On AlterNet: dissent

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "dissent"

Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Assaulted By Our Surveillance State

Amy Goodman, AlterNet. April 26, 2012.

A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.

Meet the Whistleblowers Who Warned of the Impending Financial Crash But Were Ignored

Eyal Press, TomDispatch.com. March 6, 2012.

Whistleblowers may often be praised in the abstract, but Americans ignore or even vilify them when they dare to stir up trouble in their own workplaces.

Fighting for Americans' Right to Dissent: A Review of 'Hell No'

Mandy Van Deven, AlterNet. October 12, 2011.

Authors Michael Ratner and Margaret Ratner Kunstler examine the detrimental impact that criminalizing lawful dissent has had on social movements.

The Meaning and Importance of Dissent

Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, AlterNet. September 26, 2011.

In their new book, Ratner and Ratner Kunstler discuss Americans' right to protest -- and how those rights are often trampled on by the U.S. government.

Iranian Women Prisoners Detail Torture: 'Death Was Like a Desire'

Center for Investigative ReportingJune 14, 2011.

In a series of secretly recorded interviews, female prisoners disclose stories of horrific abuse during Iran's 2009 Green Revolution.

Hedges: We're Losing Our Intelligence -- How the Purge of True Dissent Has Starved Our Discourse

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. November 15, 2010.

True intellectual dissent was wiped out long ago. For the most part, universities stand cowardly, silent accomplices of the corporate state, doing corporate bidding.

War on Dissent: FBI Agents Raiding Peaceful Anti-War Activists

Coleen Rowley, Consortium News. September 26, 2010.

FBI counter-terrorism agents are offered perverse career incentives that pressure them to conduct actions against groups that pose no danger.

One Day We'll All Be Terrorists

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. December 29, 2009.

Our descent is the familiar disease of decaying empires. Dissent is starting to become defined as an act of terrorism.

Why Fanaticism Can Be a Good Thing

Rebecca Solnit, Comment Is Free. December 1, 2009.

It's popular to think the world gets changed by delightful people, but agents of change are often obsessive, intransigent, unreasonable, and demanding.

Dissent Is Essential to Democracy

Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. August 14, 2008.

So why are people being arrested for lawful protest?

Dissent and War: Judge Blocks Second Trial for Watada; High-School Protesters Face Expulsion

AlterNetNovember 9, 2007.

Two tales of protest and punishment during an illegal war.

Brilliant Soldiers' Dissent

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. October 17, 2007.

The Iraq war has produced brilliant messages of dissent from the ranks that should cause us to stop in our tracks and reconsider what we have wrought.

Active Duty Soldiers Call for An End to the Occupation of Iraq

Marc Cooper, TheNation.com. December 18, 2006.

For first time since Vietnam, hundreds of active-duty military personnel have organized to oppose a war that they are fighting.