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  • Tying the Not

    How the Right Succeeded in Passing Proposition 8
    A group of people holding signs that read "Vote No on Prop 8"

    On June 26, 2008, 1,000 ministers, mostly from evangelical congregations, met by conference call to discuss tactics for passing Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to ban same sex marriage in California by amending the state constitution.

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  • New Tactics and Coalitions Take Aim at Planned Parenthood

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    For the leaders and workers of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, attacks from right-wing foes are nothing new. Almost from the moment that the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, the federation and its clinics have been in the…

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  • Scott Lively’s Quotes

    Selections from Scott Lively’s presentations at a conference in Kampala, Uganda in March 2009

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  • Texas Fusion Center Casts Wide Net

    The North Central Texas Fusion Center (NCTFC) recently issued a Prevention Awareness Bulletin alerting law enforcement to beware of “significant” threats posed by a Muslim civil rights group, the antiwar organization ANSWER, and International Action…

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  • A Growing Threat to Basic Human Rights

    While gender-based discrimination and oppression are nothing new abroad, for the past decade the U.S. Christian Right has been aggressively exporting its campaigns against reproductive rights and gay rights to countries around the world. Recently,…

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  • Sexual Minorities Uganda Letter to Parliament Protesting Anti-Gay Witchhunt

    RE: Launch of hate campaign against sexual minorities

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  • Ugandans oppose U.S. Christian Right interference in Africa's sexual politics

    Efforts to mobilize Ugandans to hunt down and imprison Ugandan gays and lesbians received worldwide attention during a three-day Family Life Network conference held March 3-5 in Kampala. But the media haven’t caught up with the rest of the story:…

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  • Remembering Giuseppe Conlon on St. Pat's Day

    All I need to know about the war on terror I learned from “In the Name of the Father,” the story of the Guilford Four. After a pub bombing south of London in 1974, British police rounded up three men from Belfast and a young Englishwoman.

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  • Fusion Centers: Just Part of the Problem

    Props go to The Muckracker, a blog of the Center for Investigative Reporting for drawing attention to Obama’s $260 million budget request for fusion centers. Its critique of the reality show “Homeland Security USA” is also prescient, well-deserved…

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  • FBI: Preventing Violence or Provoking It?

    On March 16, David McKay goes on trial for a second time. The jury must decide whether an FBI informant named Brandon Darby induced McKay to make Molotov cocktails on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

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  • $260 Million for Fusion Center Analysts

    Obama wants to hire thousands of intelligence analysts for state fusion centers to the tune of $260 million. Liberty Beat thinks there are better ways to fight terrorism than sifting through commercial databases, “suspicious activity” reports,…

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  • New blog on civil liberties from PRA

    For the latest news and insightful analysis about civil liberties, Political Research Associates and Public Eye invite you to visit our new blog, Liberty Beat.

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  • Anti-Union Campaigns and The Big Three Bullies

    Corporate America and a well-funded network of ultraconservative think tanks and policy centers are raising tens of millions of dollars to fight pending legislation allowing union card check campaigns. These campaigns collect a majority of worker…

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  • Abstaining from the Truth

    Sex Education as Ideology
    A sign board that says "Sex can wait. Your Future Can't"

    Abstinence only sex education is widely spread across the United States, pushed by friends in high places, and the Christian Right.

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  • Younger Evangelicals

    Where Will They Take the Christian Right?
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    Last October a chartered bus rolled deep through the South, its passengers college-aged young people drawing inspiration from the Freedom Riders of the 1960s. The black vinyl advertising plastered on the side broadcast the riders’ goals, “Equality…

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  • Christian Right Pushes Abstinence-Only Education Internationally

    In 2003, the Christian Right shifted the foreign aid policy of the United States so that it promotes abstinence-only education abroad through HIV/AIDS relief grants channeled to the Christian Right base of the George W. Bush Administration. An…

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  • Levi Come Back, We Just Can't Live Without You*

    Here is another item for President Obama’s to do list: reinstate curbs on the FBI’s spying power. Attorney General Edward Levi established guidelines limiting the Bureau to American targets “engaged in or believe to be about to engage in criminal…

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  • Homeland Security Helped Maryland Spy on Activists

    We’ve know since the Summer of 2008 that the Maryland State Police spied on activists and their lawful political activities from 2005 to 2007. Troopers entered citizens into a database in which they labeled 53 individuals as “terrorists.” Now we…

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  • Race-Based Roundup Revealed

    Immigration advocates have long asserted that ICE raids at workplaces and in neighborhoods sweep people up based on race, rather than facts about individuals violating immigration laws. ICE’s internal investigation of a Baltimore sweep now reveals…

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  • PRA in Progressive Times

    His reign has ended, but Bush's malady lingers on

    The moment Barack Obama took the oath of office as President, many progressives breathed a sigh of relief—however tentative—that the Bush years were finally over. But it was clear within days that the conservatives have not abandoned Washington and…

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