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HEADLINES March 2012:
HEADLINES March 2012:
- ADBUSTERS Plan 50,000 People On Streets in Chicago Beginning May 1
- 15 Year Felony Law for Video and Audio Taping Conversations on Streets of Illinois Challenged in Seventh Circuit - What Does it Mean for Citizen Journalism and the G8 and NATO summits?
- Judge rules Illinois eavesdropping law unconstitutional
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UPDATES March 2, 2012:
"Eavesdropping on the Police
The good news is that the ACLU suit is backed by many media
organizations and there is even a new law working its way through the
State House in Springfield that would allow citizens to audio record
police officers on any street in Illinois. House Bill 3944 This
battle is not just a concern for those of us who live in Illinois. If
you are a citizen of Maryland or Massachusetts, you are also laboring
under similar laws that prevent you from making audio recordings of
police officers in the line of duty. Some may think that the ACLU is
making something out of nothing. If you agree with that line of
thinking, at which point do you say that the police and the State have
too much control over our right to monitor police activities in public?
Should we just sit back and allow the police to be able to say and do
anything to us in the streets? Even if that action or those words
prevent us from exercising our First Amendment rights? What if a Federal agent was disrupting a legal demonstration and was
recording what the demonstrators were saying and doing? Shouldn’t the
demonstrators have the right to record just how the government is
infringing on their rights? My Mom also used to tell me what is good
for the goose is good for the gander. Maybe the State of Illinois and
the City of Chicago should also be required to follow that logic. What
is your take on this subject? Should the State have a right to stop
citizens from monitoring State actions?
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"NPPA joined in the amicus curiae brief in ACLU v. Alvarez, submitted by news organizations in support of the ACLU position seeking a declaratory judgment and a preliminary injunction against the application of the Act because it violates the First Amendment. Regardless of the Seventh Circuit decision in that case, which in any event may likely be appealed, NPPA is deeply concerned that daily coverage of news events, Occupy Chicago protests and the upcoming G-8 Summit may put those seeking to record these important matters of public concern at risk because of the continued enforcement of the Act. It especially disconcerting for us to think that foreign journalists covering the Summit meeting may be subject to arrest and prosecution for doing something they understandably believe to be a Constitutionally protected right throughout the United States.
In a time of technology and terrorism, citizens and photojournalists
throughout the world have risked, and in some cases given their lives,
to provide visual proof of governmental activities. Sadly, what is
viewed as heroic abroad is often considered as suspect or criminal at
home. It is therefore incumbent upon the 97th General Assembly of the State of Illinois to immediately enact H.B. 3944." REST OF ARTICLE
Mickey Osterreicher @ February 6, 2012
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Why this is Really Important for Illinois
Why this is Really Important for Illinois
"Chicago conference calls for massive protests at G8/NATO summit
Chicago, IL - More than 200 activists from 73
organizations met at the Kent College of Law here, Aug. 28, to lay the
groundwork for massive protests at the G8 and NATO summit is scheduled for May
of 2012. The conference, initiated by the United National Antiwar Coalition
(UNAC) served as the founding meeting of the “Coalition Against NATO / G8 War
and Poverty Agenda.” Participants agreed that the meeting was a resounding
success.
Joe Iosbaker, the Chicago spokesperson for UNAC, told attendees, “We have
been running flat out since June to bring this meeting together to found both a
national coalition and a local coalition against NATO and the G8, to say no to
their wars and attacks on the lives of workers and oppressed people. This
meeting today brings together over 70 organizations. We have key groups here -
folks who played a leading role in the major anti-war and anti-corporate
globalization protests in recent years; veterans of all the anti-war movements
since Vietnam; as well as leading fighters in the community and labor struggles
in Chicago." REST OF ARTICLE.
