By: Linda Milazzo PDA Blog Contributor
(Last) Wednesday evening, in an act of daring befitting a West Point graduate and veteran of Iraq, recently discharged New York National Guard Lieutenant Daniel Choi defied the orders …

By Joe Trippi | JoeTrippi.com
I’ve talked about Roy Bennett and his imprisonment for weeks, talked about his courage, about Roy really being the heart and soul of the MDC opposition to Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and …

From the Human Rights Campaign! | Click HERE for more Information!
The ultra-conservative American Family Association (AFA) plans to air a “one-hour national special” with showings this week, decrying the “radical homosexual agenda.”
The program uses lies …

264 Public Interest Organizations Support Swift Action to Restore Strong, Comprehensive Whistleblower Rights
February 2, 2009
To: President Barack Obama; Senator Daniel Akaka, Senator Susan Collins, Senator Joseph Lieberman, Senator George Voinovich, Rep. Edolphus Towns, Rep. Darrell …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Some powerful words from Martin Luther King, Jr. whose presence is felt this year more than any and who, more than many, recognized that there cannot be equality, in America, without economic …

Obama Must Restore the Central Role of Federal Courts
By JOANNE MARINER | CounterPunch.org
January 2, 2009
Last week, the heads of four prominent civil liberties and human rights organizations — the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty …

2008: The Year That Was
By Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com
Jan. 1, 2009
Befitting an administration that has spent eight years obliterating America’s core political values, its final year in power — 2008 — was yet …

by Melissa Etheridge | Huffington Post
This is a message for my brothers and sisters who have fought so long and so hard for gay rights and liberty. We have spent a long time climbing up …