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It's a Free Country
Personal Freedom in America After September 11
Danny Goldberg , Victor Goldberg and Robert Greenwald
September 2003
ISBN: 1560255226
Fully updated and revised, It's a Free Country examines the frightening consequences of the Bush Administration's domestic reaction to September 11, 2001. Writers from across the political spectrum respond to the erosion of civil liberties caused by the introduction of the USA Patriot Act that gave sweeping new powers to the FBI, CIA and Immigration and Naturalization Service, permitting them to wiretap telephone conversations, read e-mails and deport suspicious individuals. Historical precedents for the current situation are considered, the consequences of allowing military tribunals to occur is explored, and some of those who were detained in the dragnet that followed the terrorist attacks tell their moving stories.
Contributors include Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, Howard Zinn, Tom Hayden, Ira Glasser, Nat Hentoff, Michael Isikoff, David Cole, Anthony Romero, Kenneth Roth, Alan Dershowitz, Helen Zia, Mervat Hatem, Norman Siegal, Ani Dfranco, Matt Groening, David Rees and former US Representative Bob Barr of Georgia.
What readers are saying
"[It's a Free Country] cuts across the grain of prevailing opinion."
--Los Angeles Times
"[It's a Free Country] reminds us of both the dangers we face from governmental over-reaction to September 11 and...that we, as a people, do learn from the disastrous lessons of our past."
--Forward
"These views will not be popular. But they need saying."
--The Economist
About the Authors
Danny Goldberg is chairman of Artemis Records and the president of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California. He has written for The Nation, The American Prospect and the Los Angeles Times, and is the author of Dispatches from the Culture Wars: How the Left Lost Teen Spirit.
Victor Goldberg has worked as a co-publisher of Tikkun and as associate publisher of The Nation, and is president of Victor Goldberg Associates.
Robert Greenwald is the award-winning producer/director of 48 films, including Steal This Movie (about Abbie Hoffman); executive producer of Unprecedented, a documentary about the 2000 election disaster; and co-founder of Artists United. He is the recipient of a Lawyers Guild Award for advancing the cause of peace, justice and freedom.
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