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Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans and Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. SHARE
(12 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 13, 2008 McCain Owes America an Apology
John McCain fanned the fires of fear for months and guess what, millions are scared to death. He knew what he was doing was wrong. As did John Lewis. He owes America an apology and John Lewis deserves one as well.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 7, 2010 The United States of Fear - Ten Examples
Since September 11, 2001, fear has been the main engine of change in the United States. Who would have thought that across the US, where people boast that it is the home of the free and the land of the brave, people would gladly surrender their freedom and liberty because they so fear terrorism?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 24, 2008 Katrina Pain Index - Three Years Later
Three years after Katrina, New Orleans remains deeply pained. Housing, crime, healthcare, public education - all are in trouble.
(8 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 1, 2010 BP and Bhopal - USA Double Standard
When a US corporation was responsible for killing and disabling hundreds of thousands in Bhopal India, the US was not very aggressive in holding it accountable. Why a different approach when US citizens are involved?
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 12, 2009 Why ACORN Won
ACORN won a federal challenge against Congress defunding the organization. This is why.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 2, 2010 Fire on the Bayou: Non-Stop River of Oil Heads to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida
"This isn't a spill. This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse," said Kerry St. Pe, the former head of the Louisiana oil spill response team. The Gulf spill is really a river of oil flowing out of the bottom of the Gulf according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Corporations Profit from Permanent War: Memorial Day 2010
Remember this Memorial Day that, while thousands have been laid in their graves and hundreds of thousands wounded, private military contractors are prospering and profiting as the business of war booms.
SHARE Monday, April 21, 2008 US Role in Haiti Hunger Riots
Hunger riots in Haiti have killed several people recently. Haiti used to be able to feed itself, until the US and the IMF forced them to change their laws. The US and IMF changes helped destroy Haiti rice farmers. Now Haiti imports heavily subsidized US rice - which has soared in price and is now scarce. How it happened and what can be done - answers in this article.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 7, 2010 Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans Five Years Later
the challenges facing New Orleans after Katrina are the same ones facing millions of people of color, women, the elderly and disabled and their children across the US. Katrina just made these challenges clearer in New Orleans than in many other places. Here is where we are five years later.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Iraq Occupation
In Iraq, while thousands of US troops are marching out, thousands of additional private military contractors (PMCs) are marching in. The number of armed security contractors in Iraq will more than double in the coming months.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, April 30, 2010 Not Just Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Out of Control on Federal Level
While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Challenging Vatican Old Boys Network
It started when the Rome police spotted the three women in long white church liturgical garments robes, the man in a roman collar dressed all in black, and their supporters walking several blocks down the middle of Via della Conciliazione directly towards the Vatican, the headquarters of the institutional Roman Catholic Church and the Basilica of St. Peter.
SHARE Sunday, September 27, 2009 G20 Shows How USA Terrorizes Ourselves
The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become.
What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did.
Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities militarize our towns, scare our people away, stop daily life and quash our constitutional rights.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 22, 2010 Honduras: Crisis and Progress
Honduras resistance lives, fights for human rights and celebrates despite deaths, beatings and arrests.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 7, 2008 Displaced Poor Arrive in New Orleans as Saints Go Marching In
As buses continue to arrive in New Orleans bringing the displaced poor back home after 7 days away, the New Orleans Saints kick off their season, just blocks away.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 6, 2008 Gustav Impact on Louisiana and Haiti
Gustav hit Louisiana, the poorest state in the US, and Haiti, the poorest country in the hemisphere. What is similar and what is different?
SHARE Friday, September 26, 2008 Shame: US War on Unarmed Working Mothers
Does the U.S. feel so vulnerable that we really need to declare war on unarmed working mothers and conduct paramilitary raids on bakeries, candle shops, and meatpacking plants in order to feel safe? Shame on us.
SHARE Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Swedish Peace Activists Break Into Weapons Factories
Using bolt cutters and hammers, five Swedish peace activists repeatedly broke into weapons factories in the last few days - damaging numerous grenade launchers and other military items.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 3, 2010 Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pre-Trial Detainee in NYC
Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.
For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pre-trial isolation inside in a small cell under 24 hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced to use the bathroom and shower in full view of the video. He has not seen the sun in years.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 Dissent Victory for Animal Rights Activists
Attacks by government on our human and civil rights are always first directed at people on the margins who do not have widespread popular support. Animal and environmental activists are the ones under attack today. Unless we stand up and vigorously protect their rights to dissent, others, including us, will be certainly be next.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 19, 2008 War Resistance Arrests Rise
Over 15,000 arrests have occurred in war resistance actions since 2002, many more and in many more places than traditional media report.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Jean-Juste, Presente!
Pere Jean-Juste was a Jesus-like revolutionary. In jail and out, he preached liberation of the poor, release of prisoners, human rights for all, and a fair distribution of wealth. A big muscular man with a booming voice and a frequent deep laugh, he wore a brightly colored plastic rosary around his neck and carried another in his pocket. Jailed for nearly a year in Haiti...
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Assassinationn of US Muslim Cleric Illegal Immoral and Unwise
Assassinating Awlaki in the US would be murder, a capital crime, punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty. Morally, few would argue that agents of the FBI or the CIA could murder the cleric in the US. If it is illegal and immoral to kill a Muslim cleric in the US why would it be legal, moral or wise to do so in Yemen?
SHARE Sunday, May 25, 2008 War Immemorial Day
U.S. is biggest war machine in world. Most powerful. Most expensive. US spends more on war than all nations in the rest of the world put together. US also has most aggressive military - intervening worldwide. If Memorial Day is really about peace - US has a lot of praying (and changing) to do.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Living in the Car After Gustave
Gustave passed, but for working and poor people, the financial crisis remains