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Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte articles and interview: Of Mexican heritage, Dr. de Uriarte spent eight years with the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer and assistant editor of the Opinion section. Today, along with her teaching duties, she continues to write an opinion column distributed by Knight-Ridder and the Progressive Media Project. She also writes regularly for professional journals on issues related to diversity in journalism education and in media staffing and coverage. Lynn Stewart: Peter Erlinder: read more Professor Erlinder is a frequent litigator or consultant, often pro bono, in cases involving the death penalty, civil rights, claims of government and police misconduct, and criminal defense of political activists. He is also a frequent news commentator. Heidi Boghosian: Please read more! Heidi has her own page on this site! Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association established in 1937. She recently published The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent: A National Lawyers Guild Report on Government Violations of First Amendment Rights in the United States, (North River Press, 2004), and Applying Restraints to Private Police (forthcoming in Missouri Law Review, Spring 2005). “The Lynne Stewart Case and the Impact on Federal Government Spying on Attorneys” will appear in the New Centennial Review this spring. Her book reviews have been published in The Federal Lawyer Magazine and the New York Law Journal. She lives in New York City. www.nlg.org Michael Ratner: (michael's blog and a great resource!) Michael was co-counsel in representing the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States Supreme Court, where, in June, 2004, the court decided his clients have the right to test the legality of their detentions in court. Ratner is also a past president of the National Lawyers Guild and the author of numerous books and articles, including the books Against War with Iraq and Guantanamo: What the World Should Know, and a textbook on international human rights. Ratner is also the co-host of the radio program, Law and Disorder. He and three other attorneys host the Pacifica radio show that reports legal developments related to civil liberties, civil rights and human rights.
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Patriot Act - In Context of United States History - 94 min., September 21, 2003. -
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NETWORK--1976 FILM (Harsh Language ALERT) Network is a 1976 satirical New Hollywood film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Network has continued to receive recognition, decades after its initial release. In 2000, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, the film was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for American entertainment."[1] In 2006, Chayefsky's script was voted one of the top ten movie scripts of all-time by the Writers Guild of America. In 2007, the film was 64th among the Top 100 Greatest American Films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI gave it ten years earlier. Vincent Canby, in his November 1976 review of the film for The New York Times, called the film "outrageous...brilliantly, cruelly funny, a topical American comedy that confirms Paddy Chayefsky's position as a major new American satirist" and a film whose "wickedly distorted views of the way television looks, sounds, and, indeed, is, are the satirist's cardiogram of the hidden heart, not just of television but also of the society that supports it and is, in turn, supported."[3] In a review of the film written after it received its Academy Awards, Roger Ebert called it a "supremely well-acted, intelligent film that tries for too much, that attacks not only television but also most of the other ills of the 1970s," though "what it does accomplish is done so well, is seen so sharply, is presented so unforgivingly, that Network will outlive a lot of tidier movies.[4] Seen a quarter-century later, Ebert said the film was "like prophecy. When Chayefsky created Howard Beale, could he have imagined Jerry Springer, Howard Stern and the World Wrestling Federation?"; he credits Lumet and Chayefsky for knowing "just when to pull out all the stops."[5] |
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