Category: Civil Liberties, Justice & Rights
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Grassroots Protest Under Fire: The Politics of Antifa Accusations
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift This coming Saturday, in towns and cities across America, ordinary citizens will take to the streets. They’ll march against deportations, against creeping authoritarianism, and for the simple belief that dignity belongs to everyone. Yet instead of engaging with their message, Trump and radical right Republicans have already…
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The Chicago Apartment Raid: A Full-Blown Paramilitary Incursion
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift “We’re under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.” — Darrell Ballard, South Shore resident If someone had described a nighttime assault involving helicopters, drones, flashbangs, and chainsaws, with hundreds of masked agents storming a residential building, I’d have assumed it was a scene from Moscow…
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Media Suppression and Press Freedom Under Threat
← Back to Democratic Backsliding & Authoritarian Drift The press and democracy have always been closely linked. Journalists aren’t meant to cozy up to power. Their job is to hold it accountable. But today, media suppression and press freedom are under threat. Not just from hostile rhetoric, but from coordinated efforts to intimidate, punish, and…
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Federal Justice Under Trump: This Is What Law and Order Looks Like Now
← Back to Community Engagement Selective Federal justice under Trump defines the new normal: the law that was waived for rioters who beat police at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is now weaponized against a guy who tossed a sandwich at a federal officer. Justice, apparently, is a matter of political perspective. On August 14,…
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My Constitution. My Rights. Hands Off Our Civil Liberties
← Back to Community Engagement Civil liberties aren’t a gift from the government. They’re protections from it. They’re the reason I can write this blog without fear, why my neighbor can pray freely, why activists can march and why we can challenge what we believe to be unjust without being silenced or punished. They are…