AlterNet.org: Liliana Segura

Liliana Segura: Starbucks' Cop-Out to Gun Nuts: Customers Served Coffee While Strapped

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:01 PST

Starbucks has become a popular gathering spot for some Second Amendment crusaders, but the company is pretending it doesn't have the power to keep them out.

Liliana Segura: ACORN Smear Collaborator Claims Persecution to Raise Money for Her Legal Troubles

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:01 PST

In a bizarre fundraising appeal, James O'Keefe's co-conspirator Hannah Giles claims ACORN is trying to 'destroy' her -- and invites you to donate $35 to $5,000 to her legal fund.

Liliana Segura: Planned Parenthood Posts Pro-Woman Ad, Putting the Pressure on CBS

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:00:01 PST

With Super Bowl Sunday only a few days away, the fight over Focus on the Family's overtly anti-choice ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is raging.

Liliana Segura: Battle Over Super Bowl Abortion Ad Rages on: Is Tim Tebow's Birth Story Even True?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:00:01 PST

High-profile lawyer argues it's an impossible scenario that doctors would have suggested abortion as a viable option for Tebow in the first place.

Liliana Segura: White House in a Bind; Pressure Builds to Move Key 9/11 Trial Out of New York City

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:00:01 PST

Obama is being forced to seek alternate venues for the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed after a revolt by local politicians, reigniting right-wing opposition to a civilian trial.

Liliana Segura: How Members of Congress Are Advancing Anti-Muslim Hysteria to Push a Radical Legal Agenda

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:01 PST

Islamophobes in Congress like Joe Lieberman are trying to set the U.S. on a path to establish a different set of legal standards for Muslims.

Liliana Segura: Four More Gitmo Prisoners Released, But Obama Has Dark Plans For Many Who Remain

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:00:01 PST

The Obama administration has selected some 50 Guantanamo prisoners to be held indefinitely, without charge or trial.

Liliana Segura: Supreme Court's 'Radical and Destructive' Decision Hands Over Democracy to the Corporations

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:01 PST

One expert calls the Citizens United decision 'the most radical and destructive campaign finance decision in the history of the Supreme Court.'

Liliana Segura: Muckraking AlterNet Coverage Exposes Wrongful Incarceration

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 PST

After 23 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Michael Tillman, a victim of police torture, is finally free.

Liliana Segura: Can They Do That? How You Get Screwed at Work

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:01 PST

A new book shows the power corporations wield over their employees has gone too far. It's time to take action.

Liliana Segura: Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program -- Don't Count On It

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PST

Politicians' claim that moving detainees to Illinois will create 3,000 jobs is a distraction from an ugly reality; Gitmo is not being closed, it is being moved onto U.S. soil.

Liliana Segura: Homeland Security Embarks on Big Brother Programs to Read Our Minds and Emotions

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PST

Half-baked Homeland Security is spending millions to develop sensors capable of detecting a person's level of 'malintent' as a counterterrorism tool.

Liliana Segura: Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST

Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.

Liliana Segura: Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In Prison Are Black

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST

The U.S. stands alone in the world in condemning thousands of juveniles to life without parole. And race is a huge factor. Will the Supreme Court even consider it?

Liliana Segura: 16-Year Old Got Life Without Parole for Killing Her Abusive Pimp -- Should Teens Be Condemned to Die in Jail?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Two cases in the Supreme Court could alter the fates of over 2,500 people serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.

Liliana Segura: 4 Prisoners Facing Executions or Serving Extreme Jail Sentences Who Very Well May Be Innocent

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Recent evidence shows that an executed Texas man was innocent. There are others who still might avoid that fate.

Liliana Segura: 4 Supreme Court Cases That Will Say a Lot About the Direction of Our Country

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Would a Human Sacrifice TV Channel be protected by the First Amendment? Answers to this and other key questions will be answered.

Liliana Segura: Do You Want the Right to Kill Yourself? Renegade Doctor Offers Controversial 'Death Kit'

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Dr. Philip Nitschke has caused uproar from Australia to the UK over his unapologetic pro-suicide philosophy -- and now he's bringing his cause to the States.

Liliana Segura: Tracking Sex Offenders on Your Phone: Smart or Paranoid?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:01 PDT

A hot new iPhone App uses GPS technology to track registered sex offenders everywhere. Are they keeping you safe, or profiting off paranoia?

Liliana Segura: A Recipe for Disaster: School Cops Are Being Armed with 50,000-Volt Tasers

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Tasers aren't 'nonlethal'; they've killed hundreds. With younger people being especially vulnerable to the Taser's shock, the risks could be very deadly.

Liliana Segura: With Its Prisons Dangerously Full, Why Is California Fighting for Custody of a Dying Prisoner Across the Country?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:01 PDT

While other states release low-risk, high-cost prisoners, CA officials want to jail another terminal prisoner, on taxpayers' dime.

Liliana Segura: How Do We Pass Rational Sex-Offender Laws With Psychos Like Phillip Garrido on the Loose?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:01 PDT

With apparent psychos like Garrido wreaking havoc, it's hard for society to be reasonable about the thousands of people have been wrongly swept up by excessive sex offender laws.

Liliana Segura: How Yawning Got One Court Spectator Six Months in the Slammer and Other Disturbing Acts of Judicial Tyranny

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:01 PDT

When judges take on airs and lash out in fits of whimsical bullying, innocent people can end up paying the price with jail time -- or their lives.

Liliana Segura: Can Brutal and Racist Cops Change to Become More 'Sensitive'?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:01 PDT

The Boston policeman who called Gates a "banana-eating jungle monkey" had taken racial-sensitivity training classes. It's not clear they work.

Liliana Segura: Do Hate Crime Laws Do Any Good?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:01 PDT

There's no indication that getting hate crimes on the books actually prevents them.