In a quiet Sherman Oaks neighborhood, Pam Ferdin walks up to a car parked on the street. The license plate reads “CA EXEMPT.” Its tinted windows are rolled up and the man sitting in the driver’s seat is barely distinguishable. He is holding a video recorder. Nearby, a group of animal rights activists are...
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Protesters, angry over the FBI’s targeting of anti-war activists, staged a “people’s tribunal” in front of the federal building in Westwood yesterday. Demonstrators heard statements from many activists that accused the Bureau of political oppression. Speakers representing a broad coalition of anti-war, social justice and international solidarity organizations stated their cases to a mock-judge...
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In the 1960s and ’70s, and even before that, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ran a counter-intelligence program, known as COINTELPRO, where federal agents spied on, infiltrated and disrupted anti-war, civil rights and social justice organizations. In 1975, after COINTELPRO was revealed in a congressional hearing, Congressman Don Edwards of California said, in reference...
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At a time when WikiLeaks is under attack for embarrassing the U.S. government and at a time when Al Jazeera has been shutdown in Kuwait for a similar act, California has a free speech and free press issue of its own. Revolution newspaper, a publication of the Revolutionary Communist Party, says it has been...
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