Jeanne Theoharris The Chronicle Review 4/3/11
Pale and gaunt, he stood there, having endured three years of pretrial solitary confinement. “Alhamdullilah,” he said. (more…)
April 2011
Monthly Archive
Tue 5 Apr 2011
Tue 5 Apr 2011
CAIR: Groups to Challenge Anti-Islam Bias in NY Senate Hearing
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WHAT: News Conference to Challenge Anti-Islam Bias in NY State Senate Hearing
WHEN: Thursday, April 7, 1 p.m.
WHERE: Steps of New York City Hall, New York, NY
CONTACT: CAIR-NY Civil Rights Manager Cyrus McGoldrick, 203-206-6883 or 212-870-2002, E-Mail: cmcgoldrick@cair.com (more…)
Mon 4 Apr 2011
Documenting the Obama Administration’s ‘Gitmo in the Heartland’
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An interview with Alia Malek, author of a Nation article on the Bureau of Prison Communication Management Units: Â WNYC radio.
Mon 4 Apr 2011
Alia Malek Nation 3/28/11
On the evening of May 13, 2008, Jenny Synan waited for a phone call from her husband, Daniel McGowan. An inmate at Sandstone, a federal prison in Minnesota, McGowan was serving a seven-year sentence for participating in two ecologically motivated arsons. (more…)
Sun 3 Apr 2011
Glenn Greenwald Salon 4/3/11
Back in January, 2006, the Bush Justice Department released a 42-page memo arguing that the President had the power to ignore Congressional restrictions on domestic eavesdropping, such as those imposed by FISA  (more…)
Sat 2 Apr 2011
Open Letter to President Obama on the Nomination of Elizabeth Warren
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By Ralph Nader
Dear President Obama:
An interesting contrast is playing out at the White House these days–between your expressed praise of General Electric’s CEO, Jeffrey R. Immelt and the silence regarding the widely desired nomination of Elizabeth Warren  (more…)
Fri 1 Apr 2011
Given the FBI’s record of fallibility — and without genuine safeguards for citizens — this $1bn biometrics project is alarming (more…)