Nine people were recently convicted of federal charges, including “material support for terrorism,” by a jury in Texas after a noise demonstration and exchange of gunfire at the Prairieland Immigration Detention Center in North Texas. The Trump administration has turned this protest and shootout into a high profile prosecution of “antifa.”
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In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman about the Prairieland case, the weaponization of the Justice Department and the expansion of the “terrorism” label.
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Adam Federman (@adamfederman) is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations who has written widely on environmental policy, public lands, the Arctic and corporate and police spying on environmental activists. He has written for In These Times, Politico Magazine, The Washington Post, Wired, Slate, The Nation, and other publications.
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