From Newsday, Jan. 10: The New York Civil Liberties Union sued the city on Tuesday, challenging restrictions on people’s right to photograph public places after an award-winning filmmaker from India was blocked from videotaping near the MetLife building. In its… Read moreNYC: Indian film-maker sues over detainment
From Newsday, Jan. 11: A criminal court judge in Manhattan has held that the city’s main weapon in its campaign against the Critical Mass bicycle ride is unconstitutional. Deciding the case of eight cyclists arrested in January 2005, Judge Gerald… Read moreNYC: court rules for Critical Mass
It seems the NYPD has ben busy infiltrating bicycle rides in the name of the War on Terrorism for the past year and change. From the Dec. 22 New York Times—fortunately the front page: Undercover New York City police officers… Read moreNYC: police infiltrate Critical Mass
Another turn of the screw. Shame on Judge Richard Berman. From the New York Daily News, Dec. 2: Judge: Searches of bags in subway is constitutional Random police searches of riders’ bags to deter terrorism in the nation’s largest subway… Read moreNYC: judge upholds subway searches
By the way, a week later we’re still trying to figure out what this was all about, and we note with trepidation that there have been no follow-up stories. WW4 Report‘s chief blogger became aware of the smell at around… Read moreSweet smell of biological warfare?
Kristen Lombardi in the Village Voice Sept. 6 remembers 9-11’s forgtten victims—who continue to suffer in silence: Alex Sanchez likes to say he’s “living proof” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the September 11 terrorist attacks bordered on the… Read more9-11 health impacts: residents demand EPA action
Sarah Ferguson reports for the Village Voice Sept. 12 on how the conspiracy set crashed the official 9-11 commemoration: The anguish was palpable at Ground Zero yesterday, as family members made their way down a long ramp into the vast… Read more9-11 conspiracists invade Ground Zero
“Vasean’s Law” is a step in the right direction, but too bad it couldn’t be applied retroactively. In the USA, it seems having a driver’s license is literally a license to kill. From New York Newsday, Sept. 13: Drunk driver… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The group of New York cyclists who join the monthly Critical Mass Bike Ride is asking Mayor Michael Bloomberg to join in so he can see first-hand how they’re treated by police. They also say they are going to launch… Read moreNYC Critical Mass to Bloomberg: Join us!
From The New Standard, Aug. 24: Responding to last month’s bombings in the London subway system, transit officials in New York City decided to hand one of the nation’s largest defense contractors $212 million to dramatically increase surveillance efforts throughout… Read moreLockheed gets subway surveillance contract
Aug. 24 commentary in MarketWatch takes Goldman Sachs to task for exploiting the chaos—as well as government largesse—over the Ground Zero redevelopment effort in New York City: For a Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs plays the Main Street game of… Read moreGoldman Sachs exploits 9-11 redevelopment chaos —and public bonds
The bio-chemical warfare tests in New York City, initially scheduled for two days ago, went ahead today. New York’s ABC News reports Aug. 8 that scientists in midtown Manhattan used perfluorocarbon, “a harmless gas,” which was tracked with electronic monitors…. Read moreNYC: Bio-chem warfare tests held
