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100 Sites Every Civil Liberties Advocate Should Have Bookmarked
Offbeat  (tags: Law, Advocate, Civil Liberty, Rights )

Sophie
- 45 days ago - onlineparalegaldegree.org
Don't get your news on an important issue like civil liberties from just one source. Below are the best 100 civil liberty sites ranging from left to right and everywhere in between.
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Educators May Face Jail Time for Prayer
Offbeat  (tags: educators, crime, freedoms, rights, religion, prayers, public schools, public education, sadness, society )

Barbaroca
- 102 days ago - news.aol.com
(Aug. 17) - Two Florida administrators face contempt charges and possible prison time for saying a prayer at a school luncheon.
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VIDEO : Advocacy Group Decries PETA's Inhumane Treatment Of Women - SATIRE
Offbeat  (tags: humor, interesting, funny, off-beat, humans, PETA, satire, women's, rights, protest, ad, campaign, animals, fur, glue, traps )

Tom
- 104 days ago - theonion.com
A women's rights group demonstrated outside the headquarters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protesting the group's "degrading and exploitative treatment of women" in their ongoing ad campaigns. NOTE: THIS IS HUMOROUS FAKE NEWS SATIRE :)
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New, All Pet Airline Services Takes to the Skies
Offbeat  (tags: culture, freedoms, GoodNews, humans, interesting, transportation, rights, health, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animals, cats, dogs, humans, habitat, pets, protection, society, suffering, unusual, off-beat, animals, technology )

Susan
- 136 days ago - news.yahoo.com
On Tuesday, the first flight for the husband-and-wife team's Pet Airways, the first-ever all-pet airline, took off from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, N.Y.
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Row Erupts Over Governor General's Seal Taste
Offbeat  (tags: animals, ecosystems, habitat, humans, nature, freedoms, family, food, green, activists, culture, education, freedoms, interesting, rights, politics, women, animaladvocates, animalrights, animalwelfare, society, ancient, health, history, seals )

Dave
- 184 days ago - thestar.com
She came, she cut, she ate -- and now, after gobbling seal heart raw, Governor General Michaelle Jean is tasting the inevitable wave of political indigestion.
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One Homeowner Defies £300m Development
Offbeat  (tags: interesting, culture, humans, sadness, society, rights, unusual, news, ethics )

Suzybell
- 293 days ago - metro.co.uk
A stubborn homeowner is holding up a £300 million development scheme by refusing to quit his home. Jin Chang's tiny two-storey home, in China, is the last house in the area and stands in the centre of a construction site.
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Deaf Dalmation Given a New Lease of Life After Learning Sign Language
Offbeat  (tags: culture, education, GoodNews, humans, interesting, internet, rights, safety, society, violence, women, AnimalWelfare, animals, dogs, pets, protection, sadness, rescued, off-beat, unusual )

Susan
- 357 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
The black and white dog has now learned seven signs for sit, lie down, stay, dance, paw, kiss and 'good girl'.A deaf dalmatian which was trapped in a world of its own has been given a new lease of life after learning sign language.
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Fears of a Dem Crackdown Lead to Boom in Gun Sales
Society & Culture  (tags: clueless people, fear, americans, children, culture, freedoms, government, interesting, news, rights, sadness, society, sports, violence, usa, bizarre, odd )

Gwen
- 385 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. � When 10-year-old Austin Smith heard Barack Obama had been elected president, he had one question: Does this mean I won't get a new gun for Christmas?
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Leonard Peltier: A New Spirit of Hope
Offbeat  (tags: indians, nativeamericans, leonardpeltier, activists, americans, culture, dishonesty, freedoms, government, interesting, news, politics, rights, society, interesting )

Kat
- 385 days ago - bsnorrell.blogspot.com
My Relatives and Friends, Last night a change in this country took place that not too long ago many people said would never happen.
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Fla. Board Keeps Klan Leader's Name at High School
Offbeat  (tags: americans, children, child, ethics, rights, usa, society, culture, unusual, usa, odd, off-beat, custom )


- 389 days ago - news.yahoo.com
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Florida school board voted late Monday night to keep the name of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader at a majority black high school, despite opposition from
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Hyannis Leaders Want Help on Homeless Problem
Offbeat  (tags: activists, culture, ethics, freedoms, government, humans, transportation, society, rights, business, consumers, cover-up, dishonesty, politics, society, abuse, prevention, protection, warning, americans, business, culture, ethics, interesting, police, saf )

James
- 393 days ago - capecodonline.com
HYANNIS -- Ongoing concern among Main Street business owners over loiterers and problematic "street people" has opened up discussion about whether Hyannis shoulders a disproportionate share of the Cape's homelessness burdens. Boycott Hyannis Cape Cod Ma
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Judge Won't Release Brain-Damaged Inmate
Offbeat  (tags: police, rights, dishonesty, bizarre, ethics, interesting )

Marty
- 426 days ago - cbs13.com
A San Joaquin County judge is refusing to free a prisoner who is in a permanent vegetative state.
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Medical Pot Smokers Can Light Up at Festival
Offbeat  (tags: AlternativeMed, AlternativeMed, health, interesting, medicine, news, prevention, research, society, americans, GoodNews, health, rights )

Summer
- 429 days ago - foxnews.com
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Medical pot users got a high-five from the Santa Cruz City Council. The city's smoking ban is being lifted temporarily so medical pot patients can light up at a weekend marijuana festival.
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Psychology & Military Torture -- Part 1   video
Offbeat  (tags: Torture, interrogation, psychology, psychiatry, saddam, military, war, mental, health, civil, rights, 911, patriot, act, military use )

Gregory
- 479 days ago - youtube.com
Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist, talks about the connection of the American Psychological Association and military torture and interrogation techniques.
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999 Medic Rapped Over Drunken, Naked Woman Picture Stunt
Offbeat  (tags: crime, abuse, rights, odd )

Marty
- 488 days ago - dailyrecord.co.uk
A PERVERT 999 medic pointed his camera phone at a patient's private parts as she lay naked and helpless in the back of his ambulance.
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