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June 5, 2006
Toture Awareness Month
Over at Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World, Jonathan Schwarz points out that June is Torture Awareness Month. Quoting from the announcement on TortureAwareness.org: June 26th is the date that the United Nations has marked as the International Day in Support of Survivors and Victims of Torture. This y ... More >>
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June 29, 2006
A Bad Day for Bush, and maybe waterboarding
The Supreme Court today ruled the Bush administration must do one of those things it is always extremely reluctant to do: obey the law. By a vote of 5-3, the Supremes said the administration can't proceed with its plans to try prisoners at Guantanamo Bay before military tribunals. Writing for the m ... More >>
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January 16, 2006
I Have a King Day
Our pal Rebel Girl at Dissent the Blog has a dream: it is a dream for a week worth of activities at Irvine Valley College dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr., and kicking off on his birthday today. Those activities include: a new on-campus Peace and Justice Center; an institutional adoption of Amne ... More >>
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October 5, 2007
Sanchez Returns From Vietnam?
Amid gifts of flowers, hand-made placards and shouts of "We love you Loretta!" from a crowd of approximately 20 people, Rep. Loretta Sanchez--Orange County's lone Democratic voice in Congress--returned from a trip to Vietnam. A website, perhaps tied to Sanchez, has posted a video of her arrival ce ... More >>
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October 10, 2007
"Friends of Monsignor John" Already Deletin'
Scroll for updates after the jump... A support group for embattled Orange diocese Monsignor John Urell isn't even a day old, and already site administrators are deleting messages critical of Urell and his peers' handling of the diocese's sex-abuse scandal. You won't know this from reading their web ... More >>
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April 24, 2008
Arrogance, Thy Name is Robert Morey
Our post earlier today about the turmoil at Irvine's Faith Community Church has already sparked discussion on its friend's blog (more below) and a comment from the church's leader, Robert Morey. And it's not just any comment--it's one so pompous and hilarious it deserved its own post. Here it is: W ... More >>
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March 18, 1999
Guerrilla in the Midst
The man behind the human-rights rhetoric
Columns
October 18, 2001
Winged Monkeys!
Our smoky links to unsavory characters
Culture
February 21, 2002
Shut Up and Take It
Joan Didions insiders guide to the insiders
Columns
December 12, 2002
Handicapped Parking
Joan Didions insiders guide to the insiders
News
May 8, 2003
The Kids Are Not All Right
Joan Didions insiders guide to the insiders
Music
December 11, 2008
Tom Morello's Nightwatchman Brings Chord Changes We Can Believe In
Joan Didions insiders guide to the insiders
Blogs
March 18, 2009
ACLU Suing Newport-Mesa Schools Over "Rent" Debacle
MOVING UP AND UPDATING WITH DISTRICT REACTION, MORE BACKGROUND.Newport-Mesa Unified School District officials say they were attempting to resolve a complaint stemming from the staging, cancellation and re-staging of the musical Rent at Corona del Mar High School when they learned today the American ... More >>
Columns
May 15, 2003
Weaponless Warrior
Newport Beachs Radhika Sainaths War on Terrorism
Blogs
April 15, 2009
Spain, Chapman University Debaters Are Out to Get John Yoo
So the big question when John Yoo speaks at Chapman University next week about presidential power is: Will he be shackled? Probably not, seeing as how this is not Spain, but were Orange within the Iberian Peninsula nation and NATO ally, he'd be under criminal indictment for sanctioning torture at Gu ... More >>
Features
June 28, 2007
From Hunter to Hunted
In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar
Columns
June 13, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar
Film
March 29, 2007
Special Screenings
Movie of the Week: Crossing Arizona
Film
October 5, 2006
Money for Nothing
Iraq for Sale loads more anti-war cannon fodder
News
May 4, 2006
Unflinching Sincerity
Unitarian Human Rights Forum
Columns
July 14, 2005
'Gwen, We Hereby Disown You'
Unitarian Human Rights Forum
News
June 30, 2005
Losers Again
Communists, Bush defeat Little Saigon in human rights war
News
February 10, 2005
F. Yoo!
UC Irvine protesters humiliate torture-memo author
Film
August 19, 2004
Genocide Reloaded
Rerelease of When the Mountains Tremble is bad news for Guatemalan generals
News
March 25, 2004
Bring Us Your Torturers Yearning to Breathe Free
U.S. Plans to Boot OCs Thi Dinh Bui. How about the rest?
