Civil Rights | Civil Liberties

2010-07-31: Headlines

  • OpEdNews: Alex Jones, please stop agitating for immigration control 2010-07-31
    Please stop agitating for immigration control. It's a ruse meant to distract us from our lost civil liberties. Meanwhile it will be used as a pretext to place the finishing touches on the police state. | If the neo-nazi immigration controllers have their way, we will be fenced in will have no where to go. We should have borders, but not sealed off borders. That's East Germany.
  • Lincoln Journal Star: Editorial, 7/31: Try again on campaign reporting 2010-07-31
    Keywords: political spending by corporations and other advocacy groups. | Act. It died on a 57-41 vote. | Johanns complained the bill had "carve outs and special deals." | the bill, they shouldn't be content with derailing the Democrats' | effort to increase transparency of political financing. | his State of the Union Address. | of their revenues from corporations or unions. | the status quo would be suppressed.""
  • Richmond Times Dispatch: Richmond Jail inmates cause of death was heart problems 2010-07-31
    Heart problems caused the death of Kerry Wayne Bennett, one of two Richmond Jail inmates who died in June. | The state medical examiner's office has ruled Bennett's manner of death to be natural and the cause of death to be "hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease," spokesman Steve Murman said yesterday. | Bennett, 49, was found dead in his bunk at the jail on June 30, four days after jail inmate Grant R.
  • London Free Press: Niqab arguments based in fear of unknown 2010-07-31
    Fear can be a powerful tool. The thing about fear, though, is that it's hard to control. It can make us do sensible things, like lock our doors, but fear can also turn into paranoia, locking our minds to common sense and common decency.
  • FayObserver.com: Smith: Mr. Jeffersons little rebellions 2010-07-31
    Who would you like us to say this is from? | What email address would you like us to send it to? | To share this article: Enter the email address you want to send this article to in the field and click "Send" | Please enter e-mail address. | Please enter some message text. | With rebellion, secession, vigilantism and mob rule in the air, Thomas Jefferson's legacy is getting a vigorous workout these days.
  • Ct Post: The Vibes gets its groove on 2010-07-31
    The weather and the promise of a performance by Furthur, featuring Bob Weir and Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead, spurred single-day ticket sales and, even at 6 p.m., there was a long line of people waiting to buy tickets. Ann Marie and Tom Calder, of Milford, didn't mind the wait, knowing that eventually they would be enjoying a night of "fun, music and relaxation" with their 3-year-old daughter, Ana. The food options available at the food...
  • AlterNet.org: Elon Green: Why Is Simon & Schuster Spreading the Wild Conspiracy Theories of an Unhinged Islamophobic Blogger? 2010-07-31
    Pamela Geller has some crazy ideas, which the corporate media seem content to disseminate uncritically.
  • Owen Sound Sun Times: Riding could go Green, hopefuls say 2010-07-31
    Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound is winnable, federal Green party hopefuls Emma Hogbin and Lynn Morgan told reporters Friday morning at Green party headquarters in Owen Sound.  | The Greens finished second to Conservative MP Larry Miller in the last federal election.  | Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and Deputy-Leader Adriane Carr will attend the riding's Green nomination meeting in Owen Sound Aug. 17.

