Wealthy investors and major banks have been making windfall profits by using a little-known federal tax break to finance new charter-school construction.
Human rights groups say that Siddiqui, who has been found guilty of attempted murder, was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani officials in 2003 and tortured at the behest of the U.S.
Border guards held Goodman and her colleagues for an hour and a half, searching their belongings and telling them they could only stay in the country for two days.
In its first review of the PATRIOT Act, the Court will rule on an anti-terror law outlawing any aid to groups on the State Department's list of terrorist groups.
On Nov.2, 20 college students in Virginia staged a walkout on the World Can't Wait day of action. The school administration shut down the protest and threatened to expel them.
As someone who has spent years chronicling racism, I know that the average black cop battles against far more prejudice than most of the young, white radicals who came to LA could ever hope to imagine. Not to recognize that those same cops could be allies, not enemies, is an arrogance and immaturity the new movement cannot afford.
On Vieques, a tiny island off the coast of Puerto Rico, a major political upheaval has erupted during the past few months, taking Washington by surprise and sparking unprecedented unity among Puerto Rico's 3.8 million inhabitants.
