The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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ACLU Of Oregon Condemns State’s Surveillance Of Black Lives Matter Activists
Monitoring the social media use of BLM activists is an example of "how the level of trust between law enforcement and communities of color has been so damaged," the civil rights group says.
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"Leaked" Burr-Feinstein Encryption Bill Is a Threat to American Privacy
If the bill were to pass, it would outlaw secure communications that are heavily dependent on end-to-end encryption – making every service, person, human rights worker, protester, reporter and company easier to spy on.
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Black Lives Matter Movement Sees Series of Victories In Midwest Elections
The protest movement that formed in response to deadly shootings of African Americans by police saw oustings of prosecutors in Chicago and Cleveland on Wednesday.
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Drugs, Dams, and Power: The Murder of Hunduran Activist BERTA CÁCERES
The winner of the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, her murder has prompted an international outcry as well as investigations supported by the United Nations and the FBI.
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Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murdered
The co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras was shot dead by gunmen who entered her home at around 1am on Thursday – barely a week after Cáceres was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project.
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Stop Trident: Why Renewing Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Program Is Plain Mad
On Saturday, the "largest demonstration in a generation" marched in London in a bid to #StopTrident, making clear the public's widespread opposition to re-launching the U.K. nuclear program.
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Security giants earn huge windfalls from ‘surveillance-industrial complex’
In run-up to 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Panasonic and other multinational corporations find big market for security.
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Student Debt Protests Escalate After Armed Marshals Arrest Man for Old Loans
Seven U.S. marshals armed with automatic weapons turned up at Paul Aker’s home in Houston, Texas, last week to arrest him over a $1,500 student loan debt dating back to 1987.
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The NYPD Has Tracked Citizens’ Cellphones 1,000 Times Since 2008 Without Warrants
According to records obtained by New York Civil Liberties Union, the country's most powerful police force tracks cellphones using "stingrays," which have no guiding legal policy.
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UN Panel Calls On U.K. and Sweden to End Julian Assange's "Deprivation of Liberty"
The WikiLeaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by the U.K. and Sweden for more than five years and should be released immediately with compensation, according to a Geneva-based UN working group on arbitrary detention.
