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3 suspended for not standing for Pledge of Allegiance

Three Minnesotan students were suspended on Thursday for not standing during the... more

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Gag lifted - Brewster speaks

The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter issued to the... more

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CIA ordered to turnover torture memo, gives us a look inside

It seems that we may get a deeper look into the torture tactics of the Bush... more

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Stand Up For Your Rights, Proof It Works: FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit

In this Washington Post article they state that this is the third time the FBI backed... more

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Lawsuit Challenges NYPD Stop-And-Frisk Policy

A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the NYPD's practice... more

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America's prison system viewed with horror by the world

It used to be that Europeans came to the United States to study its prison systems.... more

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Law Would Benefit Gays Discharged Under DADT

Military veterans discharged under the Pentagon's ban on openly gay and... more

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Is H&R Block Homophobic?

Connecticut’s ACLU wants H&R Block to allow gay couples to file state taxes... more

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BUSTED The Citizen's Guide To Surviving Police Encounters, Flex Your Rights Foundation

BUSTED - WalKnDude - www.planetnetopia.com - The Citizen's Guide To Surviving... more

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PEN CENTER USA - Woonsocket, Rhode Island: Public Library Returns Challenged Book to Shelves

UPDATE: Woonsocket Public Library has decided to return It Stops With Me to its... more

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Bard College President Supports Demand for Book Ban in Public Library

Bard College President Leon Botstein is supposed to be liberal. Then why did he... more

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Homophobic Teacher Sued

A 17 year girl was suspended by a homophobic teacher who was offended by two... more

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Who are the Wobblies? The first Underdogs to Fight the Fat Cats!

I went to the see the film in a theater at the college I attended. It was an assignment for a writing class on film as literature and it was called the "Fat Cats and Underdogs" Series. Below is an excerpt from my essay I wrote about the film, sort of like a film review. Check it out if you like. The video above is a clip from the film on Youtube. If you ever get the chance to see this film it will make you cry. Not only for them then, but for us now. Because the Fat Cats are at it again. A little history repeating.

?The Wobblies?Setting the Record Straight About Syndicalism?

This documentary evoked a complex array of emotional and intellectual reactions in me. I left the theater feeling like the world hasn?t changed much in the last 100 years in some very basic and fundamental ways. The same distinction between the haves and the have-nots still prevails as the fundamental order. In fact, I think that the situation is much worse because the stakes are much higher. Now governments and multinational corporations have the power through technology to destroy the entire planet in their quest for greater power, riches, and control. This country was founded on certain principles that the Wobblies believed in namely free speech, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, the Wobblies are presented as criminals in the opening sequence of this documentary, because that is how they were perceived by the general public due to efforts by the media to vilify them through the use of political cartoons and slogans. Although the Wobblies struggles didn?t necessarily result in their own immediate happiness (many of the individuals interviewed recounted how they were inhumanely treated by people in positions of power), it paved the way for future generations to better pursue the American dream of equality. The IWW and the Wobblies represented an important movement in American history?the labor movement. What shocked me most of all, in the films portrayal of historical events, was how quickly the Bill of Rights could be dismissed by our government and that the Wobblies could be treated with such disregard in the political, social, and economic climate of the time. It seems clear to me that the intention of this documentary is to construct sympathy for the ideas represented by the IWW and to clarify long held misconceptions about this noble organization. The main question this documentary challenged me to consider is whether or not the dream of equality is attainable now, or ever given how firmly entrenched the ruling class has become.

Jon Jaramillo 1999I went to the see the film in a theater at the college I attended. It was an... more

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Orange Armbands to End Injustice

FROM ACLU PRESIDENT ANTHONY D ROMERO: On January 11th, the ACLU is leading a... more

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Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked

Wired is reporting that a never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day... more

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Woman Arrested for Swearing at her Overflowing Toilet

What luck. Her toilet is overflowing, she's swearing as she tries to deal with it... more

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Civil liberties continue to erode

Very disappointing that the Dems did more than just allow this to happen.

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