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How Team Obama, the GOP, and Tea Partiers Are All Intruding on Your Rights
By Jim Hightower / Hightower Lowdown
In the Constitution, "security" means protection from our law enforcers, not by them.
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6 Companies That Stand Up for Gay Rights (Now If They Only Had Good Labor Practices Too)
By Lauren Kelley
AlterNet
Contrived Catholic Contraception Controversy Boils Down to Workers' Rights
By Roger Bybee
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Supreme Court Says Religious School Can Fire Teacher for Illness
By Josh Eidelson
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More and More States Introduce Costly Anti-Immigration Bills
By Seth Hoy
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Report: "Enforcement-Only" Immigration Strategy Still an Utter Disaster
By Michele Waslin / Immigration Impact
The Dark Side of Chocolate: What Our Love Affair With Cocoa Means for the World
By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet
Occupy DC Forcefully Evicted, Protesters Injured, Arrested, Under Pressure from Congress's Richest Member
By Jefferson Morley / Salon

The NYPD Commissioner Told Cops to Follow the Law -- So Why Did Illegal, Racist Pot Arrests Continue to Increase?
By Paul Armentano / NORML
Komen Foundation Exploits Breast Cancer Mission to Make War on Planned Parenthood
By Jodi L. Jacobson / RH Reality Check
Apple Tries Damage Control after Horrific Working Conditions at its Factories Exposed
By Jeff Ballinger / Labor Notes
The Future of Pot: Is Legalization Around the Corner In Colorado and Washington?
By Steven Wishnia / AlterNet
New York Muslims Fight Back Against Police Department's Institutionalized Paranoia About Islam
By Alex Kane / AlterNet

Where do the GOP Candidates Stand on Drug Policy? Why Now is the Time to Know
By Ryan Devereaux / The Guardian
5 Important Things You Should Know About Privacy and the Supreme Court Ruling on GPS Tracking
By Scott Lemieux / AlterNet
Is Fighting Corporate Corruption a Crack in the Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling?
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Stung by Bad PR, City Officials Adopting New Tactics to Suppress Occupy Oakland
By Susie Cagle / AlterNet
Drones for the Paparazzi? How Unmanned Flying Machines Could Invade Your Life
By Becky Hogge / Comment Is Free
Eyewitness Identification Has 50% Error Rate? How We Throw People in Prison Based on False ID
By Patricia J. Williams / The Nation

Mumia Abu-Jamal May Be Off Death Row, But His Torture Continues In the 'Hole'
By Hans Bennett / Prison Radio
Revolutionary Jose Maria Sison on US Imperialism and a Way Forward for the Philippines
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. / AlterNet
Chris Hedges: Why I'm Suing Barack Obama
By Chris Hedges / Truthdig
Business Leaders Demand SEC Regulate Corporate Political Spending
By Lisa Gilbert / Public Citizen
Will Jean-Claude Duvalier Ever Stand Trial for His Crimes Against Haiti?
By Fran Quigley / AlterNet

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