Rights Lab

Storyline

Surveillance. Civil liberties. Protests. Arrests. From the rise of the Occupy movement to the outrage over the National Security Agency's data collection, these words have become familiar to anyone who scans news headlines. But if you take a step behind the scenes, a complex interplay of social power and ever-changing legal precedents are the real drivers behind who is allowed to march and who can be surveilled and how. Scrappers Film Group, in collaboration with Truthout.org, present a multi-part web series to turn the camera on the most pressing civil liberties issues of our day.