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I think that is very nice way of saying these are political prisons for political prisoners.
Prisoners are sent to a CMU because of their race, their religion or their political beliefs.
When some of McGowan's mail was rejected by the CMU, the sender was told it's because the letters were intended "for political prisoners."
But the unknown reality is that the US has a dark history of disproportionately punishing people because of their political beliefs.
Today, civil rights lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging CMUs in court for depriving prisoners of their due process rights and for retaliating against them for their protected political and religious speech.
He was raised in a middle class family, and his father in the middle there is a chemical engineer who spent 11 years in prison for belonging to the political opposition in Syria.
If we become aware of the constellation, the terms and conditions of communication, it not only broadens our horizon, it allows us to look behind the regulations that limit our worldview, our specific social, political or aesthetic conventions.
This is essential to overcome our speechlessness and the separation provoked by rival political forces.
It was precisely this political and social suppression, coupled with decades of colonialism and miseducation that slowly eroded the significance of the Arabic script in the region.
He's also a very political guy and he was right out there in social media, on his blog and Facebook.
He became Kenya's first openly gay political candidate.
Forty years ago, political historians will say, that if it wasn't for the Mormon opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, we'd have an Equal Rights Amendment in our Constitution today.
Eleven years later, when the political landscape changed, he heard about a highly selective university admissions test.
It's the story of the power books have to connect us across political, geographical, cultural, social, religious divides.
North Vietnamese victory was not determined by the battlefields, but by the trail, which was the political, strategic, and economic lynchpin.
I mean, they look at their own country and they don't see much hope to go back home, because there is no political solution, so there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
BG: We seem to be at the point where the numbers turn into political shifts, particularly domestically.
We have seen several people around the world with political responsibility saying, for instance, that Muslims refugees should not be received.
Thirsty for knowledge, for opportunities, for connecting with the rest of the people around the globe, we escaped our frustrating political realities and lived a virtual, alternative life.
At the time, when I logged into social media, I started seeing more and more Egyptians aspiring for political change in the country.
The euphoria faded, we failed to build consensus, and the political struggle led to intense polarization.
But that's an approach that's fraught with political, legal and social dangers.
Revelations of covert wars, secret assassinations, and political corruption undermined public faith in official narratives presented by mainstream sources.
What was more pertinent, and continues to be so about ancient Athenian democracy, was the inclusion of the working poor, who not only acquired the right to free speech, but more importantly, crucially, they acquired the rights to political judgments that were afforded equal weight in the decision-making concerning matters of state.
Now, in our democracies today, this separation of the economic from the political sphere, the moment it started happening, it gave rise to an inexorable, epic struggle between the two, with the economic sphere colonizing the political sphere, eating into its power.
It is rather because one can be in government today and not in power, because power has migrated from the political to the economic sphere, which is separate.
Similarly, the economic sphere has been colonizing and cannibalizing the political sphere to such an extent that it is undermining itself, causing economic crisis.
Corporate power is increasing, political goods are devaluing, inequality is rising, aggregate demand is falling and CEOs of corporations are too scared to invest the cash of their corporations.
Clearly, if this is right, we must reunite the political and economic spheres and better do it with a demos being in control, like in ancient Athens except without the slaves or the exclusion of women and migrants.
So we need to reconfigure, we need to reunite the economic and the political spheres, but we'd better do it by democratizing the reunified sphere, lest we end up with a surveillance-mad hyperautocracy that makes The Matrix, the movie, look like a documentary.
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