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Remembering Dr. King & The Never Ending Struggle For Civil Rights

Remembering Dr. King & The Never Ending Struggle For Civil Rights

When I was first cutting my teeth in the newspaper business, my editors sent me out on "house ends," visits to homes where I would interview families of interest because something very bad of interest had happened to them. It was the late (...)

18 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Shaun Mullen

The Beginning of the Fall of the Hondruan Military Coup

Honduran resistance to Military Coup Government

Tonight, the heroic Honduran resistance, represented by thousands of workers, peasants, women, teachers, indigenous and afro-descendent people, students, human rights activists, and people in general, is outside the Embassy of Brazil. Inside the embassy, (...)

23 Sep. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

Testamony of a Honduran Protester: Why she still believes in a free Honduras

Testamony of a Honduran Protester: Why she still believes in a free Honduras

TESTIMONY OF WENDY CRUZ OF THE HONDURAN PEASANT MOVEMENT Sisters and brothers of the World, I write this testimony with my eyes full of tears and a sadden heart after an intensive day of struggle with my sisters and brothers of Honduras. I am a woman (...)

8 Jul. 2009 | 1 comment | Billie Greenwood

Freedom

The need for Freedom seems to be deeply ingrained in the heart of man. World history is latent with battles to attain or preserve freedom. If you don’t have it you want it. If you have it you fight anyone who wishes to take it away. The essay (...)

2 Jul. 2009 | | Pete Latona

The Lives of Others - UK Civil Liberties mashup

The Lives of Others - UK Civil Liberties mashup

I spent an hour or so last night putting together this first-ever Youtube video mashup I’ve done, taking the German trailer for Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) and adding subtitles in English - only the subtitles are about UK civil (...)

29 Apr. 2009 | | Jon Worth

Scientology Cult Claims Another Victim

The Scientology cult’s former international chief of security, a man with multiple sclerosis, has died in Scientology’s "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF). The RPF is Scientology’s internal prison network. Uwe Stuckenbrock, a native of (...)

15 Oct. 2008 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Free speech? Not by a long shot

Very soon, Canadians will be sick and tired of hearing about "freedom of speech" and its alleged "defenders", such as Ezra Levant or Mark Steyn. The far right, with domineering elements recruited from white supremacist movements, has (...)

1 Apr. 2008 | 6 comments | Werner Patels

Free-thinking spirits

Free-thinking spirits

Life has a tendency to throw a curve ball at the oddest moments. While such luminaries of the free-speech movement as Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are defending their right to express their opinions freely, a member of the very group that they both have (...)

31 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

Citizens treated like noxious animals by french authorities

Citizens treated like noxious animals by french authorities

The city hall of Argenteuil has issued that homeless citizens must be driven out of the centre town during the estival period. Since three years, the UMP (1) mayor of Argenteuil, Georges Mothron, has established successive "arrêtés" (assimilated (...)

27 Aug. 2007 | 1 comment |

Too much of a good thing

Too much of a good thing

Government is what keeps a country going. It makes and enforces laws to ensure that people can live and work together in relative harmony. Sometimes, however, government tends to interfere too much in people’s lives. Former Canadian prime minister (...)

12 Feb. 2007 | | Werner Patels

2nd Israeli IDF Objector Jailed

In 1982, it took over half a year for Israeli officers and soldiers to begin refusing draft and orders to enter into Lebanon. In the beginning of the Al-Aqsa intifada, several months elapsed before the first letter of defiance was handed in. But in 2006, (...)

8 Aug. 2006 | | Dimi Reider

Iran Net censorship

Iran Net censorship

"On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country," says the Associated Press, going on : (...)

29 mar. 2006 | | Jon Newton

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