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  1. Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open Information
    Malicious Government Prosecution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy..
  2. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
    His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
  3. Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information Freedom
    They Can't Stop the Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's more, his death was the outcome of a policy that is a threat to human freedom.
  4. Am I a bad feminist?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do I believe that women are children, incapable of agency or of making moral decisions.
  5. Chevron's Crude Attacks
    Court Sides With Big Oil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Yet another instance of the increasingly pro-business stance of the US legal system.
  6. Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
  7. Colorblind Law -- NOT
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Positive review of Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It looks at the history of how states circumvented federal desegregation laws.
  8. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  9. The Constitutional Root of Racism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
  10. Criminalizing Truancy
    Should Kids be Jailed for Skipping School?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    American jurisdictions are increasingly turning to the criminal justice system to deal with truancy. Students and parents are being fined, and in some cases jailed, for missing school.
  11. Cuadrilla versus The Nanas - #IamTinaRothery
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Thanks to fracking company Cuadrilla, grandmother Tina Rothery will be in court tomorrow over a £55,000 'debt' imposed on her for joining a peaceful occupation of a fracking site in Lancashire. But as she explains, she can't pay, she won't pay, and even if she could pay, she wouldn't. Someone has to stand up to corporate vandalism and abuse of justice - and in this case, it's her, no matter what the consequences.
  12. Destroying the Commons 
    How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
  13. Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
    The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
  14. Eyewitness to the Trial and Agony of Julian Assange
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    John Pilger has watched Julian Assange's extradition trial from the public gallery at London's Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.
  15. The Great Conspiracy Trial
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  16. Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Outrageous Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Civil asset forfeiture violates civil and property rights, not to mention fundamental notions of justice. Now, finally, it's under increasing fire.
  17. How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
    Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
  18. How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
  19. How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment Against Chevron Lost Everything
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him. As a result, Donziger has been disbarred and his bank accounts have been frozen.
  20. The ICC is now an instrument of imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Rome Statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC was to be an international tribunal and intergovernmental organisation that would prosecute all individuals for international crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  21. If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
  22. The Judicial Persecution of Steven Donziger 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    in the U.S., a judge acts as prosecutor and jury on behalf of a giant oil company, Chevron, as it destroys the life and career of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger. His crime? Daring to win a judgment against Chevron in an Ecuadorian court. For those less enchanted with the U.S. justice system, this is no surprise.
  23. Lessons from COINTELPRO
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    We can best honor those who have been murdered by our government and their agents, not by mourning but by organizing, by building movements that put into practice solidarity across borders that are inclusive in all the important ways - class, gender, race, sexual orientation, language, immigrant status and age - that resist boldly and courageously all forms of inequality and environmental degradation.
  24. Montreal spends $110,000 on private lawyers to fight challenge to anti-protest bylaw
    There's room for austerity around everything except repression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    As the city of Montreal tightens its belt-buckle and is cutting budgets, two Montrealers who are challenging the city's regulations around demonstrations are questioning the amount of resources the city is putting in to defend the bylaws.
  25. 'None Of It Reported': How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    When it comes to arguably the most important political trial in our lifetimes, there is a not-so-curious media reluctance to dwell on it or even mention it, never mind grant it the kind of blanket coverage that celebrity trials regularly generate. Thus, media attention given to the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and editor, was minimal and dwarfed by the coverage devoted to the actor Johnny Depp over the summer.
  26. Notes on Russia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1936
  27. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
    Arms Trade
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
  28. The Persecution of Pvt. Bradley Manning
    A Sick Game
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The torture and prolonged confinement without trial of Pvt. Manning are the tactics of a totalitarian state. They are exactly what is done in countries like China, Iran, and Burma.
  29. The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". We are witnessing the implementation of that plan.
  30. Quotes about Law and Crime
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  31. Resisting State Violence
    Justice Or Just Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    None of the ambiguities that surrounded Mike Brown’s killing are present in the grotesque spectacle of Eric Garner’s murder. By now the whole world has watched the man die at the hands of police without betraying a trace of belligerence. The failure to indict Pantaleo and the officers who pinned Garner down as he repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe” is a reminder that antiblackness is not a technical problem and therefore cannot be remedied with a technical solution.
  32. Rights vs. Privileges
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    We now owe our 'liberties' to the good will of the government, which can withdraw them at any time, rather than to our ability to force the government to respect them.
  33. 'Shariafication by stealth' in the UK
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014   Published: 2104
    Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
  34. Ssangyong Motors Strike in South Korea Ends in Defeat and Heavy Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The hard-right Korean government is signaling with these measures -- its latest and most dramatic "take no prisoners" victory over popular protest in the past year and a half -- its intention to steamroller any potential future resistance to its unabashed rule on behalf of big capital.
  35. Stansted 15: British Activists Who Stopped Deportation Charter Flight Convicted of Terrorism Charge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at a group of fifteen activists who prevented a deportation charter flight from leaving Stansted airport in the UK by securing themselves around the aeroplane, and were subsequently found guilty of a terrorist offence.
  36. Supreme Toxicity -- Confirmed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Editorial about Brett Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court and the hopefulness of grassroots movements like #metoo and BLM spur people to take action.
  37. Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
  38. These Activists Blocked Migrant Deportations. Now They Face Life Imprisonment in the U.K.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Fifteen activists who blocked a plane deporting migrants are being charged with laws intended for terrorists. The use of charter flights for deportations is one of the issues they raise.
  39. Trial
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  40. 12 most absurd laws used to stifle occupy movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.
  41. Unlawful Dissent
    New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
  42. You are all suspects now. What are you going to do about it?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A state of permanent war has been launched by the United States and a police state is consuming western democracy.
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