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[https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-documents-show-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-force-targeting-peaceful-protest-activity by ACLU of Colorado 8/12/05 ACLU] | [https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-documents-show-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-force-targeting-peaceful-protest-activity by ACLU of Colorado 8/12/05 ACLU] | ||
The ACLU, which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, said the FBI is wasting resources and threatening First Amendment rights by wrongfully equating nonviolent protest with domestic terrorism. | The ACLU, which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, said the FBI is wasting resources and threatening First Amendment rights by wrongfully equating nonviolent protest with domestic terrorism. | ||
=====Victory for Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-victory-nonviolence/ by PBS] | |||
The Freedom Rides demonstrated the power of nonviolent direct action to achieve strategic victory. Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could prove effective in the American civil rights movement. | |||
