http://dir.salon.com/topics/documents_of_freedom/?source=rss&aim=documents_of_freedom en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT By Gary Kamiya Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2004/06/29/korematsu/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2004/06/29/korematsu/index.html?source=rss Six decades before Guantanamo, Fred Korematsu refused to go quietly when the government tried to put him in a prison camp because of his race. By David Talbot Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/09/02/franklin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/09/02/franklin/index.html?source=rss Newspaper publishing in the days of Ben Franklin and his grandson was a filthy, grinding business. Fighting for freedom of the press was an even more wretched a task. By Gary Kamiya Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/08/26/lennybruce/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/08/26/lennybruce/index.html?source=rss Thanks to the martyred comedian, American culture is free to be a wild kingdom. But with his new anti-porn crusade, Attorney General Ashcroft wants to turn back the clock. By Joan Walsh Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/08/19/king/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/08/19/king/index.html?source=rss The power of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights call-to-arms comes from watching a great man grapple with the possibility that he's wrong. By Scott Rosenberg Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/08/12/on_liberty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/08/12/on_liberty/index.html?source=rss John Stuart Mill's classic is all over the Web, because it reminded us that freedom requires reckoning with "heretical opinions" -- a message we need now more than ever. By Laura Miller Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/29/sojourner_truth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/29/sojourner_truth/index.html?source=rss Sojourner Truth's impromptu personal oratory gave women's rights a voice of fire. By Roger K. Newman Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/22/rights/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/22/rights/index.html?source=rss More than an indestructible wall limiting the power of government, the Bill of Rights is a testament of hope. By Andrew Leonard Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/15/modernization/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/15/modernization/index.html?source=rss Eleven years before Tiananmen Square, a courageous Chinese worker dared to call for democracy. He was imprisoned for 15 years, but his message defies iron bars. By Gary Kamiya Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/08/milton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/08/milton/index.html?source=rss In "Areopagitica," Milton made a magisterial case not just for freedom of speech, but for freedom of soul. Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/01/intro/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/01/intro/index.html?source=rss From Milton to China's Democracy Wall, Salon's new series honors the milestones of human liberty. By Gary Kamiya Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/01/pentagon_papers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/freedom/2003/07/01/pentagon_papers/index.html?source=rss The Supreme Court's Pentagon Papers decision barred an imperious president from blocking publication of explosive government documents about an ill-conceived war. Today, journalists may not be so brave -- or judges so vigilant.