December 19, 2001

Barry Reingold was speaking his mind at the San Francisco gym he works out in every day. "It gets pretty heated," he told Emil Guillermo, who wrote about Reingold on SF Gate, the web page of the San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com) on December 18.read more

December 14, 2001

Members of the Amnesty International Club at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, put up posters that read, "War Will Only Kill More." But the posters didn't last long. "The posters were torn down within hours," The Washington Post's Emily Wax reported on December 10.read more

December 14, 2001

Larry Frama of La Honda, California, writes that when he went into his post office to buy some Ramadan stamps, "I was looked at with amazement by the staff and people in the post office, and was told that the Postmistress had ordered that the 50,000-stamp package not be opened and it be returned."read more

December 8, 2001

Even an innocuous trip to the Post Office can you get you into trouble these days. Daniel Muller, is the co-coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness, a group dedicated to nonviolence and a leading opponent of U.S. sanctions against Iraq. On November 9, Muller and his colleague Andrew Mandell went to pick up stamps at the Chicago post office they regularly visit. They were paying with cash.read more

December 21, 2001

The actor and activist Danny Glover is now under fire for daring to say that he was categorically opposed to capital punishment, even for Osama bin Laden. "Here's what happened to Danny," says Frances F. Korten, executive director of the Positive Futures Network and publisher of YES! Magazine (Glover is a board member of the network).read more