Carey Wedler

Michigan Militia Joins Michael Moore To Protest Flint Water Crisis

The two seemingly conflicting parties have placed the health of their fellow citizens above partisan hatred.

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A member of the Genesee County Volunteer Militia group, stands outside an army recruiting center off in Flint Township. The militia intends to Join Michael Moore to protest the Flint water crisis. (Photo: Mlive)

Flint, MI — The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has inspired an unlikely partnership: a local militia group is coordinating with outspoken liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to demand accountability and clean water for residents. Moore, a Flint native who first gained notoriety for his his documentary on the town’s economic hardships, has spoken

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NSA Director Finally Admits Encryption Is Needed to Protect Public’s Privacy

The new stance denotes a growing awareness within the government that Americans are not comfortable with the State’s grip on their data.

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Homeland Security logo reflected in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the agency’s secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)

Encryption, a security measure that makes data impossible to read without a secure code or password, has become an increasingly contentious subject for government agencies and private companies. While the likes of Apple, Android, and other technology companies maintain it is vital, the federal government has forcefully resisted. On Thursday,

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Grandma Goes To Jail For Peaceful Drone War Protest

Mary Anne Grady Flores On Tuesday, a New York grandmother returned to jail on previous charges filed against her for protesting U.S. drone warfare in 2013. Mary Anne Grady Flores, 58, was photographing other activists as they peacefully protested armed drones at the Syracuse Hancock Air Base in February 2013. Judges in the town of […]

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Drone War

On Tuesday, a New York grandmother returned to jail on previous charges filed against her for protesting U.S. drone warfare in 2013. Mary Anne Grady Flores, 58, was photographing other activists as they peacefully protested armed drones at the Syracuse Hancock Air Base in February 2013. Judges in the town of DeWitt, where the base is located,

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12-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed By Pennsylvania Police In Her Home

A constable delivering an eviction notice from a district court, shot the girl’s father in the arm, but the bullet passed through him, killing the young girl.

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12-Year-Old Ciara Meyer.

A Pennsylvania state constable fatally shot a 12-year-old girl while serving an eviction notice to her father in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, on Monday. The constable, who was delivering the notice from a district court, shot the father in the arm, but the bullet passed through him, striking and killing the young girl. According to police, Donald B.

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Fresno Police Roll Out Dystopian ‘Threat Ranking’ System

‘Beware’ scours billions of data points to develop rankings for citizens.

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Fresno Chief of Police Jerry Dyer inside the Fresno Police Department's crime center. (Nick Otto/For The Washington Post)

“On 57 monitors that cover the walls of the center, operators zoomed and panned an array of roughly 200 police cameras perched across the city. They could dial up 800 more feeds from the city’s schools and traffic cameras, and they soon hope to add 400 more streams from cameras worn on officers’ bodies and from thousands from local businesses that

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Nebraska Is Torturing Incarcerated Youth For Having Too Many Books, Passing Notes

“Considering the severe mental pain or suffering solitary confinement may cause, it can amount to torture…when used as a punishment, during pre-trial detention, indefinitely or for a prolonged period, for persons with mental disabilities or juveniles.”

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Solitary Confinement

A report released by the Nebraska American Civil Liberties Union this week reveals the state’s extensive use of solitary confinement in children across multiple juvenile detention centers. Solitary confinement is considered a form of torture by the U.N., and in recent years, has been outlawed and scaled back in the United States. In Nebraska,

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1 in 36 Americans Are Tied up in the Prison System… And That’s a 20 Year Low

Despite the widespread attention mass incarceration has received over the last few years, findings reveal it has actually plagued the United States far longer.

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A prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.

Over the last several years, the United States has earned the troublesome accolade of being the most incarcerated population in the world. Nearly every fourth person behind bars globally resides in the U.S. While a new report from the Bureau of Justice, a faction of the DOJ, indicates the number of American inmates recently increased, change might

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