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On September 22, Donald Trump issued an Executive Order declaring “Antifa” to be a “Domestic Terrorist Organization.” There is no such group known as Antifa. And under U.S. law, there’s no such designation for domestic groups. Yet, Trump’s designation is clearly a green light to law enforcement and intelligence agencies to spy on and investigate left-wing political speech.
Livestream: Trump’s Antifa Designation: What Does It Mean?
Wednesday, Sept. 24
1 pm ET/10 am PT
Live on YouTube
In a livestream hosted on Wednesday, September 24th, Defending Rights & Dissent policy director Chip Gibbons discussed Trump’s executive order and its likely ramifications for political repression and the future of free speech. Gibbons is the author of the forthcoming history The Imperial Bureau: The FBI, Political Surveillance, and the Rise of the U.S. National Security State, which chronicles the FBI’s domestic intelligence programs transition from a “countersubversive” framework to a “counterterrorism” one. A journalist and researcher focusing on U.S. national security policy, Chip has long reported on the U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy.
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