Talking Rights

Yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) gave a magnificent speech on the Senate floor in opposition to the FISA bill before that body. Among its other reprehensible provisions, the bill would give retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that fed information to the National Security Administration, without judicial warrant and without notifying the individuals.
But Dodd went much [...]

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Yet another example of all the things going unfunded while we are stuck fighting a misguided war in Iraq…
Cambodia genocide tribunal running out of money - Los Angeles Times
Plagued by long delays and corruption allegations, the special court prosecuting Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge leaders on genocide charges is running short of money months before its [...]

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In another first, legislators in New York just voted to require anyone showing a plastination exhibit to show where exactly the bodies came from. Senator Jim Alesi (R-Perinton) sponsored the bill, which mirrors similar efforts in California, Pennsylvania, Washington and Hawaii.
North Carolina may see similar legislation introduced next year.
Alesi told WROC-TV, “It’s human dignity [...]

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Today, North Carolina took one step closer to becoming the first state in the union to make torture and conspiracy to commit torture a crime. By a 4 to 3 vote, the Judiciary I Committee of the North Carolina House approved a bill meant to put a stop to the “extraordinary rendition” flights that begin [...]

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J.K. Rowling’s commencement speech at Harvard is required listening… the speech is in three parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L445BmUEXH4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqGotirF20w

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Well, not quite — but the network of people who have opposed the for-profit use of unclaimed and “un-donated” bodies in plastination exhibits scored several impressive victories recently.
After an extensive investigation of the origin of the bodies, the New York State Attorney General announced on May 29 that Premier had agreed to a settlement [...]

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