Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
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World's Youth See Snowden As a Hero – Making Surveillance Reform Inevitable
According to a worldwide poll, a large and important segment of global society sees Edward Snowden as hero and whistleblower — and its members are the future.
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Protests Mount in Baltimore Over Police Killing of Freddie Gray
Outrage over the police killing of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore continued on Thursday after hundreds demonstrated in front of the Western District police station where Gray was taken following his arrest on April 12.
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“Acts of Passion”: What This Washington Post Investigation Tells Us About Fatal Police Shootings
The Post’s analysis doesn't confirm that race was a factor in dozens of shootings, but the fact that more than 75% of the officers involved were white, and two-thirds of the victims were minorities, leads observers to believe race played a factor.
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America's Missing Black Men: Where Have 1.5 Million Gone?
For every 100 black women ages 25 to 54 who are not in jail, there are only 83 black men – the rest are missing largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars.
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FBI Overstated Forensic Evidence In More Than 200 Trials
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
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Greece's Other Story: Golden Dawn and the Dangerous Rise of Europe's Far Right
Continued austerity policies, especially in Europe’s poorer countries, could leave those left behind looking for scapegoats – a situation that history teaches us never ends well.
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Lobbyists for Spies Appointed To Oversee Spying
A wave of recent appointments has placed intelligence industry insiders into key Congressional roles overseeing intelligence gathering – just as lawmakers in DC are set to take up a series of sensitive surveillance issues like the Patriot Act.
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Can the Surveillance State Repeal Act Shift the Course on Spying?
Eager to reset the debate and anchor it in long overdue transparency, a bipartisan block of representatives have introduced the proposal to restore civil liberties, privacy and freedom of thought.
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The Real Cyber Bullies: How Big Business Is Helping Expand NSA Surveillance
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which President Obama could sign this month, represents a major new privacy threat to individuals as it enables corporations to feed massive amounts of communications to businesses and state.
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Spanish Congress Approves Anti-Democratic Laws Curbing Protests, Press, Internet and Speech
A draconian new gag law will punish Spanish activists with severe fines for organizing in public space, sending tweets, photographing the police, stopping foreclosure evictions, gathering in front of Congress, and many other democratic acts.