Newsletter

Winter 2012

In this issue:

• Human Rights Law at the Crossroads: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
• Groundbreaking Progress Toward Accountability for Abu Ghraib Torture
• Message from the Executive Director
• "Why can't you just be reasonable?": Update on Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
• Guantánamo: Victories and Challenges
• Spotlight on CCR Client: The Vulcan Society
• Update from an Ella: Peter L. Markowitz
• CCR in Brief....
• Challenging Human Rights Abuses in Post-Coup Honduras
• Israel H. Lindenbaum: In Memoriam
• Join CCR Board Vice President, Alex Rosenberg, on a trip to Cuba

Summer 2012

In this issue:

• Class Action Challenge to Solitary Confinement
• CCR Wins Class Certification in Case Challenging Stop-and-Frisk
• CCR Welcomes Purvi Shah
• Message from the Executive Director
• Guantánamo: Setbacks and Victories
• CACI Victory and Moving Forward
• CCR Continues to Challenge Targeted Killing and Drones
• CCR Trains (and Dances with) the Next Generation of People's Lawyers
• Update from an Ella: Nikki Thanos
• Doe v. Jindal Victory and New Case
• CCR Donor Spotlight: Mitchel and Linda Bollag
• Michael Ratner

Spring 2012

In this issue:

• Exporting Hate: CCR Files Landmark Case Against U.S. Evangelical for Persecution in Uganda
• CCR Takes on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
• Update from an Ella: David Milton
• From the Real Frontlines: Former Ella Bakers Deported for Taking Part in Pro-Democracy Demonstrations
• Support of Occupy Wall Street
• CCR and Allies Launch Communities United for Police Reform
• President Obama Impedes Efforts to End Indefinite Detention
• Victory in Washington State! Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed Over Boycott of Israeli Goods
• Spain Investigates Bush Officials for Torture at GTMO
• Pursuing Private Military Contractors for Torture at Abu Ghraib
• Building the Case against Vatican Officials
• Accountability for Yemeni Dictator Saleh
• CCR Donor Spotlight

Winter 2011

In this issue:

• CCR and SNAP Charge Vatican Officials With Crimes Against Humanity
• Guantanamo Still Matters
• "The City Still Doesn't Get It": Judge Rules again that the FDNY Hiring Process is Broadly Racially Discriminatory
• CCR Congratulates Yemeni Activist and Ally Tawakkul Karman on Nobel Peace Prize
• Frank Mugisha Receives Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award
• Victory for the First Amendment! Settlement in Goodman, et al. v. St. Paul, et al.
• CCR Supports Occupy Wall Street 
• CCR Donor Spotlight

Summer 2011

In this issue:

• Resisting "Secure" Communities
• Good News in CCR's "Crime Against Nature" Case
• Ten Years After 9/11 the Fight for Justice Continues
• Case Against CCR Staff-Attorney Sunita Patel DISMISSED
• The Fight for Justice and Accountability at GTMO Continues
• CCR Welcomes Baher Azmy
• Accountability in Honduras
• Ella Baker Program Expands
• Challenge to CMUs Advances
• CCR Challenges Unconstitutional New Law in Michigan
• CCR Donor Spotlight

Spring 2011

In this issue:

• Guantanamo: 9 Years of Arbitrary and Indefinite Detention
• CCR Closes in on Bush and Co.
• Human Rights in Haiti - 1 Year Later
• Message from the Executive Director
• Thank You to Our Donors
• Judge Rules the US has Authority to Carry Out Targeted Killings
• CCR Challenges Louisiana's Archaic Crime Against Nature Statute
• Secure Communities or Racial Profiling?
• The Gregory H. Finger Fellowship for Racial Justice
• CCR Donor Spotlight

Fall/Winter 2010

In this issue:

