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| 4/15/2003 | -Senate Passes Version of Religion Initiative | NY Times |
| -ACLU of Florida Demands Recall of State Health Department's Religious AIDS Brochure | ACLU | |
| 4/14/2003 | -Dozens Arrested in U.S. Oil Company Protest The protest against the second largest U.S. oil company drew about 400 people and was the latest in a series of demonstrations in the San Francisco area which have targeted firms demonstrators believe stand to profit from the war. | |
| 4/13/2003 | -Vanishing Liberties Where's the Press? On March 18, the Associated Press reported that at John Carroll University, in a Cleveland suburb, Justice Antonin Scalia said that "most of the rights you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires" because "the Constitution just sets minimums." Accordingly, in wartime, Scalia emphasized, "the protections will be ratcheted down to the constitutional minimum." | Village Voice |
| 4/11/2003 | -Court inconsistent on cross-burning and free expression - Justice Clarence Thomas, usually silent during oral arguments before the Supreme Court, spoke sharply during last December's arguments about whether Virginia's 1952 law banning cross burning, which the law stipulates is "prima facie evidence of an intent to intimidate," violates the right of free speech. Thomas, an African American who grew up in Pin Point, Ga., said: "There is no other purpose to the (burning) cross -- no communication, no particular message. It was intended to cause fear and to terrorize a population." | Seattle Post Intelligencer |
| -The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action: Who Decides Who's Black or Hispanic? | Village Voice | |
| -Throwing the Book at Us: FBI Snoops at Libraries | Village Voice | |
| 4/11/2003 | -Martha Burk Fights the Battle She's Given at Augusta | NY Times |
| 4/8/2003 | -The Last Refuge by Paul Krugman Last week John Kerry told an audience that "what we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States." Republicans immediately sought to portray this remark as little short of treason. | NY Times |
| 4/7/2003 | -Poulsbo nun convicted as result of protest A Roman Catholic nun from Poulsbo has been convicted along with two other nuns in federal court in Denver of defacing a missile silo by swinging hammers and painting crosses on it with their blood. | Seattle PI |
| 4/5/2003 | -Kerry Lashes Out at Republican Criticisms Says U.S. needs regime change | Newsday |
| 4/3/2003 | -Oregon Law Would Jail War Protesters as Terrorists |
| 4/2/2003 | -Patriot II's attack on citizenship By permitting denationalization based on a person's illegal activities, the Patriot II bill attempts to push the legal rules back toward a time in which Ashcroft and his ilk would feel at home: the McCarthy era. | CNN |
| 4/1/2003 | -NYTimes: Friends of Affirmative Action | NY Times |
| 3/27/2003 | -Detention Without End The case of Jose Padilla | Washington Post |
| 3/25/2003 | -Santa Cruz Peace Activist Launches "BuyFrenchNow.com", Counters Pro-War Boycott Of French Products | Common Dreams |
| -Michael Moore: We live in a time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. | Common Dreams | |
| 3/19/2003 | -Kerry says justice system becoming too political | JohnKerry.com |
| 3/13/2003 | -Librarians try to alter Patriot Act Santa Cruz warns readers that FBI may spy on them | SF Gate |
| -Scientists develop microchip for brain Chip copies brain section responsible for memory, mood | CNN |
| -Bush calls for ban on judicial filibusters Estrada nomination temporarily pushed aside | CNN | |
| -Mark Shields: Like charity, democracy should begin at home | CNN | |
| 3/11/2003 | -NAACP backs women in suit against county Suit says white man's offensive touching was not stopped | Seattle PI |
| -The New Airport Profiling - Are you a No-Fly Suspect, Too? | NY Times |
| -What price liberty lost? Some want to know Cost-benefit analysis may be applied to domestic security | Seattle PI | |
