Lawsuit Accuses WSU’s Murrow College of Violating Journalism Professor’s First Amendment Rights

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SPOKANE, Wash. (Spectrum Features Syndicate)
For Release Wednesday, October 24, 2009
A Washington State University journalism professor Wednesday (Oct. 28) filed a federal lawsuit against four administrators at his university who, he says, violated his First Amendment rights when they punished him for proposing a “7-Step Plan” [...]

Nadler discusses the State Secret Protection Act with Glenn Greenwald

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November 10, 2009
Rep. Jerry Nadler appeared with Glenn Greenwald of Salon Radio to discuss the need to regulate a court’s ability to dismiss a lawsuit simply because the Executive Branch claims that the very consideration of the case would compromise state secrets. Congressman Nadler is the sponsor of the State Secret Protection Act of [...]

The Battle in Seattle; 10 years after WTO By Mike Whitney

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By Mike Whitney
November 09, 2009 “Information Clearing House“

Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn
Mike Whitney–November marks the 10th anniversary of the WTO demonstrations in Seattle. Can you explain why you went even though you knew you might be harassed, gassed, beaten or arrested?
Jeffrey St. Clair–-I had no intention of being harassed, gassed, beaten, [...]

The Surveillance State and Domestic Spying in the Obama Era

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November 05, 2009

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The Surveillance State and Domestic Spying in the Obama Era: Tactics to End the Bush Legacy – Panel discussion held October 16, 2009 at the National Lawyers Guild Law for the People 2009 Convention in Seattle.

The Boiling Frogs Presents Stephen Kohn: Whistleblowing

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
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originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
5 November 2009
Stephen Kohn explains whistleblowing as a civil liberties and a First Amendment issue, the role of whistleblowers as enablers of congressional oversight, and discusses the legal and political implications involved in whistleblowing. He talks about the broken Merit System Protection [...]

Uighur prisoner asks what is the difference between the US constitution and the Communist constitution? by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
4 November 2009
At the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo — Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province — were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000). I have written at length about the plight of Guantánamo’s Uighurs, innocent men caught up in [...]

Senate Finally Allows Guantánamo Trials In US, But Not Homes For Innocent Men by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
27 October 2009
After railing against Senators and Representatives for their cowardly, uninformed and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantánamo prisoner to the US mainland for any reason — even for trials — which I wrote about most recently in an article entitled, “On Guantánamo, Lawmakers Reveal They [...]

New Book: The Guantánamo Lawyers – and a talk by Jonathan Hafetz by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
25 October 2009
Published on November 9 by NYU Press (and available from Amazon), The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison, Outside the Law, is edited by Mark Denbeaux (Seton Hall Law School) and Jonathan Hafetz (ACLU) and “contains over one hundred personal narratives from attorneys who have represented detainees held at ‘GTMO’ [...]