Updated: April 26, 2010
CCR is pleased to participate in the Students for Liberty New York City Regional Conference. CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will speak on their Civil Liberties Panel about NYPD Stop and...
Updated: October 26, 2012
March 2013In one of the most significant courtroom tests of a key Bloomberg administration policy, a federal judge will begin hearing testimony on Monday in a trial to determine whether the New York Police...
December 16, 2015It has been two and a half years since Edward Snowden’s disclosures revealed the massive scope of our government’s bulk surveillance of global telecommunications. The first document to be published...
April 2011Say what you will about President Obama, but something is undeniable: When it comes to immigration his administration has been consistent in speaking from both sides of its mouth. Take the case of...
President Obama has failed in his pledge of eight years ago to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo. Congressional obstacles, misinformation perpetuated in the media, and the president's own...
Updated: January 6, 2017
The ELS along with SALDF and NLG present a screening of the film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front , nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary, 2012. When: March 29...
Updated: March 20, 2012
May 10, 2016Animal-rights activists asked the Seventh Circuit to deem the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act unconstitutional for designating nonviolent property damage "terrorism," because two men charged under...
August 15, 2016... "During a phone call before his release, Mr. Hamdoun said he felt happy and hopeful — a remarkable sentiment from a man who has lived through hell in Guantanamo and lost over 14 years of his life...
“It’s not constitutional… This is a historic act of discrimination that singles out in broad fashion one religion, treats them differently, and is motivated by this venomous dislike for Muslims…...
Updated: February 6, 2017
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