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Entries Tagged as 'Protests and Crackdowns'

Recapping a Rough Week for Progressives

January 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Politics, Protests and Crackdowns

Oy, a few more like this and we’re really in trouble:
Death toll in Haiti climbed above 200,000, millions more injured and/or homeless.

Supreme Court removed restrictions on corporate campaign contributions, and this could have severe consequences for our democracy (I particularly like Rabbi Arthur Waskow’s commentary on this).

Not that they were using it anyway, but the [...]

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TSA Subpoenaed My Friend For Telling the Truth

December 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Ethics in Government, Protests and Crackdowns, Transparency vs. Secrecy, censorship

My online friend Christopher Elliott of

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Shocking! Tweet Led to Outrageous Civil Rights Violation

October 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Democracy, Ethics in Government, Protests and Crackdowns

Last time I checked, there’s something here in the United States of America called the First Amendment that protects the right to speak and write.
Somehow, that right did not extend to Elliot Madison, a New York City activist who was arrested in Pittsburgh on the first day of the G20 summit for—get this!—tweeting that the [...]

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