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Congress Must Stop Torture
A Call for Congress to Take Action on Torture
October 28th, 2009
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Whereas over seven years have passed since President George W. Bush fraudulently induced the U.S. congress, the American people, and the world into the illegal war in Iraq,
Whereas it is nearly five years since Specialist Darby revealed the photos of Abu Ghraib that showed us torture being committed by our government in our name,
Whereas
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Harman Hemming on Harm She's Done
In this video (full length 1:13:15) scroll ahead to 53:55 to hear veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern question Congresswoman Jane Harman on her vote for the Authorization to Use Military Force. McGovern also asks her about her rather dramatic shift two years ago to a position of opposing warrantless spying and civil liberties abuses, and whether that shift should be credited to the primary challenge made by Marcy Winograd, which Winograd is renewing next year.
At about 1:01 Harman responds. She
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Your Town Can Demand Justice More Powerfully Than You Can
By David Swanson
Most city council members take oaths to defend the Constitution. The Constitution makes the rights and standards in its amendments and in international treaties the supreme law of the land. Our nation has a rich tradition of local governments lobbying state and national governments through the passage of resolutions. Under Clause 3, Rule XII, Section 819, of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives local governments may petition Congress. Under the First Amendment, we
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How Do We Claim What Is Ours?
Let’s Try Democracy By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Columnist
From BlackCommentator.com
This is the third of three excerpts from Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Seven Stories Press) by David Swanson published here by the kind permission of the publisher.
Click here to read any of the commentaries in this series.
Fortunately, we do not have to start from scratch in constructing new human rights. Much work has already been done, some of it by
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We Were Arrested for Speaking
By David Swanson
U.S. Park Policeman (USPP) who shall remain nameless on Monday, October 5, 2009: Next!
Me: Is that me?
USPP: Whoever. I’m flexible. I’m agreeable. I’m just here to please.
Me: Except for the whole arresting us part, huh? [climbing out of a cramped metal van where I’d been stuck with a dozen other men, our hands cuffed behind our backs so tightly they left marks and my friend’s hands went numb]
USPP: What? I thought that
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A Second Bill of Rights
Let’s Try Democracy By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Columnist
This is the second of three excerpts from Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Seven Stories Press) by David Swanson published here by the kind permission of the publisher.
Click here to read any of the commentaries in this series.
In places where we are not already protected, or where we have been shown to be vulnerable over the last eight years or before, legislation and amendments
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Campaign Launched to Stop Domestic Terrorism
Recently, there has been an explosion in threats and acts of domestic terrorism. The majority of these can be traced to groups and individuals who do not accept the results of our recent election or the laws enacted or proposed by those who have been elected. They seek to undermine the democratic process through threats, intimidation, and even outright murder. They can’t accept the legitimacy of the President, or a woman’s legal right to make choices about her own medical care,
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You Have Only the Right to Remain Silent
Let’s Try Democracy By David Swanson, BlackCommentator.com Columnist
We welcome David Swanson as a BC columnist. We have publishing his writings a number of times in the past and look forward to what he will be writing in the future.
This first column by Mr. Swanson is the first of three excerpts from Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Seven Stories Press) by David Swanson published here by the kind permission of the publisher.
According to the Declaration
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