Kade Crockford

Nancy Murray is director of education at ACLU Massachusetts. Kade Crockford is the ACLU Massachusetts privacy rights coordinator.

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Human Rights

Grotesque, Immoral and Profoundly Anti-Democratic: The Death Penalty Should Be Repealed

Murder without due process is the government act that fundamentally separates free societies from authoritarian regimes.

By: Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

October 12, 2011

Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance

(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: puntidivitaestilidivista, Pulpolux !!!) On August 14, 2011, Vance Gilbert, a middle-aged African-American musician, was sitting on a plane at Logan Airport reading …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 30, 2011

A Nation of “Suspects“

(Photo: Mick Orlosky; Edited: JR / Truthout) In the wake of COINTELPRO and the Watergate scandal, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas sent a letter to a …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 29, 2011

Targeting Immigrants

A border patrol agent stationed at a checkpoint on a highway near Douglas, Arizona, pulls over vehicles during spot inspections. (Photo: Monica Almeida / The New York Times) …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 22, 2011

Targeting Muslims

(Image: JR / Truthout) In August 2002, police were called to a home in Seminole, Florida, by a woman who said her husband had threatened to kill …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 20, 2011

Targeting Dissent

Protesters at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 1, 2008. (Photo: hanskuder) How little - yet how much - has changed in the last …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 15, 2011

Little Brothers Are Watching: The Example of Massachusetts

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway platform, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo: Logan Williams) Early in the morning on March 13, 2008, Australian-born Peter Watchorn, one of the world's foremost …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 13, 2011

The Advent of the Surveillance Society

(Photo: Richy / Flickr) Surveillance now is everyone's business, as the line between intelligence-gathering and crimefighting rapidly fades and the public is conditioned to play its part. …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 8, 2011

Toward Total Information Awareness

(Photo: Ludovic Bertron / Flickr) It is no secret that the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) bungled a multitude of opportunities to foil the …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 7, 2011

Creating the Intelligence Bureaucracy

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, 1924-1972. Hoover's list of 200,000 “radicals” foreshadowed today's watch lists. (Photo: FBI) What a difference a century makes. One …

By: Nancy Murray &; Kade Crockford ,; Truthout

September 6, 2011

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