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What Activists Need to Know About Anti-Protest Bills
An overview of the anti-protest bills currently cropping up around the country.
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Critical Infrastructure Bills–Toolkit For Activists
A toolkit designed to help activists fight back against critical infrastructure bills. Includes background readings, sample letters to the editor, and more.
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Coalition: Reject Ban on Hiring People With Drug Convictions in Marijuana Research Facilities
Coalition letter to House Judiciary Committee objecting to provisions in a bill to expand research on cannibus that would prevent anyone with a “conviction for a felony or drug-related misdemeanor” from being affiliated with cannabis research cultivation operations.
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Comments on Proposed National Park Service Regulations Concerning Demonstrations
Defending Rights & Dissent's comments on proposed regulations by the National Park Services to charges fees for permitted protests.
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Map: Resources by State
Resource map draft
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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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