KPFA covers “Activism is Not Terrorism” campaign
PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Chip Gibbons, Defending Dissent Legal Fellow, are interviewed on KPFA about the government’s spying on peaceful protest.
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Exposed: ATF Spying on Occupy and ‘Known Anarchists and Protestors’ List
Newly released documents show that the ATF, an agency that is supposed to investigate crimes related to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives — including a…
Exposed: FBI Surveillance of School of the Americas Watch
FBI used counter-terrorism authority to track pacifist human rights group for 10 years By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of thePartnership for Civil Justice Fund For a…
SOAW – FBI Documents
FOIA documents obtained by the PCJF expose that the FBI abused counter-terrorism authority to surveil School of Americas Watch, a pacifist organization focused on ending…
Pershing Park Mass False Arrests
In 2002, D.C. MPD and U.S. Park Police encircled Pershing Park and refused to allow anyone to leave before arresting and hog-tying peaceful demonstrators. The case received national and international focus after it was revealed by the PCJF that the MPD and its attorneys had engaged in widespread destruction and withholding of evidence. The case resulted in more than $10 million in financial compensation and substantial reforms of MPD and U.S. Park Police practices.
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Revelations Show Brookfield’s Security National Coordination Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield…
Federal judge hails “historic” free speech settlement between the PCJF and federal gov’t
Calls settlement’s police reforms “a model for other law enforcement agencies” After nearly 13 years of litigation, a federal judge has approved an unprecedented settlement…
Judge approves settlement over U.S. Park Police’s handling of protests
Excerpt from The Washington Post Ending a 13-year legal struggle, a federal judge gave final approval Monday to a settlement in which the federal government…
DCist: $2.2 Million Settlement Would Reform How the Park Police Handles Mass Protests
Reprint from DCist.com Thirteen years after nearly 400 protesters were arrested in a mass sweep at Pershing Park, a proposed $2.2 million settlement would reform how…
Pershing Park (Barham) – Joint Memorandum in Support of Settlement 2015
The PCJF and Obama administration reached a $2.2 million settlement, with agreements for Park Police to ban police lines encircling protestors, requirements of probable cause…
Democracy Now: D.C. Park Police Agree to Reform Mass Arrests
From Democracy Now The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has announced an unprecedented settlement with the Obama administration to change the way the U.S. Park Police…
Huffington Post: U.S. Park Police Enters Historic Settlement Over Mass Arrest
Reprint from the Huffington Post WASHINGTON — On Monday morning, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund announced that it had reached a historic $2.2 million settlement with…