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The Change in Maine: The Pine Tree State Leads the Way on Solitary Confinement Reform
The world will get a glimpse this week into how the United States treats those we lock in solitary confinement, when the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hears ACLU testimonies on how our treatment of vulnerable prisoners violates international human rights norms. Show More Summary
"Hands Off Our DNA" Lawsuit Gets Another Day in Court
Originally posted by the ACLU of Northern California. Last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said it would rehear the ACLU of Northern California's lawsuit challenging a California law that mandates that DNA is collected from anyone arrested on suspicion of a felony. Show More Summary
Team Wronging Rights, Beyond the Internet
Kate and I have both appeared in non-blog media over the last few days, discussing why we are Kony 2012 skeptics. In case you’re interested: On March 8, Amanda appeared on Monocle Radio’s The Daily (Link here, and the interview … Continue reading ?
State of Disunion
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Romney the Populist?
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Leveson goes live
Today marks a minor landmark for open justice. For the first time, a public inquiry is being shown live over the internet. The Leveson Inquiry into Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press has taken over Court 73 in the Royal Courts of Justice, so when Counsel to the Inquiry Robert Jay QC begins his [...]
ACLU Studio: Former FBI Special Agent Disagrees with Cheney’s Tortured Logic
For nearly 10 years, Ali Soufan helped fight the United States’ secret war on terror, gathering intelligence and interrogating prisoners as an FBI Special Agent. Soufan claims that former Vice President Dick Cheney’s insistence thatShow More Summary
ACLU Studio: Porter Goss, Beer Nuts and Waterboarding
Apparently, former CIA Director Porter Goss' favorite party trick is to use beer nuts to show how waterboarding is really no big deal. You'll learn this and other fun facts in our inaugural ACLU Studio Podcast. ACLU Studio is for those who can't get enough of the ACLU. Show More Summary
UN Confirms Crimes in South Kordofan
The United Nations report on South Kordofan released this week is an official confirmation of reports of ethnic targeting, house to house searches, extrajudicial killings, bombing of civilians, attacks on churches, and displacement of large amounts of people, which have been coming out of the Nuba Mountains since early June. As I told Radio France [...]
#WithoutPrejudice: Riots, Human Rights Act and hacking
I had the honour of appearing on this week’s #WithoutPrejudice. The podcast also featured regulars CharonQC, David Allen Green and Carl Gardner, alongside guests former Lib-Dem MP Dr Evan Harris, David Wales, a criminal lawyer and blogger. Show More Summary
Tell the California Department of Corrections to Meet the Demands of Prisoners
After 18 months of strategizing, inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California launched a headline-grabbing hunger strike on July 1 that put the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under intense media scrutiny. Show More Summary
Analysis – Daily Mirror and The Sun in contempt over Jo Yeates murder case
Her Majesty’s Attorney-General Claimant – and – (1) MGN Limited Defendants (2) News Group Newspapers Limited - Read judgment The High Court has found that the Daily Mirror and The Sun were in breach of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 (1981 Act) in relation to their reporting of the Jo Yeates murder case. The proceedings were in [...]
Appeals Court Holds Hearing on Who Owns Your Genes
On Monday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held a hearing in the landmark lawsuit challenging gene patents before a crowded courtroom in Washington, D.C. The case, brought by the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation onShow More Summary
"Voices for Justice" in Peru: Indigenous Radio
In Peru, more than half of the population - and nearly 80% of Indigenous people and those of African descent - live in poverty. For the region around Ayacucho, a city in the South-Central Andes of Peru with a significant...
Speak Out Against the "Pain Ray" at L.A. County Jail
The ACLU took to the airwaves this week to advance its advocacy against the implementation of Assault Intervention Devices — invisible microwave beam weapons originally developed by the military — as a way of subduing inmates at theShow More Summary
What Does it Take to Make Change?
This site being named Change.org says it, but sometimes we're dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to getting the essential messages being screamed at us from among our cacophonous surroundings. People marching, walking, fasting,...Show More Summary
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