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Mary Shaw is a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, with a focus on politics, human rights, and social justice. She is a former Philadelphia Area Coordinator for the Nobel-Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, and her views appear regularly in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and websites. Note that the ideas expressed here are the author's own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Amnesty International or any other organization with which she may be associated.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 26, 2014 Amnesty Reports on Human Rights Abuses in Ferguson
"What Amnesty International witnessed in Missouri on the ground this summer underscored that human rights abuses do not just happen across borders and oceans."
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 23, 2014 China is Exporting Torture
Research by Amnesty International (AI) and the Omega Research Foundation has uncovered a "flourishing trade" in the "export of tools of torture by Chinese companies" which is fueling human rights violations worldwide.
SHARE Friday, January 17, 2014 Amnesty Says NSA Revisions Fall Short
"President Obama's surveillance adjustments will be remembered as music on the Titanic unless his administration adopts deeper reforms."
(64 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 3, 2013 American Hunger and the Christian Right
"I have seen hunger, up close and personal, right here in the richest nation on the planet. And, despite what the so-called "Christian" right keeps telling us, I know that laziness does not explain why poor people are poor."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 1, 2013 Divorcing Wells Fargo
"I guess it was a sentimental kind of attachment, like when you're in an unhappy marriage but not yet emotionally ready to break away."
(189 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 14, 2013 Racial Profiling in the Post-Trayvon Era
"Zimmerman's acquittal appears to make a case for racial profiling. And that is very, very dangerous."
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 3, 2013 Amnesty International Says US Must Not Persecute Snowden
"Snowden is a whistleblower. He has disclosed issues of enormous public interest in the US and around the world. And yet instead of addressing or even owning up to these actions, the US government is more intent on going after Edward Snowden."
(26 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 3, 2013 The Ex-Pope and the Holiness Myth
Sentimental Catholics and others have been praising the now-former pontiff. They call him a holy man. However, in looking back through his record, I see much that is downright unholy.
(26 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 17, 2013 They Still Cling to Guns and Religion
"When Obama made his controversial "guns and religion" comment almost five years ago, I'm sure he never envisioned the kind of backlash to his election that has caused those right-wing obsessions to grow exponentially."