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Experts Say NSA Surveillance Compromises Internet Security; Here’s How to Protect Yourself
It's difficult to guarantee total protection from the prying eyes of the government online, but there are many tools out there that can help.
Dispatches From Freedom Summer: Ghosts of Greenwood
A reporter goes to Mississippi and encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights.
Fire in the Eves to Major Conflagration: It’s High Time to Evaluate Burma’s So-called Democratic Reforms
We need to go back to where all the ladders start, at the rag and bone shop of the heart, at the Human Rights level.
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LA Residents Denounce the Deportation of Migrant Youth
These are children the Obama administration are deporting u2013 children who have learned that talk of American compassion was just a rumor.
Major Progressive Coalition of Elected Officials, Labor and Community Groups Announce New Statewide Legislation to Address Unlawful, Racist Marijuana Arrests
Despite Dramatic Drop in Stop and Frisk, NYPD on track to arrest as many people in 2014 as previous year, racial disparities persist.
Spied on for Being Muslim? NSA Targets Named in Snowden Leaks Respond to US Government Surveillance
A new report by The Intercept has identified five prominent Muslim Americans who were spied on by the National Security Agency.
MPs to Vote on Legal Aid Cut Which Would Shut Torture Victims Out of Court
The measures, known as the residence test, would block anyone resident outside the UK from receiving legal aid.
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Mississippi Freedom Summer – A Personal Account
I learned that the system of racial segregation in Mississippi, and in the rest of the South, with its racial injustice, economic injustice, and violence, was not based just …
Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher
Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its active campaigns against the civil rights movement.
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Mayan People’s Council Organizes National Strike in Guatemala
The Mayan People's Council, known as CPO, declared a national strike in support of, and in solidarity with, the Mayan people of Guatemala.