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July 7, 2020
Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at July 7, 2020

DRAD Signs Open Letter Against Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act

On Tuesday, July 7, Defending Rights & Dissent, along with a host of national organizations and security experts (including DRAD board president Sascha Meinrath) from civil society, industry and academia, signed onto a national letter expressing our strong opposition to
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June 26, 2020
Published by Sue Udry at June 26, 2020

DRAD Joins 40+ Groups to Declare Intimidation Tactics in Louisiana Won’t Silence Environmental Protesters

40+ advocacy groups express outrage over arrests of Louisiana Bucket Brigade leaders, vow to stop Formosa’s plans to poison the Black community in St. James BATON ROUGE, LA: Two leaders of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade were charged under Louisiana’s felony
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June 17, 2020
collage of Black protesters and the FBI Black Identity Extremism report
Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at June 17, 2020

DRAD and Over 100 Orgs Demand #ProtectBlackDissent

Today, Defending Rights & Dissent joined MediaJustice and 100+ civil rights organizations urging Congress to cease federal funding for surveillance technologies, known to be disproportionately deployed in Black communities and other communities of color. As Black activists around the country
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June 11, 2020
Published by Quentin Anderson at June 11, 2020

Refusing to be Silenced: Protesting Anti-Protest Laws in the Midst of Global Protests

On Wednesday, a coalition of environmental and civil liberties groups – led by local activists from St. James Parish, Louisiana – held a press conference urging Governor John Bel Edwards to veto anti-protest legislation that recently passed overwhelmingly in the
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June 11, 2020
Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at June 11, 2020

Defending Rights & Dissent Joins Civil Liberties Group Urging Inspector General Investigation of Kenneth Marcys

Defending Rights & Dissent joined with eight other civil rights and civil liberties groups in urging the Department of Education Inspector General to review the actions of Kenneth Marcus. Marcus currently heads the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), a position he previously held in the Bush administration. However, between his stints at the OCR, Marcus was a vociferous proponent of a number of schemes to deny supporters of Palestinian rights their First Amendment rights. This included encouraging the office he now heads to treat criticism of Israeli policies and support of Palestinian rights as violations of federal civil rights law. Complaints alleging just that were repeatedly rejected by the OCR. That is until Marcus came to head the office.
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June 10, 2020
Published by Patrick G. Eddington at June 10, 2020

Race, Violence, and Political Illegitimacy

Perhaps it’s appropriate that with July 4th, the anniversary of America’s violent break from Britain, less than a month away, the issue of state-sponsored violence and reactions by citizens to it is, once again, front and center in our national
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June 5, 2020
Published by Suraj K Sazawal at June 5, 2020

No One Expects the Third Amendment

It wasn’t long ago the president called for “liberating” states that had been on lockdown in response to the contagious coronavirus, encouraging people to exercise their First Amendment rights and push back against what he considered government overreach.  But now
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June 4, 2020
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Published by Defending Rights & Dissent at June 4, 2020

Trump’s Antifa Boogeyman

People angry at the sorry state of the world and looking to build a better one go out and protest. Yet, across the country when people gathered to protest police violence, they themselves were met with police violence. Donald Trump has responded with a seemingly never ending stream of inflammatory tweets. On Monday, in a demagogic speech, he openly spoke of using the military on US soil against US citizens.  How does Mr. Trump justify his actions? He’s decided to claim that what the nation is is seeing is preplanned, carefully orchestrated, professionally managed protests and violence. The instigator? Antifa.
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RightsDissentDefending Rights & Dissent@RightsDissent·
July 10, 2020

If this reminds you of the plot to the movie Minority Report, you're not alone.

@ChipGibbons89 raises the alarm on Barr's recent attempt to target racial justice protesters.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/22657/fbi-barr-task-force-racial-justice-protests-dissent-red-scare-trump-antifa

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July 10, 2020

Is All Policing Political?

@ChipGibbons89 had a fascinating conversation about political policing & police abolitionism with noted abolitionist Alex Vitale (@avitale) on the latest episode of the #StillSpyingPodcast. Check it out here: https://rightsdissent.buzzsprout.com/1136198/4512008-is-all-policing-political-a-conversation-about-political-policing-police-abolitionism-with-alex-vitale

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July 9, 2020

"The [New Orleans Police Department] has been dysfunctional and racist and unconstitutional for decades."

https://lailluminator.com/2020/07/08/nopd-consent-decree/

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July 9, 2020

It’s important to remember that the FBI is also an intelligence agency, which makes it a political police force. Antifa captures the same part of the right-wing authoritarian imagination that the communist party & anarchists did during 20th century red scares. -@ChipGibbons89

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