civil rights
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Obama administration defends John Yoo
Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department is in a struggle to defend war criminal John Yoo from prosecution. The Holder…
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Quick movement response forces Salvation Army to retreat
On Dec. 3, the Houston, Texas, branch of the Salvation Army announced they would stop their discriminatory policy of asking…
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Analysis
Fred Hampton remembered
The wave of repression unleashed on the Black liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s by the FBI's "Operation COINTELPRO"…
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Free Lynne Stewart
Lynne Stewart was sent to prison today. People throughout the United States and around the world recognize this as a…
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Victories and setbacks for LGBT civil rights
On Nov. 3, three important votes took place across the country regarding the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and…
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Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal in new danger
The life of African American leader and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is in new danger. A pending U.S. Supreme Court…
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Dallas police ticket drivers for not speaking English
In another bout of racist anti-immigrant police harassment, Dallas police unlawfully ticketed and fined at least 39 immigrant drivers for…
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John Brown: revolutionary of his time
On October 16, 1859, John Brown led 19 men in a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, West…
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A Marxist appreciation of Michael Jackson
“Adios al Rey de Pop” read the online headline of El País the day following Michael Jackson’s death. Jackson’s international…
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Housing segregation in New York City
According to a recent State University of New York at Stony Brook / Erase Racism survey, the census ranks Long…
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