DOCUMENTING THE POLICE STATE
Compiled and Commented by Kevin Prichard & Shonagh Adelman

DNC 2000 - CHRONOLOGY OF STATE & POLICE RESPONSE TO PROTEST
As compared with the Seattle WTO, D.C. IMF/World Bank, and Philadelphia RNC protests, the DNC protesters had legal guns providing preemptive action against police behavior.

Political Parties to Protesters: Stay Home http://www.aclu.org/features/f072100a.html

L.A. officials fear trouble from anarchists at Democratic convention http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/07/2000-07-05-05.nml

Protesters sue Los Angeles for greater access to Democratic convention http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/07/2000-07-03-03.nml

Federal court: L.A. must give protesters better access to Democratic convention  http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/07/2000-07-20-01.htm

ACLU Warns Los Angeles Police Department: Stop Harassing Protesters http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n080700c.html

ACLU Seeks Court Order to Stop LAPD from Harassing and Intimidating Convention Protesters http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n081000a.html ACLU asks court to stop police from harassing L.A. convention protesters (AP) http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/08/2000-08-11-03.htm

Federal judge rejects LAPD's security or freedom of speech choice for protesters Federal Judge Requires Los Angeles to Follow First Amendment During the Democratic National Convention http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n072000c.html

Judge Grants Restraining Order Against LAPD from Raiding Activists Judge Bars LAPD From Raiding Activist HQ http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/12/0115253&mode=thread

ACLU Sues LAPD For Attacks on Press http://www.aclu-sc.org/news/releases/000816dnc.htm

ACLU Condemns Police Response to D2K Rally http://www.aclu-sc.org/news/releases/000815dnc.htm

Police Deny Media Access to Sattelite Van During Bomb Threat INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENSORED BY LAPD http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/15/0131216&mode=thread

PETA Activist Drops Manure at DNC Hotel  http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/081300-02.htm

POLICE ACTIVITIES & OBSERVATIONS
The federal government has been part of a police network keeping tabs on protesters.

US Army Intel Units Spying on Activists http://www.infoshop.org/news5/army_intel.html

Report on Federal Anti-Activist Intelligence Network http://www.flora.org/flora.mai-not/20374

Philadelphia Police Admit Surveillance of Protesters http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/w072100a.html

Timeline of Philly Police Actions against free speech Philly Police Against Dissent & Free Speech: A Chronology http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/08/0155258&mode=thread

Police Chief Wants Feds to Investigate Protest Movement http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000803/pl/campaign_protests_dc_19.html

Discovery Institute Calls for Funding to Investigate "Riot Conspiracies" http://monkeyfist.com/txt/625/discovery-institute-investigation-call.txt

Gepeto Among Those Arrested in Police Raid of Convergence Center http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/09/2144227&mode=thread

Story about US military Psychological Operations personnel working as paid interns at CNN's newsroom during the Kosovo war. U.S. Army 'Psyops' Specialists worked for CNN http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/devries/psyops.htm

Follow-up story by Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch on US Army Psy-ops personnel working at CNN's newsroom during Kosovo war. CNN AND PSYOPS http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html

POLICE TRANSPARENCY - ANALYSES
Insightful reportage and analysis of the apparent federal agenda to limit or silence free speech.

Excellent analysis of state and police use of arrest to disrupt and silence dissenting speech. The Empire Strikes Back http://la.indymedia.org/images/empire_strikes.pdf

Editorial analysis of state and police targeting of left-wing activists Police States Targets the Left  http://www.zohshow.com/News/Newsbytes/tidbits050200b.htm

Editorial on police, politics, and state control of dissidents in Philadelphia Convention Confrontation: The Real Story In Philadelphia http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/08/0729254&mode=thread

Police use arrests to interrupt arrests Disinformation and arbitrary arrests by Police http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/07/2030219&mode=thread

Unrestrained Stories: False Police Claims of Protestor Violence  http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=543

Waging War on Political Dissent [in Philadelphia] http://monkeyfist.com/articles/625

Editorial on Police-Media Relations in Philadelphia Conventional Wisdom and the Philadelphia Snow Job http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/10/2137225&mode=thread

Report on the loss of civil rights in U.S. after end of Cold War The War Came Home And We're Losing It: The Jackboot State http://www.counterpunch.org/jackboot.html

A Season of Protest: What Should We Expect? http://monkeyfist.com/articles/606

AIM = anti-globalization terrorists? http://nativenashville.com/wwwboard/messages/20.htm

POLICE & FEDERAL BACKGROUND INFO
Government and independent reports about the plansto

Review of information about infamous USAF 55-2 "Garden Plot" plan for using military force to stop political dissidence. Remind anybody of Central and South America? Government plans http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/11/2114234&mode=thread

Mitary Assistance for Civil Disturbances (MACDIS) http://web7.whs.osd.mil/text/d302512p.txt

The KERNER COMMISSION and USAF 55-2/Garden Plot U.S. MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING: THE WAR AT HOME http://cryptome.org/garden-plot.htm

The Statewide Intelligence Systems Program http://www.iir.com/Publications/SISMonograph.htm

Bureau of Justice Assistance's Annual Report FY 1997 -Funding Resources http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/171697.txt

REGIONAL INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEMS PROGRAM http://www.natlnarc.org/papers/NNOAC%20RISS.html

POLICE REPRESSION - FIGHTING BACK
Tools and examples for fighting back against police and state repression.

