Posts with the tag civil liberties

Stop Media Harassment at the RNC Protests

pdelatorre — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:35:29 EDT

Trouble in the twin cities - police have arrested, detained, and harassed many independent journalists covering the protest on the RNC, including Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! You can read more about what happened here and here.

Free Press has just put out an action alert urging people to take action:

Stop the Arrests of Journalists. Sign the Letter.
Police in St. Paul arrested several journalists during protests of the Republican National Convention, including Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and an AP photographer as they were covering the demonstrations. Police also raided a meeting of the video journalists' group I-Witness with firearms drawn to arrest independent media, bloggers and videomakers. Arresting and detaining journalists for doing their jobs is a gross violation of free speech and freedom of the press. Journalists must be free to do their jobs without intimidation. Please click here to demand that press intimidation in the twin cities ceases immediately, and that charges against the arrested journalists are dropped.

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Torture

Ned Resnikoff — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:34:58 EDT

(Crossposted at Veritosity.com)

Over at the Washington Monthly blog, I see that this month's issue is all about torture. And why torture is bad.

5 Year Old Detained

pdelatorre — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:52:30 EST

Yikes:

It’s a case of a mistaken identity for a 5-year-old boy from Normandy Park. He had trouble boarding a plane because someone with the same name is wanted by the federal government. Mimi Jung reports from Sea-Tac Airport.

Via Boing Boing

State-Sponsored Terror in Our Backyard

Zach Marks — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:57:23 EDT

I interrupt the blogosphere’s recent obsession with America’s obsession with Paris Hilton and other imprisoned or kidnapped white women to report an act of state-sponsored terror and intimidation in New Haven, a city I have come to know and love over the past two years.

One of Those Rare Cases....

Dana Goldstein — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:41:37 EDT

Of flag burning, and this story is particularly strange. Three Yale students, including one Pakistani-American who acted as a translator for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, were arrested after burning a flag atop a New Haven house in the middle of the night. All three students were foreign-born. Hey guys, did you think this prank would win any sympathy for immigrants? What were you thinking?