Read the CLDC June 2012 Newsletter! Spring has come and gone. As the flowers have been growing here in Oregon — home to the CLDC headquarters — so have the ever looming threats to our civil liberties, and the need for action. This Spring Newsletter is one...
Carl Mayer, CounterPunch Judge Forrest, of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, issued a ruling on May 16 that will be regarded as a watershed moment in reversing a decade-long bi-partisan assault on civil liberties and the Constitution. Her honor took the...
Under the guise of public safety, the City of Eugene enacted the “Exclusion Ordinance” in 2008, a law authorizing police to essentially banish citizens from the downtown. Under this law, the mere allegation that a person has committed a criminal violation...
This article by Will Potter, from Green is the New Red, tells a disturbing story. Newly released FBI presentations show the flawed and misleading information the government is using to train agents to identify and investigate “domestic terrorist” groups...
Chris Hedges writes on Truthdig.com about Tarek Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, who was sentenced in April in Worcester, Mass., to 17½ years in prison. Hedges says,”It was another of the tawdry show trials held against Muslim activists since 9/11 as a result of the...
The Winnemem Wintu tribe take matters into their own hands In order to defend their right to preserve their way of life, the Winnemem Wintu tribe had been calling on allies to join them in securing a section of the McCloud River so they can perform the Coming of Age...
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