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Ferguson Protest Drills; Trial for Protesting Solitary Confinement; US Planes Spy on Cell Phones
Awaiting Ferguson Grand Jury, Activists Drill Protest Tactics. In a former union hall in downtown St. Louis, about 100 activists formed a rough circle and, at the instruction of organizer Michael McPhearson, crossed the room wading through a crowd of people going the opposite way. “How hard was that? How much harder will it be after the grand jury comes back?” McPhearson, executive director of activist group Veterans for Peace, asked the group, which ranged from young black college students to bearded white retirees.
On Trial For Protesting Solitary Confinement. Are people in prison allowed to stand up for their rights? Or does all organized resistance to inhumane prison conditions amount to rioting? Five men—Andre Jacobs, Carrington Keys, Anthony Locke, Duane Peters and Derrick Stanley—will stand trial in a case that may determine how Pennsylvania’s justice system answer that question.
US Agency Using Spy Planes to Fool Cell Phones, Capture Data. As GeekWire explains, because the “dirtbox” devices “emulate a cell tower, they can pick up thousands or tens of thousands of signals from other citizens who aren’t being targeted by the Marshals.”
