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November 6, 2026
On Thursday, October 15, 2026, 500 friends, supporters, movement partners, and staff of the Center for Constitutional Rights gathered in Brooklyn, NY for A Splendid Body of Tigerish People: 60 Years of CCR. (Fun fact : The phrase "a splendid body of tigerish people" is a quote attributed to radical journalist Alexander Cockburn, who wrote it to describe our organization’s staff, donors, and movement partners.) At the event, many tigerish people celebrated six decades of working side by side with communities standing up to oppression and struggling for liberation. Sixty years of fighting for...
ICC announces investigation into Afghanistan
November 6, 2017
This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
October 18, 2017
Today, CCR staff members are among the hundreds marching in the national #NoMuslimBanEver mobilization in DC, from the White House to the Trump Hotel. While we celebrate that yesterday a federal...
October 3, 2017
Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
Special Administrative Measures Report
October 2, 2017
This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
A crowd protests the Muslim ban at a U.S. airport.
September 27, 2017
The Trump administration’s latest iteration of the Muslim ban, announced on Sunday night, is yet another failed attempt to repackage a white supremacist policy that is unconstitutional and in...