Stupak: The Worst Case Scenario for Latinas

Rocio L. Córdoba, 12.07.2009

Executive Director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

Health care reform must protect access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion services coverage, and ensure that all Californians, including immigrants, are covered.

Obama Should End Silence on Human Rights Abuses in Iran

Trita Parsi, 12.07.2009

Trita Parsi is author of Treacherous Alliance and President of NIAC

If the Obama administration waits until it takes punitive action against Iran to censure human rights abuses there, it will look like we view human rights as a pressure tactic, rather than as the foundation of free society.

Auschwitz Revisited: The Holocaust and the Abortion Debate

Jacob M. Appel, 12.06.2009

Bioethicist and medical historian

Comparing abortion clinics to concentration camps diminishes the memory of those who perished, using their suffering for an unrelated political purpose, while generating a rationale for the murder of abortion providers.

Fighting For Marriage Equality In New York

Eric T. Schneiderman, 12.05.2009

New York State Senator

I delivered the following speech on the New...

Estate Tax Bill Passed in House Doesn't Spell "Relief" for Same-Sex Couples

Michael Steinberger, 12.04.2009

Assistant Professor of Economics at Pomona College

All of the proposals being circulated in Congress have titles asserting they provide estate tax "relief." However, one group that none of the proposals relieve from an unfair tax burden is hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples.

As Protests in Iran Continue, International Solidarity Builds Momentum

Hadi Ghaemi, 12.04.2009

Much of the international public and media consider mass protests in Iran to have ended, because images of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators no l...

Thinking Outside The Mainstream

Reporters Uncensored, 12.03.2009

A new Web destination, TV model and online community

My show Reporters Uncensored (RUTV) wants out. Out of the stifling frame that limits what stories get told by the major news organizations. Each week...

Decision on Hate Crime Adopted by the 56 OSCE States

Paul LeGendre, 12.04.2009

Director of the Fighting Discrimination program at Human Rights First

On December 1-2, foreign ministers and other officials from the 56 states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - a confl...

A Hunger for Justice: The Perilous Journey of a Modern Day Gandhi

Barbara Becker, 12.05.2009

Most Americans are currently unaware of an ailing human rights campaigner from Western Sahara now in the third week of a risky hunger strike after being expelled from her occupied homeland by Moroccan authorities.

Realities of The Cuban Gulag

Yoani Sanchez, 12.02.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

Adolfo Fernandez Sainz lives among stories like this one; he turned 61 on November 30, six of them locked in Canaleta prison since the Black Spring o...

Immigration Detention: Give Detainees Fair Hearings

Ginny Sloan, 12.02.2009

Earlier today, the Constitution Project and Human Rights Watch co-hosted a panel discussion on immigration detention and access to counsel at the Nati...

A National Day of Action to Stop Stupak

Rebecca Sive, 12.02.2009

Community organizer and women's rights activist

Today I feel like I'm still 18, in the fall of 1968, gathering nickels, dimes and dollars for a friend to take the bus to Rapid City, South Dakota to get an (illegal) abortion.

A Reprieve for Turkeys, But Not for People

David C. Fathi, 12.02.2009

Director, US Program, Human Rights Watch

The day before Thanksgiving, at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, President Obama officially "pardoned" two turkeys, sparing them from the ch...

The Day Rosa Wouldn't Move

Kenneth C. Davis, 12.02.2009

Author of Don't Know Much About History, www.dontknowmuch.com

What do you know about this courageous woman who helped spark the civil rights movement that transformed America?

The Bishop Un-Bribes Patrick Kennedy

Judge H. Lee Sarokin, 12.02.2009

Retired in 1996 after 17 years on the federal bench

Providence's Bishop Tobin is seeking to bar communion to Patrick Kennedy because the legislator's support for abortion rights run contrary to church teachings.

Major Setback to Campaign to Restore California Marriage Equality in 2010

Chris Prevatt, 12.02.2009

Publisher of TheLiberalOC.com, an Orange County, CA based liberal political blog.

The departure of Courage Campaign from the 2010 campaign removes a significant amount of volunteer resources from the signature gathering efforts to place an initiative on the ballot next November.

The Gay Community's Pope Problem

Wayne Besen, 12.02.2009

Founder of Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization that debunks anti-gay lies and myths.

It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

In the Name of Rosa Parks: Arrest of 81-Year-Old on Fast, Mourning Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers, 12.03.2009

Author, forthcoming "Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland"

On the anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of civil disobedience, an 81-year-old veteran and anti-mountaintop removal activist was arrested by law enforcement authorities.

Vienna Declaration: Press Freedom and Security Compatible in Fight Against Terrorism

Magda Abu-Fadil, 12.02.2009

Director of Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut

Security and press freedom can coexist, with the free flow of information recognized as the best weapon against terrorism, international media experts argued in a final declaration published this week.

The Internet Must Not Become a Segregated Community

Malkia A. Cyril, 12.01.2009

Executive Director, Center for Media Justice

The big phone and cable companies want to get rid of Net Neutrality and control how the public accesses the Internet. This threat to Internet freedom isn't hypothetical.

Shocked -- Or Not? New Data Shows Abortion Quite Common In Most Red States

Greg Mitchell, 11.30.2009

Author, "Why Obama Won"

New data confirms that abortions tend to happen more often in big, blue states, but also that abortion is quite common in red states where anti-choice is strongest.