AltWeeklies Wire
The Ire of the Tiger: Wayne Morse and Free Speech Plazanew
The "Tiger of the Senate" the late Sen. Wayne Morse's namesake "free speech plaza" has been given time limits, but protesters say that free speech doesn't have a curfew.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-30-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Public Art, Private Decisionsnew
Atlanta's public art policy aimed at preventing controversy might also step on free speech.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Debbie Michaud |
08-15-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Right to Bare Breastsnew
Not all exposure is indecent. Just ask the topless model arrested in downtown Atlanta.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jessica Blankenship |
08-14-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Revolution's Family Tree: Franklin and Adams to Manning and Snowdennew
A behind-the-scenes multimedia look inside Bradley Manning's court martial, its ramifications on journalism and civil liberties, and the handful of journalists who've been covering it since the beginning.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski, Rashed Mian and Jed Morey |
07-08-2013 |
Civil Liberties
NSA Surveillance Started Long Before 9/11 and the Patriot Actnew
Why was the NSA creating intrusive domestic spy programs in early 2001, months before the 9/11 attacks or the creation of the Patriot Act?
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer, David Accomazzo and Jefferson Dodge |
06-21-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: Edward Snowden
Spying on Canadiansnew
National security calls it defence against terrorism, others call it unconstitutional.
VUE Weekly |
Ryan Stephens |
06-19-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Dennis Gilman: Bad-Ass Citizen Journalistnew
A Phoenix videographer with a camera — and a chip — on his shoulder goes after Arizona's right-wing zealots.
Phoenix New Times |
Weston Phippen |
06-07-2013 |
Civil Liberties
In Medgar's Drivewaynew
At his Jackson home, now a museum to his life and death, you can stand in the spot where Medgar Evers died. If you travel to 2332 Margaret Alexander Walker Drive (close to what is now Medgar Evers Boulevard), you can visit a somber place that is still intact--house, driveway, everything.
Jackson Free Press |
Trip Burns |
06-06-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Mr. Dylan, Mr. Eversnew
It was raining the morning of May 17, 2003. I was in my office, worrying about what the Jubilee! JAM organizers must be going through. It's hard to make this festival pay off in good weather, not to mention in times of thunderstorms and crime hysteria. I knew the rain, coming on the JAM's big day—Cassandra Wilson, Bob Dylan and Gerald Levert were scheduled that evening—would be playing hell with the moods of the organizers.
Jackson Free Press |
Donna Ladd |
06-06-2013 |
Civil Liberties
In Her Words: Myrlie Evers-Williamsnew
Benjamin Jealous, the current NAACP national president, and Myrlie Evers-Williams visited Jackson recently to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Evers-Williams’ husband, Medgar.
Jackson Free Press |
Myrlie Evers-Williams |
06-06-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Memories of Medgarnew
Medgar Evers seemed to know his life was drawing to a close.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
06-06-2013 |
Civil Liberties
NPS Security Confused About the First Amendment
Monterey County Weekly photographer Nic Coury was detained twice and threatened with arrest while standing on a public street and taking pictures of the exterior of the Naval Postgraduate School.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mary Duan |
04-13-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Public Access Victory: Halifax Police Blotter to be Made Publicnew
The Coast has long argued that the Halifax police department was overly restrictive with its release of information. The police blotter has long been public record in every American city, but not in any city north of the border.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Tim Bousquet |
03-28-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Everybody Wants a Piece of Kimani Graynew
How a boy's death became street theater in Flatbush.
The Village Voice |
Nick Pinto and Ryan Devereaux |
03-22-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Civil rights group complains of exorbitant charging for records at the Bexar County jailnew
At 8 p.m. on August 21, 2012, Thomas Reed Taylor turned himself in to the Bexar County jail, opting for time served on outstanding drunk driving and misdemeanor drug possession warrants in lieu of fines he couldn't pay.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
03-06-2013 |
Civil Liberties