Civil Rights

Within the United States, civil rights refer to a set of rights that are guaranteed to citizens by the constitution. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion are but a few examples of civil rights.

Civil rights laws, however, are meaningless without the support of the executive branch and enforcement from Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies. Civil rights are guaranteed by the United States constitution but enforcing these rights often proves to be an ongoing task.

Civil rights can also address disability rights, as evidenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The rights of all citizens, irrespective of physical abilities are protected under civil rights laws.

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• China Adopts Tort Law

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 539
  From Xinhua : China’s top legislature approved the Tort Law Saturday, after four readings since 2002. The 92-provision law covers liabilities for a range of circumstances, including traffic accidents, medical accidents, work-related injuries, pollution, harm caused by other people’s pets and mental ...
  6 hours ago

• Cellphone Searches

  
  Political Wrinkles — Authority: 453
  Quote: The Ohio Supreme Court has struck an important blow for privacy rights, ruling that the police need a warrant to search a cellphone. The court rightly recognized that cellphones today are a lot more than just telephones, that they hold a wealth of personal information and that the privacy ...
  8 hours ago

• Customer service

  
  Closer To The Ideal — Authority: 129
  Avedon Carol on customers who sass cashiers : We are now at the point where merely expressing annoyance at anyone in authority makes you a terrorist. And when I say “authority”, they don’t have to have much authority. As with the case of the shopper who said something sassy to a cashier and got tased by – ...
  10 hours ago

• For Those Who Would Change the Wind

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 426
  Mary McLeod Bethune 1875 - 1955 Educator, Presidential Advisor, Leader We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
  19 hours ago

• Neocons Turn Firecrackers on a Plane into “Terrorism” on Christmas

  
  White Civil Rights — Authority: 123
  by James Buchanan The neocons just don’t stop pushing their propaganda, not even on Christmas. Then again, Christmas isn’t exactly a big holiday for the Jews. If this latest neocon phony terrorist story doesn’t mark the neocons “jumping the shark”, nothing will. Apparently a Nigerian who set off some ...
  1 day ago

• Sunday Routine | Anthony D. Romero: Taking a Break From Outrage

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  AWAY Anthony D. Romero believes in making Sunday a day of rest. At the beach, theres no civil liberties talk.
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• The Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug

  
  Brian Gallimore's Website — Authority: 127
  Amber gave me a really cool coffee mug.  ”The Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug”  Watch your civil liberties disappear over a hot cup of joe.  Brought to you by the Patriot Act.  It has the first 10 amendments of our constitution printed on it, but the words disappear when you fill it with hot coffee.  Very ...
  1 day ago

• Bart Stupak, Obama pressure, Obama Administration Bullying Congressman Stupak, Abortion funding, Taxpayer financing of abortions, Obama thugs

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 561
  “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”… Matthew 6:24   Congressman Bart Stupak is being bullied by the Obama thugs to remain silent and accept the Reid Nelson compromise ...
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• Helen Thomas: "Obama Is No FDR – Republican Mission Is To See Obama Fail [WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  WASHINGTON -- The spirit of Christmas seems to have escaped Congress, maybe even the country. Have you ever encountered such mean spiritedness and political conniving as are now on display on Capitol Hill? In the past, we have had great philosophical divisions in the struggle for civil rights, especially when southern ...
  1 day ago

• Tennessee Woman Sentenced To 15 Years For Sex Trafficking

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 510
  Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor Memphis, Tennessee, United States (AHN) - A Tennessee woman was sentenced late Thursday to more than 15 years in prison for forcing two minors into prostitution. The sentence marks the 11th conviction of members of a Memphis sex trafficking ring. Cristina Andres Perfecto of Nashville was ...
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• The Jewish War on Christmas

  
  White Civil Rights — Authority: 123
  by James Buchanan While White American Christians are trying to enjoy Christmas, the Jewish media, the heavily Jewish ACLU and an endless string of Jewish lawsuits do whatever they can to de-Christianize America. The Jews are not satisfied that most Americans tolerate them. No, they want everyone to tip toe around ...
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• Lester Red Rodney : The Sportswriter Who Helped Break Baseballs Color Line

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 507
  Sportswriter Lester "Red" Rodney, September 2007. Photograph by Byron LaGoy / Wikipedia Commons.More than a sportswriter: Lester Red Rodney: 1911-2009By Dave Zirin / December 24, 2009It didnt make SportsCenter, but one of historys most influential sportswriters died this week at the age of 98. His name was Lester ...
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• Holiday Vindication Ends Nutty Year for ACORN

  
  RaceWire — Authority: 592
  Its been a trough year for ACORN, fraught with YouTube scandals and right-wing radio gotchas. But the organization—a powerful anti-poverty advocacy group and favorite whipping post of GOP conspiranoiacs—got a little holiday cheer recently with two reports that essentially dispel the ACORN-as-antichrist myth ...
  2 days ago

• Ugandan official on gays: ‘Killing them might not be helpful’; life imprisonment would be better.

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 822
  Reuters reports that Uganda may “soften” its Anti-Homosexuality Bill, a draconian attempt to severely punish gay men and women by making some homosexual acts punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty . However, Ethics and Integrity Minister Nsaba Buturo is now saying that officials may drop the ...
  2 days ago

• Poetry as an Organizing Tool? Oh , Yeah!

  
  Principled Profit — Authority: 117
  For the last 28 years, I’ve lived in or just outside Northampton, Massachusetts. About ten years ago, Northampton established the position of City Poet Laureate, with a two-year term. Until two years ago, the post was mostly ceremonial. The official poet would occasionally show up and read a poem to mark some event ...
  2 days ago

• The Obama-Grinch Who Ruined Christmas

  
  White Civil Rights — Authority: 123
  Obama’s Health Care Plan will force every tax-paying American to shell out several hundred dollars more per month. by James Buchanan Obama thinks he is doing the American public a favor by rushing through a health care bill right before Christmas. The monstrosity that Obama and the Dems are trying to give ...
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• Senate Health Care Bill Passed

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: News , Politics , President Obama , Race and Civil Rights , Health Care Debate The health care bill passed by the Senate this morning is far from perfect. Theres enough pork in the bill to turn off the entire Nation of Islam. The lack of a public option for health care insurance is a real ...
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• Circle Those Wagons!

  
  Wake up and LIVE — Authority: 131
  So, the heat in the Ugandan kitchen is really causing beads of sweat to form on the homophobes brows now! According to a report in a Southern Baptist publication, a group of Ugandan pastors have fired off an angry letter to Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in California, denouncing him for making a statement ...
  3 days ago

• A Community Organizers Tale: People and Power in San Francisco

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 439
  By Mike Miller Heyday Books A Community Organizer’s Tale: People and Power in San Francisco is a radical history with a heap of theory folded in and a touch of imagery. It would be fascinating and informative to anyone interested in community organizing, housing issues, ethnic and labor struggles, civil ...
  3 days ago

• The State of Israeli Civil Rights 2009

  
  Jewschool — Authority: 540
  Democracy or ethnocracy? The only democracy in the Middle East or just the easiest to swallow? Israel offers many of the protections we expect of self-labeled Western democracies. Women can vote. The press is vibrant. There is separation of governmental powers. In some cases, Israel is ahead of the US, such as ...
  3 days ago

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