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Archives: Civil Rights

What can today’s Activists learn from the Summer of Love and the New Left?

Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate…

As Trump Breaks it, Top Ten Things we need to do to Fix America

By William R. Polk | (Informed Comment) | - - Let me suggest what seem to me to be the major categories of challenges men who care about the country face, but…

Given Trump’s Betrayal, Can we Crowdfund American Aid and Soft Power Abroad?

David Holdridge | (Informed Comment) | - - The current debate between liberals and the Trump Administration on American soft power abroad is not being framed correctly. Liberals should be arguing for…

Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump did an interview with "Fox and Friends" for this morning in which he alleged that former president Barack Obama is behind the…

Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?

By Joschka Fischer | (Project Syndicate) | - - BERLIN – Little more than a month after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it has become clear that nothing good will come of…

We want our Muslim Physicians Back! How America reclaimed a victim of Injustice

By Charles Ornstein | (ProPublica) | - - In a clandestine mission that had the makings of a hostage rescue, the Cleveland Clinic and its lawyers arranged for medical resident Suha Abushamma…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren silenced on Floor for Reading King Letter re: Sessions

CNN International | (Video News Report with text Appendix) In an extremely rare rebuke, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off while speaking on the Senate floor. She had been reading a…

Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?

By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | - - You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s recent executive orders banning the entry of…

Bruited Trump pick for Nat’l Intel shreds 4th Amendment, wants Total Surveillance

TeleSur | - - On Thursday multiple mainstream media outlets reported that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Republican Senator Dan Coats, an outspoken advocate of illegal domestic surveillance programs, to…

Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?

By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - Many US citizens may instinctively believe they still live in the land of the free, but a new global…

Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - 'Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken away,' says Rev. William Barber II of…

Trump’s response to Orlando massacre proves just how dangerous he is

By Adam Quinn | (The Conversation) | - - Those who’ve been wondering when Donald Trump would switch from the wild bombast of his primary campaign to the sober mode traditionally demanded…

Jailed without trial for Life? Guantanamo’s Lawlessness may outlast the Obama Administration

By Karen J. Greenberg | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Can you believe it? We’re in the last year of the presidency of the man who, on his first day in the Oval…

Best Movie of 2016: Michael Moore skewers US Inequality in “Where to Invade Next”

By George Lakey | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - Many fields of endeavor have what they call “best practices,” and self-respecting workers look for those. I wouldn’t expect Michael Moore…

Dylan Roof, Robert Dear and Tashfeen Malik: ‘Self-Radicalized,’ ‘Terrorism,’ ‘Lone Wolf’ and Double Standards

Roof, Dear and Tashfeen Malik: ‘Self-Radicalized,’ ‘Terrorism,’ ‘Lone Wolf’ and Double Standards

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Federal officials are now investigating the San Bernardino massacre as an "act of terrorism" rather than just workplace violence. But when Dylann Roof…

Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reprint edn. 1. White terrorists are called "gunmen." What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn't that be, like, everyone…

Obama: GOP afraid of little Syrian Girls; Cruz: ‘You want a piece of me?’

John Iadarola and Elliot Hill | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "President Obama is speaking out against Republican politicians and members of the media demonizing Syrian refugees, implying that we…

Alabama Requires Photo IDs for Voting, Then Shutters DMV Offices in Black Counties

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | - - "The 'decision to cut out ID services to almost all counties with a majority black population is discriminatory and wrong,' says…

A Majority of Iowa Republicans unsure Islam should be Legal, but Support Kim Davis

Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "We hear a lot about religious freedom from conservatives these days, but what do they actually mean when they…

What if Kim Davis Refused to License Marriages of Inter-Racial Couples?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis was released from prison on Tuesday after having been jailed for 5 days for contempt of court because…