Anonymous Launches #Gitmo2Chicago to Shut Down NDAA Style Secret Detention Center By Chicago Police

Anonymous & activists will go to social media using #‎Gitmo2Chicago‬ to bring attention to Chicago Police’s secret detention facility that mirrors the CIA’s “black sites.” Is the NDAA here?

Nick Bernabe
By Nick Bernabe

  (ANTIMEDIA) Various activist groups and concerned citizens are coming together to oppose the Chicago Police’s secret torture detention center also known as Homan Square. A bombshell report from The Guardian detailed Homan Square’s practices on Tuesday. We concluded from the report that, Chicago Police are operating a secret

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#Mintcasts: Ferguson Reveals Parallels Between NDAA, Militarization Of Police

In the United States of America, home of the free, our police are gearing up for war, crushing peaceful protests and intimidating journalists.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Police Shooting Missouri

Hey everyone, and welcome to #MintCasts, our MintPress podcast series. I’m Mnar Muhawesh, editor-in-chief of MintPress, and I’ll be your host. Detention without charges and intimidation was the order of the day for Ferguson, Missouri, police again, with a heavily militarized force continuing to bully protesters while also vowing to continue

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#MintCasts: NDAA, Barring The US From Indefinitely Detaining, Assassinating US Citizens

Welcome to #MintCasts, our Mint Press podcast series. In this segment we interview the founder of People Against the National Defense Authorization Act (PANDA) to talk about their grassroots effort to bar the NDAA on a local level.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
PANDA

Thanks again for joining today’s conversation where we will be discussing the annual defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, or better known as the NDAA. This piece of legislation, which most Americans don’t know exists, consists of vague language first seen in the 2012 NDAA that allows the US government to unlawfully and

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Senate’s Latest NDAA Draft Further Tramples Americans’ Rights

Senior legislative counsel for the ACLU estimates that if the Senate has its way, 100 U.S. citizens could immediately find themselves in Guantánamo-like indefinite detention.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke
Guantanamo

The Senate’s draft of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2015 was written behind closed doors and kept secret for around 11 days, but the text of the bill was publicly released last week. In response, Chris Anders, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office, wrote a blog post for the

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Is Congress Moving to End ‘Endless War’ or Expand It?

As renewed focus turns to legal authority that underpins US ‘war on terror’ – the cure may be as vile as the disease.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
South Sudan US

The proposed amendment is short, but if passed by the House of Representatives in a vote that could arrive Wednesday afternoon, it could also be sweet—especially for those who have pushed hardest to end the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (or AUMF) which has provided the legal basis for America's so-called "global war on terrorism." As

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PANDA, Fighting The NDAA One City At A Time

Inspired by a YouTube video, a 20 year old built a movement against the National Defense Authorization Act that allows the government to indefinitely detain anyone, even American citizens.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

In his dorm room in Bowling Green, Ohio, in 2011, Dan Johnson watched a YouTube video comparing the rise and fall of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to what was happening in the political realm in the United States at the time. The video specifically detailed a piece of legislation known as the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. The video

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