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The New COINTELPRO? Meet the Activist the FBI Labeled a “Black Identity Extremist” & Jailed 5 Months

In Texas, a black activist says he is the first person to be targeted and prosecuted under a secretive U.S. surveillance effort to track so-called black identity extremists. On December 12, activist

May 23, 2018
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Between Boycotts and Special Interest Campaigns: the Chilling of Speech on Israel and Palestine

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Any art institution that displays art about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict - or even art that is created by Israeli or Palestinian artists - needs to carefully navigate a space between intense pressures coming

February 6, 2018
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The Right is Waging War on Academic Freedom

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The resignation of Drexel University Professor Ciccariello-Maher following right-wing threats and harassment is the result of a broader, ongoing right-wing campaign to intimidate progressive professors throughout the U.S., and it's having a chilling effect

December 29, 2017
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Internet Censorship Bills Wouldn’t Help Catch Sex Traffickers

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In the most illuminating part of last week’s House subcommittee hearing on the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation special agent Russ Winkler explained how he uses online

December 6, 2017
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RT Crackdown Escalates New Cold War and Threatens Press Freedom

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The U.S. government's forced designation of RT America as a "foreign agent" is part of a dangerous effort to brand dissenting views as "Russian disinformation," says The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel

November 19, 2017
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Activists Are Documenting the Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar — but FB Is Censoring Their Posts

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Facebook is silencing Rohingya activists based in Burma (also known as Myanmar) and in Western countries, the Daily Beast reports. According to the report, Facebook has been removing posts documenting incidents

September 20, 2017
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