#civilliberties — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #civilliberties, aggregated by home.social.
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#CivilLiberties groups Monday asked #SCOTUS to hear their challenge of a #Texas #law requiring that all #PublicSchools’ classrooms display the #TenCommandments, potentially setting up a landmark clash over the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.
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Indiana residents launch ‘Block Flock’ campaign against Flock Safety cameras.
https://www.21alivenews.com/video/2026/08/10/indiana-residents-launch-block-flock-campaign-against-flock-safety-cameras/ (21AliveNews)
Block Flock Protest: Saturday Aug 15th 2026
#Indiana #Block #Flock #Protest #BlockFlock #Campaign #GrassRootsMovement #Warrantless #MassSurveillance #Rights #CivilLiberties #StopFlock #FortWayne
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Revealed: Trump’s War on ICE Protesters Is Collapsing in Court
https://www.rawamerica.com/p/revealed-trumps-war-on-ice-protesters
• The billionaires own the government
• Trump’s sons are quietly building a defense tech empire funded by your tax dollars
• True history of the Capitol attack
#TrumpAdministration #America #Truth #UnitedWeStand #OneNation #UnderGod #AmericanJustice #CivilLiberties #SocialTruth #ICECourt #FederalAgents #FederalCourt #Government #Billionaires #TrumpsWar #CapitalRiots #CyberPolice #AIPoliceForce
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Trump Is Manufacturing an Election Crisis to Justify Military and ICE Power
Trump is manufacturing claims of foreign interference and noncitizen voting to discredit future election losses and prepare Americans for authoritarian federal action.
#AmericanDemocracy #authoritarianism #CivilLiberties #defendDemocracy #democraticResistance #domesticMilitaryForce #DonaldTrump #electionDenial #ElectionInterference #electionSecurity #federalAgents #ICE #ICERaids #immigrantRights #MAGA #militaryDeployment #noncitizenVoting #PoliticalRepression #PoliticsDoneRight #ProgressivePolitics #SAVEAct #SAVEAmericaAct #StephenMiller #TrumpAuthoritarianism #TrumpSpeech #VoterSuppression #votingRights https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-p6y -
AI Bans Are Here. I Told You So. Now Let’s Talk About Why This Is Bad.
I said it before. I said it on this very blog, on Interfaith Intrepid, back when folks were still treating artificial intelligence like it was some kind of science fiction novelty that only tech bros in San Francisco cared about. I said that the AI bans were coming, and I said that they were not going to look the way people thought they were going to look. They were not going to be principled stands against corporate overreach or thoughtful regulatory frameworks designed to protect everyday […] -
A quotation from Henry Commager
Who are those who are really disloyal? Those who inflame racial hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make a mockery of majority rule by the use of the filibuster. Those who impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities. Those who frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials. Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly. Those who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth. Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who would exalt the military over the civil. Those who for selfish and private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to the ruin of war.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #civilliberties #civilrights #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #disloyalty #division #firstamendment #freepress #freespeech #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #injustice #jingoism #justice #loyalty #loyaltyoath #military #patriotism #publicoffice #religiousfreedom #unAmerican #usvsthem #votersuppression #votingrights #war #warmongering
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Why #GiorgiaMeloni's '#AntiProtest' law has divided #Italy
Italy’s new security law, pushed through by PM Giorgia Meloni’s #RightWing government, is stoking nationwide outrage. From harsher protest penalties and a ban on cannabis light to legal cover for police, critics warn it criminalises dissent and threatens #CivilLiberties. Protests, international concerns and Senate drama have all followed
FP Explainers
June 5, 2025"A new security decree introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition government has divided Italy.
"Approved by the Senate with 109 votes in favour, 69 against, and one abstention, the legislation has sparked a backlash from opposition lawmakers, human rights bodies and legal groups, who argue that it undermines fundamental freedoms and disproportionately punishes marginalised communities.
"The decree expands legal authority for law enforcement, imposes stricter penalties on demonstrators, and introduces a variety of criminal provisions touching on #protests, public order, #cannabis regulation, and social #housing.
