AS A MEMEBER OF ACLU, I HAVE REQUESTED TO ASSIGNED AS A LEGAL RECORDER....IN THE FOLLOWING ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Take Back the Streets: Repression and criminalization of protest around the world (2013 report): A report written by the organizations that comprise the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations, which includes the ACLU. The report highlights crackdown on peaceful protests in democracies around the world, through tactics that include excessive (sometimes deadly) police force and the criminalization of dissent. The report surveys cases from Argentina, Canada, Egypt, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Kenya, Hungary, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Know Your Rights: Photographers: Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs from public places, and harassing, detaining and arresting those who fail to comply. Spy Files: Spying On First Amendment Activity (2010 resource): United States law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to local police, have a long history of spying on American citizens and infiltrating or otherwise obstructing political activist groups. Unfortunately, it appears that these old tendencies have once again come to the fore. Law enforcement agencies across America continue to monitor and harass groups and individuals for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights. An Ugly, But Legal, Form of Free Speech (2010 blog): The Dove World Outreach Center plans to commemorate the September 11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran in a presumably sincere, but woefully misguided, belief that America is at war with the Islamic faith. Burning books conjures up images of a time when Nazi brutality against a religious minority was state-sanctioned policy. But with the guarantee of religious freedom for all, the fundamental American right to protest — an essential element of the First Amendments guarantee of freedom of expression — should also be honored. As the Constitution protects the right to burn an American flag as a political protest, for the Ku Klux Klan to rally at a state capitol, for neo-Nazis to march down an American street, then surely there is a right to burn a Quran or any other sacred symbol. Free Speech Under Fire: The ACLU Challenge to Protest Zones (2003 resource): In many cities across the country, the Secret Service has discriminated against protesters during Presidential and Vice Presidential appearances. Such incidents have spiked under the Bush Administration, prompting the ACLU to charge government officials with a pattern and practice of discrimination against those who disagree with its policies.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 08:25:15 +0000