Human Rights

Media ‘Extremes’ on Healthcare: Universal Coverage or Taking Healthcare From Millions

For many years, corporate media have largely ignored a single-payer system as a possible solution to the United States healthcare crises (FAIR.org, 3/6/09). This silent treatment, however,

September 20, 2017
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Type: Article

Yet Another Black Man Serves Time for a Crime He Didn't Commit

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Lamar Johnson was released after serving fourteen years for murder after the Innocence Project teamed with Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby's office to win his release

September 20, 2017
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The Cybercrime Convention's New Protocol Needs to Uphold Human Rights

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As part of an ongoing attempt to help law enforcement obtain data across international borders, the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention— finalized in the weeks following 9/11, and ratified by the United States

September 19, 2017
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In Month After Charlottesville, Papers Spent as Much Time Condemning Anti-Nazis as Nazis

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Since the Charlottesville attack a month ago, a review of commentary in the six top broadsheet newspapers—the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, San Jose Mercury News and Washington Post—found virtually equal

September 13, 2017
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This Labor Day, Remember That Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign Was for Workers’ Rights

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Most Americans today know that Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, but few know why he was there. King went to Memphis to support African American garbage workers

September 3, 2017
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU Win Court Ruling That Police Can't Keep License Plate Data Secret

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU won a decision by the California Supreme Court that the license plate data of millions of law-abiding drivers, collected indiscriminately by police across the state,

August 31, 2017
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