"While the government insists the law is a necessary measure to safeguard security, critics see it as a repressive attempt to #CriminaliseDissent and curb civil liberties in one of Europe’s major democracies."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/n6clN#WorldPol #ItalyPol #CriminalizingProtest #SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #Fascism #HistoryRepeats? #AntiProtestLaws
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How tight is the #RightToProtest?
From 418 arrests in 1977 to fresh clashes in Sydney: Debate over #Australia’s right to protest continues
"What many may not realise is that the right to protest in Australia is not protected by one simple law. It’s implied in the constitution under freedom of political communication and exists under international human rights law, which Australia has agreed to uphold. Only #Queensland, #Victoria and the #ACT explicitly protect the right to peaceful assembly, freedom of association and freedom of expression. And laws protecting the right to peaceful protest in Australia can be limited."
By Rhiannon Stevens
Sat 14 Feb, 2026" 'The day of the political street march is over,' Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared. 'Don’t bother to apply for a permit. You won’t get one. That’s government policy now.'
"A few weeks later, thousands of people defied then-Queensland premier Bjelke-Petersen’s proclamation and gathered in Brisbane for an #AntiUranium march.
"Ian Curr remembers an intense, unrelenting heat on that day nearly 50 years ago. It was 'boiling hot', the long-time #AntiNuclear activist says. So hot that when protesters sat on the road, arms linked in passive defiance, it was 'not very pleasant' because the tarmac was scorching. Other memories emerge from the haze: lines of police, three and four deep, surrounding protesters; a woman with tears streaming down her face who had just heard her partner was arrested.
"Fear swirled up spines and into the air. These were the years after the #Springbok tour #AntiApartheid protests had been violently suppressed.
"That afternoon in October 1977, 418 people were arrested and Queensland’s 'RightToMarch' movement quickly entered a new era. #CivilLiberties demonstrations continued until the ban — originally enacted to curb a growing anti-nuclear movement — was lifted two years later.
"Ross Gwyther was exhilarated seeing some 5,000 anti-nuclear marchers turn out that day. But the sensation was tempered by an 'intense fear because there’d already been many cases of #PoliceBrutality'.
"These were extraordinary times, as the Fitzgerald Inquiry would later attest. For Gwyther and many of the #ratbags, #activists and #CivilLibertarians of Queensland it was a defining moment. That era in Brisbane radicalised a lot of people, Gwyther says, who embarked on a lifetime of 'political activism, both through parliamentary politics or by grassroots politics'.
"These moments mark you, Curr says, turning to the events in Sydney this week. 'The people who saw that violence in Sydney, in 40 or 50 years, they will not forget it. In the same way I do not forget police brandishing batons and punching and throwing people into paddy wagons. It’s something you do not forget.'
"In the aftermath of last Monday’s protest against Israeli President #IsaacHerzog’s visit in #Sydney, shaky, chaotic videos began to emerge online. A man lies on tram tracks, restrained by officers who punch him 18 times. #Protesters are pushed, they struggle to their feet, crowds stumble around them. Men bowed in prayer are wrenched from their worship by police. A grandmother is in hospital with a spinal injury. She says she feared being suffocated in a stampede as she lay on the ground in agony. She alleges she was pushed over by police."
Read more:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-15/right-to-protest-fragile-police-powers-gaza-herzog/106331356#ACAB #AustraliaPol #AusPol #CriminalizingProtest #Australia #AntiProtestLaws #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #UraniumMines #WorldPol #IsraeliWarCrimes
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EFFecting Change: Get the #Flock Out of Our City
Flock contracts have quietly spread to cities across the country. But Flock #ALPR erode #civilLiberties from the moment they're installed. While officials claim these #cameras keep neighborhoods safe, evidence tells a diff story. The data reveals how Flock has enabled #surveillance of people seeking #abortions , #protesters exercising #FirstAmendment #rights , & communities targeted by #discriminatory policing
#privacyhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/effecting-change-get-flock-out-our-city
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EFFecting Change: Get the Flock Out of Our City
February 19, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm PST Online
But #Flock #ALPR erode #civilliberties from the moment they're installed. While officials claim these #cameras keep neighborhoods safe, the #evidence tells a different story. The data reveals how Flock has enabled #surveillance of people seeking #abortions , #protesters exercising #FirstAmendment #rights , and communities targeted by discriminatory policing.
