An interview with Iranian filmmakers who made a film which is acclaimed outside Iran — they are on trial for it. They intentionally defied the religious censorship rules because they condemn the religion-imposing regime.

*Trump and allies are waging campaign against media to stifle dissent, say experts. Lawsuits against Iowa paper and settlement with ABC signal beginning of aggressive legal action to silence critics.*

*Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates.* He has commuted their sentences to life in prison.

It is unfortunate that he left out three of them. Their crimes were grave — but no one deserves to be killed, not even a criminal who has committed heinous crimes. A CEO who has killed thousands of innocent people for profit deserves a long prison term, not execution.

US citizens: call on Congress and state governments to regulate fracking more strictly, to protect Our Health and Environment

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

Workers are on strike in 50 Starbucks stores.

A few years ago, there was a strike in a Starbucks store in Boston. I stopped by and offered to join the picketing, but that was impossible, because their ways to make the arrangements required the volunteer to run nonfree software.

It would have been easy for them to work for their cause without working unknowingly against the cause of computing freedom. But there was no way to get them interested in making such a change.