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Human Rights

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Death Is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo
More than 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are starving themselves to death, and 23 of them are being force-fed and allegedly punished for their hunger strike.

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Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women
A breakdown of how spending cuts will affect women and mothers in the US, by the numbers.

In Praise of Richard Falk
Shortly after the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in …

Angela Davis and Assata Shakur’s Lawyer Denounce FBI’s Adding of Exiled Activist to Terrorists List
One day after the exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur became the first woman named to the FBIu2019s Most Wanted Terrorists list, weu2019re joined by another legendary African-American activist, …

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Liberal America, Wake Up!
The hollow symbolism of America's first black president is no replacement for real substance.

In Mexico City, Protesters Denounce Obama Deportations
ANDALUSIA KNOLL, PRODUCER, TRNN: On his first visit to Latin America since he started his second term, President Obama met with new Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to discuss …

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Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide.

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President Obama’s Law Day Proclamation Rings Hollow So Long as Torturers Go Unpunished
Stephen F. Rodhe: Today is Law Day, and Obama has issued a lofty Proclamation, full of sound and formality, signifying nothing.

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Angela Davis: The Iconic “Sweet Black Angel” at l’Humanité
Here's a look back at the work of this remarkable activist who is still engaged in the struggle for human emancipation.

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On Receiving the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award
Tlazocamati huel miac – thank you to members of the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award Committee, American Educational Research Association, Division B, for 2013. I first want to …