Today's breaking news is that Edward Snowden - a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) who released internal NSA documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post - has fled to Latin America. He's been joined by Wikileaks employee Sarah...
NATO 3: Cook County Judge Rules Illinois Terrorism Statute Constitutional
Chicago, IL Judge Thaddeus Wilson - holding down the house in Room 303 of the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, IL - ruled the Illinois terrorism statute constitutional on its face. This ruling was issued approximately two months after the attorneys defending the...
“NATO 3”: Constitutionality of Illinois Terrorism Statute to be Decided March 27
Judge Thaddeus Wilson will hand down a ruling on the constitutionality of the Illinois terrorism statute - signed into law in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks - on March 27 at 2:00 PM CST. That announcement was made at the first oral argument at Cook County Courthouse...
New Photo Released of “Gloves,” One of the Two NATO Summit Undercover Cops
Occupy Chicago has released another photo of "Gloves," one of the two undercover police informants from the May 2012 NATO Summit, which took place in Chicago, IL. They have placed it on Facebook and Twitter. "Gloves," acting as an infiltrator in the run-up to the...
Scott Olsen: ‘Freedom of Speech Literally Taken From Me’
Peace activist Scott Olsen reports on his public Google Plus account that he is slowly regaining his speech after being shot in the head with a teargas canister at Occupy Oakland. "I'm feeling a lot better, with a long road in front of me," Olsen wrote. "After my...
Confusing All Around: The Air and Space Museum Bumrush
Yesterday I read with excitement that otherwise docile protests in Washington, DC -- the merging of the pre-planned October2011 rally with the spontaneous "Occupy" movement -- rushed the Air and Space Museum and got it shut down. Guards shot pepper spray at the crowd,...