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Twitter users: young, metropolitan and angry about civil liberties
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
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Britain's 5.5 million Twitter users are younger than average members of the public, slightly more likely to vote Labour, and distinctly more liberal, according to a survey published today. They are also more likely to live in London, less likely to live...
Tags: twitter users, civil liberties, United Kingdom, London, Evaluation methods, Sampling, YouGov, Statistical survey, Social network service, Online social networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, Social Issues
Judge: TSA violated rights of Rastafarian
Boston :: MA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston’s Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he kept his hair short. The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday...
Tags: Josue Brissot, Boston, Civil rights and liberties, American Civil Liberties Union, Dreadlocks, Rastafari movement, Civil liberties, African American culture, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Rastafari, Labor
Zelaya mistrusts Honduras talks
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | about 1 month ago
Credibility Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, holed up in an embassy three months after being toppled in a coup, was skeptical on Tuesday about the chances of holding talks with the divided country's de facto leader. Foreign ministers and diplomats from the...
Tags: Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya, Organisation of American States, United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Roberto Micheletti, civil liberties, Latin America
Honduras thaw paves way for talks
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | about 1 month ago
Credibility Aides to Manuel Zelaya and de-facto President Roberto Micheletti will reportedly meet next week. The talks would precede a visit by the Organisation of American States aimed at brokering a deal, the OAS says. An emergency decree limiting civil liberties...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, presidency manuel, Organisation of American States, Robert Micheletti, ousted presidency, civil liberties, Tegucigalpa, facto presidency
Cracks deepen among supporters of Honduran coup
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | about 1 month ago
Credibility Honduras— Cracks are deepening among supporters of Honduras' coup-imposed government, with business leaders softening their opposition to reinstating the ousted president and lawmakers threatening to revoke an emergency decree limiting civil liberties....
Tags: Manuel Zelaya The Cádiz, Bill Clinton, Haiti, Honduras, civil liberties, Honduran, Mr Zelaya, president manuel, business leaders, Roberto Micheletti
Reversal in civil repression
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | about 1 month ago
Credibility The coup-installed Honduran president yesterday backed down from an escalating standoff with protesters, and suggested that he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by week's end. Riot police ringed hundreds...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, Honduras Shuts Down Broadcasters, political crisis, Honduran, president manuel, coup regime, civil liberties, Tegucigalpa, State Department Scolds Zelaya, ousted president
ACLU leader praises city's protest efforts
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility One the region's most vocal advocates for civil liberties yesterday praised the Pittsburgh administration's efforts to accommodate the protesters who plan to demonstrate against the upcoming G-20 conference. "They've certainly come a long way in 10 years,...
Tags: civil liberties, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, liberties union, Witold Walczak
Justice Has Left The Building...
In Paris, Texas, a severely mentally challenged 18-year-old man with an IQ of 47 was sentenced to 100 years in state prison for a single act of playing "doctor" with a 6-year-old neighbor. No coersion or violence was involved in this "crime" but the...
Tags: civil liberties, jury, power, judge, court, lawyer, attorney, law, fact, evidence
First London-wide No2ID activity, Saturday 11th July
The London activist network's first London-wide activity will take place this Saturday, 11th July. We will be meeting at 12.00pm at the upstairs function room of the Dartmouth Castle in Hammersmith: http://www.thedartmouthcastle.co.uk/ From 12.00pm...
Tags: ID cards, civil liberties, privacy
Medha Patkar, others unconditional release demanded
The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) strongly condemns the arrest of Medha Patkar, Sujato Bhadra, Gopal Menon and Anuradha Talwar at Bombay road on their way to Lalgarh by the West Bengal Police. They were arrested...
Tags: Civil liberties
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