Obama's New Deal
William P. Jones : Labor
Obama has an opportunity to further racial and economic justice by fusing the New Deal and civil rights traditions.
Civil Rights & Liberties
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2008
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Richard Kim on Why Prop 8 Won
Grit TV : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
The Nation's Richard Kim explores why the No on Prop 8 campaign failed to gain much momentum in California.
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Smearing Colonel Vandeveld
Ross Tuttle
Military commissions officials are using punitive psychological evaluations as part of a strategy to discredit and silence a former colleague turned whistleblower.
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We Colonials
Margot Canaday : Non-Fiction
William Eskridge's Dishonorable Passions is the first comprehensive history of sodomy law in America.
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A Magic Moment for America
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson : Spoken Word
The nomination of Barack Obama--so able intellectually, morally and spiritually--marks a magic moment for America, culminating the hopes of those who worked for a more perfect union, a more peaceful world.
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When COINTELPRO Came to Town
Dave Zirin
The Maryland State Police's Department of Homeland Security has devoted hundreds of hours and thousands of taxpayer dollars to harassing people whose only crime was opposing the war in Iraq and the death penalty.
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : George W. Bush
The Nation's Ari Melber and Jon Pincus tackle FISA, Elizabeth Holtzman talks impeachment--plus more on war resisters in Canada and the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Raging Against Rising Internet Repression
Antony Loewenstein : Internet & New Media
More than 200 bloggers, human rights activists, writers, journalists, hackers and IT experts have joined the fight against censorship on the web.
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Fizzling on FISA
The Editors
Obama and other Senate Democrats should not let a lame-duck Administration compromise our liberties in the name of pursuing terrorists.
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Olbermann's Special Comment on FISA
Countdown
Keith Olbermann says that when it comes to FISA, the Democrats are doing 'a collective impression of Homer Simpson falling off a cliff.'
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Polygamists' Kids in Their Own Private Gitmo
Richard Wexler : Law & Justice
A mass detention. Vague legal charges. Emotional abuse. Hostile overseers. This isn't Guantánamo--it's Texas. And the victims are children the state wants to protect.
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Got Milk? Get Investigated
David E. Gumpert : Food & Nutrition
State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Billy Sothern : Death Penalty
As executions resume in the wake of a Supreme Court decision, we are reminded that a life cannot be willfully ended without violence.
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Guantánamo Ain't No Joke
Shayana Kadidal : Film
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay is very funny. Nothing about the real place is.
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Justice for Sean Bell
Brett Story & VideoNation : Civil Rights Activism
Protesters decry acquittal of three New York City police officers on trial for firing 50 bullets at an unarmed man.
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Rigged Trials at Gitmo
Ross Tuttle : Guantanamo Bay
Has the Pentagon foreclosed the possibility of acquittals for terror suspects?
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Undoing the Bush Legacy
Aziz Huq : George W. Bush Administration
No matter who becomes the next President, the clammy fingers of Bush and Cheney will be wrapped around vital national policies. It's up to Congress to break their grip.
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Will the Senate OK More Bush Spying?
Ari Melber : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
Democratic leaders are poised to validate Bush's illegal surveillance, giving up even more ground than their Republican colleagues did. Why?
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Repress U
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Police & Law Enforcement
Surveillance 101: Big Brother goes to college.
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The Bush Legacy: Journey to the Dark Side
Tom Engelhardt : George W. Bush Administration
We have not come to grips with how centrally the Bush Administration has planted torture, abuse, kidnapping, and illegal imprisonment at the heart of governmental practice, the news, and everyday life.
2007
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The Obama Effect
Gary Younge : African-Americans
Have the dreams of the civil rights movement been realized or deferred?
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Setting the Record Straight on FISA
John Conyers : Constitutional Questions
Civil liberties and national security are not contradictory: they are inextricably linked.
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Beyond the Veil
A new book examines headscarf hysteria and the politics of identity in contemporary France.
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Strange Culture
Patricia J. Williams : Fine Art
If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?
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Protecting the Wiretappers
Aziz Huq : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
Telecommunications giants already are shielded from lawsuits for future warrantless spying; now the White House seeks to absolve them of past misdeeds.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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