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Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide

by PRW Staff — May 20, 2013 - 9:00am
  • Topics: U.S. Government

    • MADISON, WI -- DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy today released the results of a year-long investigation: "Dissent or Terror: How the Nation's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.”

    The report, a distillation of thousands of pages of records obtained from counter terrorism/law enforcement agencies, details how state/regional "fusion center" personnel monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement over the course of 2011 and 2012. Personnel engaged in this activity at fusion centers include employees of municipal, county and federal counter terrorism/homeland security entities. Such entities include local police departments, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (including U.S. DHS components such as the Transportation Security Administration).

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    Fighting Forward: A Labor & Working-Class Summit Comes to Madison This June

    by PRW Staff — May 19, 2013 - 9:14pm
  • Topics: Labor

    • The 2013 National Conference of the Working Class Studies Association is a gathering of working people, community and labor activists, students and educators focused on building a revitalized movement in support of labor and the working class. This year the conference is taking place at the Madison College Downtown Education Center from June 12-15.

    Sessions include:

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    On Gun Safety, Determined Activists Are Keeping Up the Fight

    by PRW Staff — May 17, 2013 - 9:11am
  • Topics: Politics

    • by Jason Snyder

    Gun safety advocates are not backing down after bipartisan legislation to expand background checks failed in the Senate, and are promising a new push to gain the five votes necessary to pass legislation supported by overwhelming public majorities. Are the political winds shifting in favor of gun safety?

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    New Report Exposes ALEC's Influence In Nevada

    by PRW Staff — May 10, 2013 - 11:51am
  • Topics: Right Wing, Corporations, Secrecy
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • Bills introduced in Nevada to allow machine guns on the Vegas strip, privatize public education, and thwart federal healthcare reform can be tied back to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to a new report from ProgressNow Nevada detailing ALEC's influence in that state.

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    Fracking Activists Could Face Felony Charges as "Ag-Gag" Laws Spread

    by PRW Staff — May 10, 2013 - 10:43am

    -- by Jacob Chamberlain, Common Dreams

    The same "Ag-Gag" laws that make it a crime to film or document egregious abuses on industrial farms may soon be used to criminalize anti-fracking activists who seek to expose environmental harms brought on by the gas drilling industry -- if a bill recently proposed in Pennsylvania passes.

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    Special Offer from CMD: New Book by John Nichols and Bob McChesney on How to Beat the "DOLLAROCRACY"

    by PRW Staff — May 10, 2013 - 10:00am
  • Topics: Democracy, Media

    • In an era when traditional journalism is collapsing and all limits on campaign spending have been removed by the courts, spin is becoming more powerful and permanent than ever before.

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    Report by Progress Missouri Highlights ALEC Infiltration in MO

    by PRW Staff — April 26, 2013 - 7:20am
  • Topics: Corporations, Democracy, Politics
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • -- By Drew Curtis

    More than forty bills introduced in the Missouri state legislature echo American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model legislation, and at least 60 legislators are ALEC members, according to a new report from Progress Missouri.

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    Anti-Worker "Paycheck Protection" Bills Moving in Missouri

    by PRW Staff — April 25, 2013 - 9:32am
  • Topics: Democracy, Labor

    • Missouri is the latest front in the attack on organized labor with so-called "paycheck protection" bills moving through the legislature, with backing from the usual array of corporate interests. But according to the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, the bills primarily disadvantage workers while preserving privileges for corporations.

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    Remembering Common Cause President Bob Edgar

    by PRW Staff — April 23, 2013 - 5:14pm

    CONTACT: Nikolina Lazic, nikolina@prwatch.org

    Statement from Lisa Graves, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy

    It is with enormous sadness that we learned about the passing earlier today of Common Cause President Bob Edgar. The Center for Media and Democracy has been honored to work with Bob over the past few years, and in particular we have appreciated his energy in our joint efforts to expose the American Legislative Exchange Council.

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    Join CMD at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver!

    by PRW Staff — April 3, 2013 - 9:47am
  • Topics: Corporations
  • Projects: ALEC Exposed

    • If you are going to the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) in Denver, CO on April 5-7, 2013, please join the Center for Media and Democracy for a special session "Exposing ALEC: How Corporate Special Interests Control State Legislatures." The workshop will be on Saturday, April 6 from 2:00 - 3:30 pm in the Plaza Ballroom E.

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