By STEPHANIE FARR Philadelphia Daily News 215-854-4225 When Steven Spielberg accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes this year, the director, who spent part of his childhood in Haddon Township, N.J., recalled seeing his first movie, "The Greatest Show on Earth," in Philadelphia with his father. Spielberg will return to Philadelphia in October to accept another award, the 2009 Liberty Medal, for making some of his own greatest shows and for documenting the power of the human spirit in the face of humanity's darkest moments, it was announced yesterday. Each year the...
Civil Rights' Most Misunderstood Moment: The Freedom Rides Stanley Nelson's new documentary, Freedom Riders, illuminates ...
Newsvine
Newsvine
Every great once in a while, something like Stanley Nelson's wonderful documentary Freedom Riders appears and is so good that it exhausts all common versions of praise. In it, Nelson and his crew take on a period of...
Do you have a question for the Liberty Clinic?
The Guardian
The Guardian
Your chance to ask about your civil liberties and human rights – post queries here to be answered by Liberty's lawyers...
This is where the Freedom Rides led?
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
RE (Page A13, Aug. 27): I would hope that all Americans view this event as the cynical, nasty, cheap trick that it...
New York based civil liberties group suing Obama administration over program to kill terrorists
The Examiner
The Examiner
Two civil liberties group based in New York are suing the Obama administration over a program aimed at killing terrorists. The main claim from the civil liberty groups is that this program will seek to kill US citizens...
Civil liberties guard threatens legal action over Perriello's town hall rules
The Examiner
The Examiner
Back in July, Congressman Tom Perriello (D-VA-5th) announced that a series of town hall meetings would be held between August 4 and September 13 at various public buildings in Virginia's 5th Congressional District....
Liberty's Leilani Mitchell is WNBA's most improved
USA Today
USA Today
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | NEW YORK (AP) New York Liberty point guard Leilani Mitchell has been voted the WNBA's most improved player. Mitchell received 29 of 39 votes from a panel of...
Guarantee judicial freedom: Jurists
The Himalayan
The Himalayan
Added At: 2010-08-27 11:18 PM Last Updated At: 2010-08-28 11:18 PM...
Press Freedom - Do We Really Understand What This Means?
All Africa
All Africa
There has been much noise and fury recently across a range of news outlets in this country...
NEW YORK Groups sue over target Two civil libertie...
Ohio
Ohio
NEW YORK Groups sue over target Two civil liberties groups sued the federal government on Monday to try to block its targeting overseas of a U.S.-born cleric believed to have inspired recent attacks in the United States....
South Sudan leader says postponement of January freedom referendum 'not an option'
Star Tribune
Star Tribune
JUBA, Sudan - The chief negotiator for Southern Sudan on the upcoming independence referendum says postponing the vote is not an option. Only five months remain until the south is supposed to vote, but preparations have...