#privacyhttps://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-get-flock-out-our-city
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"Life in Gaza for the past two years has been a process of losing everything visible — our families, homes, streets. It also means losing what cannot be seen: the private space of the mind, the intimacy between people, and the ability to speak without fear of being monitored by a machine. A poll conducted just weeks before the October cease-fire by the Palestine-based research organization Institute for Social and Economic Progress found that nearly two-thirds of Gazans believed they were constantly watched by the Israeli government. This is the dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized. It is the culmination of decades of monitored occupation, a totalitarian nightmare spliced with genocidal terror, a system that is already evolving and growing for whatever comes next. The old admonition of authoritarian regimes everywhere — If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of — has no meaning in Gaza.
My father was always suspicious, distrusting things most people treated as harmless. When neighbors bought smart TVs, he wouldn’t. “It’s another way they can see inside,” he said. He answered the phone in our Gaza City home only after a long pause, as if to catch the person he presumed was listening, and he would angle his chair away from the window when he spoke. Some of his fears came from stories he had heard years before I was born — stories that belonged to another generation but shaped his and then mine. My grandparents had been displaced from their home in Jaffa by Zionist forces in 1948, when Israel was created, and never saw it again. U.N. registration cards and aid lists became their new proof of existence as refugees."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/watched-tracked-targeted-israel-surveillance-gaza.html
#Surveillance #CivilLiberties #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #PoliceState #StateOfException
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The Holiday Odor Trap
Filed Under: Odor Politics
Most people assume the holiday rush is measured in miles, delays, and crowded kitchens. The truth is uglier. From Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve, the country sees a spike in traffic stops that begin with the same old claim, that an officer “smelled marijuana.” Courts have spent years separating odor from impairment, yet the loophole stays wide open. It gives law enforcement a way to turn ordinary travel into a fishing expedition.
Some states have ruled that smell alone cannot justify a search, while others treat it as fair game. The public rarely knows the difference. Drivers heading to see family pass through counties where a scent on a jacket is enough to escalate a stop. Officers use it because it works. It softens the ground for questioning, it expands their authority, and it moves the conversation away from what actually matters, which is whether the driver is safe.
Most holiday travelers are not impaired. They are tired, stressed, and trying to get where they are going. cannabis lives in homes and clothes the same way kitchen spices do. A single smoked joint on Thanksgiving Eve can leave a jacket scented for days. Officers know this. Courts know this. Yet people still get pulled aside because the scent is treated like a confession.
The pattern is predictable. The officer leans in, mentions odor, then asks questions that have nothing to do with driving. People feel cornered and start explaining things they never needed to explain. That is the moment a simple stop becomes a long delay on the side of the road.
Holiday traffic and police practice collide in a way that punishes normal life. The country is filled with legal markets. People buy edibles and flower for the same reason they buy wine. They visit friends. They share a moment on the porch. The plant is legal in half the country, but its scent is still treated like probable cause.
The holiday season should not require a legal strategy, yet that is where the country stands. Smell is treated as suspicion even in states that claim to respect legalization. People drive through a patchwork of laws that shift from town to town. What protects a driver in one county is ignored in the next.
The courts may eventually close the gap. Legislatures may force consistency. Until then, drivers are left with common sense and preparation. The safest choice is to remove the excuse entirely. Officers cannot prove what they cannot smell, and they cannot escalate what they cannot justify.
Practical Tips For Holiday Drivers Who Want To Avoid The Odor Trap
Keep jackets and bags outside the smoking area. Most odor claims come from clothing, not the person.
Use clean gear during travel days. People who vape during the holiday tend to switch to something low profile. This is where PAX vaporizers fit naturally because they keep the ritual clean and contained.
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F O R T H E C U L T U R E B Y T H E C U L T U R E
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by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 10, 2025December 9, 2025WHY WEED SHOPS DON’T HIRE HEADS
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Do not store old flower containers or ash in the car. Empty jars and forgotten tubes hold scent long after they are cleaned.
Seal anything with a smell. A simple airtight pouch prevents the easiest excuse an officer can use.
Travel clear headed. Some readers prefer relief without impairment during long drives. Endoca CBD has become a steady choice because it stays consistent.