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ADDITIONAL ARTICLES:
Huffington Post Article. "Activists Plan G8 And NATO Protests In Chicago"
Courts - Still more on "Woman who recorded cops acquitted of felony eavesdropping charges"
The story by Paul Meincke of WLS-TV Chicago begins:September 13, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Should the average citizen be allowed to record conversations with police officers? That question is at the heart of a lawsuit filed against the eavesdropping law in Illinois.The court challenge was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. It's argued that the Illinois eavesdropping act is the most restrictive in the country, and that today's technology has rendered it outdated.Last month a 20-year-old woman was acquitted of charges that she illegally tape-recorded two Chicago police officers. That case is part of a larger dispute argued Tuesday before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. If you were to walk up to a group of men in Daley Plaza with your iPhone rolling, you can legally take video of them, but if you record their conversation without their permission, that's a class four felony. If you were to attempt to record audio of a police officer in conversation without permission - even if it's on the public way - that's a class one felony, which has a punishment of up to 15 years in prison.
The ACLU argues that the Illinois Eavesdropping Act is antiquated and overly-restrictive, and it wants the ability to record audio of police officers when they're on the public way - most specifically as a means of monitoring how police handle marches and demonstrations.
"You can video the police officer, you can photograph the police officer. They admit that you can listen to the police officer, and even write down what the police officer is saying, but you can't turn on the audio button. It simply doesn't make any sense," said Harvey Grossman, ACLU.
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FEBRUARY 29, 2012 - @LincolnPark Received this News Feed from Walker News Desk regarding an email from ADBUSTERS:
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"ADBUSTERS TACTICAL BRIEFING #26: Anarchic Swarms – The Emerging Model
Hey you wild cats, dreamers, redeemers, horizontals,
The stage is set for a climactic showdown in Chicago.
The crisis of capitalism is deepening. Youth unemployment has reached 50% in Spain and Greece… 30% in Portugal and Italy… 22% in the UK… almost 20% in the US. Hundreds of millions of people around the world are waking up to the fact that their future does not compute… that their lives will be a never ending series of ecological, financial, political and personal crises… and that if we don’t rise up and start fighting for a different kind of future, we won’t have a future.
That struggle ignites again May 1.
#OCCUPYCHICAGO will be the focal point of this global spiritual insurrection… 50,000 of us will converge on the windy city and confront the G8 and NATO leaders with an ultimatum. We will set up impromptu encampments throughout the city and wage a full-spectrum memewar backed up by new tactics of anarchic swarming. Our militant in-your-face nonviolence will inspire thousands of towns, cities and campuses around the world to rise up in solidarity just like they did last October.
This is a worldwide, multi-front mutiny against the way our economic and military leaders are running the world.
On the CULTURAL FRONT we confront the corpo-commercial lie machine – we shift the way information flows and meaning is produced. We train a new breed of livestreamers, citizen journos and p2p visionaries and unleash them in the streets to be the eyes of the world during the month of May.
On the ENVIRONMENTAL FRONT we demand the G8 reach consensus on drastically reducing their carbon footprints and immediately ratifying a binding international accord on climate change.
On the ECONOMIC FRONT we throw our movement’s weight behind one simple demand: the implementation of a 1% Robin Hood Tax on all financial transactions and currency trades.
On the GEOPOLITICAL FRONT we tell Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy, Putin, Merkel, Noda, Monti, Harper and the NATO military leaders to stop the warmongering and start fighting for peace. We block the looming Iran war with a preemptive global initiative that just about everyone in the world can get behind: a nuclear-free world starting with a nuclear-free Middle East that includes both Israel and Iran.
On the PERSONAL FRONT, hundreds of millions of us vow to live the month of May without dead time… to experience joyous camaraderie… to open ourselves to an imminent life changing epiphany. We follow Miles Davis’ advice on how to play jazz: be spontaneously alive and “play what’s not there.”
Occupy has taught us all. It innovates, fractures, grows resilient and more diverse. In this spirit we celebrate the Gandhian ferocity of the Zuccottis who launched this movement with their magical assemblies and nonviolent ways … we extol the growing crop of working groups with their desire for a positive program of social and political change. And on the wild side we honor those in Oakland who have lost their fear against all odds. With this rainbow coalition, we hold our heads high and embrace the heady days of Spring.
Jammers pack your tents, phone your friends, get your affinity groups together and prepare to put your ass on the line for a worldwide people’s uprising starting May 1.
for the wild,
Culture Jammers HQ"
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