August 9, 2022They will discuss the struggle of Black communities against toxic industry, environmental racism, and desecration of the burial grounds of enslaved people
December 21, 2017This week, the New York City Council voted on two critical policing bills. The first, Intro 541-C, was part of the Right to Know Act , a package of legislation aimed at protecting the civil and human...
March 17, 2017Last 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...
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 27, 2006. The law was pushed through Congress by wealthy biomedical...
Updated: December 16, 2011
September 16, 2021...With the passage of time comes new problems. The oldest prisoner, a Pakistani cleared for release in May but who remains at Guantanamo, is 74 and has heart disease and other ailments. A number of...
Ten years ago, the shocking photos of U.S. military personnel humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib sparked global outcry as well as national hearings, investigations and finger...
Updated: May 5, 2014
STATEMENT OF VINCENT WARREN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS END RACIAL PROFILING IN AMERICA HEARING, SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL...
Updated: April 17, 2012
February 9, 2021...“Governmental services providing one response to a group of people and not another is clearly a form of discrimination, and county governments transferring 911 calls to an agency that does not...
October 19, 2020Take Action - Black trans lives matter [caption align="right"] [/caption] "We can no longer sit as we become extinct. I want to believe in the triumph of human spirit. That there are people who find...
January 4, 2017As 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...
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