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It's
a Free Country
Personal Freedom in the America After September 11
Edited by Danny Goldberg
"It's a Free Country" is groundbreaking collection of new
pieces examining the effects of President George W. Bush and Attorney
General John Ashcroft’s legislative assault on civil liberties
following the terrorist bombing of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
Foreword by Cornel West, author of Race Matters, with original pieces
by Michael Moore, Ani DiFranco, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Steve Earle,
Tom Hayden (former California senator, author of Irish on the Inside),
Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Robert Scheer (LA Times columnist), Ira
Glasser (former head of the ACLU), cartoonist Matt Groening, historian
Howard Zinn, Lillian Nakano, Congressman Bob Barr, Michael Isikoff,
Anthony Romero, Norman Siegel, Kenneth Roth, Nadine Strossen, Michael
Tomasky, Helen Zia, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, interviews with Nat
Hentoff and Congressman Barney Frank, and many more. Also, firsthand
stories from Middle Eastern and American victims of civil-liberty infringement,
such as the chief of police in Portland, Oregon who resisted federal
pressure, and Fathi Mustafa, a Palestinian caught in the wave of racial
profiling.
Check out the website for It's
a Free Country.
And read these excerpts:
Danny Goldberg's Introduction
Steve Earle's The Politics of Retribution
Dan B. Gerson's Tale of the Mustafas

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