“Right now, thousands of activists who have gathered in Pittsburgh to protest at the G20 summit have been met with what we have come to expect: Overreaction by authorities and illegal preventive tactics by law enforcement officials at all levels. A secret communications hub with “electronic eyes†has been established by the Secret Service …
… working with over 40 other agencies to infiltrate, spy on, and disrupt all forms of opposition. Raids and arrests are mounting, and the aggressive and well-planned system of cracking down on dissenting voices and reducing media coverage is strongly in effect.” — Annette Warren Dickerson, Center for Constitutional Rights.
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BREAKING NEWS An Alert from the Center for Constitutional Rights
“Right now, thousands of activists who have gathered in Pittsburgh to protest at the G20 summit have been met with what we have come to expect: Overreaction by authorities and illegal preventive tactics by law enforcement officials at all levels. A secret communications hub with “electronic eyes†has been established by the Secret Service …
… working with over 40 other agencies to infiltrate, spy on, and disrupt all forms of opposition. Raids and arrests are mounting, and the aggressive and well-planned system of cracking down on dissenting voices and reducing media coverage is strongly in effect.” — Annette Warren Dickerson, Center for Constitutional Rights.
Read full alert here.
Tags: Center for Constitutional Rightgs, Civil Liberties, G20 Summit
This entry was posted on Friday, September 25th, 2009 at 4:37 pm and is filed under Civil Liberties/Journalism, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, You Might See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.