Catherine Elizabeth Bleish

Bio: Catherine Bleish is the founder and former executive director of the Liberty Restoration Project. She currently resides in Austin, Texas where she hopes to finish her Masters of Public Administration graduate degree from Park University.

Recently Catherine was interviewed by CNN for the Anderson Cooper Show and has become a regular guest on the following nation-wide radio programs:
Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show
Free Talk Live
Lives in the Balance with Jason Littlejohn

Her activism begin through the anti-war resistance under Bush and grew into a lifestyle through the 2008 Presidential Campaign of Dr. Ron Paul. In the spring of 2009 she re-directed her energy and began to focus her research and activism on fusion centers.

This was in response to the the Missouri Information Analysis Center profiled her and her others in her state as a potentially dangerous radical militia members based on their political ideologies and activities. The report has since been retracted and four legislative hearings were held on the issue.

Since December 17th of 2009 she has been on the road 80% of her time, traveling from state to state meeting with fusion center staff, conducting activists trainings, interviewing those adversely and positively affected by fusion centers, and working to gain a better understanding of these institutions in an effort to find a solution that defuses the tension between our law enforcement communities and the general public. The volunteer based initiative that she helped found is called Operation Defuse.

Interests / Hobbies:

Standing up to the man with my friends.

This was taken in Austin Texas during the first nation-wide Red Light Camera Protest organized by Tracy Ward of the
This photo was taken after we handed out copies of the documentary America Freedom to Fascism to every single one of our state legislators in response to the infamous MIAC report scandal.

Spending time on my bicycle, taking photographs and enjoying nature.

This photo was taken by me while riding on the Katy Trail in Columbia Missouri in the fall of 2005.