University of California Takes Aim at Human Rights Activists By Stephen Zunes May 4, 2012 Truthout | News Analysis A Sign of Mark Yudof. (Photo: Keoki Seu / Flickr) From the Vietnam War to the Central American revolutions to apartheid South Africa to the East Timor occupation to the invasion of Iraq, university campuses More
Banned in Tucson By Matthew Rothschild, January 19, 2012 The Progressive What happened last week in Tucson was outrageous. The Tucson Unified School District, after voting to ban Mexican American Studies, went into the classrooms and took books away from young people, books that the state, in its hateful law, has deemed unacceptable. These More
The Day the Internet Roared Amy Goodman> Thursday 19 January 2012 Nation of Change “As the Internet blackout protest progressed Jan. 18, and despite Dodd’s lobbying, legislators began retreating from support for the bills.” Photo: Aaron Escobar Wednesday, Jan. 18, marked the largest online protest in the history of the Internet. Websites from large More
SOPA Vote Delayed, Allowing For More Corporate Fundraising From Censorship Bill Zach Carter December 16, 2011 Huffington Post WASHINGTON — After two days of debate, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) abruptly halted a key hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act, postponing a Committee vote on the bill until 2012. The More