• CCR and the ACLU Join in Lawsuit to Challenge Targeted Killings
• The New McCarthyism? CCR Challenges the "Green Scare"
• Message from the Executive Director
• Standing for Racial Justice: CCR's Latest Victories and Challenges
• Ensuring the Rights of Immigrants: A Critical Battle for Racial Justice
• Progress in Effort to Hold Private Military Contractors Accountable for Abuse
• An Agent is Knocking: CCR Responds to Increased FBI Raids of Activists
• The Gregory H. Finger Racial Justice Fellowship
• Thank You to Our Donors
• The Copelon Fund for Gender Justice

Winter 2009

In this issue:

• Local Police and Federal Authorities Crack Down on Protesters at G-20 Meetings
• Standing Up for ACORN
• Guantánamo Detainees under Obama
• Shocking Revelations against Blackwater
• Justice Delayed for Maher Arar in the U.S.
• Message from the Executive Director
• Ways to Give
• CCR’s Accountability Project
• Victory Settlement for Detained Immigrants
• Racial Justice for NYC Firefighters
• Black Firefighters Lawsuit Scheduled for Trial
• Supreme Court Fight to Stop Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid
• CCR Mourns the Passing of Marilyn Clement, Rick Wagner

Spring 2009

In this issue:

• Wiwa v Shell: CCR Begins a Landmark Trial for Corporate Accountability
• Guantanamo Litigation Update
• 100 Days Campaign Policy Papers
• Arar v. Ashcroft Oral Argument
• CACI and Titan/L3 Updates
• CCR in New Orleans
• CCR Releases NYPD Racial Profiling Data
• Accountability Time: Prosecute Bush Officials
• Renowned Activist Lawyer Bill Quigley to Join CCR as Legal Director
• Black Firefighters Lawsuit Scheduled for Trial
• Donor Spotlight: Salah and Catherine Al-Askari
• Victory for Mentally Ill Immigration Detainee
• In Memoriam: John Leonard; Edwin Salpeter

Winter 2008

In this issue:

• Challenging Racial Profiling by the New York City Police
• New Report Described Shattered Lives of Released Guantanamo Detainees
• After 12 Year Wait, Shell Ordered to Trial
• Notorious Death Squad Leader Constant Found Guilty
• CCR Increases European Presence in Effort to Secure Protection for Detainees
• Guantanamo Uighur Detainees Hopes Dashed
• Algerian Detainees Ordered Released
• New Board Member: Chandra Bhatnagar
• CCR Forces NYC to Pay $2M to Illegally Arrested Anti-War Protesters
• Rehearing the Case of Maher Arar: Holding US Officials Accountable
• Donor Spotlight: S. Chic Wolk
• CCR's' Plans for the New Year
• Top Ways to Support CCR

Summer 2008

In this issue:

• Military Commission Charges Against CCR Guantánamo Client Dismissed
• CCR Scores Victory in Protecting the Right to Dissent
• Defending Domestic 9/11 Detainees in Court
• Challenging the Green Scare
• Holding Military Contractors Accountable
• Supporters and CCR Fellows Honored
• Fighting Racial Profiling
• Foundation Funders
• Donor Spotlight: Alice McGrath

Winter 2007

In this issue:

• CCR Returns to Supreme Court over Guantánamo
• Holding Private Security Contractors Accountable: The Case Against Blackwater
• Letter from the Executive Director
• Victory Against CACI
• Filing Charges Against Rumsfeld
• CCR Welcomes New Board Members
• Guantánamo
• Maher Arar
• Pakistan and the U.S.
• Victory for the LA 8
• CCR’s New Website
• New Orleans
• New Board Members
• Donor Spotlight: Barbara and Bert Aubrey

Winter 2006

In this issue:

• CCR Files Suit over NSA Domestic Spying
• Telephone Justice Update
• Hungry for Justice: Vigil in Solidarity with Detainees
• Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
• Farewell to Ron Daniels
• Cuba Travel: Know Before You Go
• CCR Welcomes New Board Members
• Foundation Thank You's
• CCR Lawyers Go The Extra Mile: Guantanamo and the Middle East
• Why Habeas Matters
• Court Stripping Act
• Donor Spotlight: Tina Rasnow