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Supreme Court Hearing Arguments on Ashcroft, Mueller Immunity By Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor The justices will decide whether senior Bush administration officials were responsible for detainee mistreatment after 9/11. Read more »   AlterNet has launched 100 Words for 100 Days, a new project to publish our readers' visions for Obama's highest priorities. You're invited to contribute! Every day from now until Obama's inauguration we will publish 8 new visionary essays by AlterNet readers in our new 100 Words for 100 Days section on our front page (just scroll down to view the section). We've already gotten started; click here for readers' essays that we have already run on the site. *** Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, as any regular reader of this newsletter knows, the United States has a long way to go in living up to the ideals that inspired it. But the good news is that people all over the country and all over the world are finding new ways to fight for justice. One remarkable group named WITNESS, has managed to harness the power of video technology to advance the fight for human rights, from Burma to Afghanistan. Go here to watch a video they produced in honor of this day, which asks: "What image opened your eyes to human rights?" Thanks for reading, Liliana Segura Editor, Rights & Liberties Special Coverage     Blackwater Operatives Indicted for Slaughter of Iraqi Civilians By Jeremy Scahill, TheNation.com A U.S. court indicted 5 Blackwater mercenaries on multiple charges stemming from the Nisour Square attacks. Read more »   Should a Terminally Ill Prisoner Have to Die Behind Bars? By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Montell Johnson was sent from California to Illinois to be executed. His sentence was commuted. Now he's dying from medical neglect. Read more »   9/11 Conspirators to Plead Guilty By Andy Worthington, AlterNet Are Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and his co-defendants focusing on their pursuit of martyrdom? Read more »   Former U.S. Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Led to More Deaths than 9/11 Attacks By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! "How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me," says the author of How to Break a Terrorist. Read more »   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 60 By Jamil Dakwar, AlterNet The United States was a driving force in the creation of the UDHR. But our practices have too often fallen short of the ideals for which it stands. Read more »   Gun Crazy: Firearms Proponents Want a World Where College Kids Carry Concealed Weapons By Liliana Segura, AlterNet The NRA and Co. have pushed campaigns to allow concealed-weapons permits on college campuses in 15 states this year and failed in all of them. Read more »   Ban the Cluster Bomb By Brian Cook, In These Times More than 100 countries have agreed to stop using them. Guess which one hasn't. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     What Image Opened Your Eyes to Human Rights? By Staff, Witness In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th. A look at images that opened our eyes. Read more »   Online Journalists Now Most Jailed Worldwide By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress "More Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today than journalists working in any other medium." Read more »   Why the U.S. Has a Quarter of the World's Prisoners By Erikka Yancy, Brave New Films Our country is creating criminals, not citizens. Read more »

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