Saying no to Homeland Security surveillance
It can be done!Cambridge, Massachusetts has become the first city in the state -- and maybe the United States? -- to stop Department of Homeland Security video surveillance cameras. Homeland Security...
View ArticleSaying No in Maine
All day yesterday, four of us from the ACLU of Massachusetts office canvassed for the No on 1 campaign to protect marriage equality in Maine. We walked door-to-door, urging supporters to get out and...
View ArticleEquality is nothing to fear.
Everybody knows that fear is the great motivator. Ask any advertising professional, political campaign manager, or the folks who deliver the nightly mayhem report on your local news stations. No doubt...
View ArticleBillions of dollars for intelligence (and war) pays for what, exactly?
A number of recent news items suggest that our government is on the wrong track when it comes to fighting terrorism at home and abroad. And last week we learned that the taxpayer bill for these...
View ArticleLooking forward: the U.S. Government, Torture and the Rule of Law
On November 9, 2010, the former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr. breathed a heavy sigh of relief. His day of reckoning had never come, as the statute of limitations for...
View ArticleTennessee Fusion Center ---> #WINNING
Late last year, the Tennessee state surveillance (or so-called “fusion”) center put the ACLU of Tennessee on a map listing “Terrorism Events and Other Suspicious Activity”. Read more about that...
View ArticleWhen Boston Police spy on free speech, democracy suffers
This post by ACLU of Massachusetts educator director Nancy Murray originally appeared at Boston.com.Psst! Check out this super-secret Boston Police "intelligence report":"Local activists have been...
View ArticleHoward Zinn: (A) anti-war activist and historian or (B) extremist?
By Raquel Ronzone, ACLU of Massachusetts communications content specialistBoston Police say (B), according to records the ACLU of Massachusetts and National Lawyers Guild Massachusetts Chapter obtained...
View ArticleThis is not the way to honor veterans
What I'm talking about is spying on those who don’t want to see more war, and labeling them as “extremists.”Last month the ACLU of Massachusetts and the National Lawyers Guild’s Massachusetts chapter...
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