Group files FTC complaint against AOL

"SAN FRANCISCO - The backlash against AOL's recent release of its subscribers' search requests continued Wednesday as a privacy rights group filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging the breach was intentional. AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein denied the allegation...

Scandinavians to meet Apple over iTunes

"HELSINKI (Reuters) - Sweden's consumer rights agency on Wednesday said it and other rights groups in Scandinavia will meet Apple Computer to discuss their complaint that the U.S. company's popular iTunes service breaches consumer laws.In June, the consumer agencies of...

No need for capitalism - Toronto Star

" Nation's planned economy has brought the small island immense prosperity, literacy and health care Aug.7, 2006. 01:00AM Fidel Castro's exit offers Cuba hope Editorial, Aug. 4. There are a great many journalists who are looking at Fidel Castro's illness as a hope for the...

Les Blogs Herald France’s Newest Inalienable Right

"Already famed for angry labor strikes and philosophical debates, the French have brought their passions online to become some of the world’s most intensive bloggers."

Govt turns to gurus for girl child

"It has written to Sri Sri Ravishankar, Mata Amritanandmayi, Dinkar, Asaram Bapu and Baba Ramdev to spearhead a campaign to save the girl child."

UN rights body tells US to shut "secret" jails

" A U.N. human rights body told Washington on Friday that any "secret detention" centres the United States was operating abroad violated international law and should be shut immediately. Saying it had "credible and uncontested" reports of such jails, the Human Rights...

Prominent family's son guilty of assault (AP)

" BOSTON - A member of a prominent white family was acquitted Monday of civil rights violations in an attack on two black girls at a downtown subway station but found guilty of assault. Josiah Spaulding III, whose grandfather founded Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and...

AG Alberto Gonzales Coming to San Francisco

July 21, 2006. U.S. Attorney General will visit the San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (SFHCC).

House rejects changes to Voting Rights Act (AP)

" WASHINGTON - The House voted Thursday to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, rejecting efforts by Southern conservatives to relax federal oversight of their states in a debate haunted by the ghosts of the civil rights movement. The 390-33 vote sent to the Senate a bill that...

US detainees to get Geneva rights

"All US military detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay, are to be treated in line with the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions."

Bush tells CBC he's 'unfamiliar' with Voting Rights Act

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How bout that voting rights act hummm?

"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and abolitionist, was asked to give a Fourth of July speech while slavery still existed. His fiery talk is what this section is about: People within America recognizing that the American promises...

'Why didn't India shine for her?'

"A story of a nine-year-old Patna destitute child who was falsely detained in a nari niketan for nine years has shocked many of our surfers."