The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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An App Promises Mobile Justice to Protesters When Law Enforcement Violates the Law
Protesters are equipped with a tool designed to hold police accountable – and it's one that can be traced back to the early days of the Occupy movement.
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Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
The covert operation taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music and other files.
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Manufacturing Terror: How the FBI Invents Some Plots, and Ignores Others, In the War on Freedom
Most Americans know there have been dubious prosecutions in the FBI’s ongoing effort to thwart terror attacks on American soil – but unfortunately, it seems many Americans are too scared to care.
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The Invisible Man: Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower
The mass media have suddenly discovered Sterling — after his conviction Monday afternoon as a CIA whistleblower.
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Millions of Cars Tracked Across U.S. In "Massive" Real-Time Spy Program
The ACLU warns that the scanning of license plates by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is building a repository of all drivers’ movements.
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Mass Surveillance Is Fundamental Threat to Human Rights, Says European Report
Europe’s top rights body says mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat to human rights and violate the right to privacy enshrined in European law.
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What Barrett Brown’s Five-Year Sentence Means for Journalists – And Those Who Hack
Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for hacking Stratfor. But he's not a hacker - he's a journalist.
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On Racism and Prejudice: Being Black and Brown in Britain
Britain’s colonial legacy is a living one – no one is born prejudiced, but in Britain all of us are born into racism.
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Four States Weigh Legislation To Shut Off Resources to the NSA
Efforts to stop warrantless NSA spying are off to a fast start in the 2015 legislative session, as lawmakers in four states have already introduced bills banning material support or resources to any federal agency engaged in illegal spying.
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"A Democratic Outrage" In Britain As Lawmakers Push to End the Right to Strike
A row has broken out between the government and the Trades Union Congress over plans to ban protests without at least 40% of support from union members. Those in favor of the proposed crackdown on industrial action say it will stop U.K.
