COVID-19 and Uprisings for Black Liberation Used as a Pretext for Advancing Mass Surveillance
Kris Hermes, July 15, 2020 On the night of June 1, amidst mass uprisings against police violence and structural racism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) deployed it’s most advanced spy plane, equipped with sophisticated long-range video cameras that can capture footage day or night, see through haze, and provide infrared thermal imaging, in order […]
Remaining J20 Cases Dismissed: Takeaways for Anarchists and our Social Movements
More than seventeen months after DC police “kettled” and arrested 234 protesters, journalists, medics, legal observers, and bystanders, subsequently charging them with several riot-related felonies, the Trump administration was forced to dismiss the remaining Inauguration Day (J20) cases. On Jan. 20, 2017, thousands of people protested the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC and […]