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Israeli activist to be jailed for caring »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Nawi is not a typical rights activist. A member of Ta'ayush Arab-Jewish Partnership he is a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi descent who speaks fluent ...
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Black faces spray painted on Freedom Riders mural in Nashville »
Posted by: kellekrapache128 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
NASHVILLE (AP) -- Vandals have defaced a mural in downtown Nashville honoring the Freedom Riders who fought racial segregation during the civil rights movement.
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Spain to grant some human rights to apes »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 month ago in Religion
Spain’s parliament approved a measure Wednesday to extend some human rights to gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans, becoming the first country to explicitly acknowledge ...
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How the Supreme Court Got Boumediene Wrong: Rethinking Habeas&Other Fundamental 'Constitutional Rights' »
Posted by: jovial 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
As any honest observer can see, a rather sad result arises from applying " American exceptionalism" to the law. If people (insofar as lawyers can be ...
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Senate Democrats Attach Hate Crimes Law to Defense Bill »
Posted by: Spadecaller 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Last month, a white supremacist opened fire in the National Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing security guard Stephen T. Johns only a few blocks from the ...
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Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to racial resentment, it's curious to remember how hard the right once tried to ...
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Assembly overrides veto, domestic partnerships become law »
Posted by: david_nwpa 5 months, 4 weeks ago in News
The Assembly voted 28-14 Sunday to override Gov. Jim Gibbons' veto and to change state law so that domestic partners, whether gay or straight, have ...
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Iran to continue attempts to obtain rights of uranium enrichment,cooperating with IAEA: envoy_English_Xinhua »
Posted by: monicachenoa 1 week, 2 days ago in News
International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei (L) walks with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh (R) as he arrives ...
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Westboro Baptist Church Counter Protest »
Posted by: Bkumm 1 month, 1 week ago in News
Students at Lincoln Southwest High School in Lincoln, Nebraska held a counter protest in response to a protest by Westboro Baptist Church members. Speculation on ...
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'Three Stooges' movie coming together at MGM »
Posted by: y_soitenly 8 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
MGM and the Farrelly brothers are finally slapping together their high-profile cast for "The Three Stooges," a comedy project the filmmakers have been developing for ...
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General Taguba: Accountability for Torture Does Not Stop at White House Door »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 1 week ago in News
"Abu Ghraib emerged from a structure developed by senior officials in the Bush White House and by those who thought it was necessary to blindly ...
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OpEd: Okay, Obama. Now Let's Have a Speech on Gay Rights »
Posted by: TimALoftis 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
There has been a growing roar within the gay community about seeming inaction by a man who promised change.
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Some activists fume that President Obama ...Read (396) | Share | Discuss (38) | Read Full Story at voices.washingtonpost.com
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Vicious and viscous: The latest from the hysterical Christian Right »
Posted by: jovial 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Religion
The Protestant Christian Right (and their allies) are wringing their collective hands and forecasting doom. Why? Because President-elect Barack Obama is including gay people in ...
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After 10-year dispute, expansion of hate crimes law to gays signed »
Posted by: Diane_Steward 4 weeks ago in News
When a gay Wyoming college student was slain in 1998, congressional Democrats pledged to broaden the definition of federal hate crimes by the end of ...
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Rick Perry: States Rights are Rapidly Eroding - Tenth Amendment Center »
Posted by: populist 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Under the dome of the Texas capitol, folks typically focus on the Texas constitution, but it’s time to revisit the U.S. Constitution and ...
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