Ohio Students Face Discipline for Gay Rights T-shirts At a high school where students casually drop racial slurs, LGBT activists face suspension for wearing shirts that read “Straight but Supportive.” Read more More
SOPA Round-up: Get Ready for Wednesday's Blackout Reddit and Wikipedia are going dark to protest harmful bill… Read more More
Governor Scott Walker Debuts Pay-to-Protest Scheme It’s been a tough governorship for Wisconsin’s Scott Walker. To combat the protesters lurking outside his office, he enacted a new set of cumbersome protest regulations. Will they be changed back if he is recalled? Read more More
In Texas, Freedoms of Speech/Assembly End After 3 Hours Thought they love the Constitution down there in Tejas… Read more More
Former USAF Airwoman Gives Portland Police Important Civics Lesson A Portland mother and former US Air Force veteran reminds Portland Police and the rest of America what is at stake as police ramp up its arrests of #OWS protesters: our Constitutional rights are in jeopardy. Read more More
What I Learned from the Occupation: Lose the Fear A unique perspective from someone who attended protests in four different Occupied cities: “At its heart, the Occupy movement is about summoning the courage to use public space to begin a revolution to not just reform a hopelessly broken system, but to create a new one. The movement is the message.” Read more More
Vonnegut Library Gives Slaughterhouse-Five to Students After Book Ban This is not a repeat from an earlier era, but the School Board for Republic High School in southwest Missouri decided to strip the Kurt Vonnegut classic from the curriculum and school libraries. So here’s how the author’s memorial library responded to the censorship. Read more More