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Working Assets: proud to be nonpartisan.
Yesterday I received an email from the Young Democrats of America (I'm not a member but am somehow on their list), asking me to send a thank you card to Congress. What terrible timing. It's been a week of bitter...
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Losses...
We lost on restoring habeas and we lost on changing the course of the war. Neither of these is a huge surprise given who we're dealing with in the Senate. They are only surprising in the larger sense of continual...
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Two Battles
Sometimes it feels like there is nothing to be done about the mess our country is in. (Well, it never feels that way to Working Assets members who can always do more through our great Act For Change online activism.)...
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Vote Tomorrow to Restore Habeas Corpus
If you were tossed in jail -- or the United States' prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- you'd expect the right to a fair hearing before a judge at which you could hear the charges against you, right? Well,...
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Habeas Day
We want to restore Habeas Corpus. And so do most Americans. At least that's the word from OpenLeft and the results of the polling they commissioned on the topic: Americans respond strongly to the message that current policy is un-American...
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What if they came for you?
Did you know that under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, President Bush now has the power to declare anyone he wants, including U.S. citizens, to be an "enemy combatant" -- and imprison them indefinitely without access to our court...
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Will Dianne Feinstein Ensure the Restoration of Habeas Corpus?
I was in DC earlier this week for a conference on Global Warming (more on that in another post) and to my surprise I sat one row behind Senator Feinstein on the flight back to San Francisco. On the way...
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Oh Really, O'Reilly
Despite O'Reilly's screaming and shouting and huffing and puffing, he could not blow the McCormick Conference Center down...and YearlyKos took place. Working Assets' Will Easton and I were both there, and you'll hear more about it soon. But for now,...
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Slowpoke: The Next Box Sets - Featured Cartoon
Today's featured cartoon imagines the sounds of torture grouped as a collector's edition album along with other musical compilations we'd never want to buy. I guess the best we can hope for is that when we start to restore...
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Courts? Who Needs Courts?
Standing out among the complains Thomas Jefferson penned in the Declaration of Independence is one that sits at the heart of our civil society. The King, Jefferson wrote, had given his assent for a range of crimes against the colonists,...
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Who Killed America?
The comic book world is buzzing (or at least Marvel is hoping it is) with the question: Who Killed Captain America? The red-white-and-blue warrior who has battled Nazism, Communism, Terrorism and every other "ism" George Bush once pledged to banish...
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Joke of the Day
Because you need to start your Monday with a little laughter... The Bush administration has officially redefined the word "torture". And why not? Over the years, they have redefined a bunch of words, including "election", "mandate", and "victory." - Costaki...
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Movement on Shutting Down Guantanamo?
Earlier today we heard the news that Senators Feinstein and Harkin are planning to offer an amendment to the upcoming defense authorization bill that would shut down the "gulag of our times" -- the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
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A Court Has Acted to Save Our Constitution- Will You?
Put simply, the Constitution does not allow the President to order the military to seize civilians residing within the United States and then detain them indefinitely without criminal process, and this is so even if he calls them 'enemy combatants.'...
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Colin's Candor - Just a Few Years Too Late
Colin Powll was on Meet the Press yesterday, and Think Progress has the highlights. Powell, arguing for the rule of law, points out that there are millions of people in the US prison system who did have access to lawyers...
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A Difference on Constitutional Rights
For all the differences among the candidates in last night's Democratic Presidential Debate, the major result was their similiarities on a range of issues from ending the Occupation in Iraq, employing diplomacy with Iran and supporting out troops and their...
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Can Lawyers Protect our Constitution from the Bush Administration?
Over the last few weeks, Working Assets has been trying to rally every member of the legal profession to restore one of the bedrooks of American justice, the right of habeas corpus, but Congress sure isn't listening. The right of...
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"I Want to Double Guantanamo"
I want them on Guantanamo where they don't get the access to lawyers they get when they are on our soil....Some people have said we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is we ought to double Guantanamo. - Mitt Romney,...
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"Concerns About Whether to Have This Fight Now..."
For awhile, we have been urging our members to write Congress and demand a restoration of Habeas Corpus...and the the healing of our wounded Constitution. According to our friend Matt Stoller at MyDD, today might be the day to put...
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This Modern World: Extraordinary Rendition -- or Free Surprise Vacation? - Featured Cartoon
Tom Tomorrow takes us on a trip with the travel agents of extraordinary rendition. Amazing the power of this cartoon to make you smile, even while its content tears up your insides, just as this Administration had torn up...
