Human Rights
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EU threatens new sanctions on Syria
… the impact on the Syrian public. The U.N.'s top human rights official Navi Pillay called on nations to immediately ..... uprising. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 53 people were killed in Wednesday's …
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Egypt's PM says US threats to cut aid won't work
… office last year. Hafez Abou Saada, a veteran Egyptian human rights activist, said Cairo's clash with the U.S. over ..... he said: "Their activities have nothing to do with human rights ." ___ Associated Press writer Maggie Michael contributed …
Audio & Video
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Time to remove the state seal from Massachusetts flag?Daniel DeGuglielmo, a Cambride activist, talks with Tom And Todd about his mission to rid the seal of the Commonwealth from its current racist form.
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Newt Gingrich battles Juan Williams at South Carolina Fox News debate
Did Newt get the better of Juan, or did Juan prove a point? Also, Will Romney release his income taxes? He gets pushed on it by Rick Perry.
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Is MLK Deserving Of A Federal Holiday?Today is a federal holiday celebrating the life, achievements and aspirations of Martin Luther King Jr.. While there is no doubt he was a great man, guest host Avi Nelson did not believe he is deserving of a federal holiday observance in his name.
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Should Urinating Soldiers Face War Crimes?A video on the posted on the internet apparently show four US soldiers urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers has caused an outraged throughout the world. The White House has condemned the actions and are threatening to press charges against the soldiers. Should these soldiers face charges or do you agree with what they do?
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Hell No, We Won't Go!
Hundreds of Occupy Boston protesters marched through the city this evening -- drums, tambourines, and bagpipes in tow -- in a “Day of Action” protest against what they view as corporate greed. Some of the remaining tents have obsceneties spray painted on them. Howie queried of the audience if the OWS were keeping people from coming into town.
Pages & Blogs
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Jesse Jackson: Can You Say Rainbow PUSH?
… termination and discrimination complaint against the civil rights leader with the City of Chicago's Commission on Human Rights . The complaint, filed sometime last year by Tommy R. Bennett, a regular on the Tom Joyner Radio show and member …
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Will Syria Be Next Revolution?
… aide to Assad in Damascus read out a list of decrees, which included a possible end to 48 years of emergency rule, a human rights group said a leading pro-democracy activist, Mazen Darwish, had been arrested. Assad's vague offers reek of fear …
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Obama: Why So Slow on Libya
… The Libyan government “must be held accountable for its failure . . . and face the cost of continued violations of human rights .’’ But Obama neither called for a change in Libya’s autocratic government nor announced a set of specific …
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Van Jones: Koch Brothers Threat to Liberty
… the question of justice and democracy has to come forward, too, not just liberty and property rights but justice in human rights and democracy and people’s rights to be free from economic tyranny and economic domination,
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Hillary Indicates U.S. Done with Mubarak
… of a democratic Egypt that provides both political and economic rights to its people, that respects the universal human rights of all Egyptians. And that is the message that every ambassador, whether Republican or Democratic president, everyone …
