MetaFilter posts tagged with CivilRights and freedom

China's plan to tame Tibet

homunculus — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:56:02 -0800

China's secret plot to tame Tibet. "Internal Communist party documents have revealed that China is planning a programme of harsh political repression in Tibet despite a public show of moderation to win over world opinion before the Olympic Games next month." Meanwhile, the military has sealed off several monasteries in Lhasa, keeping over 1,000 monks locked up. Another 1,000 monks have mysteriously disappeared, and may have been sent to prisons in a neighbouring province to keep them silent through the Olympics.

Do You Like American Music?

Miko — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:54:59 -0800

Sounds of America is a new monthly streaming audio program, a collaboration between the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Global Sound. Up now are 3 episodes: African-American music in New Orleans, Women in American Music, and Freedom Songs of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

Hasta La Vista, Habeas Corpus

Malor — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:48:14 -0800

The Beginning of the End of America. (YouTube, Keith Olbermann)

“Oh, my God, they’re going to burn us up!”

kirkaracha — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:15:20 -0800

Portraits of the Freedom Riders Eric Etheridge has been taking pictures of people who participated in the Freedom Rides (map) to accompany the people's 1961 mug shots. Some of the photos were in the July 2 issue of the New York Times Magazine, and there are more photos at his web site. Also, an excerpt from a recent book about the rides. [via]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal

Malor — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:02:55 -0800

Why we have a Martin Luther King Day. What an amazing speech. [Coral cache][via]

Radical shift?

lilboo — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:25:33 -0800

Are the Republicans starting to hedge their bets?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -In a break with months of Republican efforts to outlaw gay marriage, Vice President Dick Cheney offered a defense of the rights of gay Americans on Tuesday, declaring that "freedom means freedom for everyone" to enter "into any kind of relationship they want to."

pjgulliver — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:28:13 -0800

The 1940s Again? While this in't to internment level yet, I find it terrifying. What to do about this government? This article was originally LA Times, but has been reposted to Common Dreams....

thirteen — Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:50:50 -0800

Do you have too much Freedom?
Might be interesting to all except for the ideology sales pitch at the end. Here is where the warning that it is a Harry Browne/Libertarian penned article goes. George Bush is a Communitarian?