December 19, 2019...In the 1800s, the sugar cane field was a plantation. Documents show it was once owned by a man named Benjamin Winchester. Hundreds of enslaved workers were buried there. “It’s sacred ground. That’...
Join Senator Kristen Gonzalez, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, and the Not On Our Dime! Coalition for an in-person informational town hall about the Not On Our Dime! Act . The first of its kind, this...
Updated: August 24, 2023
November 12, 2020... The US and UK governments never responded to Alani. But over the next few years, the Pentagon provided answers of sorts to Wim Zwijnenburg, a project leader at the Dutch peace group Pax who has...
April 2009Reporting from Washington -- President Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out prosecuting senior Bush administration officials who provided the legal rationale for harsh interrogation...
Talal Al-Zahrani and his son Yasser Al-Zahrani. Yasser was 21 when died at Guantanamo in 2006.
Updated: September 8, 2021
December 2006U.S. ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins, says that Maher Arar is still considered a terrorist suspect and will remain on a security watchlist.
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Updated: March 10, 2008
Al-Jundi v. Estate of Oswald is a $2.8 billion civil damages suit filed in 1974 by survivors of what came to be known as the Attica Uprising. They first sued various New York State officials,...
Updated: March 31, 2008
January 2007At a news conferenci in Ottawa, falsely accused terror suspect Maher Arar regards the apology and compensation package rendered from the Canadian government as an acknowledgement of his innocence.
In October 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced that he had ordered a pre-dawn invasion of Grenada by nearly 1,900 Marines and armed airborne troops under the code name “Urgent Fury.”...
Updated: January 20, 2010
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