Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations

Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part I

Hope Marston, Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee
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Friday 10 March 2006

Hope Marston, of the Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee, spoke on the panel on "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations" at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (pielc.org) held March 2-5, 2006, in Eugene, Oregon.

We have just heard a litany of horrible things that we are all dealing with all the time now and we've been dealing with for the last four years, and I don't know how many of you feel overwhelmed with it, but I do every day. I feel overwhelmed with all that's happening. The executive branch is now so far out of control that I'm really not sure how long it is going to take before we can restore our liberties, our Bill of Rights and our fundamental freedoms. The house cleaning that must take place, the dismantling of the repressive system that has now permeated our society, will be enormous.

Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations, Part II

By Lauren Regan, Civil Liberties Defense Center
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Wednesday 29 March 2006

Lauren Regan, Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, spoke on the panel "Surveillance, Infiltration, and Harassment of Environmental Organizations," at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (pielc.org), held March 2-5, 2006, in Eugene, Oregon.

I am going to start off by just giving you some brief overview and talking, generally, about harassment of activists.

But, just as far as context, right now, the Constitution of the United States, and many of you might already know this, but the Constitution, first and foremost, is a document that limits the power of the federal government. It prevents the President and Congress and the Supreme Court from doing certain things, but currently, the government is of the opinion that the Constitution is an enabling document and a document that authorizes the government to involve itself in nearly every aspect of our private and public lives.