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(IPS) Groups Force Release of NSA Spying Documents

September 13, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/09/groups-force-release-of-nsa-spying-documents/ SPOKANE, Washington, Sep 13 2013 (IPS) – After more than two years of fighting to prevent their release, the Department of Justice has released numerous documents related to domestic spying on U.S. citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the previously-secret court opinions that authorised the NSA’s controversial […]

(IPS) Fight over NSA Spying Spills into U.S. Courts

July 20, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/fight-over-nsa-spying-spills-into-u-s-courts/ ATLANTA, Georgia, Jul 19 2013 (IPS) – A wide variety of individuals and organisations have filed lawsuits challenging the National Security Agency (NSA) and other federal agencies and officials for conducting a massive, dragnet spying operation on U.S. citizens that was recently confirmed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. At least three ongoing […]

Atlantans Protest International Drone Conference in Buckhead

June 11, 2013 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Late last month, from Tuesday, May 28, to Friday, May 31, 2013, a group of Atlanta activists protested the 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, also known as drones, which held their convention at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Buckhead. The convention brought together representatives from academia, industry, federal and state agencies, the private […]

(IPS) CISPA Fails in US Senate, but Online Privacy Concerns Live On

May 4, 2013 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service website at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/cyber-bill-fails-in-u-s-senate-but-online-privacy-concerns-live-on/ ATLANTA, Georgia, Apr 30 2013 (IPS) – For the second year in a row, activists have successfully defeated a proposal to allow Internet companies to provide customers’ private information to government agencies and each other without risking violation of privacy laws and agreements. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act […]

Panhandling Proposals Likely Unconstitutional; CSO Never Enforced

September 5, 2012 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Today, the City Council of Atlanta is hosting a second Work Session on proposed changes to the City’s Commercial Solicitation Ordinance (CSO), which has not been enforced since its enactment in 2005. However, Atlanta Progressive News has learned that, according to Gerry Weber, a constitutional scholar who teaches at Emory University School of Law, neither the current […]

Federal Judge Throws Out Two Provisions of Georgia’s Immigrant Law

July 1, 2011 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On June 27, 2011, US District Judge Thomas Thrash, Jr., put on hold two core parts of HB 87 which would have gone into effect July 1. His ruling blocks police from asking about immigration status during investigations of criminal violations. Investigations into someone going a few miles over the speed limit, rolling a stop sign, […]

NAACP, GCPA Sue Georgia for Neglecting Low-Income Voter Registration

June 19, 2011 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

A lawsuit was filed on June 6, 2011 in federal court to force Georgia’s state public assistance offices to comply with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that requires all public assistance offices to offer voter registration forms to people seeking public assistance. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP (Georgia NAACP) […]

Lawsuit Filed to Challenge Georgia’s Anti-Immigrant Law

June 3, 2011 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — On Thursday, June 02, 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Asian Law Caucus, and a coalition of other organizations including civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit challenging Georgia’s discriminatory anti-immigrant law passed last month and inspired by Arizona’s notorious SB 1070. […]

(IPS) Prison Lobbyists Help Spread Anti-Immigrant Laws to U.S. South

May 26, 2011 MATTHEW CHARLES Leave a comment

This article first appeared on the Inter-Press Service at: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55802 ATLANTA, Georgia, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – Earlier this month, Georgia became the third state to enact some of the most anti-immigrant legislation in recent U.S. history, when Governor Nathan Deal, a Republican, signed the bill, HB 87. Among other things, the bill allows law enforcement officials to ask suspicious […]

Governor Deal Poised to Sign Divisive Immigration Bill in Georgia

May 12, 2011 GLORIA TATUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — Governor Nathan Deal is poised to sign the controversial racial profiling immigration bill, HB 87, into law. He has until May 24, 2011, to sign or veto the bill before it automatically becomes law, that is, forty days since it was passed by the legislature. Deal is in a bit of a bind because Georgia Republicans are […]

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