On Friday, February 21st, The Play Company will facilitate a discussion between Vincent Warren, Executive Director of Center for Constitutional Rights, and Hina Shamsi, the Director of the ACLU...
Updated: February 21, 2014
March 28, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and other civil rights organizations wrote to administrators at the Claremont Colleges in southern California to express concerns about...
Updated: April 2, 2013
The below-signed organizations are deeply disturbed by and stand opposed to the indictment yesterday of Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a Palestinian-American community activist who has dedicated 10 years to the...
Updated: October 28, 2013
October 2014"' As we look to the future, one issue risks a cycle of conflict that could derail so much progress. And that is the cancer of violent extremism that has ravaged so many parts of the Muslim...
From DemocracyNow.org: The Obama administration launched a drone strike in Yemen last week in an attempt to assassinate a U.S.-born Muslim cleric who has never been convicted of a crime. Anwar al-...
Updated: August 16, 2012
In the small community of Newburgh, New York a mysterious businessman infiltrates a local mosque supposedly looking to cultivate business associates. He is in fact working as an informant for the FBI...
Updated: June 1, 2015
June 1, 2017“Are we going to pretend they’re less than men and walk away?” This beautiful line from Peace Poet Luke Nephew’s piece, “ There is a Man Under the Hood ,” anchors Witness Against Torture’s new...
September 21, 2017Earlier this month, Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss removed Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa as his running mate in the Illinois gubernatorial race due to Ramirez-Rosa’s refusal to oppose the...
November 2, 2017For years, Trump has wanted to send terrorists to the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He’s tweeted about it, spoken about it in interviews and promoted the idea on the...
January 30, 2018Janine Jackson: January 11 marked 16 years since the opening of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, specifically designed to be beyond the reach of US law and away from public view, holding...
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