Surveillance & Dissent Today
Modern Issues
The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI blew the whistle on the U.S. government’s secret surveillance of civil rights groups, anti-war protesters and other left-wing groups of the early 1970s. The issue of government surveillance remains a complex and controversial topic today. New technologies have allowed for a dramatic growth of information in electronic form, and social media has changed the way we share and communicate information with the world. With these technological advances, and the expansion of government surveillance activities since the terrorist attacks of 2001, new civil liberties issues emerge. Check out these weblinks to learn more about government surveillance and activism today.
- Official US Department of Justice Reports on FBI ActivitiesSee the 2010 report, "A Review of the FBI's Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocacy Groups," which profiles the anti-war Thomas Merton Center [Pittsburgh], PETA, Greenpeace, and the Catholic Worker.
- President Obama speaks on US intelligence programsWhite House Press Release, January 17, 2014
- Read an investigative article on Homeland Security activities in PennsylvaniaHow Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
On Civil Liberties & National Security
How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act? by Call Number: KF4850 .E899 2004 3rd FLOORISBN: 0415950473Publication Date: New York : Routledge, 2004
Selling Fear by Call Number: HV6432 .N336 2011 2nd FLOORISBN: 9780226567198Publication Date: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011
