Feeding the Flames of Revolt

…an act of nonviolent civil disobedience that championed the public good by exposing abuses of power by the government and a security firm

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Last Chance to Stop Indefinite Detention of Americans

The third and final round of battle to get courts to strike down the NDAA, a law that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities

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The Third World Comes to New Jersey (VIDEO)

Residing off Route 38 at Wilson Boulevard under an overpass, through woods and down a path of trash lays a community of people living in tents

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Obama Wins Back Right to Indefinitely Detain American Citizens

The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the NDAA

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Criminalizing Dissent, Outlawing Protest

The security and surveillance state, after crushing the Occupy movement and eradicating its encampments, has mounted a relentless and largely clandestine campaign to deny public space to any group or movement that might spawn another popular uprising

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Bradley Manning’s Judicial Lynching

The military trial ofBradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered

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The NDAA and the Death of Democracy

On Wednesday a few hundred activists crowded into the courtroom of the Second Circuit, the spillover room with its faulty audio feed and dearth of chairs, and Foley Square outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan where many huddled in the cold

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Indefinite Detention of Americans Without Charge or Trial is Back… Again

Lawmakers in Washington have stripped an amendment from next year’s National Defense Authorization Act that could have kept the government from indefinitely detaining US citizens without charge or trial

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Supreme Court Emergency Motion Filed by NDAA Opponents

Opponents of the post-9/11 use of indefinite military detention have filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block a law they say allows innocent American citizens to be locked away without trial

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Americans Are Not Yet Safe From NDAA

The law allowing for indefinite detention of Americans without trial has been stripped from next year’s National Defense Authorization Act, but tweaks to the NDAA don’t mean the possibility of extrajudicial imprisonment has been eliminated for all

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