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Press release: 6000 days of Guantanamo
Press release from anti-torture groups, including Defending Rights & Dissent, on 6000 days of the US holding prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
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Delmer Berg Sacramento FBI File
Delmer Berg was the last known surviving veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. After his death, DRAD requested his FBI files. These files, which offer an insight into FBI surveillance, were the basis for articles published in Jacobin and The Volunteer. This is Berg's case file from FBI's Sacramento Field Office.
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Delmer Berg FBI HQ File
Delmer Berg was the last known surviving veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. After his death, DRAD requested his FBI files. These files, which offer an insight into FBI surveillance, were the basis for articles published in Jacobin and The Volunteer. This is Berg's case file at the FBI's General HQ.
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Community Action Commission Files (Delmer Berg)
Delmer Berg was the last known surviving veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. After his death, DRAD requested his FBI files. These files, which offer an insight into FBI surveillance, were the basis for articles published in Jacobin and The Volunteer. As part of Berg's Sacramento Field Office case file, DRAD uncovered FBI infiltration of the the federally funded Community Action Commission. This excerpt for Berg's Sacramento Field Office Case file pertains to this infiltration.
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Signed Letter Requesting Congressional Oversight of the Muslim Ban
Coalition letter from civil and human rights groups, including Defending Rights & Dissent, calling on Congress to exercise greater oversight over Donald Trump's Muslim Ban and policy of "extreme vetting."
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Letter to DOJ IG requesting investigation into FBI’s Device Miscalculation
Letter to Department of Justice Inspector General from civil society groups, including Defending Rights & Dissent, asking for an IG investigation into the FBI's misreporting of the number of devices it could not unlock due to encryption.
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DHS Race Paper coalition letter, 2018
Coalition letter from civil rights and civil liberties groups asking the Department of Homeland Security to release an unredacted version of the "Race Paper," an intelligence and threat assessment used to inform law enforcement activities throughout the country. Concerns exist that the "Race Paper" could be used to justify the improper surveillance of people of color led protest movements.
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Press release re Xiafen Sherry Chen, May 2018
Press release from Committee of 100, an ally of Defending Rights & Dissent, about Sherry Chen, a scientist who was the victim of racial profiling.
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Community Letter to DOC Sec Ross re Xiafen Sherry Chen
Letter from 132 community organizations including Defending Rights & Dissent, asking the Secretary of Commerce to allow a Merit Systems Protection Board decision allowing Sherry Chen to return to work to stand. Chen is a scientist who was the victim of racial profiling.
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