In March 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two anti-gay measures, California’s Proposition 8 and the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,” which was signed by President Clinton in 1996. Both measures ultimately make same-sex couples second class citizens …
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The first promise of the newly-minted Obama administration back in 2008 was to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. Today, dozens have spent many years there without charges, let alone trial, and have been “cleared” for release, but haven’t been. …
11 Years of Guantanamo Prison – Shut it Down! Read more »
Both President Obama and the Republican Congress are united on at least one thing – federal programs that help most Americans must be cut, and no amount of increased taxation for the rich will change that. But in the wealthiest …
The Fake Budget Crisis Read more »
The cases of “The NATO 5,” five young anti-war activists arrested on terrorism charges in the days before the NATO summit in Chicago this past May, illustrate some of the worst law enforcement abuses in a town which is rife …
The NATO 5: Political Repression in the United States Read more »
While left activists have mobilized to protest the Republican National Convention in Florida, most left organizations have gone out of their way to avoid directly opposing the Democrats when they meet at their convention in North Carolina. Whether it’s escalating …
Opposing the Conventions of the 1% Read more »
Contrary to the myth put out by U.S. politicians and their media, NATO has long been unpopular in Europe. Far from feeling “liberated” by NATO during the Cold War, the peoples of Europe bitterly resented the U.S. and Russia contemplating …
NATO & the G8: A View From Europe Read more »
Rick Rozoff is not only Chicago’s premiere expert on the NATO military alliance, he is internationally renowned for his encyclopedia knowledge of the largest such alliance in world history. With NATO coming to Chicago this May, our local media has …
What’s Wrong With NATO? Read more »
The Gay Liberation Network has long argued that LGBT people shouldn’t concern ourselves only with our own rights. We are a rainbow community, many of us sharing additional oppressed identities in addition to being LGBT. We must not only demand …
Eyewitness Honduras: Since the U.S.-Supported Coup Read more »
In the run-up to Chicago May 2012 G8/NATO summits, the City is preparing to pass repressive legislation designed to punish protesters for exercising their 1st Amendment rights. Predictably, Mayor Emanuel introduced the legislation by saying that it was “just” for …
The 1st Amendment & Chicago’s G8 / NATO Protests Read more »
Minutes after taking office in 2008, President Obama’s first promise to the American people was that he was going to close down the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp, where people were being imprisoned for years in conditions internationally recognized as …
10 Years of Injustice at Guantanamo Bay Read more »
