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It's a free country: personal freedom in America after September 11
Publisher
RDV Books
Publication Date
c2002
Language
English
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From the Book
Foreword: Lift Every Voice / Cornel West
Introduction / Danny Goldberg
Pt. 1. Crisis in Civil Liberties, Past and Present
More Safe, Less Free: A Short History of Wartime Civil Liberties / Ira Glasser
Primer: Wartime Erosion of Civil Liberties / Howard Zinn
American Presidents and Civil Liberties / Paul Starr
We Can Learn From History / Paul Simon
Expert Perspective on Civil Liberties Curtailment: An Interview with Nat Hentoff
It's Empire Versus Democracy / Tom Hayden
Conservatives and Liberals Unite to Conserve Liberty and Security / Nadine Strossen
Sorrow and the Pity of Racial Profiling / Ralph Temple
Chilling of Dissent Post-9/11 / Chris Mooney
Poem: Self-Evident / Ani DiFranco
Pt. 2. Congressional Commentaries
Selections from House Floor Statements / Jerrold Nadler
Freedom Versus Security Issues / Bob Barr
Common Sense, Security, and Freedom: An Interview with Congressman Barney Frank
Our Loss of Civil Liberties in a Post-September 11 World / Maxine Waters
Prayer for America / Dennis Kucinich
Pt. 3. ACLU Voices
"Secret" War Against Civil Liberties / Anthony Romero
America: "Land of the Free"? / Norman Siegel
Casualties of War: Anti-Terror Hysteria / Ramona Ripston
Danger of Remaining Silent / Donna Lieberman
Matt Groening Cartoon
Pt. 4. Investigators
Misuse of "Intelligence" in the Name of Security / Michael Isikoff
"Patriochialism": September 11 and the Death of Debate / Michael Tomasky
How the Media Threatens Civil Liberties / Danny Schechter
Knock at the Door / Eve Pell
Against a Twenty-First Century Star Chamber / Jeremy Voas
David Rees Cartoon
Pt. 5. Look at It This Way...
What the Hell Do I Know? / Robert Greenwald
All I Am Saying is Give War a Chance: The Private Correspondence Between Michael Moore and George W. Bush / Michael Moore
Civil Liberties and Bare Breasts: Me and My John Post-September 11 / Janna Malamud Smith
Open Letter to Senator Joseph Lieberman and Lynne Cheney / Martin Sherwin
Politics of Retribution / Steve Earle
Pt. 6. Detentions and Rights
Is This a Dark Age for Fundamental Legal Protection? / Michael Ratner
Human Rights and the Campaign Against Terrorism / Kenneth Roth
Legalized COINTELPRO / Kit Gage
Military Tribunals / Arthur N. Eisenberg
Dehumanization via Indefinite Detention / Judith Butler
Ashcroft Raids / David Cole
National and International Court Systems to Fight Terror / Anne-Marie Slaughter
Human Rights Violations and Discrimination in San Francisco in the Wake of September 11 / The San Francisco Human Rights Commission
Pt. 7. Personal Testimony
Tale of the Mustafas / Dan Gerson
Weight of a Nation / Andrew Kirkland
Horror at Home: An Innocent's Victim's Story / Michel Shehadeh
Academic Freedom and Free Speech in the Wake of September 11 / Sami Al-Arian
Return of Xenophobia - An Asian-American Commentary / Helen Zia
How Muslims Have Been Hurt by Governmental Action Since 9/11 / Mohammed Sohail
Racial Profiling in the Pursuit of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. / Mervat Hatem
Psychological Loss of Freedom Since the Attacks / John Tateishi
Braving the Storm: American Muslims and 9/11 / Hodan Hassan
Fear of Flying / Asma Gull Hasan
Japanese Internment Experience / Lillian Nakano.
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