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Time For Action on Police Militarization: Turn Out & Testify To Stop Warrior Cops, Tuesday 10am @ Statehouse

October 8, 2017 By marthews Leave a Comment

In the last few years, communities like Haverhill, New Bedford and tiny Rehoboth have acquired mine-resistant military assault vehicles for just the cost of shipping from the federal government; police in Palmer, MA have acquired a camera … [Read more...]

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How Much Does The Press Care About Race and Policing?

October 8, 2015 By marthews Leave a Comment

On October 7, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature held a marathon hearing on "Protected Classes. Privacy, and Data Collection Legislation". To be fair, Boston.com and the Boston Herald both reproduced … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, boston-herald, fourth-amendment, judiciary committee, racial-profiling

TONIGHT: 7pm vigil to sunset the PATRIOT Act

May 21, 2015 By marthews Leave a Comment

We're in the thick of the fight to sunset Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, which has been used (illegally) to authorize mass metadata surveillance on all of us. We're holding a vigil tonight at Sen. Warren's office (the JFK Building, 15 New … [Read more...]

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It’s Time To Push Hard On Surveillance Reform

April 16, 2015 By marthews Leave a Comment

The part of the PATRIOT Act that has been used to legitimate the mass collection of all of our phone call information, and much else besides, is a wicked awful provision known as "Section 215." Section 215 allows the FBI - and, it appears, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: basaaly moalin, Edward Snowden, fourth-amendment, government-surveillance, nsa, patriot-act, september-11, surveillance, surveillance state repeal act, terrorism

MA Taskforce Report Tells Schoolkids: Inform, Conform, and Trust the Police

September 26, 2014 By marthews 79 Comments

Cross-posted at Digital Fourth Following on from the Sandy Hook school shooting, the "Massachusetts Task Force on School Safety and Security" released a report in July. As you'd expect from a report written with plenty of police … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, education, massachusetts, surveillance, surveillance-society

New disclosures on spy centers lead to protests in Boston, nationwide today

April 10, 2014 By marthews 5 Comments

Looks like the surveillance state has put its foot in it again. The New York Times has revealed that since "early 2012", the National Counterterrorism Center now has access to all data, not minimized for privacy in any way, that was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, fourth-amendment, fusion centers, government-surveillance, massachusetts, surveillance, surveillance-society

MA-05: In their only debate, Clark and Addivinola spar over surveillance

December 9, 2013 By marthews 1 Comment

Democratic nominee Katherine Clark and Republican nominee Frank Addivinola spent a substantial portion of their only televised debate sparring over privacy and surveillance. Here's a transcript of the relevant section of the debate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Frank Addivinola, katherine-clark, ma-05, nsa, surveillance

December 9, 2013 By marthews Leave a Comment

[Cross-posted at Digital Fourth.] Took me a few days, but I got up the transcript of Clark's and Addivinola's surveillance discussion from Friday night's NECN debate. Read on! Democratic nominee Katherine Clark and Republican nominee … [Read more...]

https://bluemassgroup.com/2013/12/64509/

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Frank Addivinola, government-surveillance, katherine-clark, ma-05, surveillance

MA-5: Addivinola and Clark tussle over surveillance, differ only on wiretapping bill *UPDATED*

October 23, 2013 By marthews 14 Comments

UPDATE: To reflect substantive changes in information received from the Addivinola campaign, the title of this article and portions of the analysis have been changed to more accurately reflect Councillor Addivinola's positions. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democrats, democrats-senate-warrantless-surveillance, fourth-amendment, Frank Addivinola, government-surveillance, immigration, katherine-clark, ma-05, massachusetts, republicans, surveillance, surveillance-society, warrants

Big rally against surveillance in DC this weekend

October 22, 2013 By marthews Leave a Comment

There will be the biggest ever rally against the NSA down in DC this coming Saturday at 12pm-3pm - over 3,000 4,000 people have already signed up. I'll be heading down there Saturday morning, and it would be great if BMGers would be willing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, aclu-of-massachusetts, civil, electronic wiretaps, illegal-nsa-wiretaps, nsa, nsa-spying, privacy, surveillance, wiretap, wiretapping, wiretapping-cheney-lies-bush-constitution

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The Norman Caucus is gonna replace the Anglo-Saxon caucus and then you can just kiss your freedom fries goodbye forever

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Announcing a new Mansard Caucus, promoting the global tradition of funny hats on buildings https://twitter.com/PunchbowlNews/status/1383104228256837637

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This guy was released? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/15/metro/holbrook-man-charged-after-allegedly-trying-run-over-black-children/

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The GOP-Big Business Divorce Goes Deeper Than You Think https://politi.co/3uTzdsa via @politico

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Massachusetts angle #mapoli

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.@RepCawthorn helped recruit and incite the mob that attacked the Capitol. You know who supports this #MountainMoron seditionist? Las Vegas casino billionaire Stephen Wynn who is also alleged to be a sexual predator like @CawthornforNC. Republican family values?

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honestly, though, I'm just so dang tired of this.
We fought to get the foundation budget studied (for years).
We fought to ensure the foundation budget study was complete (for a year and a half).
We fought to get the foundation budget study implemented (for years).

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