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Top Stories from Rights & Liberties on AlterNet
October 22nd, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture
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>From the editors:
As you may have noticed, AlterNet recently unveiled its 2008 Voter Guides,
which outline some of the most pressing issues of our day and how Obama and
McCain compare on them. From veterans' benefits to the prisoners at Guantanamo
Bay, to topics having to do with health, the environment, immigration, and
more, go here to check out these valuable progressive guides to Election 2008.
***
Tomorrow, October 23rd, in Atlanta, Amnesty International will hold a rally to
protest the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Despite all the evidence of his
innocence, he faces death by lethal injection on Monday, October 27th. His time
is running out. Please, go here for more information.
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TENS OF THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS PROTEST U.S. PLAN TO STAY UNTIL 2011
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
An interview with Iraq correspondent Patrick Cockburn and
Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar on the Status of Forces Agreement.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/104097/
DANIEL ELLSBERG: "THE U.S. PRESIDENT IS NOT A KING"
By Bankole Thompson, IPS News
An interview with the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers
reveals why he considers this election crucial in curbing
executive power.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/103818/
AFGHAN COURT THROWS OUT DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST STUDENT JOURNALIST
By Kim Sengupta, Independent UK
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh was sentenced to death for downloading
information on women's rights. He still faces 20 years in
prison.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/104107/
DEAR CONSERVATIVES, WILL YOU HELP SAVE THE REPUBLIC FROM MILITARY TAKEOVER?
By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet
"I hope to persuade you of the profound moral repugnance a
true conservative should feel for the plans that are afoot
in this nation."
http://www.alternet.org/rights/103554/
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT COVERS UP MURDER OF JOURNALIST
By John Gibler, AlterNet
The cover-up is part of a horrid tradition where impunity is
cemented into the fabric of the law.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/103966/
"DIRTY BOMB" CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST GITMO PRISONER BINYAM MOHAMED
By Andy Worthington, AlterNet
Mohamed was brutally tortured after being rendered by the
CIA to Morocco. "We're going to change your brain," one of
his captors said.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/103289/
CAMP BUCCA: IRAQ'S GUANTANAMO
By David Enders, The Nation
What will the United States do with the thousands of Iraqis
it is holding in legal limbo?
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/102839/
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AlterNet Blogs:
U.S. DISTRICT COURT BLOCKS RELEASE OF 17 UIGHUR PRISONERS FROM GUANTANAMO
By Joe Shaulis, Jurist Legal News and Research
They are no longer considered "enemy combatants," but the
Bush administration is keeping the Chinese Muslim prisoners
locked up anyway.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/103943/
ELLEN SLAMS PALIN ON GAY MARRIAGE
By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress
"People are going to be who they're going to be and we need
to love them for who they are, and let them love who they
want to love."
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/election08/104169/
EQUALITY RIDERS ARRESTED IN MISSISSIPPI
By Staff, Soulforce
Members of brave LGBT group arrested for "trespassing" on a
college campus.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/103831/
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