Jul 16 2014
Human Rights Watch is Roundly Criticized By… Human Rights Activists
Human Rights Watch, a group that claims to “defend the rights of people worldwide” has come under fire from two Nobel Peace Laureates and a hundred other scholars and human rights activists. Among the criticisms against Human Rights Watch are its ‘revolving door’ hiring policy from the US Government, its failure to denounce the practice of …
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When Arizona State University English professor Ersula Ore was stopped by a campus cop for jay walking, she found herself in a tussle that ended up with her being pushed to the ground and handcuffed. Perhaps it was presumed that she did not belong on campus because she was a black …
Texas Republican house member Michael McCaul has offered his opinion in the debate over Central American child migration: build warehouses in countries like Guatemala and Honduras to which migrant children can directly be deported and processed. It seems incredible that conservatives in the US are able to demonize children without batting an eye but …
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
More than 600,000 Americans have filed comments to the Federal Communications Commission on the issue of Net Neutrality – the idea that the internet is a level playing field whether you’re a behemoth like Google or a citizen journalist with a brand new blog. 
Political Prisoner and award winning journalist Mumia Abu Jamal filed this commentary about Central American child migration. 
