The Israeli military killed Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi while she was protesting in the West Bank. The Biden admin is content to let Israel conduct its own investigation - but the US needs to do its own into the killing of a US citizen. Contact Congress: secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/call-for-i...
Last year, the FBI rejected our FOIA request concerning WikiLeaks, citing an ongoing law enforcement proceeding. Moments ago, our policy director @chipgibbons.bsky.social just filed the request. We will work so the public knows the full truth about the War on WikiLeaks.
"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free. It's a victory...But the message has been sent: when it come to exposing the wrongdoing of powerful governments and corporations, no good deed goes unpunished." Policy Director @chipgibbons.bsky.socialjacobin.com/2024/06/juli...
After a nearly 15-year ordeal, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is free. It’s a victory worth celebrating. But the message has been sent: when it comes to exposing the wrongdoing of powerful governmen...
Does an Espionage Act case against a Chinese student have press freedom implications? Journalist @kgosztola.bsky.socialthedissenter.org/espionage-ac...
It also seems that Chinese student Fengyun Shi was only charged because of his nationality.
As soon as checks were put in place on policing, counter-subversives discovered a new raison d'être: terrorism. They increasingly set their eyes on pro-Palestinian activists to justify rolling back civil liberties protections. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The pretext of counter-terrorism as a reason to investigate Americans started with ‘red squads’, Huac and J Edgar Hoover
Read the whole report here www.rightsanddissent.org/news/the-cos...
On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes. Tens of millions of people took to the streets, not only in outrage, but wi...
In Erie, PA, a nasty cop up and kicked a protester who was peacefully sitting in the street with her hands up (see page 23). Watch the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhe...
See video of a kick of protestor Hannah Silbaugh, 21, of Erie, at Perry Square in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania on May 30, 2020. Erie police have not yet comme...
A college student and grandmother at a protest in La Mesa, CA were hit in the head with a beanbag round. She "ended up in the ICU, in a medically induced coma and lost vision in one eye." (see page 27)
