Mark your calendars! You’re invited to “Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo” 

We are excited to collaborate with the Depaul Art Museum (DPAM) and the Tea Project on Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, which will run March 10 to August 7, 2022. The exhibition explores themes of torture and reparations through paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations produced by torture survivors, artists, and activists, including Center for Constitutional Rights clients Djamel Ameziane and Ghaleb Al-Bihani who were detained at Guantánamo.

In addition, our Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hana Hussain and our client Majid Khan are contributors to the exhibition catalog, which brings together artworks, poetry, testimony by torture survivors, and scholarship at the intersection of aesthetics and politics.

To find out more information about public programming and visiting the exhibition, please visit the Depaul Art Museum’s website.

We’re hiring! Two movement lawyers 

We are thrilled to be hiring for two staff attorney positions—a special opportunity as these positions are limited. We are seeking dynamic, visionary attorneys, preferably with 7+ years of litigation experience, who are politically aligned with our mission and approach to movement lawyering. These attorneys will have demonstrated experience in racial justice, policing, immigration, economic and gender justice (including LGBTQIA+ justice), and FOIA / Open Records, or capacity to grow and master these areas in creative and accountable ways. 

Visit our website to find out more. The deadline to apply is February 10.

Documentary film Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America now in theaters 

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America is in theaters across the country as of Friday, January 14!

Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in Who We Are, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.

Watch the official trailer on YouTube.

LISTEN: “The Activist Files” Podcast Episode 46: Guantánamo at 20 - you asked, we answered 

In the 46th episode of "The Activist Files," our Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain, Senior Managing Attorney Shayana Kadidal, and Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon answer questions about the state of Guantánamo after 20 years operating as an offshore prison for Muslim men and boys in the so-called war on terror.

We marked the 20th anniversary with a virtual rally, op-eds, media interviews, and an event that we organized, Guantánamo, Off the Record: 20 Years in the Fight. For that event, we collected questions to find out what people really wanted to know. In this episode, the three delve into those topics, from indefinite detention and torture to the ultimate question about Guantánamo: What will it take to finally shut it down?

Listen to the new episode on our website.