ACTIVISM / HUMAN RIGHTS These are articles previously published by Toward Freedom related to this category.
"We need more time. There's all these great campaigns going on and most of them are completely worthy of our support We've had the 40 hour work week for a hundred and something years. So now it's time to go for the 30. We need more of just about everything."
The correlation between free market capitalism and the democratic organization of society through civil society institutions and their members is steadily declining. The post 9/11 political order, seen as an accelerated mode of democratically unchecked globalization, is marked by increased militarization and repression of social organizations and democratic rights.
The stunt works like this: College Republicans give a student a name tag that reads "Illegal Immigrant" and players scour the campus to find him or her. The winner gets a gift certificate. This kind of event has been staged by College Republican chapters all over the country.
On Saturday 27, 2007, hundreds of thousands of peace protestors responded to President Bush's call for a surge in troops with a peace surge that flooded the streets of
I've been struggling to write something new about the war in Iraq but failed to find any appropriate words. Despite everything we now know about the war, the U.S. occupation continues. While policymakers procrastinate and parse the finer points of withdrawing all U.S. troops, more flag-covered coffins relentlessly emerge from the bowels of giant wing-tipped hearses in Dover, Del.
Twenty five years ago black death-row prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and later convicted in a 1982 trial that Amnesty International has declared a "violation of minimum international standards that govern fair trial procedures and the use of the death penalty."
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