Civil Liberties

It's Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh

By Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

A planned demonstration at Gap Inc's shareholder meeting in San Francisco aims to get Gap to sign on to fire and building safety regulations in Bangladesh.

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Elderly Woman Dies in Court "Gasping for Breath" After Sheriff's Deputies "Callously" Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims

By Iulia Filip / Courthouse News

Holy Moly -- Supreme Court to Rule on Prayer at Government Meetings

By Katie McDonough / Salon

Our Govt. Is Turning into a Surveillance State That's Almost Impossible to Stop

By Murtaza Hussain / Al Jazeera English

80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Got Arrested Protesting Right-Wing Agenda for Schools

By Barbara Parramore / AlterNet

4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder

How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'

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Civil Liberties

The Long, Sordid History of the American Right and Racism

Robert Parry / Consortium News

The Similarities Between the Charter School Movement and the War on Drugs

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / TruthOut.org

How Video Footage of the 'Most Powerful Antiwar Act' in U.S. History Was Rescued From Obscurity

Jake Olzen / Waging Nonviolence

4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky: The Truth About America's Secret, Dirty Wars

Jeremy Scahill, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder

David Rosen / AlterNet

Inside the Cooper Union Occupation’s First Hours

Zachary Bell / Waging Nonviolence

How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'

Fran Quigley / AlterNet

NRA ‘Charity’ Ransacks ‘Enlightened Self-interest’

Robert S. Becker / AlterNet

5 Worst Obama Assaults on Civil Liberties Besides the AP scandal

Steve Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

Why Cops and Prosecutors Get Away With Throwing Innocents in Prison

Margaret Kimberly / Black Agenda Report

Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom

Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges / Democracy Now!

Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent

Jed Morey / AlterNet

Outrage Grows Over Justice Department Seizure of Associated Press Phone Records

Greg Mitchell / The Nation

Congress Turns a Blind Eye to the Deep Shame of Guantanamo Bay

Ray McGovern / Consortium News

Feds Falsely Use Specter of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist

Tom Hintze / AlterNet

We Can't Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence Our Great Democracy

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

Cleveland Horror Caps Week of Violence Against Women

Leslie Savan / The Nation

The Cruelty of the American Empire Makes Mother's Day Impossible for Countless Moms Across the Planet

Jodie Evans, Charles Davis / AlterNet

Why I Am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison

Diane Wilson / AlterNet

Cops Beat Woman For Filming Another Beating

Ryan Abbott / Courthouse News

Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week

Dave Johnson / Truthout

Look Out: Corporations Promote ‘Right to Farm’

Margot Ford McMillen / Progressive Populist

Stop-and-Frisk Trial: NYPD's 'Top Stopper' Stopped Almost All Blacks, Was Never Questioned For It

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

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