Cultural Writing. A groundbreaking collection of new pieces examining the effects of George W. Bush's legislative assault on civil liberties following the terrorist bombing of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Foreward by Cornel West, with original essays by Michael Moore, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Tom Hayden, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Robert Scheer, Ira Glasser, Lillian Nakano, political cartoonist Matt Groening, Patti Smith, Helen Zia, Ramona Ripston, Norman Siegel, Michael Tomasky, Donna Lieberman, Peter Werbe, Andrew Kirkland, Jeremy Voas, Mike Marland, Abdallah Higazy, Robbie Conal, Marc Cooper, Frank Dorrell, and many more. Also, firsthand stories from victims of civil-liberty infringement, such as the chief of police in Portland, Oregon, who resisted federal pressure and Fathi Mustafa, a Palestinian caught in the wave of racial profiling.