As
we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., we should remember
how King’s example of working closely and respectfully with Congress led
to measurable gains in the lives of all Americans,” said Wade Henderson,
president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR),
the nation’s oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights
coalition. “We hope that the new configuration in Congress will afford
the civil rights community the ability to do the same.”...
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Jim Hightower: Bush
Administration Attacks Our Freedom to Protest [VIDEO]
Posted by
Jim Hightower, at 12:30
PM on November 14, 2007.
George W likes to claim that global
terrorists are out to attack America because "They hate our
freedoms." But we're learning that it's really the Bushites
themselves who hate America's freedoms.
Retired Army Col. Ann Wright and one of America's
leading peace activists, Medea Benjamin, have recently felt
the bullying hate of the Bush regime. Both women have been
very vigorous practitioners of our freedom to speak out and
assemble in opposition to government policies, using these
freedoms to protest the war in Iraq. They've put themselves
on the line and been willing to undergo several arrests for
their nonviolent civil disobedience.
This is as American as the 4th of July.
Yet Wright, Benjamin, and civil libertarians everywhere were
stunned to learn last August that Bush's FBI has suddenly
turned this misdemeanor into a weapon of political
intimidation, using it to bar the two women from traveling
to Canada... and perhaps to other nations.
When they tried to visit Canada, Wright
and Benjamin were detained by Canadian customs officials and
told that their names were on an FBI no-entry list. Even
though this list is meant to stop fugitives, potential
terrorists, and violent felons - not peaceful protesters -
they were told that they would have to apply for "criminal
rehabilitation" and pay a fine if they ever wanted to enter
Canada.
Unintimidated, the women have since tried
to re-enter, this time at the invitation of five members of
parliament to come speak to that assembly. Yet, Canada's
officials have bowed to the Bushites, honoring the FBI's
no-entry list, rather than respecting their own parliament.
The FBI refuses to say why non-violent protesters are on a
terrorist list.
Chillingly, the U.S. media have ignored
this story, but you can learn more about this blatant
assault on our freedoms by going to
www.codepinkalert.org.
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a
vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the
moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be
no compromise on basic principles."
Ayn Rand
Activism
Issues
As
we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., we should remember
how King’s example of working closely and respectfully with Congress led
to measurable gains in the lives of all Americans,” said Wade Henderson,
president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR),
the nation’s oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights
coalition. “We hope that the new configuration in Congress will afford
the civil rights community the ability to do the same.”...
full story |
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Civil
Rights Leaders Face Challenges That King Never Dreamed Of
