Patrick Mulvaney

Patrick Mulvaney is a freelance journalist and a law student at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written recently for The Nation, Mother Jones and the Village Voice.

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  • SOA Protest Draws Scant Support From Candidates

    October 30, 2007

    As the eighteenth annual demonstration against the Army's School of the Americas nears, we quiz Democratic hopefuls on whether they would shut it down. Their answers are not encouraging.

  • Nutter Wins in Philadelphia

    May 17, 2007

    A favored Democrat's mayoral primary win divides a city between those who support his hardball anticrime tactics and minorities who see them as a blueprint for racial profiling.

  • New Jersey Could Kill the Death Penalty

    January 7, 2007

    The Garden State has become the center of gravity in the fight to abolish capital punishment.

2006

  • Dismay Grows Over US Torture School

    November 15, 2006

    As peace activists converge on Fort Benning for the annual demonstration to shut down the School of the Americas, companion protests are taking place across Latin America, as revulsion grows over US policies on torture.

  • ¡No Más! No More!

    March 31, 2006

    Uruguay and Argentina are cutting ties with the US Army's School of the Americas, paving the way for other Latin American countries to end a destabilizing force that only perpetuates human rights atrocities.

  • Georgia's King Tribute Rings Hollow

    February 7, 2006

    Abolishing the death penalty was one of Coretta Scott King's signature issues. The irony is that Georgia remains one of the leading practitioners of the death penalty.

2005

  • SOA Protests to Focus on Torture

    November 15, 2005

    As demonstrators gather at Fort Benning, Georgia, this weekend for an annual protest against the School of the Americas, the spotlight will be on increasing dismay in Congress and among the American public over the Bush Administration's policies on torture.

  • No More Hiroshimas

    May 2, 2005

    A report from the May 1 rally for peace and nuclear disarmament.

  • Progressive Catholics and the White Smoke

    April 18, 2005

    What a progessive pope might have looked like.

  • Punishing the Wrong People

    February 1, 2005

    The sentences handed down to SOA protesters are strikingly harsh and excessive, especially in a year in which the use of torture has generated headlines.

  • Waiting for Roper v. Simmons

    January 23, 2005

    A forum on the juvenile death penalty.

2004

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/1/08
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)

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