Know the rules in the state you are driving through. Odor is not probable cause in some states, yet it remains a tool in others.
Keep conversations simple and respectful. You do not need to explain your holiday habits.
Remember that odor is not evidence of impairment. Courts have split them apart. Officers blend them because it expands their authority.
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F O R T H E C U L T U R E B Y T H E C U L T U R E
Federal lawmakers quietly inserted language into a budget bill that could criminalize countless cannabis seeds based solely on the THC profile of the parent plant. The move threatens growers, breeders, medical cultivators, and the genetic diversity that built modern cannabis culture. This seismic shift puts control of the plant’s future in the hands of federal…
by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 8, 2025December 7, 2025Reefer Report Card Vol. 26: Nov 29-Dec 06
This week’s Reefer Report Card exposes the scromiting panic, Washington’s latest hemp crackdown, and the Supreme Court inching toward a decision that could rewrite prohibition. Patients and veterans stayed stuck in outdated systems while global reform moved forward with hesitation. Panic got headlines. Weed got scapegoated. The world kept smoking anyway.
by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 6, 2025December 6, 2025American newsrooms turned a simple overuse incident into a nationwide scare. Scromiting headlines exploded overnight, burying real CHS facts under panic and misinformation. Pot Culture breaks down what actually happened, why the media keeps confusing overuse with syndrome, and how fear travels faster than truth when cannabis is involved.
by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 5, 2025December 4, 2025Omaha Tribe Legal Cannabis vs Nebraska Prohibition
Nebraska still criminalizes cannabis, yet the Omaha Tribe has built a legal system with real rules, licensing, and a working industry on sovereign land. This update shows how the Tribe keeps moving forward while the state stays rooted in prohibition. The border is now the flashpoint. Step across it with cannabis and everything changes.
by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 4, 2025December 3, 2025Virginia just greenlit its long-delayed cannabis market. But is the launch plan built to last, or is it already showing cracks? The blueprint promises equity, protection from corporate takeover, and sustainable access. Advocates say it could be the first real test of Southern legalization. Pot Culture breaks it all down with facts, receipts, and no…
by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 3, 2025December 2, 2025Holiday Survival with Cannabis, Not Chaos
The holidays hit harder than they should. Travel turns messy, families spark arguments, and the season demands cheer nobody actually feels. Cannabis becomes the counterweight, steadying people through the noise while alcohol keeps causing wreckage. This feature cuts through the lies, the pressure, and the culture, showing how the plant helps people survive December without…
by Pot Culture MagazineDecember 2, 2025December 1, 2025#blackFriday #cannabis #cannabisCommunity #cannabisCulture #cannabisRights #cannabisSmell #cannabiscommunity #carSearches #civilLiberties #consumerSafety #courtRulings #crime #holidayTravel #lawEnforement #legalMarkets #marijuana #marijuanaNews #odorLaws #odorPolitics #police #policeStops #potCultureMagazine #roadsideEncounters #search #searchPractices #smell #thanksgiving #trafficStops #travelPrep
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@Tharpa Trump might be the most popular beast, but certainly not the only one driving the theft and destruction of capital. They need to be caged, so real reform can occur by the people before their pedo, rapist, racist, chauvinist, sexist and ableist spawn unleashe hell on Earth. Time to preempt catastrophic mass genocides and extinctions? From racketeering tariffs to multiple civil and national conflicts, there can be no peace until we have fair justice! #PreemptingGenocide #EndMobTerror #PreemptingEcocide #RealReform #CivilLiberties #EqualRights #NoMoreSquidGames #FakeDemocracy #NoDemocracyForEcocide #Epstein
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Police arrest 83-year-old at silent protest against Palestine Action ban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGOmqk_XsQ
“we are losing our civil liberties”
Police in London have arrested an 83-year-old woman for holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action, the activist group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000.
#London #Protest #CivilLiberties #AbuseOfPower #Terrorism #WarCrimes #AntiGenocide #SilencingDissent #PalestineSolidarity #StandUpFightBack #CriminalGovernment #UK
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Police arrest 83-year-old at silent protest against Palestine Action ban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGOmqk_XsQ
“we are losing our civil liberties”
Police in London have arrested an 83-year-old woman for holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action, the activist group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000.
