#criminalize — Public Fediverse posts
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This guy explains Indiana's New Anti Homeless Law / Pubic Camping Ban
Video & Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fortwayne/s/U5EAsF7UhY
#Indiana #Law #Homeless #AntiHomless #PublicCamping #Ban #Vagrants #Disabled #Discrimination #Poor #Criminalize #Jail #Fine #BadPeople
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“There’s been a really dedicated effort to #criminalize #pregnancy outcomes alongside #abortion,” said the legal director of nonprofit Pregnancy Justice, Karen Thompson.
There has been a notable uptick in these cases, in a separate but parallel lane to cases linked to stricter anti-abortion laws, since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade in 2022 & stripped the federal constitutional right to abortion, the experts said.
#law #ReproductiveRights #privacy #MaleSupremacy #ChristianEvangelism #FarRight
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#Legal & #CivilRights advocates have expressed concerns that #Trump's pursuit of #antifa amounts to an attempt to #criminalize certain political views.
…#Trump first sought to designate the movement as a domestic terror organization in 2020, when left-wing demonstrators attacked federal buildings in Portland, Oregon during weeks of unrest following the police #murder of #GeorgeFloyd.
#AntiFascism #antifa #dissent #resist #law #security #fascism #FarRight #authoritarianism #tyranny #propaganda
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#Idaho lawmakers on Friday approved #legislation to #criminalize the use of bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms, even in private businesses, by people whose sex at birth does not match the facilities’ sign on the door.
Senators approved 28-7 what might be the nation’s most restrictive #transgender bathroom bill Friday, after the Idaho House approved the ban last week. Gov. Brad Little, a #Republican, is expected to sign it.
#law #CriminalLaw #ignorance #bigotry #discrimination #LGBTQ
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Florida, USA: Priest faces $500,000 in fines for feeding homeless amid lawsuit
https://www.wtoc.com/2026/03/11/priest-faces-500000-fines-feeding-homeless-amid-lawsuit/
The priest has continued to feed the homeless after the area around his church was rezoned more than a decade ago.
#USA #Criminalize #Samaritan #FoodAid #Homeless #Florida #Priest #HalfABillion #StateHarassment #Humanitarianism
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Nearly Two Years After Being Indicted on #Racketeering Charges in #Georgia, the First of 61 #StopCopCity Defendants is Set to Start Trial Today
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2025 via #WeelauneeTheFree
Repeated Evidentiary Violations, Dismissals of Charges, and More Than 200 Unresolved Motions Have Plagued the State’s Efforts to #Criminalize a Political Movement
ATLANTA, GA – "Nearly two years after being indicted on State racketeering charges in Georgia, the first of 61 Stop #CopCity defendants charged with #RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) will go to trial today, Monday, July 7 at 9 am in Fulton County Superior Court. A press conference will also be held today after the trial adjourns.
"#AylaKing filed for a speedy trial in October 2023, but their case has been held up on appeal while higher courts considered whether Georgia’s speedy trial statute had been violated and whether King’s rights had been denied. Multiple pretrial motions and the possibility of additional motions being filed this morning could delay the start of the trial, but according to Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer, jury selection will begin today.
What: First of 61 Stop Cop City RICO trials for Ayla King and press conference
When: Monday, July 7, 2025: Trial at 9am; Press conference at 4pm or when trial adjourns
Where: Fulton County Superior Court, 185 Central Ave SW, Courtroom 4D" 'Despite facing two decades in prison—nearly as long as they’ve been alive—Ayla King has bravely pushed for a speedy trial, and will now, after two years, finally see their day in court,' said local community member Evan Grace. Supporters of King argue that the charges are politically motivated. 'We know these charges are meant to bully us into silence, but the movement to Stop Cop City has always taken the courageous path, the one in righteous opposition to the #racist, #classist, violent system of #police and #prisons,' continued Grace. 'King, all the Stop Cop City defendants, and everyone coming out to show support during this trial will prove that the scare tactics they throw at us will never stop us from fighting back.' "
#CopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #WeelauneeForest #ACAB #RememberTort #JusticeForTort #JusticeForTortugita #AtlantaGeorgia #SystemicRacism #SaveTheForests #NoCopCities
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“The charges against me are purely political—they mischaracterize & distort my actions, & are meant to #criminalize & deter #legislative #oversight,” she said.
#AlinaHabba also announced that she had dismissed a misdemeanor charge for trespass against #RasBaraka, the Democratic mayor of #Newark, whose arrest had precipitated the flare-up w/federal agents after he sought to join the lawmakers on their tour of the detention center.
