PressTVGlobalNews on Jun 14, 2011
Image by malyousif via Flickr
20 year old Ayat al-Ghermezi has been reportedly tortured and sentenced to one year imprisonment for reading a poem in public that criticized the Bahrain sheikhdom.
Press TV talks with Rodney Shakespeare, Chairman of the Committee against torture in Bahrain from London about his reaction to this latest of many illegal judicial proceedings in Bahrain.
http://warisacrime.org
June 14, 2011
Image by SS&SS via Flickr
This page can be reached at http://takeawardback.org.
Scroll down to see list of signers and to add your name or that of your organization.
Tell Project on Government Oversight (POGO), OMB Watch, the National Security Archive, Open the Government.Org, and the Reporters Committee to publicly take back their Transparency Award to President Obama.
Image by zachstern via Flickr
by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
June 14, 2011
The 45th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) next month should remind all who have used this wonderful citizen tool against government secrecy and cover-ups of FOIA’s towering champion Congressman John Moss (D-Calif.)
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
Updated: June 15 added another video
DJKucinich on Jun 14, 2011
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to defend the food program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in need, citing our history of a compassionate nation.
“When I was hungry, you gave me food. You didn’t give me war. You didn’t give me a tax break; you didn’t give me an oil depletion allowance. When I was hungry, you gave me food.”
Image by that guy named Rob via Flickr
Wilkerson: For Truth, Justice and the American Way
Lawrence Wilkerson, Collin Powell’s former Chief of Staff, reflects on his life journey from “cold warrior” to harsh critic of US foreign policy
Dandelion Salad 