Bloody Sunday

The American Promise: The Right to Vote

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Marc Morial, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Impact News, John Lewis, Civil Rights, Rev. Hosea Williams, Voting Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Montgomery, Politics, National Urban League, Alabama, Human Rights, Selma, Presidential Campaign, Edmund Pettus Bridge, President Lyndon Johnson, Bloody Sunday, Impact, Voting, Black Voices, Voting Information, Elections 2012, Election, Elections, 2012 Election, Election 2012, Voter Suppression, Politics News

Right now many states are attempting to put new voting restrictions in place that parallel all the old tricks and turn back the clock on civil rights to the days when voting was used as a tool for political control and exclusion.

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U.S. Must Expand, Not Suppress, Voting Rights

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Al Sharpton, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration, Voting Rights Act, Bloody Sunday, Republicans, Wisconsin Voter ID, Gop Voter Id Polls, Voter ID Laws, Voter ID, Politics News

Will Americans reward a party that is systematically seeking to make it harder to vote? Will they accept routine harassment of minorities because of their fears about immigration? Will the politics of division once more be effective?

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Struggle Through Decades to Overturn Massacre Lies

David Tereshchuk | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Massacre, Spin, Northern Ireland, Bloody Sunday, Prime Minister David Cameron, Tony Blair, Inquiry, Media-Management, Martin McGuiness, Video, Media News

At 4.10 p.m. Sunday afternoon, exactly 40 years ago, I witnessed soldiers shooting innocent civilians dead, an atrocity that officialdom instantly lied about -- and provoked a four-decade struggle to get the truth finally established.

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Queen Seeks 'Bloody Sunday' Reconcilation On Irish Tour

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 07.18.2011

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DUBLIN — Queen Elizabeth II made a powerful statement Wednesday night expressing "deep sympathy" to all who had suffered as a result of the trou...

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British Queen To Visit Site Of 'Bloody Sunday' Massacre

AP | By SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Ireland, Queen Elizabeth II, Great Britain, Bloody Sunday, Queen Elizabeth Ireland, Ireland Bloody Sunday, World News

DUBLIN -- Queen Elizabeth II will visit Dublin's famed Guinness brewery and the scene of the original Bloody Sunday massacre during a long-awaited vis...

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From Selma to Madison; We Stand with Wisconsin Workers and Families

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Madison Wisconsin, Republican Party, Unions, Bloody Sunday, Jackson Rainbow Coalition, Workers Rights, Scott Walker, Politics News

Today, thousands are gathering in Madison, Milwaukee and other cities. These protests will undoubtedly escalate as the people turn their protest into power and rise up to take back their government.

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Man Pleads Guilty To Slaying That Sparked Selma March

AP | PHILLIP RAWLS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights History, Murder, Marion, History, Alabama, Alabama State Trooper, Voting Rights Act, Crime, James Bonard Fowler, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Bloody Sunday, Selma March, Civil Rights, Politics News

MARION, Ala. — A former state trooper took a plea deal Monday in the 1965 slaying of a black man that prompted the "Bloody Sunday" march at Selm...

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most Americans know U2's song "Sunday Bloody Sunday." They may be dimly aware that Bono is adamant that "this is not a rebel song," without grasping what he's talking about.

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The F Word: "Bloody Sunday" Apologies, What About Monday?

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, a prominent world leader made an official apology to his nation. "What happened...was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong. T...

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"Bloody Sunday": Justice At Last for 1972 Killings in New Report

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloody Sunday, Ireland, U2, Paul Greengrass, Ira, Politics News

After a twelve-year inquiry, the Lord Saville probe of the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings in Derry came to a climax yesterday afternoon with the release of his mammoth report.

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An Investigation Confirms It: Bloody Sunday Got It Right

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Derry, U2, The Troubles, Paul Greengrass, David Cameron, Bloody Sunday, Entertainment News

It took almost 40 years. And an investigation that took 12 years, cost $280 million and filled 5,000 pages. But now, at last, we know what happened on Bloody Sunday.

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Sunday Bloody Sunday: UK Army's "Mai Lai"-Style 1972 Irish Massacre Was "Unjustified And Unjustifiable"

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Saville Report is as damning an indictment of British army and establishment perfidy as can be imagined. It is a stain on the British army that compares with the Mai Lai massacre.

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British Prime Minister: England Is 'Deeply Sorry' For Bloody Sunday

AP | PETER MORRISON, DAVID STRINGER and SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Relatives of 13 Catholic demonstrators shot to death by British troops on Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday cried...

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Will We Once Again Reject the Politics of Hate?

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congressman John Lewis, Civil Rights Movement, Southern Poverty Law Center, Civil Rights Memorial, Tea Party, Bloody Sunday, Politics News

45 years ago today, civil rights advocates were beaten and tear-gassed by baton-wielding state troopers as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on a march in support of voting rights.

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Remembering 'Bloody Sunday' the Day After

Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion and Politics, Obama, Civil Rights Movement, Selma, Bloody Sunday, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Religion News

There is nothing easy about remembering Selma.

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The Selma Marchers Weren't Just Activists -- They Were Believers

Emilie Townes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Civil Rights Movement, Bloody Sunday, Montgomery Alabama, Black History Month, Montgomery Al News, Montgomery Alabama History, Montgomery Al. News, March on Selma, Civil Rights, Religion News

Let's not become so focused on mission and social injustices that we fail to teach folks the reason why we're so concerned about this world and how our historical faith statements compel us to act.

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Remembering Bloody Sunday: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Jim Crow, Politics, Constitution, Martin Luther King, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Alabama, Racism, Selma, Lyndon Johnson, Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights, Politics News

As right-wingers gabble loosely about secession and revolution, it's worth remembering that our nation experienced a second - necessary and successful - American revolution 45 years ago.

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Why Obama Will Not Have a 'We Shall Overcome' Moment on Gays

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Reeb, Voting Rights Act, Selma, Lyndon Johnson, Bloody Sunday, Jonathan Martin, Dick Goodwin, David Mixner, We Shall Overcome, Politics News

While the Obama administration blames their dallying on the press or the political situation, they should be reminded that that didn't stop Johnson.

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Uncut from Northern Ireland

Henry Rollins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ifc, Irish Republican Army, Northern Ireland, Celebrities Talk Politics, Henry Rollins, IFC Films, Iraq, The Troubles, Bloody Sunday, Ira, Entertainment News

By day we would interview all sides of the Northern Ireland debate, trying allow different points of view to be aired. By night, I would get e-mails from people urging me not to believe what others told me.

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