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How a #racist #hatemonger #masterminded America’s #WaronDrugs
#HarryAnslinger conflated #drug use, #race, and #music to #criminalize #nonwhiteness and create a #prisonindustrialcomplexIn this edition of #Cannabis #Conversations, Dr. #EthanRusso discusses clinical #endocannabinoiddeficiency and ways to target the #endocannabinoidsystem for #therapeutic benefit with Martin A. Lee, Co-Founder of Project #CBD. https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnZiVlJ2c3E3ZUVSWUJqS2cxeW5aODZGT0JCQXxBQ3Jtc0tsbXZPTG9iLXhJWXpTc2FpRnpNdndHVGZSX2FXNWVYMVV2dVF0eHp0STQyQ2R2UW81RzBpVjJSX0tHY24zdmVUT1QxY1BoWFNqNE9CUHVDaTVFdUxIVHl4OTRSRnlTYWo5dlFOSDdrWHUwcTZDbkhqNA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.projectcbd.org%2Fscience%2Fcbd-clinical-endocannabinoid-deficiency-dr-ethan-russo&v=IffacdsVsG4
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Tomorrow the #House will #vote on HR 867, a bill that will #criminalize private #boycotts of #Israel. Fines up to $1,000,000 and prison time up to 20 years.co)
here is the Bill; HR 867.
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@AlSweigart
This one is real close to coming true as more governments, federal, state and local, #criminalize
being homeless and poor.These folks will be filling up #privatePrisons and providing cheap labor to #bigCorps with no regulations or oversight.
#democracy is more than how we vote!
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#HouseGOP Working to Push Through Bill That Would Let #Trump Shut Down #Nonprofits
#DemocracyNow, November 18, 2024
"On Capitol Hill, House #Republicans [and some #Democrats] are attempting once again to ram through #HR9495, a bill that would allow Trump and future presidents to effectively shut down nonprofits by labeling them a '#terrorist-supporting organization.' The measure could target #HumanitarianAid groups, #news outlets, #schools and countless #CivilSociety organizations. #Congress failed to fast-track the bill last week, falling short of a required two-thirds majority despite dozens of Democrats voting in favor along with Republicans. But the next vote, which could happen this week, would likely only require a simple majority.
"A coalition of groups said in a statement, 'This bill was designed to #criminalize organizations and #activists who oppose the U.S.'s unconditional support of #Israel's #genocide of #Palestinians and the slaughter of #LebaneseCivilians.' Signatories to the statement included the Council on American-Islamic Relations and #AmericanMuslimsForPalestine. #Oxfam criticized the bill, saying Trump could use it to silence and censor critics, curb free speech and target political opponents."
#StopHR9495 #USCongress #CrimininalizingDissent #FirstAmendment #WaterProtectors #Protestors #Activists #FreedomOfExpression #PressFreedom #USPolitics #SilencingDissent #FreePalestine #StudentProtestors #FreeSpeech #Clampdown #StopHR9495
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism
#Authoritarianism #ProjectEsther #Project2025 #NDAA #Authoritarianism -
It's not over yet... A pox on #Harris for not speaking out against #IsraeliWarCrimes and alienating #ArabAmericans!
House #GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives #Trump Unilateral Power to Kill #Nonprofits
Dozens of #Democrats still support the bill — giving the Republican-controlled House plenty of breathing room to pass it next week.
Noah Hurowitz
November 15 2024"A controversial '#nonprofit killer' bill is back on track after it was blocked earlier this week.
"A majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives rejected the bill on Tuesday out of fear that it could grant President-Elect Donald Trump legal tools with which to target his ideological foes, but Republicans are swiftly pressing ahead.
"The #StopTerrorFinancing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, which would empower the secretary of the Treasury to designate any #nonprofit as a '#terrorist supporting organization' and revoke its tax-exempt status, is set to go before the Committee on Rules on Monday for a hearing that could tee up the bill for a new floor vote.
"The hearing was announced Thursday evening, just two days after 144 Democrats and one Republican voted against the bill as part of a fast-track parliamentary procedure that required a two-thirds majority.
"The bill, also known as #HR9495, has come under withering criticism from a broad coalition of organizations that say its sponsors are pushing it as a means of cracking down on free speech — particularly speech in support of #Palestine. In a joint statement earlier this week, a coalition of #ArabAmerican and #MuslimOrganizations pledged to continue to fight the bill.
"'This bill was designed to #criminalize organizations and #activists who oppose the U.S.’s unconditional support of #Israel’s #genocide of Palestinians and the slaughter of #Lebanese civilians,' read the statement, which was signed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, American Muslims for Palestine, and others. 'We will continue to stand firm in protecting all organizations’ freedom to speak and operate without fear of political retribution.'