2010-07-30: Headlines

  • WSB Atlanta: Protesters Fight Georgia Immigration Program 2010-07-30
    The controversy over Arizona's new immigration law brought protesters to downtown Atlanta on Thursday. | Demonstrators told Channel 2’s Diana Davis they want four Georgia counties to stop their collaboration with federal immigration officials. | Sheriff’s offices in Cobb, Gwinnett, Hall and Whitfield counties have an agreement in place with Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to participate in the 287 (g) program.
  • StandardNet: Standard-Examiner: Stories with Similar Tags 2010-07-30
    Civil rights groups from Utah and around the country are calling on the federal government to reject using the "list" against illegal immigrants. | The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah announced Thursday it had joined 120 other organizations and individuals to urge the U.S.
  • Memphis Commercial Appeal: Tennessee ACLU asks FBI about race data in localities 2010-07-30
    The American Civil Liberties Union chapters in Tennessee and 28 other states are asking the FBI to release records about its collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities.
  • Roanoke Times: Judge: Activist defamed officer 2010-07-30
    Shaheed Omar hopes to appeal the Roanoke Co. ruling that orders him to pay the officer $5,000.
  • Indianapolis Star: Know your rights when the heat is on 2010-07-30
    It may be said that a common thread throughout history is that members of a society who don't know their rights can and do become the prey of that society. The result is that the abuse of power, exploitation and disenfranchisement become commonplace. This explains why the Constitution and Bill of Rights were born.
  • Boston Globe: Suffolk jail is faulted in death of detainee 2010-07-30
    Your article has been sent. | Medical staff at the Suffolk County jail waited too long in October to send a feverish and trembling immigrant detainee to the hospital, allowing a deadly bacterial infection to overtake his body and cause his death of heart failure at age 49, according to a report by the federal immigration agency obtained by the Globe.
  • Reuters: Brownsville, the hood that New York left behind 2010-07-30
    Netta Spearman (R) is embraced as the casket of her brother, Maurice Spearman, is loaded into a hearse in the Brooklyn borough of New York July 7, 2010. | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Josephine Spearman alternately fought back tears and grew defiant with anger when discussing the murder of her son, one of 11 shootings in 15 days recently that have made the neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most dangerous in the United States.
  • Charlotte Observer: Flawed Arizona law needed to be stopped 2010-07-30
    Comments will be enabled on all stories. | src="http:/ / s7.addthis.com/ static/ btn/ sm-plus.gif" | But real problem is Congress; it must fix immigration mess. | U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's ruling Wednesday delays enforcement of the most noxious parts of Arizona's misguided immigration law.

2010-07-28: Headlines

2010-07-27: Headlines

  • ITProPortal: iPhone Jailbreaking Now Legal In US 2010-07-27
    Keywords: iPhone owners in the US can now legally 'jailbreak' their smartphones thanks to new amendments made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
  • Edmonton Journal: G20 police complaints lack common sense 2010-07-27
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  • BroadbandBreakfast.com: Free At Last? Obama Admin Jailbreaks iPhone, Sanctions MashUps, Blesses Security Research 2010-07-27
    The US Copyright Office on Monday addressed many of the longstanding criticisms of a digital-era copyright law when it granted all of the exemptions to the law (under certain circumstances) requested by a flagship digital rights group.
  • National Post: Oversight Force 2010-07-27
    The US Copyright Office on Monday addressed many of the longstanding criticisms of a digital-era copyright law when it granted all of the exemptions to the law (under certain circumstances) requested by a flagship digital rights group.
  • Chicago Tribune: Voice of the People, Jul. 27 2010-07-27
    Letters to the editor about airport security, among other issues, from readers of the Chicago Tribun...
  • Detroit Free Press: Weird rules still on the books in metro Detroit 2010-07-27
    Keywords: window.yahooBuzzBadgeType= 'text'; | Timothy Boomer holds a ticket he got for swearing after he fell out of a canoe in 1998. Because children were nearby, he was slapped with a ticket for violating an obscene-speech law that was more than 100 years old. (December 1998 photo by PATRICIA BECK/Associated Pr) | The all-new 2011 Ford Explorer gets a drastic makeover, efficiency boost. | Who is going to get the nod?
  • San Francisco Chronicle: Many police use cameras to record interactions 2010-07-27
    As police work is increasingly captured on camera and scrutinized by the public, from traffic stops to a BART police officer's killing of Oscar Grant, many law enforcement agencies are asking the same question. Why not...
  • The Associated Press: Neb. town may halt immigration law to save money 2010-07-27
    Faced with expensive legal challenges, officials in the eastern Nebraska town of Fremont are considering suspending a voter-approved ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants until the lawsuits are resolved. | The City Council narrowly rejected the ban in 2008, prompting supports to gather enough signatures for the ballot measure.
  • The Journal News: A turf war over immigration law 2010-07-27
    As police work is increasingly captured on camera and scrutinized by the public, from traffic stops to a BART police officer's killing of Oscar Grant, many law enforcement agencies are asking the same question. Why not...
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