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...Edward E. Andrews MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2007 FORUM: CONVERTED SPACES “Creatures of Mimic and Imitation”: The Liberty Tree, Black Elections, and the Politicization of African Ceremonial Space in Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island Edward E. Andrews...

...Mike Wallace Copyright © January 1987 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1987 Hijacking History: Ronald Reagan and the Statue of Liberty Mike Wallace I Despite the general...

...Maurice B. Wheeler 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 INTERVENTIONS The Politics of Access: Libraries and the Fight for Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America Maurice B. Wheeler...

...Rogers M. Smith 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 REFLECTIONS Civil Liberties in the Brave New World of Antiterrorism Rogers M. Smith Sadly, it’s true: there is an undeniable tension...

... sections. “Ex-Yarur” workers also benefited from increased wages and benefits, internal promotions, and opportunities for social mobility and political advancement. Within the nationalized factory, there was also greater liberty, equality, and fraternity and increased worker dignity. Ex-Yarur was a success...

... the gap even further. Historically, much of American radicalism has been essentially left- liberalism. That is, it has been in large measure grounded theoreti- cally in liberal premises, in talk of liberty and rights. This is evident, if only implicitly, in the other contributions to this forum...

... outcry against civil liberty violations, FBI leaders falsely justified the program in terms of the fight against terrorism. In fact, COINTELPRO had begun in 1956 to combat the U.S. Communist Party and investigated tens of thousands of people who had no ties to political violence. As in later...

... him shelter, nor could he procure a car to get to Tullamore,” forcing him to walk the seven-mile journey. He returned to Dublin without collecting any rent. 43 The Cork Defence Union, a landlord organization formed to combat what it called “infringements on liberty,” solemnly detailed the case...

..., London, after the 7/7 bombings of the Tube. Credit: Francis Tyers and extended the detention of terrorist suspects held without charge from fourteen to twenty-­eight days.12 During the past decade, the British state has been taking liberties. These include, but are not restricted...

... of Liberty National Monument (which includes Ellis Island) said in a recent interview: “Frankly, commercial development doesn’t turn me off. As a matter of fact, I think Ellis Island is a symbol of commercial development. Those people who came in over there [pointing to Ellis Island] made...

... Black northerners to vote “only for those people and platforms who contend for the colored people all of the rights and liberties that the Constitution is bound to respect,” Boston was known as the origin of the New England example. This example, first noted by the Boston Evening Transcript , 34...

... principles” (157).3 In this way, Vernon ”embodied the spectacular, if imaginary, vision of empire as an extensive, homogeneous polity bounded only by rights, liberties and duties and guided by manly and virtuous leaders. Through him, the empire was refracted back to his supporters as the ultimate...

.... The struggle led Torrey out of Massachusetts, into the abolitionist Liberty Party, and into the South. He was jailed briefly in 1842 for attempting to report on a slaveholders’ convention in Annapolis for several Liberty newspapers. In 1843 Torrey was serving as ed- itor of the Albany Patriot...

... rights. Indeed, it often sees the national government as the protector of liberties against local majorities. I don’t want to get into a defini- tional, semantic debate except to say that one of the reasons this dis- cussion will probably go on forever is that people are talking about...

... Wolper, ABC producer, the man behind Roots, organizer of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1986 Statue of Liberty Centennial, launched a diatribe against the plan- ners of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. Writing in the Wall Street Journal on the first anniversary of his Liberty...

..., formal procedural equality, the separation of private and public spheres, the primacy of the individual, political liberty, or does it not treat these questions at all but raise them in conjunction with other questions? And what happens if the black radical...

... lives on in a grueling triathalon, violent video games, and websites devoted to sado-masochistic fantasies. ”Freedom” would seem the last thing to come to mind when thinking about Alca- traz. That the most notorious penitentiary in the United States could stand for American liberties...

... policy and unfortunate circumstance2 Furet takes a contrary view. The old regime, in his judgment, had reached an impasst? in the waning decades of the eighteenth century. In the face of a rising "public opinion" which demanded liberty, a critical segment of the aristocracy clung...

... the working classes to achieve their interests by democratizing the political economy, educating the working class toward autono- mous citizenship, and creating a society imbued with civil liberties. Half a century later, American farmers came to understand the intersection of credit, “the man...

... experienced hermeneutical comrades and instead comfort ourselves with some of our old satanist, heavy- metal tapes. Wurmbrand on Marx is one thing, but give us Motley Criie’s Kisse My Grundrisse every time. Lady (Liberty) Sings the Blues Neocons have been sneering at the production...