NLG and other human rights groups urge President Obama and administration to demand Israel cease the Abuse and Unlawful Detention of Palestinians...
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 2:03pm PDT
Reproductive Justice, Black Feminist Organizing, and the Criminalization of Black Bodies (audio/mpeg 25.0MB) WTUL News and Views speaks with Desiree Evans, Mwende Katwiwa, and Laura McTighe of Women With A Vision about the ignored and suppressed history of the Reproductive Justice struggle, how the voices and issues of women of color have been oppressed and criminalized, and what criminalization and justice look like in the age of Renisha McBride, Marissa Alexander, and countless others....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 11:47am PDT
The Toronto G20 Main Conspiracy: The Charges and how they came to be 
The mobilizations against the Toronto G20 in 2010 continue to shape resistance in Southern Ontario, both in how it's been an opportunity for learning, and in how the continuing repression from it has affected our lives. You might have been one of the thousands of people who participated in protests, you might be one of the hundreds of people who faced criminal charges as a result of this show of resistance. The police infiltration of anarchist and activist communities marked an escalation in ...
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2014 5:08pm PDT
Anonymous Operation Ferguson 
A little over 24 hours ago in Ferguson, Missouri - USA the Ferguson Police Department shot an un-armed teen 6 times and killed him. His body was left to lie in a pool of blood in the sweltering heat for hours while the police militarized the area against protesters and attempted to concoct a reasonable story as to why they snatched this innocent students life for no reason. The St. Louis County Sheriff Department even sealed the roads leading to Ferguson in a vain attempt to prevent protester...
Posted: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 1:19pm PDT
Kenny 'Zulu' Whitmore, Friend of the Angola 3, Challenges His Conviction 
Last week Kenny "Zulu" Whitmore, a longtime friend of Angola 3 who has now spent over 30 years in isolation at Angola, filed his own habeas petition contesting his murder conviction in light of new evidence that his attorneys argue convincingly proves his innocence. You can read the compelling petition here, attached as a PDF....
Posted: Fri, Aug 8, 2014 9:09am PDT
Malware creator exposed, lessons learned, leaked docs 
Hackers claim a 40GB trove of documents from supplier of surveillance technology to government agencies, and lessons are learned about how to protect our privacy....
Posted: Wed, Aug 6, 2014 9:29pm PDT
Journalists in Palestine are under attack 
Palestinian reporter, Rami Allaria, arrested and forced to delete his photos under threatening of being shot....
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2014 5:45am PDT
Debunking 8 Myths About Why Central American Children Are Migrating 
The failure of Central America's economies is largely due to the North American and Central American Free Trade Agreements and their accompanying economic changes....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 8:13pm PDT
Panthers in the Hole: French Angola 3 Book Illustrates US Prison Crisis 
Amnesty International France and La Boîte à Bulles have published a 128-page French language graphic novel entitled Panthers in the Hole. The book's co-authors David Cénou and Bruno Cénou present with visual art what Amnesty France describes as "la tragique histoire des Trois d'Angola" (the tragic story of the Angola 3). To further discuss the book and Amnesty France's broader support for Albert Woodfox and the Angola 3, we interviewed Nicolas Krameyer, who is head of the Individuals at Risk ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2014 10:50am PDT
Snowden and Ellsberg live at HOPE 
Just 2 hours ago, Snowden and Ellsberg conferenced live at the HOPE conference in NYC. Audio is attached....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2014 2:55pm PDT
Congresswoman Waters Calls for Thorough Investigation into CA Highway Patrol Beating Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) released the following statement today in light of a video showing a California Highway Patrol officer repeatedly punching a woman in the face on the 10 Freeway:...
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2014 6:54pm PDT
“Commercial Sex, the New ‘Terrorism’?” - Why You Need To Worry About H.R. 3530 H.R. 3530 is the latest in a series of legislation which purportedly aims to “help” individuals classified as “victims of human trafficking” by expanding governmental powers of electronic surveillance, treating customers identically with principals and organizers and curtailing the due process rights of defendants. The federal government wants to attack “demand” on the assumption that if it does that, “supply” will dry up in response. The flaw in this analysis is that the bill provides a per...
Posted: Wed, Jul 9, 2014 4:25pm PDT
ACLU Claim Reveals Tucson Police Continue Rights Violations Under SB 1070 Law 
TUCSON – The American Civil Liberties Union has initiated a second legal claim (see PDF) against the Tucson Police Department (TPD) after finding that the implementation of the “show me your papers” provision of SB 1070 continues to result in the violation of people’s constitutional rights. The provision of the controversial anti-immigrant law went into effect in Arizona in September 2012. The claim filed today stems from a traffic stop this past January in which police conducted an “SB-1070 ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 7, 2014 4:24pm PDT
NSA targets extracted from X-KEYSCORE source code and revealed 
Sebastian Hahn was shocked to learn his activities were on tap via a database controlled by the NSA. Today we begin to get the names of specific targets,via Germany. What has been obtained is part of the source code for the NSA X-KEYSCORE program, and names of targets have been extracted from the NSA database....
Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2014 11:09pm PDT
Wikileaks co-founder expects full disclosure of Snowden trove 
"This was just a way to get certain kinds of documents out to the public.... a collective of people contributing their time to it and not a centralized operation raising lots of money. it's basically a violation of Cryptome's policy--to publish the names of people who do not want to be identified." - John Young...
Posted: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 9:26am PDT
Supremes Update Fourth Amendment for Digital Era, Require Mobile Phone Warrants 
The United States Supreme Court unanimously acknowledged what common sense tells us and everyone who owns a cell phone (yes, that would be just about everyone) already knows: Our cell phones have a whole lot of private information about us. The Court therefore held that cops need a warrant to search a cell phone....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 7:25pm PDT
Supreme Court Sets Powerful Limits for Cell Searches, Fails to Protect Internet Streaming Justices Rule Changing Technology Demands Limits for Police but Requires Permission from TV Broadcasters...
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 7:20pm PDT
Louisiana Defenders Collective Interview from WTUL News and Views (audio/mpeg 50.6MB) News and Views speaks to members of the Louisiana Defenders Collective, going over the holes in the criminal justice system that make their services necessary and the particular pressures put on juveniles in the privatization of the public school system, especially the ways formerly standard in-school behavioral problems have become criminalized....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 7:22am PDT
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