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POST 9-11 CIVIL LIBERTIES/HUMAN RIGHTS

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PARTIAL LIST OF POST 9-11 CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS (list in-progress)
INCLUDING LIST OF RESOURCES

Please send additions to list to: luciasommer@frontiernet.net
More Information: www.caedefensefund.org/

While some of these cases are very different from the case involving Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble, this partial list indicates a disturbing trend toward the trampling of civil liberties, civil rights, and human rights and the chilling of dissent under post 9/11 legislation such as the PATRIOT ACT.

FBI or Federal cases involving artists, academics and cultural workers

* Feds Seek Anthrax Suit Dismissal

AP, CBS News March 29, 2004

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/national/main582387.shtml

* US crackdown on bioterror is backfiring

By Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist November 03, 2003

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994345

* The Wrong Man: Brandon Mayfield speaks out on a badly botched arrest

By Andrew Murr, Newsweek June 7, 2004

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5092810/site/newsweek/

* Thomas C. Butler: Eminent Scientist Caught in "Hitchcockian" Situatio
http://www.fas.org/butler/index.html

* No Conviction for Student in Terror Case, Associated Press, June 11, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/national/11boise.html?
ex=1087961537&ei=1&en=b324bb84ce4ea0ec

FBI or Federal cases involving non-artist activists, civilians

* Subpoenas on Antiwar Protest Are Dropped, by Monica Davey, The New York Times, 2/11/2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/national/11PROT.html?
ex=1077508456&ei=1&en=c250b932641ee1e0

http://bernie.house.gov/documents/articles/20040211153523.asp

* Greenpeace targeted by FBI and accused of "sailor-mongering"
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=
5135881&src=rss/scienceNews&section=news
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1127-06.htm

* Terror City, by Suleman Din, ColorLines, Summer 2004, Volume 7, Number 2, Suleman Din visits Jersey City, NJ, to find out what are the lasting effects of the FBI’s anti-terror campaign

http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story7_2_02.html

* African Americans in Further Peril under the Patriot Act, by Tammy Johnson, ColorLines RaceWire, November 2003
http://www.arc.org/cgi-bin/cookie_login/protect.cgi?page=031107t_johnson.html

* Where’s the Commission Questioning the War on Terror? by Tram Nguyen, ColorLines RaceWire, June 2004

The post-Sept. 11 treatment of immigrants and communities of color is not simply a passing phenomenon… racism has been normalized and legitimized through national security policies.

http://www.arc.org/cgi-bin/cookie_login/protect.cgi?page=040601t_nguyen.html

* The prisoner-abuse scandal at home: The stories sound familiar: Muslim prisoners beaten and sexually humiliated by American guards. But it happened in Brooklyn, not Baghdad, by Michelle Goldberg, Salon.com, May 19, 2004
http://salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/19/maddy/index.html

* Jose Padilla:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14252-2004Jun3.html

http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/editorials/article/0,1713,BDC_2489_2936556,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4158661,00.html
* Sherman Austin
http://www.freesherman.org/
http://www.infoshop.org/shermanaustin.html

* Human rights attorney Lynne Stewart falsely accused of helping terrorists

http://www.lynnestewart.org/
* The Lackawanna Six
Due Process Be Damned: Bush Convicts Lackawanna Six without Benefit of Trial, by David Staba, The Niagra Falls Reporter, February 4, 2003
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/damneddue.html
No Choice but Guilty: Lackawanna Case Highlights Legal Tilt, by Michael Powell, Washington Post, July 29, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A59245-2003Jul28&notFound=true

* Red Squads Redux: Portland Activists Mobilize Against the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force by Desiree Hellegers and Laurie Mercier, October 31, 2002

http://www.counterpunch.org/mercier1031.html

FBI, Terrorism, And Activism: The Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force Is Harrassing Activists, by Charles Amsellem

http://michiganimc.org/newswire/display/219/index.php

*Government Crackdown on RNC Protesters Falters in Philadelphia Courts, by John Tarleton, December 15, 200
http://www.johntarleton.net/phillylegal.html

* Twenty-eight human rights activists face federal charges for civil disobedience for protesting notorious School of the Americas

http://www.vheadline.com/printer_news.asp?id=14525

http://sf.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=1674239

* A Suspect Roundup: They vandalize, they’re disruptive, and they intimidate. But are animal-rights activists practicing terrorism? by Philip Dawdy, Seattle Weekly, June 9-15, 2004

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0423/040609_news_suspect.php

Animal rights activists arrested as terrorists, by Will Potter, May 27, 2004

http://resist.ca/story/2004/5/27/23328/0770
* Judy Bari: Bombed and framed: FBI pays millions in damages to eco-activists
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/Bombed_Framed_JBari.html

* Muslims Welcome Dismissal of Charges Against Captain Yee Call for Government Apology, April 5, 2004

http://www.captainyee.org/

http://www.j4na.org/defensefund.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-16-yee-cover_x.htm

* Dr. Lee was terminated from his job because of spy allegations… officials have admitted that since day one, there has never been any kind of evidence of espionage…
http://www.wenholee.org/

Cases involving other branches of law enforcement or government and artists/academics/cultural workers

* Blast Gives Performance Artist an Audience of Men in Uniforms, by Alan Feuer, New York Times, January 25, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/nyregion/25BROO.html?
ex=1087099200&en=6955f189143865fd&
ei=5070&pagewanted=print&position=
* Busted Puppets: Philly Police Arrest Puppetistas, Toss Their Art Into the Trash, by John Tarleton, August 3, 2000
http://www.johntarleton.net/philly_puppets.html

