For the last five months, several hundred Native Americans and their supporters walked coast-to-coast through 26 states, gathering on-the-ground testimonials about pressing environmental and cultural concerns. read more »

“This ‘Shut up and play’? That’s not okay. That’s not the Olympics.” So wrote Sports Illustrated’s Aditi Kinkhabwala, joining a rising chorus of sportswriters criticizing the pre-emptive repression of speech of Olympic athletes.It’s no doubt worthy of their ire. read more »

In January, Sen. Barack Obama (DIll.) vowed to join a filibuster against legislation that would grant immunity to telecommunication companies who participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program for years. read more »

“We figured we’d be facing a cut, but we didn’t imagine it would be this huge, this soon, and without notice,” said FSRN Headlines Producer, Shannon Young. read more »

Instead of achieving the American dream, the workers arrived into an American nightmare. Signal forced them to live 24 men to a trailer in labor camps at its Mississippi and Texas shipyards, charging each of them $1,050 a month and forbidding them from living off company grounds. read more »

George Carlin, the comic who challenged the standards that proscribed the word “fuck” but permitted the word “kill,” died Sunday, June 22 in California of heart failure. He was 71. It was Carlin who, by articulating the “seven words you [could] never say on television” (i.e., “shit,” “piss,” “fuck,” “cunt,” “cocksucker,” “motherfucker,” and “tits”) helped make [...] read more »

It was not just in the courtroom that the plight of the Guantánamo prisoners was brought out. Throughout the week, as we moved around the courthouse and its environs in our bright orange jumpsuits and t-shirts, we were a highly visible symbol of the ongoing shame that is Guantánamo prison camp. read more »

A timeline of rulings in favor of torture and against international, as well as U.S. laws. read more »

The MCA created kangaroo courts that deny access to counsel; deny the right to see and cross-examine witnesses, that permit evidence obtained by torture if the government deems it reliable, and worst of all, don’t provide for the release from detention even if you prove you are not an enemy combatant. read more »

In December 2005, after four years of captivity at Guantánamo Bay, Arkin Mahmud, a Uighur from Turkistan, was given a 40-minute Administrative Review Board hearing to determine if he should still be classified as an enemy combatant, which, according to the Bush administration, would allow the U.S. government to hold him indefinitely without trial or charge. read more »