Truthout
Op-Ed
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Liberty is Hunted Around the Globe
Despite the outpouring of support from the American people, Edward Snowden continues to be hunted down by the Obama Administration as a traitor.
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Locking Out the Voices of Dissent: Arrests Demonstrate Restrictions on Right of Assembly
The legal system has been grotesquely deformed in most cities to, in essence, shut public space to protesters.
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Prisons, State Budgets and the New National Freedom Agenda
As more states push to re-evaluate their budgets, a movement aiming to shift funding from jails to schools and other support services is gaining steam nationwide.
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Act Before the Bail-In: Now Is the Moment to Seize Public Banking
Despite the fact that the citizens have the power, we still give our money to banks that gamble with our future.
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Zimmerman Verdict: The Slave Patrol Is Alive and Well in Florida
Slave Patrols were a regular feature of the South, from its first settlement by slave-owning Europeans until the decades after Reconstruction.
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Trayvon Martin: A Jewish Response
Rabbi Michael Lerner discusses the Trayvon Martin, the George Zimmerman trial and the concept of the
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Denied the Right to Be Young
In the case of George Zimmerman it was Trayvon Martin who was actually on trail; and he never stood a chance.
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The Zimmerman Verdict; America Is Still America to Me
Leon argues that had the prosecution stuck to the basic elements of the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin confrontation, Zimmerman would be back in jail awaiting sentencing.
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Why Aren’t Americans Fighting Back?
They don't know who they are or what they're fighting for nor whom or what they are fighting against.
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Jeffrey Franklin
‘One of the worst challenges I have faced is witnessing so many other SHU prisoners lose their minds.’