* ArtCrimes: The Ebb, Flow and Dilemma of Protest Art, by Kari Lyderson, Lip Magazine, March 26, 2001
http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featlydersen_74.htm
* Presence of Army agents stirs furor: Roster sought of attendees at University of Texas meeting on Islam, By Janet Elliot, Houston Chronicle, February 15, 2000

http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/15810/index.php

* The Ideology Police: Targeting Middle East studies, zealots' 'homeland security' creates campus insecurity, by Alisa Solomon, Village Voice, February 25 - March 2, 2004

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/solomon.php

* Academic Freedom Under Attack by Pipes and Big Brother, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, February 2004

http://capwiz.com/adc/issues/alert/?alertid=4920081&type=ML

* Who's Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors? by Dave Johnson, History News Network, February 10, 2003
http://hnn.us/articles/1244.html

* Lynne Cheney-Joe Lieberman Group Puts Out a Blacklist, by Roberto J. Gonzalez, San Jose Mercury News, December 13, 2001

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1213-05.htm

* Bush Administration Mixes Politics with Peer Review: Tampering with Science, by Peter Hogness and Tomio Geron, The Clarion, February 2003

http://www.psc-cuny.org/Clarion_February_03.pdf

* Scientists Accuse White House of Distorting Facts, By James Glanz, February 18, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/18/science/18CND-RESE.html?
ex=1078153306&ei=1&en=f23c8d5d62ce741

Cases involving other branches of law enforcement or government and activists, civilians

* Protester may see charges dropped: Student mimicked Iraq prison photo
By David Abel, Globe Staff, June 8, 2004

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/
2004/06/08/protester_may_see_charges_dropped/
* Getu Berhanu Tewolde
Misplaced vigilance greets a stranger to our city, Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Friday, April 26, 2002
http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20020426tony0426p1.asp

DA willing to negotiate, favorable outcome expected.

http://www.freegetu.org/

* NYPD Attacks Peaceful Gathering At Brooklyn Community Space: 8 People Arrested at Benefit for Activist People of Color, November 16, 2003
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/78634

* As G-8 summit nears, protesters accuse police of domestic spying, Associated Press, May 7, 2004

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=13312

* Police infiltration of protest groups upsets rights activists, by Frank Main, February 22, 2004

http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/15903/index.php

* Panel: Miami Police Trampled Protesters' Rights, Associated Press June 3, 2004

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-trade-talks-
protests,0,2763434.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

* Muffling the Left: Watchdog Reveals Effort to Gag Anti-Bush Causes by Chisun Lee August 6 - 12, 2003

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0332/lee.php

International Cases

* Justice Department details abuse of 9/11 detainees, by Terry Frieden CNN, December 18, 2003

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/18/detainees.abused/

U.S: Growing Problem Of Guantanamo Detainees, Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/05/guantanamo.htm

* Children of Guantanamo, by Matt Bivens, The Nation, August 28, 2003

http://www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?pid=917

* Torture at Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, June 10, 2004

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact

Torture at Abu Ghraib followed CIA's manual, by Alfred W. McCoy, the Boston Globe, May 14, 2004

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/05/14/
torture_at_abu_ghraib_followed_cias_manual/

* Torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have apparently been adopted with gusto by Mexican authorities in Guadalajara, sight of the third summit of Latin American, Caribbean and European leaders.
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/news_may24_04.html

http://guadalajara.mediosindependientes.org/

* Spain and U.S. at Odds on Mistaken Terror Arrest
Status, June 5, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/national/05LAWY.html?pagewanted=print&position

* Guitarist Quizzed by Terror Police Over Clash Lyrics
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/11134997?source=PA

RESOURCES:

* Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten our Civil Liberties, Nancy Chang, Seven Stories Press, 2002. Excerpts at:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Dissent/SilencingPoliticalDissent.html
* Under Homeland Security 2001-2003: A timeline of major events and policies affecting immigrants and civil liberties.

Sources: American Immigration Lawyers’ Association, Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, La Raza Centro Legal

http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/timeline.shtml

* Summary of Recent Court Rulings on Terrorism-Related Matters with Civil Liberties Implications by Nancy Chang and Alan Kabat - Revised March 8, 2004. Brings together dozens of cases that address civil liberties concerns, including the detention of persons with no charges, and affirmative challenges to USA Patriot Act provisions.
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=n7yKoAObvc&Content=324

* The Attack on Civil Liberties (updated daily)
http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/civil_liberties/

* Interested Persons Memo: Section-by-Section Analysis of Justice Department draft Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, also known as ‘PATRIOT Act II,’ ACLU, February 14, 2003

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=11835&c=206

* The Silencing of Student Voices, by David L. Hudson Jr., examines issues including "zero-tolerance" policies and harsh penalties for dress, language or remarks deemed unacceptable; conflicts over material on students’ personal Web sites, and collisions between students’ artistic expression and administrators’ safety concerns. Download book at: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=13085

Civil Liberties/Civil Rights Organizations

* The First Amendment Center works to preserve and protect First Amendment freedoms through information and education. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, of the press and of religion, the right to assemble and petition the government.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org
* The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
http://www.ccr-ny.org

* The Civil Liberties Restoration Act of 2004, and the Rights Working Group, a broad coalition of human rights, civil liberties, immigrant rights, and civil rights organizations fighting for the preservation of fundamental liberties.

http://www.rightsworkinggroup.org/
* American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a grassroots civil rights organization which welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities as members.
http://www.adc.org

* Justice for New Americans is a California public benefit corporation formed to educate New Americans in the United States and help them advocate for their basic civil rights.
http://www.j4na.org

* The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has information about the PATRIOT ACT and post 9/11 infringements of constitutional rights.

http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/

* The National Lawyers Guild unites lawyers, law students, and legal workers as an effective political and social force in the service of the people.
http://www.nlg.org/

Other Post 9/11 Threats to Civil Liberties

International Cases

Civil Liberties/Civil Rights Organizations