March 6th I videotaped the event commemorating the 10th anniversary of California's 3 Strikes Law at Leimart Park in Los Angeles, which included family members of some of the more than 7500 currently serving 25-to-life sentences under the...
Advertisement
16 March 2004
On February 29, 2004, Haiti's first democratically elected president,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown for the second time in 13 years. The
opposition gangs that placed millions of Haitians under siege are armed with
sophisticated...
16 March 2004
I'm for anything that terrifies Democrats, outrages Republicans and upsets the apple cart. But exultation about the gay marriages cemented in San Francisco, counties in Oregon and New Mexico and some cities in New York is entirely...
15 March 2004
Since 1998, the Higher Education Act (HEA) has contained a provision that denies federal financial aid to student applicants who have drug-related convictions, including possession of marijuana. According to the U.S. Department of...
15 March 2004
This excerpt is from a forthcoming book by Staughton Lynd, who requested portions of his manuscript be included in issues of the Free Press. Lynd, along with his wife Alice, have a lifetime of social justice activism. Staughton directed...
Pages
