Reporters and supporters were at a rally today to protest Maryland State police surveillance of Mike Tidwell and Josh Tulkin while working for CCAN in 2005-2006. Josh and Mike regularly met with church groups, politicians, 3rd graders–so do all these people need to be worried that their information is also in these databases?

We’re calling on the police to release this information immediately and explain their actions.

Write Governor O’Malley today>>

Covering the rally, Andrew Revkin of the NYTimes writes,

For a 13-month stretch starting in March 2005, three environmentalists working for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network were listed in a Maryland State Police data base as being “suspected of involvement in terrorism.” The description went on to note that the police had “no evidence whatsoever of any involvement in violent crime,” and the listing, and possible tracking, did not continue. But the activists