Since 2011, there has been a marked proliferation of state laws targeting undercover investigations and whistleblowing in animal agriculture. These ag-gag laws vary, but all include one or more of...
Updated: December 3, 2019
Please join CCR from 6:30 pm - 9:00pm on March 12th to watch a short-film series that takes an in depth look at the Louisiana Water Protectors on the front lines of resisting Energy Transfer Partners...
Updated: February 28, 2018
On the 17th episode of “The Activist Files,” Communications Associate Josh Manson talks with Janice Dickerson and her attorney, Christopher Meeks, about the struggle to protect a historically Black...
Updated: March 7, 2023
January 16, 2018...“Eminent domain is an extraordinary and controversial power, and those most often burdened frequently lack the financial means and political clout to protect their rights in the process,” attorney...
Zee Scout is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, where she was a member of the Lambda Legal...
May 2009NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has been fighting for more than 13 years to make his late father's prediction come true. It will happen this month when relatives of victims of the Nigerian...
March 12, 2018...Pamela Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents anti-pipeline groups in Louisiana seeking to keep TigerSwan from operating in the state, said that large-scale...
June 5, 2020 To: Marjorie McKeithen Counsel for FG LA, LLC Jones Walker Re: Juneteenth Ceremony on Buena Vista Plantation Cemetery Ms. McKeithen: In my May 22, 2020, letter, I advised that RISE St...
Updated: June 8, 2020
May 13, 2021, New Orleans, LA – Today, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) must pay three landowners’ attorneys’ fees in addition to the $10,000 in damages awarded by a...
On the fourteenth episode of The Activist Files, Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees talks with Lydia Gerard and Sharon Lavigne, two of the brave Women of Cancer Alley leading the resistance to the toxic...
Updated: March 7, 2023
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