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Showing videos filed under: ACLU
Vince Warren: Freedom, Privacy, and the Courts
September 15, 2010“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.Vince Warren, Russ Feingold, and Jay Smooth
September 14, 2010“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.Off the Map and Outside the Law
March 2, 2010In Trevor Paglen's new book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, he investigates the "off the map" locations of covert government activity: including the "salt pit" in Kabul where Khaled El-Masri was held.Mapping Torture, Renee Feltz, and Hebron
March 1, 2010In Trevor Paglen's new book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World, he investigates the "off the map" locations of covert government activity: including the "salt pit" in Kabul where Khaled El-Masri was held.Who Owns You? Corporations Patenting Your Genes
October 27, 2009We might think of our genetic code as something natural, part of us, certainly not "intellectual property" in the traditional sense. Yet corporations doing medical research have begun to patent certain genes, calling into question the whole idea of where property begins and ends.Our Internet, Not Theirs, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and Who Owns You?
October 26, 2009Corporations have edged into nearly every area of our lives, impacting decisions we make on a daily basis, from health care to the food we eat to the way we get our news and information. Today on GRITtv we take a look at a couple of places that corporate control is being challenged.Will Holder Prosecute Architects of Torture?, Dr. Susan Wicklund, and Police Brutality in India
August 11, 2009Will Bush officials be held accountable for torture? Scott Horton, Vine Warren, and Vijay Padmanabhan on Holder's planned appointment of a special prosecutor. An interview with Dr. Susan Wicklund on the uncertain future for abortion providers and women's reproductive rights. And Human Rights Watch reports on police brutality in India.Henry Louis Gates's Arrest: A Teachable Moment?
July 28, 2009There’s been an endless cycle of commentary on the Henry Louis Gates affair since the Harvard Professor was arrested in his home and President Obama made the off script remark that the Cambridge police had “acted stupidly.” Both men are now saying it is time to move on and that what happened was a teachable moment.
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