Civil Liberties - Pacific Green Party

Policy Meeting on Saturday, February 8th: Unity Coalition Takes Action Against Warmongering, Genocide, Censorship, and Geoengineering

Mark Rolofson / 2 February 2025 / Leave a Comment

Unity Coalition of three Pacific Green Party Chapters host a meeting, Saturday February 8th, 11 am to 2 pm (PST) to advance policy positions in opposition to war, censorship of Palestinian rights protests, lawmakers facilitating Israel’s Gaza genocide and illegal geoengineering. The Unity Coalition consists of Pacific Green Party voters who were disenfranchised by a […]

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Demand Free Speech at Oregon Universities – Criticizing Israel is Not Antisemitism

Mark Rolofson / 1 February 2025 / Leave a Comment

Stop University Administrators from Adopting IHRA Definition of Antisemitism to Ban Palestinian Rights Protesters who Condemn Israel’s Occupation and Gaza Genocide. Academic Freedom and Free Speech on Campus are under assault, and things are about to get much worse now that Harvard University decided to settle a lawsuit initiated by Students Against Antisemitism. As a

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Assange’s Plea Deal Establishes a Dangerous Precedent

Mark Rolofson / 10 July 2024 / Leave a Comment

When the news broke on June 24, 2024, that Julian Assange was just released from Belmarsh Prison after accepting a plea deal, I was overjoyed. Assange boarded an international flight where his first stop was Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific, to attend a scheduled hearing in a US

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Why were Scott Ritter’s Rights Violated by US State Department?

Mark Rolofson / 12 June 2024 / Leave a Comment

On June 3, 2024, Scott Ritter was in New York’s JFK airport about to board a flight to Russia, when he was pulled out of the boarding line by three Customers and Border Patrol officers. The officers seized Ritter’s passport and told him they were doing so on orders from the US State Department. The