freedom – Page 7 – People's World

Are we free?

July 13, 2011 By Thomas Michalak

We live in one of the freest societies humans have ever created. On the surface.

The Civil War, our fiery trial

April 12, 2011 By PW Editorial Board

150 years ago today, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired.

Foxhole atheists fight for right to rock

April 5, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Soldiers organized Rock Beyond Belief in Fort Bragg, N.C., only to have it effectively cancelled by army brass at the last minute.

Fort Mose: early marker in African American freedom movement

February 24, 2011 By Dan Margolis

The fight for African American freedom reaches back hundreds of years, even before the arrival of the British.

Human rights group urges action on parole for Oscar Lopez

January 28, 2011 By Emile Schepers

Only days remain for the public to ask for the United States Parole Commission to grant parole to a Puerto Rican independence activist who has now spent 29 years in a federal penitentiary in Florence, Colo.