New Letter from Formosa Plastics Denies Access to Burial Grounds of Enslaved People May 22, 2020, St. James, LA — St. James residents today re-asserted their rights to visit burial grounds on...
A complaint lodged with the Pentagon has prompted the U.S. Navy to look into the possible presence of something causing cancer at the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Base spokeswoman Kelly Wirfel says...
February 18, 2014, New York – In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and...
The South Asian Bar Association presents an evening with CCR staff attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez. She will give a lecture entitled "American-Style Torture: Guantanamo, Black Sites and American...
The NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities in New Jersey evokes memories of Japanese internment camps and spying on protesters during the Civil Rights Movement, an appeals court ruled Tuesday,...
Now that the International Criminal Court has found “reasonable basis to believe” that U.S. military forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan and at CIA black sites, a prominent human-rights...
...Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, is representing two of the victims in the case, Sharqawi Al Hajj and Guled Hassan Duran. Both remain detained at...
...Under Section 106 of the Historic Preservation Act, Formosa's subsidiary and Louisiana registered company, FG LA LLC, was required to survey the proposed site for cultural resources. They received...
Airbnb has reversed its previous decision to bar listings from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The online vacation rental site decided to allow the homes to remain listed after...
... Adding to the tensions surrounding the Formosa plant is the recent discovery that the proposed site sits where enslaved people lay buried. A public records request submitted to the Louisiana...