Guide to Your Rights as a Protester ACLU Offers Online Guide on Right to Protest  http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/w072400a.html

Lawsuit filed against US and District of Columbia over disruption of protests against IMF and World Bank Government Plotted to Disrupt Peaceful Protests, Rights Groups Charge http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n072700b.html

Judge cuts bail for woman accused of leading protests http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/08/10/city/10pprotest.htm

In Second Lawsuit, ACLU Challenges Seattle's WTO 'No Protest' Zone on Behalf of Seven Local People http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n030700c.html

Village Voice list of online resources for information about government, intelligence. Finding Documents the Man Wants to Hide: From Their Vaults to Your Desktop http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0019/kick.shtml

Protest in the electronic age E-Bombs Away! Protest, Panic, and the Politics of Packet Monkeys http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0007/vest.shtml

Village Voice list of online resources for activists Fight Back Online: Virtual Marchers, Real Results http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0019/murphy.shtml

Court case against city of Seattle over WTO protest rights violations Three Seattle Residents Accept Judgments in ACLU Lawsuit over WTO "No Protest Zone" http://www.aclu.org/news/2000/n081100d.html

Supreme Court Cases Concerning Freedom of Assembly http://www.fac.org/legal/supcourt/assembly.htm

Supreme Court Cases on Free Speech http://www.fac.org/legal/supcourt/speech.htm

Anarchists' FAQ http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/

Anarchistic Advice to LAPD http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20000812/t000075641.html

R2K - Did We Fail As a Movement? Movement Analysis Part II http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/10/0039253&mode=thread

Thoughts on Future Actions http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/10/2021239&mode=thread

MEDIA

New York's Village Voice visits the Philadelphia Independent Media Center Get Me Download! http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0031/carr.shtml

Village Voice list of online resources for right-wingers. activists, hackers, intelligence, federal, conspiracy Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them. Right Thinking http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0019/ridgeway.shtml

Reports
 

ACLU report on Seattle's handling of protests during the WTO meeting. Out of Control: Seattle's Flawed Response to Protests Against the World Trade Organization Report on Seattle WTO meetings from http://www.parascope.com WTO Seattle: People 1, WTO 0 Excellent analysis of state and police use of arrest to disrupt and silence dissenting speech. The Empire Strikes Back Amnest International's 1999 Report on Police Brutality in the U.S.A. United States of America: Race, Rights and Police Brutality http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1999/AMR/25114799.htm Report and Analysis of Seattle WTO meetings and the response to protesters by the National Lawyers Guild WTO: Investigated, Analyzed, Criticized / BRINGING IN AN UNDEMOCRATIC INSTITUTION BRINGS AN UNDEMOCRATIC RESPONSE http://students.washington.edu/uwnlg/index.html

Related Sites
http://www.corpwatch.org/
http://www.covertaction.org/
http://www.iir.com/other/crimjust.htm#National- Criminal Justice orgs and bureaus
http://www.igc.org/deepdish/- deepdish television
http://209.207.141.249/ds/documentslibrary/- dossier documents library
http://www.democracynow.org -Daily Show featuring Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales
http://www.hrw.org/ - Human Rights Watch
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/- State censorship of journalism
http://www.intelligenceonline.com/- International Stories about Government and Military
http://www.indymedia.org - Independent Media Center, alternative, non-corporate media
http://la.indymedia.org - Los Angeles/DNC Coverage by Independent Media Center
http://la.indymedia.org/radio/index.php3- Live, 24-hour webradio coverage of the convention.
http://www.infoshop.org/news5/army_intel.html
http://www.pir.org">http://www.pir.org">http://www.pir.org- Powerful search engine for who knows who in the spy underworld
http://www.commondreams.org/- Common Dreams, news site for democracy issues
http://www.freespeech.org/ - Free Speech Internet Television
http://www.papertiger.org/ - Paper Tiger Television, video activism
http://www.radioforchange.com/- Laura Flanders webradio station (from Pacific & FreeSpeech TV)
http://www.workingforchange.com/radio/index.cfm- Guide to webradio coverage of the conventions
http://www.nader.org/ - The Nader Page, info about Ralph Nader
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/05/0731254&mode=thread - Ralph Nader crashes the RNC party in Philadelphia
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/ - Amnesty Internation Publications & Reports
http://www.counterpunch.org/ - Media and Political Analysis, news site
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/ - Media and Political Analysis, news site
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ - Political analysis news site
http://la.indymedia.org/links.php3 - Coverage of Global Economic Protests
http://www.shadowconvention.com/ - Alternative to the Republicrats' conventions.
http://www.d2kla.org/ - Gathering place for demonstration organizers
http://www.alternet.org/ - Alternative coverage of political events, news site
http://www.ems.org/ - Environmental Media Services - newswire for environmental issues
http://cryptome.org/ - Classified, Declassified, otherwise interesting information about gov'ts, spies, military