"Offices for the chair and ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, through which the bill must pass, did not respond to requests for comment.
"With #ProIsrael groups lobbying for the bill, it gained popularity among House Democrats, in part due to a provision providing tax relief to Americans held hostage abroad.
"The reelection of Trump, however, galvanized opponents, including Rep. #LloydDoggett, D-Texas, who led the charge to reject the bill on Tuesday. Doggett doubled down on Thursday after learning of the newly scheduled Rules Committee hearing.
"'In this mislabeled bill, House Republicans are hiding behind hostages,' Doggett said in a statement to The Intercept. 'Their rush to reconsider this bill is solely to offer Trump more and more power, while Trump’s nominees for key #NationalSecurity posts this week indicate how he will be using it.'"
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/15/nonprofits-trump-bill-gop-republicans/#StopHR9495 #CriminalizingDissent #KristiNoem #Blackwater #ErikPrince #Fascism #Autocracy #SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists #AntiWarActivists #FirstAmendment #WaterProtectors #PeaceActivists #ClimateJustice #ClimateActivists #Protests #StandWithStandingRock #GazaGenocide #LebanonGenocide
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the #CiceroInstitute, which is lobbying states to #criminalize #homelessness, & the University of Austin, which he has described as an antidote to universities that have been overtaken by “radical, far-left ideologues.”
Others, like the venture capitalists #MarcAndreessen & #BenHorowitz, were Democrats troubled by the changing climate for #tech investors.
#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #SiliconValley #Republicans #Kleptocracy #RulingClass #Bourgeoisie #Aristocracy #Totalitarianism
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It would #criminalize #pornography. There would be #MassDeportations & curtailments of LEGAL #immigration programs, including #DACA. It would DISMANTLE the Dept of #Education.
Throughout the #Project2025 manifesto, authors also recommend ways to increase funding for #religious orgs by giving them more access to #government programs–largely through increased use of #school vouchers that could go to religious schools
#authoritarianism #autocracy #NewApostolicReformation #SevenMountainMandate
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Another in the continuing #Maga effort to de legitimize #books #humanities #libraries #librarians #literature #education #freespeech the #threats #fiction #novels #reading in #America. Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, #Texas. 824-page investigative file offers visceral picture of an officer’s attempt to #prosecute librarians amid a nationwide movement to #criminalize books. #Nazism #bookbans #fascism https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-librarians-banned-books-investigation-texas-rcna161444 charges never filed
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#Project2025’s #plan to #criminalize #porn has a #sinister #subplot.
The #farright #gameplan for a second #Trump #term defines #pornography to include "#transgender #ideology."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-porn-ban-lgbtq-transgender-rcna161562
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#BigOil’s Plan To #Criminalize #Pipeline #Protests
By ExposedByCMD Editors
| June 18th, 2024
at 12:21 PM (CDT)"#AnneWhiteHat found herself facing up to 10 years in prison after she was arrested for two counts of felony trespassing in September 2018 under one such law, which had just taken effect in Louisiana following pressure from oil and gas lobbyists.
She was one of four Native women who founded a resistance camp called L’eau Est La Vie, which was organizing nonviolent direct actions in protest of the #BayouBridgePipeline — a now-operating 163-mile pipeline owned by #EnergyTransfer that transports crude oil throughout the state. The protests ranged from a rendition of 'Crawfish the Musical' on the construction site to protesters locking themselves to pipeline equipment to tree sits in the centuries-old cypresses the company planned to tear down.
"The Bayou Bridge pipeline is the tail end of the #DakotaAccess route — White Hat had already joined her relatives to participate in the resistance camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota. 'I felt like it was a righteous cause, not to let them comfortably continue to threaten the waters of Indigenous #FirstNations,' she said. 'I was inspired from the work up North and just couldn’t let them continue down here unanswered and unchecked.'
White Hat had just finished leading a prayer ceremony when she was arrested at a boat ramp miles from the pipeline construction site. She was hauled into a sheriff deputy’s car with two other women and driven through tall sugar cane fields on the way to jail.
'It was terrifying,' said White Hat. 'We’re way out in the middle of nowhere. I was like, ‘Is this the point where I actually disappear?’
Investigative journalist Karen Savage was arrested that day, too — her second arrest under felony trespass charges as she reported on the Bayou Bridge protests. She was one of the only reporters to travel to the Atchafalaya Basin swamp, where the pipeline was being constructed.
By the time the water protectors got to the swamp, Savage said, they 'had done everything — they went to public meetings, they had petitions, they wrote letters, they tried to meet with the governor — they did everything they tell you in school, to participate and use your civil obligation in your community.' Despite their best efforts in one of the most oil- and gas-friendly states in the country, said Savage, 'nobody was listening.'"
