by Li Onesto 20 Freedom Fighters Expose Crimes of Stop and Frisk 24-7-365: Police Precincts, USA—Black and Latino people, especially young males, shackled, pulled out of paddy wagons and from the back…
Why I Am Protesting NATO in Chicago
by Emma Kaplan, World Can’t Wait Steering Committee Member I am protesting the NATO Summit because I care about the people of the world. I am protesting NATO/U.S. war crimes because I…
Debra Sweet, Executive Director, World Can’t Wait, To Receive 2012 American Humanist Award as “Heroine”
For immediate release May 7, 2012 Debra Sweet, World Can’t Wait Director, will receive the 2012 American Humanist Association’s (AHA) Humanist Heroine Award. The award will be presented at the AHA national…
“Stop and Frisk” Activists Reflect on Guilty Ruling
From the Stop Mass Incarceration Network Following Judge Robert Mandelbaum’s ruling yesterday that all twenty were guilty of disorderly conduct, defendants in the "stop and frisk" trial conveyed to the court that…
More Federal Judge Abdication
The branch designed to be insulated from political pressures has been the most craven of all in the post-9/11 era by Glenn Greenwald The abdication of U.S. federal judges in the post-9/11…
Occupy-Style Repression Hits Brooklyn College, My Home
by Matthis Chiroux Two non-violent student activists were arrested yesterday and a dozen others brutalized by campus police at Brooklyn College when they peacefully congregated in a hallway outside the president’s office….
The Jose Rodriguez Lesson
Perhaps it’s a bad idea to trust the executive branch to wield the most extreme powers in the dark, with no checks by Glenn Greenwald Jose Rodriguez, the high-ranking CIA official who…
The Permanent Injustice of Guantánamo
by Andy Worthington When the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba opened on January 11, 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s global “war on terror,” in response to the terrorist attacks of…
Illegal, Immoral and Just Plain Wrong
By Curt Wechsler The "cover your ass" legal reasoning employed by the University of California to protect Berkeley Law professor John Yoo from accountability for his criminal activity at the Department of Justice…
Leaving Afghanistan by Staying
by David Swanson Is staying in Afghanistan OK with you as long as we call it leaving? President Obama has signed an agreement with President Karzai to keep a major U.S. military…