Information Warfare

On April 24th, 2005, Syracuse University will be the site of a timely and highly important forum on civil liberties, the Bill of Rights, and freedom of expression, thought, and speech, at the State Your Re-Action to State Repression Conference.

The Boston Herald reports that Local Joint Terrorist Task Force investigators are keeping close tabs on Boston's Anarchist Black Cross.

On the eve of the Super Bowl, we as Boston area students call on Mayor Menino to publicly assert the need for Boston Police to protect the health and welfare of anyone who wishes to celebrate a New England Patriots victory in the streets of Boston. Bostonians have been gravely harmed by the police responses to public gatherings of sports fans, and the city must reverse course immediately.

Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the FBI. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied and turned over the requested servers, effectively removing those sites from the internet.

Hi-Tech gadgetry in use by NYPD and Homeland Security to intimidate protestors

If you want to wear your “Dump Dubya” button in Crawford, Tex., a few miles from the president‚s ranch, make sure you get approval from the police chief. Wearing a political button could violate Crawford’s protest ordinance that requires a $25 permit and prior approval by police. A February 16 verdict by a six-person jury meeting in a rented recreation center room upheld the ordinance. Five peace activists stopped at a Crawford roadblock en route to protests near the president’s ranch last May were convicted of violating the city’s parade and procession law. They were fined $200 to $500 and plan to appeal.

The Public Demands Answers about Police Handling of FTAA Protests --
Miami Police and Chief Timoney on the Hot Seat

Miami - On Thursday, February 5, 2004 the Save Our Civil Liberties Campaign in conjunction with the AFL-CIO, Lake Worth Global Justice, Miami Workers Center and other community groups and individuals, will protest the joint public hearing of the Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) and the Independent Review Panel (IRP). A colorful and lively demonstration with signs and puppets will take place outside City Hall to protest testimony being given by Police Chief John Timoney. People are also expected to be inside monitoring the hearing.

The Miami Police used the attach presentation to scare people into believing that the FTAA protests were a threat. It was presented to local businesses and others who might have otherwise considered lending their support to the StopFTAA mobilization.

If there was any consistent message sent out by the media, it was to demonize the protesters, and, by implication, protest itself. That’s a rather strange activity for institutions that depend for their professional existence on the First Amendment. To hear the media tell it, anyone going downtown during those days was asking for trouble and should not complain if he or she found some.

Information warfare is defined by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction Number 3210.01 as "actions taken to achieve information superiority by affecting adversary information, information based processes, and information systems."