Brandi Collins on Black Lives Surveillance

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This week on CounterSpin:

(Photo: Color of Change)

Corporate journalists rely on the First Amendment, but it’s increasingly unclear if the First Amendment can rely on them. The relative lack of interest in the impact of spying on activists—a practice with a long and disturbing history given new power by technology—is the latest example.

The Center for Constitutional Rights and the racial justice organization Color of Change have filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security over the agencies’ failure to provide information related to government surveillance of organizers and protestors in the Movement for Black Lives—programs and policies that endanger rights of assembly and of free speech, and give the truly troubling impression that US law enforcement see lawful, peaceful activists as tantamount to terrorists, especially when they are black or brown.

We’ll hear from Brandi Collins, campaign director for media and economic justice at the racial justice group Color of Change.

Transcript: ‘Our Identity is Often What’s Triggering Surveillance’

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First we take a look back at the week’s press, including the bipartisan fetish, the Dakota Access Pipeline and the AT&T/Time Warner merger.

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