February 2013 Archives
"Although they will argue that it's being used for, you know, basically good policing, we're afraid that it's going to be used to surveil protesters, dissents, you know, people that are against police brutality" -- Anne Weills, National Lawyers Guild
Iceland MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir: "I refuse to live in fear"
Tuesday, February 12, SF City
Hall. Photo by Bill Carpenter
c/o Nadia Kayyali, Bill of Rights Defense Committee:
activists gathered on the steps of San Francisco's city hall to oppose the indefinite military detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and to support the introduction of a resolution by Supervisor and President of the Board David Chiu. The resolution of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will uphold due process and articulate San Francisco's opposition of the NDAA...
The date of the resolution's introduction was timed to fall in advance of February 19th, the 71st anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. This order, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, authorized the military to intern over 120,000 Japanese-Americans without any trial or due process. Japanese-americans in particular have raised their voices against the growing encroachment on civil liberties presented by the never-ending war on terror.
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