Sunday, July 16, 2006

Report Shows Department of Defense Surveillance of UC Berkeley Students’ Plans to Hold Protest

The Daily Californian: "Government Monitored Anti-War Group E-Mails | BY Kaitlin Anderson | Contributing Writer | Thursday, July 13, 2006"

Newly surfaced government surveillance reports reveal that the U.S. Department of Defense monitored anti-war and anti-military e-mails sent by UC Berkeley students in April.

The students' e-mails contained plans to host a campus protest against the war in Iraq and against the presence of military recruiters on campus.

The reports, released on June 15 following a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in January, contained information copied from an e-mail circulated by student group UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition regarding a protest planned for April 21, 2005 on Sproul Plaza. ..

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