Eight attacks, 11 days – Salon.com.

Crisis at Guantanamo: Call Your Senators Now – Amnesty International USA. We are facing a crisis at Guantanamo: can you spare a moment to call your two Senators now?   The Senate is expected to vote in early September on legislation — the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (S. 1253) — that includes provisions […]

United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement. Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine Veteran (2 tours in […]

An Assessment Of The Obama Administration’s Fulfillment Of ACLU Recommended “Actions For Restoring America” http://www.aclu.org/files/pages/americaunrestored_11_20100119.pdf

Why do transnational extremist organizations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold? Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist extremist, asks for new grassroots stories and global social activism to spread democracy in the face of nationalism and xenophobia. A powerful talk from TEDGlobal 2011.

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By Adele Welty, with Marianne Stone, of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows On September 11th, my son, a Firefighter intent on saving lives, lost his life at the World Trade Center. I am a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a group born out of the grief of losing family members in […]

 June 17, Fri  7:30 p.m. Film: Welcome to Shelbyville. Arab American National Museum, 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, 48126.  The program includes a screening of the 2009 documentary Welcome to Shelbyville, directed by award-winning filmmaker Kim A. Snyder. The film introduces a cast of straight-talking people in rural Tennessee who are taking immigration into their own […]