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...campuses across the country, was met with resistance by Harvard students. While Islamic students took reactive measures, Harvard’s right-wing groups showed little interest in supporting the controversial campaign. Islamo-Fascism awareness events—sponsored and organized by conservative pundit David Horowitz’s Freedom Center—were held at over 200 colleges, including Brown, Dartmouth, and Columbia. But the controversial week did not receive promotion from any group at Harvard. Harvard Republican Club President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said Horowitz’s center had solicited the club by mail...
...accelerate the resegregation of urban school districts across the country. Similarly, the decision that Congress could prohibit an abortion procedure that it finds offensive, despite health risks to the woman, is already being used to justify additional abortion restrictions that deprive women of their equal rights and reproductive freedom. This year promises more of the same. Among other cases, the court will decide whether the Bush Administration can continue to imprison hundreds of detainees at Guantnamo Bay for years without any meaningful judicial review, whether voter-ID laws are constitutional and whether we can execute human beings using...
This week, student organizations at nearly 150 American colleges and universities will be organizing events for “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” a national right-wing exercise in irrationality orchestrated by The David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Terrorism Awareness Project...
...Unsurprisingly, Horowitz himself has a fairly accepted reputation for being a racist, most famously for his commentary on “the melodrama of black victimization and white oppression.” And it comes as no surprise to discover that the David Horowitz Freedom Center—a 501(c)(3) non-profit—is funded by explicitly far-right private foundations, many of which made their millions from Gulf Oil (according to mediatransparency.org), and thus would have a vested interest in continuing to shore up support for the “War on Terror?...
...travel to Cuba - something even most Cuban-Americans in Miami now favor, and which many Cuba watchers suggest the Castros actually fear. Bush insisted that engaging Cuba now would just give "oxygen to a criminal regime." But, argues Colvin, "American citizens have always proven the best ambassadors of freedom and democracy...