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Five Years of His Life, And What You Can Do About It

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Book Review, Center for Constitutional Rights, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Taking Action, Five Years of My Life, Aclu, Gitmo, Murat Kurnaz, Amnesty International, Media News
Rachel Haimowitz

So great was my sense of outrage at what happened to this innocent man who was detained for 5 years at Guantanamo, that I immediately sought ways to help those still trapped there.

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May Day! May Day! Hijackings of the 4th Estate

Paige Donner | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Time Magazine, Brigitte Bardot, Animal Rights, Activism, 4th Estate, Freedom of Speech, Animal Slaughter, Cnn, Journalism, Defense, Seattle Times, Muckraker, Justice, Truth, Hijackings, Npr, Yong Tangyan, Valerie Plame, Immigration, May Day, Civil Liberties, Internal Affairs, Lapd, PEN Award, Aclu, Committee to ProtectJournalists, Media News
Paige Donner

The title of this piece, Hijackings of the 4th Estate, is purposefully provocative. For any journalist, Blogger or otherwise muckraker laboring in ser...

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The End of Freedom in America?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Aclu, Public Schools, Separation of Church and State, Public Prayer, Living News
John W. Whitehead

You'd think the schools would be grateful for a teacher who serves as a positive, moral role model for young people. But when religion is involved, even heroes like Marcus Borden find themselves under fire.

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Phi Beta Interrogator

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Interrogation, Waterboarding, John Yoo, Iraq, Alyssa Peterson, Iraq Suicides, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

What a horrific statement that some have opted to take their own lives rather than participate in practices that go against their principles.

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A Slap in the Face to the American Judicial System

Cecillia Wang | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Arizona Proposition 100, Proposition 100, Anti-Immigrant Laws, American Civil Liberties Union, Mexican American Legal Defense Education Fund, Fair Trail, Politics News
Cecillia Wang

In late 2006 Arizona passed Proposition 100, an unprecedented anti-immigrant law that forbids judges from considering bail for criminal defendants who are suspected of having "entered or remained in the United States illegally".

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Standing Up For Justice In The Military Commissions Proceedings

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Aclu, Civil Liberties, Military Commissions, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, American Civil Liberties Union, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

We've been at a critical juncture since September 11. How we respond to the atrocities thrust upon us after that terrible day says everything about who we are as Americans - what values we defend, how the world sees us, and how history will remember us.

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Let Justice Roll Down

Steven Denlinger | Posted 03.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Earl Denlinger, The Bronx, Holmes County, Roselynn Weaver, Jonathan Miller, Magdalena Overholt, The Bread Loaf School of English, Amish, The Way, Ohio, Mark Wagler, Pleasant View Mennonite Church, Mennonite, Catholic Central High School, Great Depression, The Great War, Jerome Overholt, Swamp Road, Common Ground, J. Anthony Lukas, Lancaster Mennonite High School, Robert Weaver, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, New York City, Steubenville, Hartville, Cnn, Middlebury College, Rene Wagler, Fairfield Hospital, Marcia Miller, Rosedale Bible College, Lake High School, World War II, Aclu, Donald Thorn, Germans, Belize, Living News
Steven Denlinger

My Swiss-German world did not promote cross-cultural values -- most of my schoolmates looked pretty much like me. But something was different about the way my parents raised me.

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Renewing the Promise of Equal Opportunity

Laleh Ispahani and Alan Jenkins | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Aclu, Racial Discrimination, Politics News
Laleh Ispahani and Alan Jenkins

The report presented by the U.S. this week at the U.N. hearing on racial discrimination in Geneva ignores the very existence of critical human rights problems in America.

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End Military Commissions

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Gitmo, Torture, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

The reputation of the U.S. has been tarnished throughout the world since the Bush administration replaced our military justice systems with a regime of military commissions.

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Contempt

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Waterboarding, CIA Tapes Destroyed, CIA Videotapes, Aclu, Politics News
Jameel Jaffer

The CIA's destruction of evidence suggests contempt not only for the court orders but for the foundational idea that intelligence agencies should be subject to democratic control.

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ACLU Does It for the Thrill of Privacy

Adam Baer | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Privacy, Larry Craig, Aclu, Public, Politics News
Adam Baer

Today the AP reports the ACLU is arguing that all those adventuresome spirits who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy. Public Bathrooms!

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ACLU Comes To Rescue Of Craig: Sex In Stalls Is Private

Associated Press | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Larry Craig Appeal, Larry Craig Trial, Larry Craig Scandal, Senator Larry Craig, Larry Craig ACLU, Larry Craig, Politics News

In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation ...

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Unconstitutional Acts to Protect the President from Protestors

Catherine Crump | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Free Speech, Politics News
Catherine Crump

The desire to look good does not justify treating members of the public like extras in a campaign commercial rather than citizens with a protected constitutional right to engage in speech of their own.

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Bursting Bush's Bubble, One ACLU Case At A Time

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peter Simonson, White House, Albuquerque, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Bush Egged, Secret Service, Free Speech, Jeanne Pahls, Bush, American Civil Liberties Union, Pete Domenici, Bumpersticker Bumper Sticker, New Mexico, Protest, Rebecca Wilson, Inaugural Parade, Denver Three, Inaugural, Denver 3, Presidential Advance Manual, Protesters, Motorcade, Bernalillo County, Constitution, Free Speech Zone, Stop the War Machine, Alice Lloyd, Aclu, Bush Bubble, Catherine Crump, Bcsd, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Photograph copyright © 2008 Rebecca Wilson President Bush's first short journey as president was an uncomfortable one for him, and it appears he...

