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Philadelphia Freedom Watch
http://phillyfreedom.blogspot.com/
Defending human rights, civil liberties, and social justice, from the City of Brotherly Love.
- Added on: Apr 10th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: News & Media Politics Democratic
Recent Posts
December 10th is Human Rights Day
Today, December 10th, is the anniversary of the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly.This project was led by Eleanor Roosevelt in the wake of World War II, to define a worldwide, ...
Sarah Palin\'s Hawaiian adventure
I've got to hand it to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She's a gift that keeps on giving.Even though she no longer holds a public office, Palin still keeps providing us all -- bloggers, pundits, comedians, talk show hosts, and interested layperso...
10 companies to avoid this holiday season
Air America has dug through The Blue Pages: A Directory of Companies Rated By Their Politics And Practices and made a list of the top ten companies you might want to avoid this holiday season.Here is a summary:1. The Children's Place: "This is one of...
Did Texas just execute a mentally retarded man?
On December 3, Texas executed Bobby Wayne Woods, who had been convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl. His was certainly a horrific crime, but I'm wondering if the punishment was illegal as well.You see, Woods's IQ has been measured at...
Amnesty\'s global write-a-thon starts today
Each year, in the days surrounding Human Rights Day -- December 10 -- Amnesty International holds a global write-a-thon, in which activists send "a tidal wave of letters and postcards on behalf of courageous individuals around the world who are being...
Will there be jobs? Or will the foxes continue to guard that henhouse too?
President Obama inherited a huge mess from his predecessor -- very expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a society in which 45,000 people die each year from lack of affordable health care, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. S...
