1. Judge Rejects Blackwater Attempt to Dismiss Cases
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...By MWC News    Saturday, 24 October 2009 A federal judge has rejected a series of arguments by lawyers for the private military contractor Blackwater who were seeking to dismiss five war c...

2. School War Crimes Tribunals
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... attacks.  The torture was originally outlined and sanctioned in 2002 by a series of memos drafted by lawyers in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.  Were these lawyers simp...

3. The Gaza War\'s Effect on Women
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... Monday, 05 October 2009 New York--Seventeen human rights and civil rights organizations and 45 prominent lawyers and civic leaders have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last week urging...

4. Zionist-Israel Racism Exposed in 50 Steps
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..... Director Polanski files for release CULTURE By Agencies    Tuesday, 29 September 2009 Lawyers for Roman Polanski, an award-winning film director, have lodged an appeal for his rel...

5. Pentagon Taking Over U.S. Foreign Policy
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...evil, unfair witch” on his blog. The lawyer was angry over the judge’s practice of giving criminal-defense lawyers only a week to prepare for trial rather than the customary month or more. CONTINUE....

6. Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dies
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...   Monday, 17 August 2009 Doris “Dobby” Brin Walker, the first woman president of the National Lawyers Guild, died on August 13 at the age of 90. Doris was a brilliant lawyer and a tenacio...

7. Whistleblower on Military Spying on US Peace Activ
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...nrest after a disputed presidential election, witnesses said. CONTINUE... China cracks down on rights lawyers Top_news By Agencies    Thursday, 30 July 2009 The authorities in China...

8. Rethinking America’s Fourth of July as Outdependen
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...rson School of Law in San Diego where she's taught since 1991 and is the current President of the National Lawyers Guild. She's also been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels,...

9. Mairead Maguire Speaks from Israeli Jail
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...e of Chinese rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng By MWC NEWS    Wednesday, 01 July 2009 Open Letter to lawyers requesting support in securing the release of leading Chinese rights lawyer and Nobel...

10. Obama\'s Financial Reform Proposal
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...nterviews By MWC NEWS    Monday, 22 June 2009 Although regular Truthout contributor, National Lawyers Guild president and Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Marjorie Cohn and longti...