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Driving with Joe Overholt

Steven Denlinger | Posted 01.12.2008 | Living

Read More: John Fohner, Nickels Bakery, Akron Beacon Journal, Sarah Overholt, " Kent State University, Mayor Giuliani, Cain and Abel, VW Rabbit, Matthias Overholt, Virginia, Richard Denlinger, A Cappella, Vera Overholt, People, Ohio, Prodigal Son, Jr., Disney, Tim Denlinger, Heidi Denlinger, Hartville Kitchen, Abigail Overholt, Conservative Mennonite, Nathan Overholt, John H. Miller, Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Greg Yoder, Hannah Overholt, Hartville, Joe Overholt, Hartville Conservative Mennonite Church, Eastern Mennonite University, The Hartville Singers, Christian Hymnary, Paul Kurtz, Aclu, Dismal Swamp, The Ausbund, Sr., Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway, "I Will Abide, Robert Redford, A River Runs Through It, Norfolk, Kent, Living News
Steven Denlinger

When I think back over my childhood, I remember one person who was truly unforgettable. Joe Overholt.

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Friday Talking Points [14]

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fisa, Campaign Coverage, Legacy, Campaign, Media, Auschwitz, Peace, 08 Elections, Telecom, Bush, Primaries, 2008, Middle East, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Heck of a Job, Peace Process, Primary, Party of Ideas, Democrat, Congress, 2008 Elections, 08, Approval Rating, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, 08 Election, New Hampshire Primary, Mddotw, Wiretapping, Schip, Wiretap, Hillary Clinton, Aclu, Fbi, Warrantless, Incompetence, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Time for another fun round of Democratic talking points for the weekend ahead! After a hiatus for the year-end awards, and then a special "all electi...

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What Is Probably in the Missing Tapes

Naomi Wolf | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Aclu, Foia, Mukasey Waterboarding, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Guantanamo Detainees, Michael Mukasey, Bybee Gonzales, Guantanamo, Gonzales Torture Memo, Military Commissions Act, Abu Ghraib, Military Commissions, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Waterboarding, Torture Memo, Torture, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

We can guess what is probably on the missing CIA interrogation tapes -- as well as understand why those implicated are spinning so hard to pretend the tapes do not document a series of evident crimes.

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Meet the New American Revolutionaries!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Paris Hilton, Aclu, Iraqi Death Toll, Tom Delay, White Rose Coalition, Britney Spears, American Freedom Fighters, Danny Schechter, Thomas Jefferson, Media Coverage of the War, Norman Solomon, Robert Greenwald, Wealth Gap, Iraq War Resolution, Habeas Corpus, Outsourcing, Patriot Act, Irwin Chemerinsky, Jonathan Turley, New American Revolutionaries, Jane Harman, Anti-War Movement, ACLU Patriot Act, Foreclosure, Pasadena Rose Parade, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

On January 1st at the Pasadena Rose Parade, Revolutionary garbed patriots from the White Rose Coalition will move amongst the crowds to spread the message that its time to reclaim our democracy.

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Death Chamber of Secrets

Christopher Hill | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Dr. Doe, Aclu, Oklahoma, Missouri, Death Penalty, Politics News
Christopher Hill

As part of the secrecy surrounding the execution process, we do not really know who the people carrying out lethal injections are.

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Time to Talk Turkey

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Bush Administration, Family Stress Thanksgiving, Family Stress Holidays, Thanksgiving, Warrantless Spying, Dealing With Your Family on Thanksgiving, War on Christmas, Spying, Bill O'Reilly War on Christmas, Separation of Church and State, Family, Torture, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

Sooner or later, you'll take the bait this Thanksgiving and, when you do, you need to be ready with the best arguments. So, here you go: Your Turkey Day Talking Points.

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Democracy's Fading Beacon

Arne L. Kalleberg | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: First Amendment Rights, American Sociological Association, War on Terror, Racial Profiling, Adam Habib, Aclu, Homeland Security, Politics News
Arne L. Kalleberg

What does it mean to tout democracy as an aspiration for the world if our own government increasingly undermines our democratic credibility?

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Fighting Illegal Spying in the Senate Today

Ari Melber | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fisa, Telecoms Immunity, Arlen Specter Telecoms, Leahy, Immunity, Telecom, Nsa, Aclu, Patrick Leahy, Fisa Amendments Act, Aclu Surveillance, Government Surveillance, Surveillance Bill, James Robertson, Dodd Hold Surveillance Bill, Politics News
Ari Melber

Under Democratic control, Congress is doing even worse on illegal spying than the Republicans.

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ACLU Keeps Pressure on Mukasey to Call Waterboarding What It Is: Torture

Christopher E. Anders | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Torture, Aclu, Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, Politics News
Christopher E. Anders

Knowing the law is only part of the battle, is the bar really so low that the best we can hope for is an attorney general who makes private assurances that he is willing to follow law?

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New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role In Domestic Surveillance

The Body Politik | Igor Volsky | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: National Security Letters, Aclu, Fbi, Department of Defense, Politics News

The ACLU is reporting that the Department of Defense improperly collaborated with the FBI and issued "hundreds of national security letters (NSLs) to ...

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American Voters Oppose Torture

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Bush Administration Torture, Americans Torture, Torture Attorney General, ACLU Torture Pull, ACLU Poll, ACLU Torture, Torture, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

Apparently even the Bush administration knew it was doing something terribly wrong, something it felt it needed to hide.

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