#London #Protest #CivilLiberties #AbuseOfPower #Terrorism #WarCrimes #AntiGenocide #SilencingDissent #PalestineSolidarity #StandUpFightBack #CriminalGovernment #UK
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Police arrest 83-year-old at silent protest against Palestine Action ban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGOmqk_XsQ
“we are losing our civil liberties”
Police in London have arrested an 83-year-old woman for holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action, the activist group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000.
#London #Protest #CivilLiberties #AbuseOfPower #Terrorism #WarCrimes #AntiGenocide #SilencingDissent #PalestineSolidarity #StandUpFightBack #CriminalGovernment #UK
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Police arrest 83-year-old at silent protest against Palestine Action ban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGOmqk_XsQ
“we are losing our civil liberties”
Police in London have arrested an 83-year-old woman for holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action, the activist group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000.
#London #Protest #CivilLiberties #AbuseOfPower #Terrorism #WarCrimes #AntiGenocide #SilencingDissent #PalestineSolidarity #StandUpFightBack #CriminalGovernment #UK
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Police arrest 83-year-old at silent protest against Palestine Action ban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyGOmqk_XsQ
“we are losing our civil liberties”
Police in London have arrested an 83-year-old woman for holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action, the activist group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000.
#London #Protest #CivilLiberties #AbuseOfPower #Terrorism #WarCrimes #AntiGenocide #SilencingDissent #PalestineSolidarity #StandUpFightBack #CriminalGovernment #UK
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You can't make this up - #history #facts #fascism #americafirst. Dr Seuss #Theodor SeussGeisel was the chief editorial #cartoonist for #liberal New York newspaper, PM, during #WWII. Drawn over 80 years ago - yet this is #america now #trump #maga #project2025 #history repeats itself when no lessons are learned. #democracy at #risk as #nazism #musk #trump #gop those who mine the past to fuel the war on #constitution #freedom #justice #civilliberties
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The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning
This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.
By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'
"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'
"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.
"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.
"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.
"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.
"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.
"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.
"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.
"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)
"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.
"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work."Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"
Source:
https://slate.com/business/2025/02/mask-bans-new-york-los-angeles-crime-protests-criminalize-face-coverings.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent -
Two weeks ago the #Trudeau government listed the #Samidoun #Palestinian #PrisonerSolidarity Network as a terror entity. The move marked a major escalation in state directed efforts to suppress #opposition to #Canada’s #complicity in #Israel’s #genocide and regional #belligerance. The #webinar discussed how the terrorist list works and its #antiPalestinian, pro #USempire, character.
Panelists:
Yavar Hameed, Hameed Law
Shane Martinez, International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)
Tim McSorley, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
Moderated: Dr. Sara Farhan, 2Rivers4Palestinehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zvYxT1dzQ
#ColonialTerrorism
#SanctionIsrael
#Censorship
#RacismInCanada
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#CanadaIsComplicit
#DefundIsrael
#OstracizeIsrael
#BoycottIsrael
#CDNpoli
#CanadianComplicity
#WarCrimes
#PalestineSolidarity
#Dissidents
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
#SocialJustice
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Two weeks ago the #Trudeau government listed the #Samidoun #Palestinian #PrisonerSolidarity Network as a terror entity. The move marked a major escalation in state directed efforts to suppress #opposition to #Canada’s #complicity in #Israel’s #genocide and regional #belligerance. The #webinar discussed how the terrorist list works and its #antiPalestinian, pro #USempire, character.
Panelists:
Yavar Hameed, Hameed Law
Shane Martinez, International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)
Tim McSorley, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
Moderated: Dr. Sara Farhan, 2Rivers4Palestinehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zvYxT1dzQ
#ColonialTerrorism
#SanctionIsrael
#Censorship
#RacismInCanada
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#CanadaIsComplicit
#DefundIsrael
#OstracizeIsrael
#BoycottIsrael
#CDNpoli
#CanadianComplicity
#WarCrimes
#PalestineSolidarity
#Dissidents
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
#SocialJustice
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Two weeks ago the #Trudeau government listed the #Samidoun #Palestinian #PrisonerSolidarity Network as a terror entity. The move marked a major escalation in state directed efforts to suppress #opposition to #Canada’s #complicity in #Israel’s #genocide and regional #belligerance. The #webinar discussed how the terrorist list works and its #antiPalestinian, pro #USempire, character.
