by Katherine Stapp NEW YORK, (IPS)—Anti-war messages are going up in Manhattan's Times Square in time for the Republican Party convention in August after the company that owns the billboards, media giant Clear Channel, backed down from its refusal to carry them. In a compromise, the group sponsoring the messages, Project Billboard, agreed to replace its original artwork, a stylised [...]
The NCAC Board of Directors has elected new officers
Mildred Jeffrey, a member of NCAC's Advisory Council since its inception, died in Detroit, Michigan in March.
Don't miss your chance to enter the Free Speech and Democracy Film Contest.
The Justice Department's disdain for constitutional rights has triggered resistance—in the Supreme Court, no less. As we go to press, the Court has just affirmed the right of individuals detained as "enemy combatants" to consult with lawyers and to contest the grounds for their detention before a neutral decision-maker.
Last year, a Texas grand jury indicted Jaqueline Mercado for the 'lewd exhibition' of her breast and for inducing a child to engage in 'sexual conduct and sexual performance.
A Boston College student was arrested near a military recruitment office in Boston for protesting US treatment of Iraqi detainees.
The FBI recently confiscated books, computers and lab equipment from the home of Steven Kurtz, an art professor at the State University of NY at Buffalo and member of the internationally recognized art collective, Critical Arts Ensemble. CAE's work explores the politics of biotechnology, and the material found in Kurtz's home was part of its latest project,
Free Range Grains. Designed to test food products for possible genetic modification,
Free Range Grainswas scheduled to be shown at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art this summer. Instead, a sign describing the FBI action occupies its designated space.
The Supreme Court upheld the injunction against the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), Congress' latest effort to prevent children from accessing "harmful" sexual material online, reiterating that the rights of adults cannot be sacrificed even to protect children.
Remember Total Information Awareness? The Government Accounting Office reports that the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security may be utilizing private data bases, including credit card records and Internet logs, to gain information about ordinary citizens.
One Year Ago: Notes From A Student Activist By Bretton Barber, Dearborn, MI It is my sincere hope that there will be a time in everyone's life that defines them. It may come during a time of peril, joy, or even ordinariness, when it is least suspected. For myself, that moment came one year ago this week in a time [...]