Text by Michael Brooks, photos by Isis

(Washington, DC) Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the White House Monday evening to speak out against what many believe to be extra-legal measures used by the Bush administration in its War on Terror.
I first spoke with Kit Gage, director of the First Amendment Foundation , who [...]

Photos by Isis, text by Michael Brooks

The war in Iraq was controversial before US troops first set foot on Iraqi soil, and quite a few groups have formed in the past three years to provide outlets for people who disagree with the policies of the Bush administration.
One of the more unusual of [...]

The announcement of the death of the 2000th US soldier by the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, which provides statistics based on official U.S. casualty reports, sparked numerous protests in Washington, DC Wednesday evening.
Pentagon officials attempted to downplay the significance of the number.
“It’s an ‘artificial mark’ on the wall,” Lieutenant Colonel Steve [...]

A review of Herbert Kohl’s She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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When Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005, many a newscast devoted a segment to her significant moment in history when, fifty years ago, she was arrested for refusing to [...]

We haven’t had this many calls and emails to the Clamor office since Bush was declared the winner of the election. This time it was because national news across the country showed a violent uprising in North Toledo after a planned rally by a visiting Nazi group was cancelled. The rally was cancelled after counter [...]

In the span of a few days last week, the winds of domesticated military might are fast becoming a gale force.
First, on Tuesday Oct. 4, GWBush announced that he would have no qualms sending the military out to enforce a bird flu quarantine, should an outbreak occur within the continental U.S. (is that if, or [...]