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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Had a Closed-Door Meeting With the Entire Senate Last Night, and More
In today's On the News segment: After weeks of threatening filibuster reform, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a closed-door meeting with the entire Senate last night.
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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.
“There Is a Trayvon in Every Town”: Rev. Jesse Jackson and Florida Youth Activist Demand Justice
Civil rights groups are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to file civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.
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“I Felt Like It Was My Son”: Thousands Protest George Zimmerman Acquittal in Trayvon Martin Killing
Protests were held across the country this weekend after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty on charges of second-degree murder.
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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.’
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Ronnie Dewberry
Marie Levin, sister to Ronnie Dewberry, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, describes how he was not allowed to donate a kidney …
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Paul Redd
Paul Redd, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, was sent to the SHU for political organizing. He talks about being cut off …
Prisoners Stage Hunger Strikes Worldwide
Attorney Michael Ratner on the 30,000 California prisoners on hunger-strike and their solidarity with prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the occupied territories of Palestine.