Civil Liberties

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

By Jake Olzen / Waging Nonviolence

The actions of 9 protesters who destroyed Vietnam War draft files were filmed on tape and then held by the U.S. Attorney's office.

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4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

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

By 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

By David Rosen / AlterNet

Inside the Cooper Union Occupation’s First Hours

By Zachary Bell / Waging Nonviolence

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

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

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

Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls

Sikivu Hutchinson / Black Agenda Report

Punishing Students For Not Making Eye Contact? How Charter Schools' Prejudiced Policies Undermine Equality

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Is This America's Worst Prison? The Inspirational Campaign to Close Tamms Supermax

Laurie Jo Reynolds, Stephen F. Eisenman / Creative Time Reports

Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

Failure to Pass Gun Legislation Casts Doubt on Immigration Bill's Success

Rory O'Connor / Al Jazeera

How 'The Economist' Got it Wrong — America Still Needs Affirmative Action

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

Fear, Paranoia and Loathing: Inside the NRA's 2013 Convention

Alexander Zaitchik / Media Matters

11 Most Heartless GOP Ideas for Immigrants

Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / Think Progress

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