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04/21/2023

06/14/2021

CPT Alan Kennedy has been disciplined by the Colorado National Guard for publicly supporting Black Lives Matter. MLTF member James Matthew Branum is his attorney and writes about the free speech issues embodied by this case.

08/12/2019

11/19/2018

The Posse Comitatus Act forbids use of the military to enforce domestic US laws, including immigration laws.

09/08/2017

Opioid addiction affects peoples' work lives more than alcohol or other drugs, and those who struggle with it tell strikingly similar tales of deepening alienation from their careers.

03/02/2016

When Utah executed Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad in June of 2010, no one from his family was inside the state prison to witness his death. That was by design. Gardner had asked his ...

11/15/2014

Once largely the domain of the F.B.I., undercover work has increased across federal agencies as policies have changed, according to officials, former agents and documents.

02/24/2014

Today is a Day of Remembrance for the 120,000 Japanese Americans interned after Executive Order 9066, which was signed 72 years ago today. Illustration by Bernard Chang.

Image courtesy of Nerds of Color: http://wp.me/p3MnPm-1ic

02/19/2014

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on Congress and the Secretary of State John Kerry to oppose U.S. intervention in the ongoing conflict in Venezuela, as a violent campaign brought by Venezuela’s extreme right-wing opposition seeks to topple the recently elected government.

01/30/2014

Korematsu unsuccessfully fought internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. His conviction was overturned in 1983 and he became a civil rights hero.

01/16/2014

Congrats to Marty Stolar, the NLG, and the protestors! Keep taking 'em to the cleaners!
Illegally Arrested RNC Protesters Finally Getting Paid
nymag.com
Both NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman and Martin Stolar, a National Lawyer's Guild attorney who represented some of the plaintiffs, said it was the biggest settlement they'd ever heard of in a mass-arrest case.

01/08/2014

"It Was Time to Do More Than Protest": 1971 Burglars Who Exposed COINTELPRO Reveal Their Identities
democracynow.org
One of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era has been solved. On March 8, 1971, a group of activists — including a cabdriver, a day care director and two professors — broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They stole every document