Film
March 13, 2003
Fear and Loathing on Death Row
Death Letters explores injustice of capital punishment
Music
December 26, 2002
The Failure of (Almost) All Pop
Death Letters explores injustice of capital punishment
Film
May 16, 2002
Human Rights and Wrongs
UC Irvine fest exposes worldwide injustice
Columns
May 16, 2002
The Little Engine Who Took His Place in the Underclass
And other new-millennium stories for American kids
Music
August 23, 2001
Rave Off
Drug paranoia killed B3Cande desert rave
News
August 2, 2001
Welcome to Kissinger Country
Former secretary of state dazzles OC press but fails to explain his alleged complicity in war crimes
News
March 15, 2001
Show Us Your Scars!
Anaheim cops discover long-ignored law, enforce it
News
April 20, 2000
Shut Em Down!
Green Party candidate Medea Benjamin brings trade politics to OC
Columns
June 24, 1999
Letters
Green Party candidate Medea Benjamin brings trade politics to OC
News
June 3, 1999
A Gray Area
OC judge is wild card in Citizens Drug Inquiry
Columns
August 13, 1998
Diver Down
OC judge is wild card in Citizens Drug Inquiry
News
March 5, 1998
Shut Up, Again
Senate takes another whack at free speech online
Blogs
May 11, 2009
Tuesday is a Big Night for Darfur in Orange County
Photo by Rev. Wilfredo Benitez for Orange County for DarfurMia Farrow may have ended her hunger strike for Darfur last week, but the spotlight remains on the lingering effects of genocide in the Sudan--at least in Orange County tomorrow night. Orange County for Darfur was formed in June 2007 to rais ... More >>
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June 24, 2009
New Free Iran Movement to Hold Teach-in at UCI's Aldrich Park
Courtesy of PersianoEvents.comIt begs the question.The Iranian government now says Neda Agha-Soltan--the 26-year-old martyr in the struggle for freedom in that tense country--may have been killed by a gunman who mistook her for the sister of an Iranian "terrorist," the Islamic Republic News Agency r ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
Laguna Beach Settles Lawsuit Over Homeless Ordinance
Laguna Beach agreed today to settle a lawsuit over the city's treatment of disabled homeless people, according to the ACLU of Southern California. "Under the agreement, the city's police officers will not cite, arrest or harass people under state law simply for sleeping in public places, ... More >>
News
July 2, 2009
'Slave Hunter' Aaron Cohen Throws the Book at Human Trafficking
Laguna Beach agreed today to settle a lawsuit over the city's treatment of disabled homeless people, according to the ACLU of Southern California. "Under the agreement, the city's police officers will not cite, arrest or harass people under state law simply for sleeping in public places, ... More >>
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July 2, 2009
"Slave Hunter" Co-Authors Chime in on Technology, Internet
CORRECTED VERSION...You'll find separate interviews on this site with Aaron Cohen and Christine Buckley, the co-authors of Slave Hunter: One's Man's Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking (Simon & Schuster). One thing you won't read in those Q&As is their shared beliefs that techn ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
Loretta Sanchez Will Defend a Kid in Vietnam But Refuses to Support Kids Here?
Photo by Christopher VictorioWhat was Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez thinking today when she took to the floor in Congress to fight for the rights of a youth activist in Vietnam while she continues to ignore the youth activists pleading for her support in her own backyard? It's not that Nguyen Tien T ... More >>
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August 10, 2009
"Press Conference" Against Iran Government Produces No News, Much Political Support in Irvine
Rep. Laura Richardson (inset), Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Rep. Ed Royce, together at last.If the goal of a press conference is to produce a "big announcement" that makes news and warrants coverage--the usual reason one calls a press conference in the first place--then the Iran Sup ... More >>

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