Topic: Attack on civil liberties

  • Give us your rights and no one gets hurt

    Defenders of the Big Brother surveillance state think we should accept it when our rights have been violated because the world is a safer place for it.

  • ¿Quién vigila al Gran Hermano?

    Vigilancia, represión y violencia no nos protegen de un mundo peligroso, al contrario, lo hacen mucho más peligroso.

  • Who's watching Big Brother?

    Surveillance, repression and violence don't protect us from a dangerous world. On the contrary, they help make the world much more dangerous.

  • The National Spying-on-you Agency

    The shadowy National Security Agency has been exposed to the light of day, showing the vast extent of U.S. government spying, at home and abroad.

  • Taking liberties

    Barack Obama and his administration have maintained and even escalated the Bush-era practices of lying, spying and expanding government powers.

  • Empire is the cancer on our civil liberties

    Commentators are using the W-word--Watergate--in connection with Barack Obama's latest scandals. Is that too harsh?

  • State of fear

    The sensationalism and scaremongering of the political and media establishment is part of their drive to tighten the grip of the security state.

  • Protecting Boston's marathon

    In honor of those determined to run and not live in fear, we shouldn't easily surrender what made the Boston Marathon so mighty.

  • Fasting for Lynne's freedom

    The prosecution and imprisonment of Lynne Stewart is an ominous threat to the rights of every American.

  • Charges dropped against Rumsfeld protester

    On March 7, all charges were dropped against activist and socialist Shaun Joseph, ending a nearly 18-month legal ordeal.

  • An appeal for Lynne Stewart

    The civil liberties lawyer deserves an immediate release from unjust imprisonment to receive urgent medical care.

  • Standing up to civil wrongs

    Some 200 people attended a conference in Connecticut to challenge government initiatives to restrict our civil liberties.

  • FBI raids won't silence us

    The FBI raided the homes of activists in three cities in the Pacific Northwest in its latest offensive against our movements.

  • The framing of the NATO Five

    The case against five anti-NATO protesters in Chicago follows the same script of scare-mongering and entrapment used before by law enforcement.

  • Desnudándonos los derechos

    La Corte Suprema de Justicia dio a conocer una de sus resoluciones más anti-libertades civiles de su historia--y con la venia del gobierno de Obama.

  • Stripping away our rights

    The Supreme Court unveiled one of its most civil liberties-shredding rulings ever--and the Obama administration approved.

  • Emanuel gets his clampdown

    The Chicago City Council passed Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposals to give police new powers to criminalize protest.

  • Un asalto al derecho a protestar

    La criminalización de la protesta--por parte del alcalde de Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, y del Concejo Municipal--no es una excepción en una sociedad donde el Estado está siempre listo a reprimir.

  • They find the money for repression

    The same mayor and city council pushing austerity on Chicagoans are also planning to prevent people from speaking out.

  • The United States of Islamophobia

    Muslims in the U.S. are facing a sustained assault on their most basic rights--and it has had significant social and economic consequences.

  • The right to protest in peril

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to criminalize protest is no exception in a society where the state is prepared to turn to repression.

  • The undisputed person of the year

    If Bradley Manning had committed war crimes rather than exposing them, he wouldn't be in so much trouble.

  • Obama contra las libertades civiles

    Ahora, en EE.UU., los militares pueden detener indefinidamente, y sin juicio, a sus propios ciudadanos--uno más de nuestros "inalienables derechos" fue sacrificado por el demócrata en la Casa Blanca.

  • The "war on terror" comes home

    The man who once promised to close Guantánamo Bay has betrayed us by authorizing the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens.

  • Obama versus civil liberties

    The U.S. military can indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial--that's the latest of our "inalienable rights" sacrificed by the Democrat in the White House.