Panelists:
Yavar Hameed, Hameed Law
Shane Martinez, International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)
Tim McSorley, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
Moderated: Dr. Sara Farhan, 2Rivers4Palestinehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zvYxT1dzQ
#ColonialTerrorism
#SanctionIsrael
#Censorship
#RacismInCanada
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#CanadaIsComplicit
#DefundIsrael
#OstracizeIsrael
#BoycottIsrael
#CDNpoli
#CanadianComplicity
#WarCrimes
#PalestineSolidarity
#Dissidents
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
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Two weeks ago the #Trudeau government listed the #Samidoun #Palestinian #PrisonerSolidarity Network as a terror entity. The move marked a major escalation in state directed efforts to suppress #opposition to #Canada’s #complicity in #Israel’s #genocide and regional #belligerance. The #webinar discussed how the terrorist list works and its #antiPalestinian, pro #USempire, character.
Panelists:
Yavar Hameed, Hameed Law
Shane Martinez, International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)
Tim McSorley, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
Moderated: Dr. Sara Farhan, 2Rivers4Palestinehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zvYxT1dzQ
#ColonialTerrorism
#SanctionIsrael
#Censorship
#RacismInCanada
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#CanadaIsComplicit
#DefundIsrael
#OstracizeIsrael
#BoycottIsrael
#CDNpoli
#CanadianComplicity
#WarCrimes
#PalestineSolidarity
#Dissidents
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
#SocialJustice
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Two weeks ago the #Trudeau government listed the #Samidoun #Palestinian #PrisonerSolidarity Network as a terror entity. The move marked a major escalation in state directed efforts to suppress #opposition to #Canada’s #complicity in #Israel’s #genocide and regional #belligerance. The #webinar discussed how the terrorist list works and its #antiPalestinian, pro #USempire, character.
Panelists:
Yavar Hameed, Hameed Law
Shane Martinez, International Centre for Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)
Tim McSorley, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
Moderated: Dr. Sara Farhan, 2Rivers4Palestinehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1zvYxT1dzQ
#ColonialTerrorism
#SanctionIsrael
#Censorship
#RacismInCanada
#FreePalestine
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#CanadaIsComplicit
#DefundIsrael
#OstracizeIsrael
#BoycottIsrael
#CDNpoli
#CanadianComplicity
#WarCrimes
#PalestineSolidarity
#Dissidents
#CivilLiberties
#HumanRights
#SocialJustice
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NSW anti-protest laws criminalise protests
"Following the sentencing of a climate change protester, civil liberties groups are calling for an urgent repeal of protest laws in New South Wales."
"The charges come from legislation passed by NSW Parliament in April 2022, which prevents “illegal protesting” on major roads, bridges, tunnels, public transport, and infrastructure facilities. Those who break this law could face a maximum penalty of $22,000, two years in prison or both."
"In a statement, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties (NSWCCL), said that section 144G of the Roads Act 1993 (NSW) and section 214A of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) “significantly hinders people’s rights to freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of political communication.” "
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https://cityhub.com.au/calls-mount-for-repeal-of-protest-laws-after-climate-protestor-sentenced-to-3-months-in-prison/
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You can also sign the ICCL's petition to tell the Minister for Justice #IDoNotConsent to being tracked by facial recognition technology at:
https://www.iccl.ie/i-do-not-consent-to-frt/
#FacialRecognition #FRT #AnGardaSíochána #HumanRights #CivilLiberties #DataProtection #GDPR
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Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops
There's little public scrutiny when private donors pay to give police controversial technology and weapons. Sometimes, companies are donors to the same foundations that purchase their products for police.
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bond Graham, special to ProPublica Oct. 13, 2014
"In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art #surveillance facility, the Los Angeles Police Department cast an acquisitive eye on software being developed by #Palantir, a startup funded in part by the Central Intelligence Agency's [#CIA] #VentureCapital arm.
"Originally designed for spy agencies, Palantir's technology allowed users to track individuals with unprecedented reach, connecting information from conventional sources like crime reports with more controversial data gathered by surveillance cameras and license plate readers that automatically, and indiscriminately, photographed passing cars.
