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  • Church Committee Final Report, Book III, 1976

    September 10, 2019 –

    Take a deep dive into the observations o

  • Testimony to Wisc. Board of Regents Against Anti-Protest Rule

    August 21, 2019 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Dissent Is Essential to Democracy: Statement on Trump’s Calls for His Congressional Critics to Leave the Country

    July 15, 2019 –

    Defending Rights & Dissent condemns in the strongest possible terms these remarks. Trump is willfully conflating criticizing him with hating the United States. He is demonizing dissent and engaging in racist demagoguery.Dissent is essential to democracy.

  • Chelsea Manning is Back in Court. Tell the Government to #LeaveChelseaAlone

    May 16, 2019 –

    Today, Chelsea Manning is being hauled before a grand jury. Again. We urgently need you to take action and tell the US Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Eastern District of Virginia to Leave Chelsea Alone!

  • Two New DHS Domestic Spying Scandals Revealed

    March 7, 2019 –

    Both Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) and Custom and Border Patrol (CBP) are engaged in monitoring and tracking First Amendment protected activity.Monitoring of political speech is inherently chilling. It is also outside the jurisdiction of both ICE and CBP.

  • When HUAC Investigated Its Critics

    Anti-HUAC Pin

    February 27, 2019 –

    Would you ever criticize the actions of Congress? Would your answer to any those questions change if doing so meant you would be subpoenaed, hauled before Congress, and compelled to answer under oath what your intent was when you wrote your letter or what associations you belonged to at the time?

  • Anti-Boycott Bills Toolkit for Activists

    January 18, 2019 –

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Tg9N05

  • New Guidelines for Public Employees May Chill Dissent

    The Constitution of the United States of America

    December 3, 2018 –

    Defending Rights & Dissent expresses deep concern about the Office of Special Counsel’s new Hatch Act guidelines. The new guidelines are overly broad and will having a chilling impact on speech.

  • Comments on Proposed National Park Service Regulations Concerning Demonstrations

    August 31, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Delmer Berg Sacramento FBI File

    June 13, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Delmer Berg FBI HQ File

    June 13, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Community Action Commission Files (Delmer Berg)

    June 13, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • DHS Race Paper coalition letter, 2018

    May 30, 2018 –

     Direct link: https://drive.google.com/

  • Espionage Act Statement, 2018

    April 9, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Memo- Opposing Missouri Anti BDS Bill 2018

    March 15, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

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