On this bonus episode of The Activist Files, guest host and Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks to Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre and Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado, who have just returned from...
Updated: February 26, 2019
June 10, 2015, New York – Four American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become informants finally...
“At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.”—Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do...
Updated: July 22, 2010
September 1, 2015Prison officials, civil rights organizations, former guards and gang members have expressed widespread support of a legal settlement between the state of California and Pelican Bay state prison that...
March 2012Four years ago Frank Mugisha begged his colleagues to join him for his first demonstration in support of gay rights in Uganda. Only four came along. This week, during a march against gender-based...
CCR staff will make various presentations at the National Lawyers Guild Convention in Puerto Rico. Lauren Gazzola will speak at a "Defending Terrorism" workshop that will convene lawyers,...
Updated: October 23, 2013
October 22, 2021...The rights activists branded terrorists by the defense minister, Benny Gantz, work on a range of uniformly peaceful civil society projects to improve life in the occupied territories run by Israel...
April 2010Former Queens resident Syed "Fahad" Hashmi, arrested in 2006 for allegedly providing support to Al Qaeda, faces 70 years in prison if convicted at his trial in Manhattan tomorrow. Due to...
9:30am Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit filed against retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon that charges him with war crimes and extra-judicial killing for his role in the...
Updated: December 6, 2007
June 18, 2020, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s DACA decision today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Supreme Court ruled today that the Trump...
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