AltWeeklies Wire
The 2008 Muzzles: Collegiate Divisionnew
In reality, college campuses are home to some of the most outrageous cases of censorship.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
06-26-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
The 2008 Phoenix Muzzle Awardsnew
Freedom of expression may be guaranteed by the Constitution, but it's an idea we have to fight for every day. We round up the past year's most conspicuous enemies.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
06-26-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Is Being Naked in the Public Square a Crime?new
In the finest Puritan tradition, Middlesex District Attorney Gerald Leone is crusading to save Harvard Square from the shock and awe of the nude human form. The next act of this absurd political-theater production will return to Cambridge District Court this Friday, at considerable expense to taxpayers.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate and James F. Tierney |
06-26-2008 |
Civil Liberties
One of Our Drummers Is Missingnew
Musician Vicente Lebron, born in the Dominican Republic, but has lived in the US for 38 years. During that time, he's traveled freely with his band, the Either/Orchestra. He has a Green Card. But now he's detained and held incommunicado by Homeland Security.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
06-26-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Score: Constitution 5, Gulags 4new
The supreme court's recent decision not only restored habeas-corpus rights to enemy combatants, but gave all of us one our most important civil-liberty victories to date.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
06-19-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Harvard's Cops Have a Political Intelligence Unitnew
The Harvard University Police have a long record of abusing students' rights. I suspect this intelligence unit, which I also noticed photographing protesters at a campus anti-war demonstration in March, is not a recent addition.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
04-17-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Newspapers Censor Bono's Fucking Gaffenew
The FCC's "Broadcast Indecency" rules are, in a word, bullshit.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
03-13-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties, FCC
Free Speech Trumps Boston Copsnew
Performance artist Milan Kohout, arrested for protesting the sub-prime mortgage scandal, had the First Amendment on his side all along.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate and Jan Wolfe |
03-13-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Comcast Fights Dirtynew
Reporters couldn't get into the net-neutrality conference at Harvard because Comcast had "reserved" so many seats -- for people who fell asleep.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
02-29-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
To Catch a Copnew
A Boston do-gooder who recorded police officers abusing a suspect ended up arrested for "wiretapping."
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate and James F. Tierney |
02-21-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Ring of Firenew
The deadbeat FBI fails to pay its phone bills and jeopardizes its wiretapping program.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
01-24-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Eraser Headsnew
Overzealous deans at Boston's Emerson College literally made students' rights disappear.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate and James F. Tierney |
10-25-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Archaic Laws: Often Funny, But No Laughing Matternew
There's a law against spitting on the sidewalk, but nobody enforces it ... or do they?
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate and Jan Wolfe |
10-11-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Networking Trapsnew
A message for Facebook users: you're being watched.
Boston Phoenix |
Ashley Rigazio |
09-06-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Hypocrisy in High Placesnew
The Supreme Court landed heavy blows on freedom of religion and freedom of speech last month, but votes by Samuel Alito Jr. sugggest a larger, even more disturbing, trend.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate and James Tierney |
07-06-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
