Category: Civil Liberties
Stella Moris: Julian Assange Wins Right to Appeal Extradition
Nora Barrows-friedman: UK Israel lobby takes aim at Palestinian university lecturer
Max Elbaum: ‘The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed’
Bernie Sanders: Bernie Sanders: The Time for Senate Talk Is Over. We Need to Vote.
Jack Rasmus: Another Nail in the Coffin of American Democracy
Frances Moore Lappé: Now’s Our Chance—We Can Reverse Democracy’s Decline
Marjorie Cohn: Republicans, Aided by Manchin and Sinema, Are Stonewalling Voting Rights Bill
Jake Johnson: Poor People’s Campaign Readies ‘Massive, Nonviolent’ Effort to Save Democracy
Interview on a politically motivated prosecution
A British university has suspended a Palestinian graduate student from teaching amid a smear campaign by supporters of Israel
Colleen Wessel-McCoy: Continuing King’s ‘Revolution of Values’King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today
The first step toward defeating the MAGA bloc in 2022 and 2024 is setting our sights on it. And then keeping our eyes on the prize until it is done
If we cannot pass a comprehensive piece of legislation, we should divide it up into separate bills and members of the Senate should have to vote on the very popular agenda we are fighting for. That’s how you win elections
After giving the ‘deep six’ to Biden’s Build Back Better bill last month, Democrat Senators Manchin & Sinema followed up with a coup d’ grace for Voting Rights too. Both desperately needed bills are now DOA
Fed up, everyday citizens are stepping up to reverse a whole slew of assaults on our democracy—from voting rights to gerrymandering to removing money’s grip
As the Senate debates these voting rights bills, the American people will see for themselves how racist Republicans, aided and abetted by Manchin and Sinema, are stonewalling legislation that would protect the sacred right of everyone to vote
“We are not in this for a moment, but for a movement,” said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. “Our deadline is victory.”
Andrea Germanos: ‘No Celebration Without Legislation’: King Family Leads Voting Rights March“I will not accept empty promises in pursuit of my father’s dream,” said Martin Luther King III.