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/18/big-oils-plan-to-criminalize-pipeline-protests/
#BigOilAndGas #CriminalizingDissent #ACAB #HumanRightsViolations #IndigenousActivism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousLandDefenders
#DirectAction #CorporateFascism #CriminalizingDissent
#WaterIsLife #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #EcoActivists #NoDAPL -
#UK #Secretary Uses #EmergencyPowers To #Criminalize #Possession Of #PubertyBlockers.
On May 31st, #letters went out from #NHSEngland to #parents of #trans #youth stating that they must immediately stop taking #pubertyblockers, and that #possession will be considered a #crime.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Tories #TERFS #NHS #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #TERFIsland
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/uk-secretary-uses-emergency-powers
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How to #Criminalize #Protest.
In #Atlanta, the #GeorgeFloyd #demonstrators are being #prosecuted as #gangmembers. 42 have been charged with #domesticterrorism and 61 with #racketeering and #conspiracy.
The #activists of today could be next.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Georgia #Police #Fascism Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #NoPoliceAtPride #BlackMastodon
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/atlanta-cop-city-george-floyd-protesters.html
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#Dutch #court found #AlexeyPertsev of #TornadoCash #guilty
[1/3] This verdict is a #scandal because it targets #anonymity and #infrastructure that provides it
And it is yet another example for
a.) people not understanding tech
b.) a #culturalchange in seeing #anonymity and not #surveillance as a threat to #society and #freedomIf you #criminalize everything that can be used by criminals, you have to criminalize #drinkingwater because there is scientific proof criminals drink it, too
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#Africa: #UNAIDS Calls For the #Protection of #HumanRights on the #InternationalDay Against #Homophobia, #Biphobia, and #Transphobia (#IDAHOBT)
More than 60 countries still #criminalize being #Gay, while another 20 countries criminalize #genderexpression and #identity.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ChristianDarkMoney #ExportingHate
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In my home province of #NewBrunswick our autocrat #oilExec #premier #blaineHiggs is attempting to #criminalize #drugAddiction and #homelessness. He's already threatened to use the #NotWithstanding clause to force his new "mandatory addictions treatment" bill through.
We have ZERO space in addictions programs.
We have ZERO free beds in hospitals.
We have a BRAND NEW jail being built that no one knows why.The people on our streets will be rounded up and left to rot in overcrowded lockups where they will NOT receive adequate medical treatment, nor the financial and social services they **ACTUALLY NEED**.
It's actions like these that have caused A DOZEN of his own party members to resign.
Let's all stand up against this dehumanizing attack!
#stopHiggs #NoFascists #noOilExecsInGovernment #noOligarchs #noOilAndGas #harmReduction #HousingFirst #SafeSupply #decriminalise #nbpoli #cdnpoli
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#Italy’s #primeminister #calls #surrogacy ‘#inhuman’ as #party backs steeper #penalties.
The move to #criminalize #surrogacy is largely seen as a #move #targeting the #LGBTQ+ #community.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #Italy #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #EmptyThePews
https://www.advocate.com/news/italy-prime-minister-surrogacy
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#library #books #bannedbooks #reading
Want to know why the #RepublicanParty is so scared of the American Library Association that they want to #criminalize the simple act of a librarian joining that organization?
Because the ALA #educate people about book banning in the #UnitedStates. And an informed and intelligent group of people likely won't vote for a #GOP candidate.
Keep the Voters Dumb and Win All the Prizes.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/ala-reveals-most-challenged-books-of-2023/
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As a career long law librarian, this leaves me sad, angry, and really, feeling ill. I cannot even imagine 45 years ago anyone threatening the profession and its members this way - #Louisiana HB 777 Would #Criminalize #Librarians and #Libraries Who Join the American Library Association #ALA #librarians #freespeech #books #education #KnowledgeSharing #censorship https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/ #criminallaw #legislation
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Many communities have laws that #criminalize activities #homeless people need to do in public to survive including:
Sitting or lying down
Loitering or loafing
Eating or sharing food
Asking for money or panhandling
Sleeping in cars and outside or campingThe cost of criminalizing #homelessness is high. Criminalizing homelessness does not solve homelessness and violates human rights.
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#Fascist #GOP #supermajority in #Kentucky moves to #criminalize #interference with #legislature after #transgender #protests.
The #bill is now #pending in the #Senate.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kentucky #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#NeoNazi #GOP #candidate #pledges to #ban #samesexmarriage & “#exile all #Jews”, and #criminalize #trans #identity if she #wins the March 5th #election.
Her #views are increasingly #common in the #RepublicanParty
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Nazis #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate