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Human rights organizations are demanding President elect Obama and his new administration seize this opportunity to reverse the damage that has been done around the world and at home. After eight years of an administration that disregarded human rights - from Hurricane Katrina, a pre-emptive war in Iraq, to torture, secret and unlawful detentions, wire tapping - what is our hope for human rights in this country?
Today on GRITtv we are joined by Catherine Powell, the author of Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administrationand an associate professor of Law at Fordham Law School, Ajamu Baraka a leading human rights activist and the Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network, and former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn.
Laura,
I came across this quotation in the NYC subway:
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. ” John Stewart Mill
What do your panelists have to say about the search fine lines between ones’ pursuit of happiness without infringing upon the rights of others. Is this a human right?
By political123 on November 17th, 2008 at 11:54 am