New Jersey fusion center (via Wikimedia Commons) Post by Aaron Cynic Department of Homeland Security fusion centers, intelligence gathering hubs which “serve as focal points within the state and local government for the receipt, analysis, gather and sharing of threat-related information” between levels of government in regards to terrorism might not be worth the billions [...]
Article by Aaron Cynic Freedom of speech had a hat trick of victories last week, proving that despite the interest of law enforcement and other machinations of the state to put down protesters, ultimately, the law still sides with activists. On Wednesday, the University of California settled with 21 students who sued after campus police [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic (edited by Natalie Solidarity) Chicago teachers have been on strike for a week, and two other suburban areas have since followed suit. Predictably, the argument coming from critics of the CTU centers around teachers making too much money, putting children at risk while “whining” about pay, and teachers being some sort [...]
Police in Charlotte, North Carolina detained and threatened two journalists covering a march outside the Democratic National Convention over the weekend. Kevin Gosztola of Firedoglake and Steve Horn, a contributor to Truthout covering the DNC for WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin, noticed four men taking photos of a contingent of undocumented immigrants during a march called [...]
Image via Wikipedia A contract proposal from the Defense Department’s research arm DARPA revealed the Pentagon is looking to develop computer algorithms which would mine data from social media websites and use it to track and analyze the behavior of various criminal and terrorist groups (h/t Mashable). In order to understand group dynamics and “forecast [...]
Recently, House of Representatives panel discussed potentially amending the Espionage Act to prosecute journalists who report leaked information. In response to several instances where reporters have used information leaked to them by confidential sources to write stories, the panel suggested amending the law, which was enacted in 1917 to prosecute spies and others who divulge [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic American law enforcement agencies continue to increase their surveillance on an otherwise fairly complacent citizenry, logging an incredible amount of requests for information regarding cell phone and social media use. Last week, a judge in New York ruled that Twitter must give a court close to three months of information from [...]
Post by Natalie Solidarity The Fourth of July celebrates of the birth of the United States, its act of finally breaking free from tyrannical England, represented by a reenactment of bombs exploding in the sky. As a nation, we fetishize the loss of life on both sides while we devour factory-farmed meats, consume liquids bottled [...]
Diatribe Media is pleased to showcase The Supplement #3, Strategic Missives for Agitation and Occupation. Issue 3: Plutocracy Incarnate – “This document names just a few of the plutocrats who are responsible for the neoliberal order. It shows just a few of the urban situations that will have to be transformed if we want to [...]
Originally posted at NATO5.occupychi.org‘s “An Open Letter“ Dear friend, Imagine being trapped in a cage twenty-four hours a day. You have to eat food better fit for a garbage can than a human. Surrounded by guards who hate you, push you around, call you a terrorist. This is happening right now to our friends who [...]
Post by Gregory Malandrucco (originally posted at www.uscop.org) The NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program has created two very distinct sets of experiences for the residents of New York City. One portion of the population’s experience embodies relative freedom as we legally and culturally understand it. However, for minority residents of the city, the experience is part of [...]
Post by Natalie Solidarity My gentle friend was returned to state custody even as I willed otherwise. Three days later, my Occupy Chicago brothers and I sat on cold stone benches, watching families visit their fathers for the hallmark holiday. We drove together to visit our comrade together because that’s what families do. It was [...]