Nancy Murray

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

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When Boston Police Spy on Free Speech, Democracy Suffers

There is evidence that Boston Police officers have worked within the local fusion spying center to monitor the lawful political activity of local peace groups and track their movements …

By: Nancy Murray ,; Boston.com

October 27, 2012

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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