| 3/10/2003 | -Bush's War on Women: Stealth Misogyny "Don't watch what we say, watch what we do." That Nixon-era maxim perfectly describes George W. Bush's covert campaign against women's rights. Call it stealth misogyny. | Village Voice |
| 3/8/2003 | -Complex Ellsberg portrayed in 'Papers' "It's never been about Vietnam," says Ellsberg. "It's always been about domestic policy: How to stay in office, win the election." No politician could appear to be soft on Communism. No president could let a war be lost on his watch. | CNN |
| 3/7/2003 | -Keep Gays Out Of Military Colin Powell Says |
| -Top Cops Implicated In Gay Beating Cover-Up | ||
| 3/6/2003 | -Marchers protest arrest of man for wearing peace T-shirt at Crossgates Mall Shopper charged after refusing to take off shirt that mall store made for him, bearing slogans "Peace on Earth" and "Give Peace a Chance" | Times Union |
| 3/5/2003 | -Students Ditch Class To Protest War | CBS News |
| -Our rights are free gifts from God - "The Pledge" revisited... again | Seattle PI |
| -Europe Hacker Laws Could Make Protest a Crime | NY Times | |
| 3/4/2003 | -Actors Guild Warns Against Blacklisting | Newsday |
| -Man arrested for 'peace' T-shirt | CNN | |
| 3/1/2003 | -Ashcroft Out of Control Ominous Sequel to USA Patriot Act | Village Voice |
| -Americans Have a Cool Debate About a Hot-Button Topic George Bush took a page from the Jesse Helms playbook when the administration filed a Supreme Court brief condemning affirmative action at the University of Michigan and tried to mislead Americans into believing that Michigan has a quota system that systematically discriminates against nonblack applicants | NY Times | |
| 2/28/2003 | -Detective: Author given access to Blake investigation | CNN |
| -Washington: Cruelty of slave trade shown at Smithsonian | CNN | |
| -Bill Moyers on Patriotism and the American Flag | PBS |
| 3/1/2003 | -ACLU Declares its concerns over airline ID system that may prevent you from flying, discloses credit and personal information, creates blacklist | ACLU |
| -Governor: Jimmy Carter to guide debate on Georgia flag | CNN | |
| -Appeals court refuses to reconsider Pledge of Allegiance decision "Under God" still unconstitutional | CNN | |
| 2/21/2003 | -Spinning AIDS: The Bush Plan is dependent on accepting Pro-Life Policy policy | Washington Post |
| 2/20/2003 | -The Million Modem March February 26th Join the March | CNN |
| 2/19/2003 | -Police scandal costs Oakland $10.9 million City officials have agreed to pay $10.9 million and implement reforms to settle a series of civil rights lawsuits involving a band of rogue police officers who allegedly beat suspects and planted drugs on innocent people | CNN |
| -Supreme Court urged to restrict spying powers | CNN | |
| 2/18/2003 | -Bush talking more about religion 'Faith to solve the nation's deepest problems' | CNN |
| -House Endorses Stricter Work Rules for Poor | NY Times | |
| 2/12/2003 | -Congressional Letter to Ashcroft: Objection to USA Patriot Act 2 | Truthout |
| 2/10/2003 | -House Dems demand explanation on anti-terror law | CNN |
| 2/8/2003 | -New Patriot Act Anti-Terror Bill: Critics Cry Foul | CBS News |
| -Bush renominates Pickering as federal judge | CNN | |
| 1/7/2003 | -Bush announces economic program: says double-taxation is wrong | CNN |
| -House weakens ethics rules | CNN | |
| 1/6/2003 | -Erasing Trent Lott's legacy | CNN |
| 12/22/2003 | Lott blames himself for falling into enemies' 'trap' - "When you're from Mississippi and you're a conservative and you're a Christian, there are a lot of people that don't like that. I fell into their trap and so I have only myself to blame." | CNN |
| Time.com: Time's Persons of the Year: The Full Story of the Whistle-Blowers | Time | |
| Cities crack down on panhandling | CNN | |
| U.S. fixing 'Southern bias' at battlefields | CNN |
| 12/19/2002 | Clinton calls GOP 'hypocritical' on Lott | CNN |
| Right to Life executive charged with intercepting messages | CNN | |
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