By Guillermo Rebollo-GilCounterpunchNovember 28th, 2014 Dear President Obama: Here in Puerto Rico, your lunch with now Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla…
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Oscar Lopez Rivera, Between Torture and Resistance Reviewed in Peace News
By Ian SinclairPeaceNewsSeptember 2013 Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera has the dubious distinction of being one of the longest-serving…
Puerto Rican Independentista Oscar López Rivera’s 32 Years of Resistance to Torture
By Hans BennettUpside Down WorldMay 30th, 2013 “It is much easier not to struggle, to give up and take the…
Battling Convention Kris Hermes in Jacobin Magazine
By Kris HermesJacobin MagazineJuly 19th, 2016 Inside the police’s playbook for repressing protests at national conventions. Police dogs at the…
DNC 2016 vs. RNC 2000
Philly police and how to control a presidential convention “The Democratic convention,” said one expert, “is usually more unruly than…
Antiwar Activists Challenge Army’s Domestic Spying Apparatus in Ninth Circuit
By Kris HermesOriginally published in The Huffington PostApril 3rd, 2017 With the militarization of police on the rise, the necessarily…
Legal Worker, Social Justice Activist Kris Hermes Honored with May Patriot Award
By Susan GaissetrtBill of Rights Defense CommitteeApril 30th, 2016 BORDC/DDF is proud to present Kris Hermes with the May 2016…
U.S. Army Tries to Suspend Disbelief During Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments in Case Challenging Its Domestic Spying
The Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments last Friday in Panagacos v. Towery, the most important case of the US military…
NLG Book Review: A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant
By Kris HermesOriginally posted on NLG Kris Hermes has been an active, award-winning legal worker-member of the NLG and has…
Mutual Aid Listicle
By Kris Hermes Mutual aid is the bedrock of thriving and sustainable communities. Mutual aid is also “the basic principle…