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Human Rights
Vermont Becomes 12th State With Legislation Targeting NSA Spying
Last week, a trio of Vermont legislators introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act to prohibit any state support of the NSA's gathering of citizens' electronic data or metadata in …
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Protecting What’s White: A New Look at Stand Your Ground Laws
In Temescal, new residents have hired private security firms, whose patrolmen often engage in tactics of racial profiling, to patrol the area.
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The Surveillance Blitz
Our privacy is getting hit from two sides - from corporations as well as the government.
Open Letter to WV Inmates: Beware of Private Prisons Before Signing Away Your Rights
The prisoners themselves would play a critical role in making this scheme by having to sign away their right to be incarcerated and rehabilitated within the state of West …
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From Egypt to Afghanistan: Free Woman, Free World
You know that women are half of the human race, and they can change the future by raising a free new generation.
“Honor the Treaties” Honored the Celebrity
Discussion of the treaties was eerily absent in the media's appraisal of Neil Young's “Honor the Treaties” tour.
President Obama, You Are Invited to Visit Arizona’s Operation Streamline at the Federal Courthouse
24 human rights activists put their lives and liberty on the line to end this for-profit scheme called Operation Streamline.
Ten Principles to Guide the Young Activist
They say people who live for a higher cause are happier than those who don't.
Is Syrian “Peace” Conference Laying the Foundation for War?
The Geneva II “peace” conference has all the indicia of a sham.
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The Salinas Project
Every day, Americans eat produce that is handpicked by immigrant farm workers in this area, but few understand the challenges the farm workers and their children face.