"The LAPD could have used a small portion of its multibillion-dollar annual budget to purchase the software, but that would have meant going through a year-long process requiring public meetings, approval from the City Council, and, in some cases, competitive bidding.
"There was a quicker, quieter way to get the software: as a gift from the Los Angeles Police Foundation, a private charity. In November 2007, at the behest of then Police Chief William Bratton, the foundation approached #TargetCorporation, which contributed $200,000 to buy the software, said the foundation's executive director, Cecilia Glassman, in an interview. Then the foundation donated it to the police department.
"Across the nation, private foundations are increasingly being tapped to provide police with technology and weaponry that -- were it purchased with public money -- would come under far closer scrutiny.
"In Los Angeles, foundation money has been used to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of license plate readers, which were the subject of a #CivilRights lawsuit filed against the region's law enforcement agencies by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the #ElectronicFrontierFoundation. (A judge rejected the groups' claims earlier this year.)
"Private funds also have been used to upgrade 'Stingray' devices, which have triggered debate in numerous jurisdictions because they vacuum up records of cellphone metadata, calls, text messages and data transfers over a half-mile radius.
"New York and Los Angeles have the nation's oldest and most generous police foundations, each providing their city police departments with grants totaling about $3 million a year. But similar groups have sprouted up in dozens of jurisdictions, from #AtlantaGeorgia, to #OaklandCalifornia. In #Atlanta, the police foundation has bankrolled the surveillance cameras that now blanket the city, as well as the center where police officers monitor live video feeds.
"Proponents of these private fundraising efforts say they have become indispensable in an era of tightening budgets, helping police to acquire the ever-more sophisticated tools needed to combat modern crime.
"'There's very little discretionary money for the department,' said Steve Soboroff, a businessman who is president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, the civilian board that oversees the LAPD's policies and operations. 'A grant application to the foundation cuts all the red tape, or almost all of the red tape.'
"But critics say police foundations operate with little transparency or oversight and can be a way for wealthy donors and corporations to influence law enforcement agencies' priorities.
"It's not uncommon for the same companies to be donors to the same police foundations that purchase their products for local police departments. Or for those #companies also to be #contractors for the same police agencies to which their products are being donated.
"'No one really knows what's going on,' said Dick Dadey of #CitizensUnion, a good government group in New York. 'The public needs to know that these contributions are being made voluntarily and have no bearing on contracting decisions.'
"Palantir, the recipient of the #LosAngelesPolice Foundation's largesse in 2008, donated $10,000 to become a three-star sponsor of the group's annual 'Above and Beyond' awards ceremony in 2013 and has made similar-sized gifts to the #NewYorkPolice foundation. The privately held Palo Alto firm, which had estimated revenues of $250 million in 2011 and is preparing to go public, also has won millions of dollars of contracts from the Los Angeles and New York police departments over the last three years.
"Palantir officials did not respond to questions about its relationships with police departments and the foundations linked to them. The New York City Police Foundation did not answer questions about Palantir's donations, or its technology gifts to the NYPD.
"Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York #CivilLibertiesUnion, said she saw danger in the growing web of ties between police departments, foundations and private donors.
"'We run the risk of policy that is in the service of #moneyed interests,' she said."
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-donors-supply-spy-gear-to-cops
#ACAB #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DigitalFreeSpeech #CivilLiberties #CorporateColonialism #SilencingDissent #Fascism
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Event on Kashmir media curbs denied permission by Delhi Police
‘This is continuation of government and police’s efforts to stall protests and events that try to highlight human rights violations,’ an activist said.
#kashmir #MediaFreedom #MediaBlackout #StateRepression #militarisation #delhi #DelhiPolice #censorship #HumanRights #CivilLiberties #fascism #BJP #india
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Brennan Center Report - Ending Fusion Center Abuses. The federal government provides state and local intelligence hubs with funding, personnel, and database access — all without adequate oversight. #FusionCenters #Surveillance #Privacy #CivilRights #CivilLiberties #FirstAmendment #EnvironmentalJustice #RacialJustice #Healthcare #AbortionCare #DHS DOD #FBI https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/ending-fusion-center-abuses