Three decades ago, when I was a college student in East Africa, Tanzania’s major city, Dar Es Salaam, was still an overgrown small town, lacking the posh hotels and western investment of African metropolitan centers like Nairobi, Kenya or...
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17 January 2007
WASHINGTON -- Thirty years after the first execution under contemporary laws
of Gary Gilmore, members of the Abolitionist Action Committee will stage a
highly visual demonstration at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, January
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15 January 2007
United for Peace and Justice is organizing a massive demonstration for ending American presence in Iraq NOW, on Jan. 27. You can read about it at United for Peace and Justice
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14 January 2007
Since the defeat of McCarthyism in the 1950s, there has been long legal tradition that protects freedom of academic inquiry and teaching at U.S. colleges and universities. This tradition is based on several critical Supreme Court decisions...
13 January 2007
For two weeks in late 2006, I traveled throughout Tanzania, East Africa, on a fact-finding tour. Over thirty years earlier, I had attended the University of Nairobi, in Kenya, as an undergraduate college student. During my year in East...
08 January 2007
I recently visited the Caribbean island of Jamaica to deliver the fifth annual Michael Manley Memorial Lecture, in Kingston. It was, for me, a wonderful “homecoming.” I first visited Jamaica back in 1983, when I spoke as the “International...
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