Editorial: The real extremists are those trying to silence solidarity with Palestine | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/editorial-real-extremists-are-those-trying-silence-solidarity-palestine

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#Oregon's #FusionCenter Spied on #Activists -- Violated Oregon's Law on #Surveillance

#CivilLibertiesDefenseCenter Crosses Important Hurdle in Case Against Oregon Dept. of Justice

Government Overreach on Activist Surveillance Again

"Fusion Centers, where law enforcement agencies share information, have been secretly violating rights and laws. The first #NativeAmerican Tribe to join a law enforcement Fusion Center was the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona, enabling it to share surveillance with state and federal agencies. The Fusion Center in North Dakota, during the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline, secretly engaged in surveillance of #WaterProtectors."

By Civil Liberties Defense Center, Censored News, March 8, 2024

"After the events of September 11, 2001, a total of 79 Fusion Centers were created throughout the United States, with the purported goal of helping law enforcement agencies coordinate and share information with each other.
In the wake of the successful citizen challenge to the Jordan Cove pipeline in southern Oregon, investigative journalists at the Guardian and the Intercept revealed that Oregon’s Fusion Center had for years been amassing information and creating dossiers about activists’ work to challenge the pipeline.

"In doing so, the Oregon DOJ violated an Oregon statute going back to the 1980s, that prohibits such surveillance. Very simply worded, the one-sentence statute (ORS 181A.250) prohibits all Oregon law enforcement agencies from collecting or maintaining 'information about the political, religious or social views, associations or activities' of any person or organization, 'unless such information directly relates to an investigation of criminal activities, and there are reasonable grounds to suspect the subject of the information is or may be involved in criminal conduct.'

"When we learned that the Fusion Center had gathered and maintained files about our clients, #360Eugene and #RogueClimate, we joined the Oregon state court lawsuit challenging that behavior (Farrell-Smith v. Oregon Department of Justice, Marion Co. No. 21CV47809).

"Rather than seeking financial compensation, this suit goes deeper, to the roots, asking the court to declare that the Fusion Center is operating in violation of the law and without legal authority, and to issue an injunction prohibiting the Center from conducting such surveillance in the future.
Examples of the types of activities the Center surveilled were #PeacefulMarches, letter-writing campaigns, and planning meetings. CLDC and our clients are concerned that such surveillance chills free speech and organizing, and that the little-used Oregon statute must be enforced."

Read more:

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/oregons-fusion-center-spied-on.html
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Eyes Left The ‘pay to protest’ scheme is laughable | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/walneywoodcock-pay-protest-feat

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