This will be a strategic workshop on raising the stakes and the intensity for the immigration debate through direct action. By using lessons learned from the "Bring Jean Home" campaign in...
Updated: March 19, 2010
July 24, 2015Exploiting tragedies has always been smart politics for demagogues seeking to promote their political agenda. From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, cynical politicians have fanned the flames of racism, fear,...
November 19, 2015With a wealthy donor's behind-the-scenes influence and a university chancellor's use of a private email account, the withdrawal of a professor's job offer became both a mystery to unravel and a...
January 7, 2016Decades-old rules meant to constrain the New York City Police Department from violating the civil rights of innocent citizens will get some meat on their bones to settle lawsuits over spying on...
In the final debate before Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire, Republican presidential contenders battled it out Saturday night at...
Updated: February 8, 2016
April 29, 2016In recent weeks, governors , mayors , major businesses , and entertainers have joined a boycott of North Carolina and Mississippi as a way of protesting new state laws that license discrimination...
January 11, 2018Guantanamo’s symbolism has shifted fundamentally over the three presidential administrations that it has been used as an island prison. It’s worth reconsidering that history—and what it means in the...
December 9, 2020...It’s often said that police agencies will function properly if they remove a few “bad apples,” said Patel, who served as trial counsel in 2012 for the Center for Constitutional Rights’ class-...
February 18, 2021..."Its place is in a broader conversation on decarceration and how the government uses money in what is a deeply flawed legal system. It should be part of a bigger conversation on civil rights and...
April 2, 2021... Attorneys for the women said they recently discovered in documents they requested that Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to Trump, intended for the money to be used to fund a wall at the U.S.-...
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