As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
Sanctuary cities. Everybody is talking about them. Less than two weeks ago, New York City Mayor de Blasio said “ we will go to court immediately ” if President Trump cuts federal funding because of...
Last Wednesday, as thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Central Park for an International Women’s Day demonstration, New York State Senators were hard at work in Albany, limiting our right to protest...
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The day I learned of Michael Ratner’s passing, one year ago today, I had to travel to Richmond, Virginia to argue an appeal related to one of the Abu Ghraib torture suits CCR brought against an...
This coming Sunday marks Mother’s Day, a holiday with roots in the post-Civil War burgeoning feminist and pacifist movements in the U.S. In its modern incarnation, Mother’s Day has become a more...
To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
Historic Case Has Broken New Legal Ground, Documented Lively’s Campaign of Persecution in Uganda June 6, 2017, New York – Yesterday, a federal court minced no words in affirming that U.S.-based anti-...
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the coup d’etat in Honduras. On June 28, 2009, former President Manuel Zelaya, who was democratically elected and later embarked on a platform of progressive...
Advocates point to alarming reliance on sources hostile to Palestine advocacy to justify ban July 10, 2017, New York, NY – Friday, students at Fordham University filed their opposition to the school’...
