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National Day of Solidarity with Albuquerque, May 10th On May 10th, we are calling out for a nationwide display of Solidarity with the people of Albuquerque, James Boyd, The strikers behind prison walls, and all of those who have been murdered and imprisoned under the guise of ‘the justice system’. We are calling out for a nationwide display of resistance against a society that wishes to incarcerate us, kill us, beat us, and repress us. Spread this everywhere, and organize this everywhere! Link up with friends, large or small, and do the fuckin t...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 5:49pm PDT
Razor Wire, Prison Cells, and Black Panther Robert H. King's Life of Resistance 
A new 40-minute documentary film by Canadian History Professor Ron Harpelle, entitled Hard Time, focuses on the life of Robert Hillary King, who spent 29 years in continuous solitary confinement until his conviction was overturned and he was released from Louisiana's infamous Angola State Prison in 2001. Hard Time was recently shown in Canada at both the Toronto and Montreal Black Film Festivals, following Robert King's testimony in Chicago about solitary confinement at the annual meeting of ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2014 11:18am PDT
Taiwan Parliament Occupied By Students Protesting Trade Deal With China-Thousands Back It 
Hundreds of Taiwanese students broke into the parliament to protest the secrecy and undemocratic vote on a trade deal with China called the Cross-Straight Trade Agreement. Thousands surrounded the parliament and the police on March 24, 2014 attacked the occupation injuring 150 students.
Journalists and workers talk about the agreement and what it means to the people of Taiwan....
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 9:10pm PDT
Anonymous Operation Albuquerque Greetings city of Albuquerque, we are Anonymous. Recently, a video has been released to the public which shows Albuquerque Police Officers murdering a man in cold blood for 'illegally camping'. This man, which was schizophrenic, obviously had no intention of hurting these police officers, on the contrary, this man looks as if he is simply attempting to protect himself from visually fierce militarized thugs....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2014 10:07pm PDT
Human Rights Advocates Testify before Human Rights Commission on Stand Your Ground Laws 
(Washington, DC) - In an ongoing effort to raise awareness about the impact of stand your ground laws on communities of color, human rights advocates presented testimony (see PDF) before the Inter-American Human Rights Committee (IACHR) in Washington, DC. Advocates included Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin, and Ron Davis, father of slain teen Jordan Davis, along with representatives from Free Marissa Now, Florida Legal Services, the NAACP, Dream Defenders and the Univ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 2:09pm PDT
Supreme Court Hears Case Alleging Bush Protesters Treated Less Favorably than Supporters WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on March 26 in Wood v. Moss, a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a multi-generational group of peaceful protesters, who were forcibly moved on orders of the Secret Service to a place where their protests could no longer be seen or heard by President George W. Bush. The protest took place during a visit to Jacksonville, Oregon, in 2004. Demonstrators supporting the president were allowed to remain much closer to ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 12:19pm PDT
ACLU's New Online Tool Allows Users to Fight Racial Bias in Marijuana Possession Arrests 
NEW YORK – With today's release of The Uncovery, the American Civil Liberties Union has put its devastating findings on racial injustice and marijuana possession arrests into the hands of web users. In partnership with Interbrand, the ACLU has developed a simple, elegant online advocacy tool, a one-stop shop where users select their own facts, convert them into customized graphic messages, share them on social media, and send them to legislators – all in sixty seconds or less....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 8:21pm PDT
Federal Court Rules Immigrant Detainees Must Be Given Bond Hearings SEATTLE – A federal court ruled late yesterday that a class of immigrants detained at the Tacoma-based Northwest Detention Center must be given bond hearings. The court’s decision comes at the same time that hundreds of immigrant detainees are participating in a hunger strike at the facility. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones also denied defendants' motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought on behalf of immigrant detainees by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the American Civil Lib...
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2014 5:50pm PDT
*NEWS: Bison Activist Arraigned Today COMFREY JACOBS vs U.S. GOVERNMENT: Comfrey Jacobs appeared in U.S. federal court today for his first arraignment after being arrested for blocking the road to Yellowstone National Park's bison trap on Thursday morning, March 6, 2014. Mr. Jacobs was charged with three offenses: disorderly conduct, breaking a closure, and interfering with a government operation. He was offered a plea bargain: if he plead guilty he would be charged $1,000 in restitution, be placed on unsupervised probation fo...
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 12:02pm PDT
ACLU Comment on Release of Sexual Abuse Regulations for Immigration Detention Facilities 
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on March 7 announced that it has finalized its Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Standards for immigration detention facilities (see PDF). Today’s standards are needed because though PREA became law over a decade ago, the Department of Justice issued a rule in 2012 that excluded immigration detention facilities from coverage under PREA....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 2:27am PDT
Detained immigrants on hunger strike in Tacoma, Wa 
As many as 1,200 detained immigrants are currently on hunger strike in Tacoma, Washington, according to activist Moru Mara. The undocumented workers being held in the Northwest Detention Center have passed a handwritten list of demands to a lawyer....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2014 1:07pm PDT
The Joint Base Lewis McChord Force Protection Division Is Still Spying On Us After all these years, the Joint Base Lewis McChord Force Protection Division is still around and still spying on us. It is still being run by Thomas Rudd, the man who supervised a pattern of intimidation, excessive force, malicious prosecution to stop us from exercising our First Amendment rights. Something here just isn't right. Speak Up! Demand Change! Demand Justice!...
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2014 5:58am PST
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