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Free Speech Radical

Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement.

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Taking It to the Streets

Vendors battle bureaucracy for their place in the Second City.

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The Past and Future of Human Rights

Barack Obama could become America's first human rights president.

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Confessions of a Terrorist

Dear Senator Patrick Leahy: I write from my sleeper cell outside Hardwick, Vt., through a constituent I persuaded to… more

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A Spectre is Haunting America

Ghosts of neoliberalism trouble Obama’s response to the recession

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Forget Marriage—Civil Unions For All

I believe fervently in the sanctity of marriage, and if you do, too, head immediately to your closest church,… more

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‘If the Detainee Dies, You’re Doing it Wrong

When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of harsh techniques, he did so over the objections of senior military attorneys from all branches of the armed services

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ICE Cold to Kids

At 10 a.m. on May 12, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on a meat processing plant in… more

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Whats Next For FISA?

The first year of the 110th Congress closed with a great deal of spilled blood, and few victories for… more

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El Salvadors Patriot Act

Last year the government adopted a "Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism," which gives police and judges leeway to clear the streets of demonstrators and imposes mandatory sentences of 60 years for what was once considered a freedom of expression

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Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Harman doesn't believe homegrown terrorism is a major threat to U.S. security today, but that it is important to learn from experiences in other countries like Britain and Canada, where citizens have been inspired to commit terrorism at home by Islamic propagandists reaching out over the Internet

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Snoops Get A Direct Line

That Verizon readily opened its phone logs to the feds should come as no surprise: The firm is a shining example of the revolving door between government and the telecom industry.

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Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands

To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet

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Training Satellites on the United States

Homeland Security plans to share spy satellite data with domestic agencies

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Justice Denied

One man stands between Flozelle Woodmore and the "free" world--California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Can Habeas Corpus Be Restored?

Congressional Dems are finding it hard to do

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NOLA: Priced Out of the Parade

Rising costs, lack of protection, threaten New Orleans' traditional second line marches

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8 Reasons to Close Guantnamo Now

The first detainees arrived in Guantánamo four months to the day after the 9/11 attacks. From the opening of… more

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DoJ Quashes Wiretapping Inquiries

Department of Justice sues states to protect its questionable wiretapping policies with major telecommunications companies.

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Lawyers Fight for Habeas Rights

The Military Commissions Act suspends Habeas corpus for foreign citizens accused of hostilities against the U.S.

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A Terrifying Distraction

Government entrapment leads to the unlawful arrest of seven Hatian men falsely accused of terrorist actvity.

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Death of a Tokers Utopia

Michigan's Raindbow Farm a remnant of Hippie Culture

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Writer Without Borders

Eduardo Galeano disdains borders, both in life and in literature. Exiled from his native Uruguay after the 1973 military… more

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The Persecution of the American Taliban?

John Walker Lindh was misunderstood and mislabeled as an "American Taliban."

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The Senselessness of Guantnamo

Chicago Lawyer Joseph Marguiles' Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon & Schuster) is about as convincing an… more

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Undercover Cover-Up

Was a Portland attorney the target of the NSA domestic spying program?

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A Legal Limbo

Abdul Hamid Abdul Salam Al-Ghizzawi is frantic. "He is in very poor health, which deteriorates day after day (details… more

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Theyve Come for Us All

First they came for the Communists," runs the opening of the famous poem about the Nazis' incremental persecution of… more

vol. 30, iss. 04   

FBI, DoD, NSA: All Spying on You

Quietly, the war on terror, in which everything is permitted, has laid the ground work for the Bush administration… more

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Jack Bauer and the Ethics of Urgency

The fifth season of "24," the phenomenally successful Fox television series, premiered on January 15. Composed of 24 one-hour… more

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An Imperial President

Even before his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, it was clear that Judge Samuel Alito believed in the… more

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Torture in the Homeland

Torture is much in the news these days. "We do not torture," President George Bush declared last month, after… more

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Torturers R’ Us

President Bush denies reality

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Law Is Dead

Pressure to enforce China's one-child policy has led to horrific crimes by local governments

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View From the Ground

Journalist Jamie Kalven characterizes his experience covering Stateway Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development, as "human rights" reporting.… more

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Imminent Domination

Progressives cannot allow libertarians to lead the fight against the misuse of eminent domain

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Operation Enduring Boredom

Far from celebrating free expression, the Pentagon's September 11 Freedom Walk was expression free

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Arrest the Messenger

The government of Niger imprisons anti-slavery activist Ilguilas Weila

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Before Sunset

A broad coalition is pushing Congress to rein in the Patriot Act

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Animosity in the East

Tensions flare between China and Japan

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