Government Surveillance of Occupy Movement Special Report by Center for Media and Democracy and DBA Press by Beau Hodai, CMD/DBA On May 20, 2013, DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy 
released the results of a year-long investigation: “Dissent or Terror:
 How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With 
Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.”

 The report, a distillation of thousands of pages of records obtained
 from counter terrorism/law enforcement agencies, details how
 state/regional “fusion center” personnel monitored the Occupy Wall
 Street movement over the course of 2011 and 2012. The report also examines how fusion centers and other counter terrorism entities that 
have emerged since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have
 worked to benefit numerous corporations engaged in public-private
 intelligence sharing partnerships

Are you frustrated by the ongoing assault on your liberties? Here’s an online opportunity to connect the dots and encourage greater respect for constitutional values by your state and federal representatives.   After the infamous PATRIOT Act came FISA and the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping scheme, the  FBI’s infiltration of mosques  alongside broader  FBI raids on and surveillance of peace activists , the 2012 NDAA and its provisions that could import the lawless detention practices at Guantanamo Bay into the US, the extrajudicial assassination of US citizens abroad through drone strikes, and most recently, the FBI assaulting the press and the IRS discriminating against organizations, like BORDC, that promote constitutionalism

Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was … PR Watch How law enforcement agencies active in the Arizona fusion center dispatched an undercover officer to infiltrate activist groups organizing both protests of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the launch of Occupy Phoenix and how the … and more »

JAY: So the media’s filled with this. Occupy fizzled out.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been engaged in massive surveillance of peaceful protesters which undermines protections enshrined in the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Two recent studies raise serious questions about the way the DHS has reacted to Occupy…

16 May 2013 – hifi brisbane ‘SHOCK-U-PY’ Occupy! YEAH! YEAH! Shock-you-py! YEAH! YEAH! Once upon a time There was a Great Depression There was a president na…

Occupy Wall Street isn’t dead- it simply needs leadership and new direction.

By Mark Trekson Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, isn’t exactly beach reading, but to those interested in a novel effort to link a wide range of political theory to practical … Continue reading →

My Occupy book release party/March Against Monsanto after-party May 25 th , 7pm.  Top level of Denver Art Society. Come celebrate the release of My Occupy: An Account of One Person’s Adventures in the Occupy Movement by Christopher Mandel. All proceeds will go to the Denver Art Society, which has supported Denver area artists and activists graciously and has already made a real difference for a lot of people in its short existence.   Thank you  DAS! Organic, Non-GMO food will be provided by Food Not Bombs, and there’ll also be drinks available.

Despite claims that we live in a post-racial era, racism and classism continue to permeate US society, including in the governmental and advocacy organizations that are supposed to prevent discrimination and abuse. Racism is well documented in the criminal (in)justice system, and since the Occupy movement arose, inequality in incomes and wealth are more frequently discussed. But little attention has been given to racism and classism in the environmental movement and in agricultural policy, where their effects create intolerable injustices.