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This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain.
The consequences, [...]

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Travelers to Cuba and music lovers are familiar with the song “Guantanamera”— literally, the girl from Guantánamo. With lyrics by José Martí, the father of Cuban independence, Guantanamera is probably the most widely known Cuban song. But Guantánamo is even more famous now for its U.S. military prison. Where “Guantanamera” is a powerful expression of [...]

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Abu Jamal seguirá cumpliendo cadena perpetua
Tras pasar 30 años en prisión condenado a muerte, el activista y periodista afroamericano ha sido trasladado a la prisión de Mahanoy en Pensilvania.
“No descansaremos hasta que Abu- Jamal arda en el infierno”. Así de contundente se pronunciaba un representante de la Orden Fraternal de la Policía de Filadelfia [...]

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Cuando me pidieron que interviniera en la concentración del sábado en Fort Meade en apoyo del soldado raso Bradley Manning, me planteé a mí mismo cómo podría proporcionar algún contexto alrededor de lo que se pretende que Manning ha hecho.
(En mi charla, para no pensar que tenía que insertar la palabra “pretende” en cada frase, pedí [...]

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When I was asked to speak at Saturday’s rally at Fort Meade in support of Pvt. Bradley Manning, I wondered how I might provide some context around what Manning is alleged to have done.
(In my talk, so as not to think I had to insert the word “alleged” into every sentence, I asked for unanimous [...]

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Yesterday the shameful dinosaurs of the Senate — hopelessly out of touch with reality, for the most part, and haunted by specters of their own making — approved, by 93 votes to 7, the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (PDF), which contains a number of astonishingly alarming provisions — Sections 1031 and 1032, [...]

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Entrevista a Alaa Shehabi, profesora, economista y escritora
Alaa Shehabi (AS): Soy Alaa Shehabi, de Bahréin. Soy profesora, economista y escritora. Así mismo soy esposa de un detenido político. Mi marido se llama Ghazi Farhan, un empresario totalmente apolítico.
Un mes después de que los saudíes invadieran [Bahréin], fue detenido en el aparcamiento de su oficina. Ese [...]

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Veintiseis prisioneros palestinos incluidos en el ‘acuerdo Shalit’ ya estaban en prisión antes de que Gilad Shalit hubiera nacido. Diez de los liberados han pasado en la cárcel más tiempo que Nelson Mandela en la isla de Robben aunque ninguno de ellos es conocido para el público no arabo parlante. Por el contrario, Gilad Shalit, [...]

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Acting as a Living Tribute to Martin Luther King
I didn’t think it was possible, but my admiration for Martin Luther King, Jr., grew even stronger these past days.
As I headed to jail as part of the first wave of what is turning into the biggest civil disobedience action in the environmental movement for many years, [...]

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“The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.” –Ed Abbey
“The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.” –Terry Tempest Williams
There’s something about the redrock canyons that seems to inspire great writing — I was lucky enough to [...]

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