What: The Right To Dissent Who: Frances Fox Piven and Michael Ratner When: 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 21st Where: Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck; 6422 Montgomery Street (Rt. 9) Please join us...
Updated: October 11, 2011
March 2009Among George W. Bush’s controversial legal maneuvers was a repackaging of the notion of “enemy combatant.” If the President determined a person was an “enemy combatant,” the Bush Justice lawyers...
June 18, 2015Arabs and Muslims detained in the wake of the 9/11 attacks can sue top officials in George Bush's administration for civil rights abuses, a court has ruled The landmark ruling from three Court of...
September 22, 2016Shira Scheindlin, the federal judge who ruled three years ago that the New York City Police Department’s aggressive stop-and-frisk practices were unconstitutional , had a few words about Donald Trump...
February 21, 2020...During the last two years of Bloomberg's mayoralty, Bloomberg continued to be a staunch public defender of stop and frisk even as its actual use plunged. Rather than implement the reforms...
June 4, 2020...In an emergency motion filed on Tuesday, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Legal Aid Society argued the police department was not complying with a set of reforms ordered...
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...
July 14, 2017Last month, I took my first trip to the US military detention camp at Guantánamo Bay to visit Sufyian Barhoumi. As a military handler drove me and my colleagues from the Center for Constitutional...
No Guantanamo At Home or Aboard! A Vigil/ Performance with special guests from Broadway and Off-Broadway. Fahad Hashmi has been held for two and a half years in severe solitary confinement, awaiting...
Updated: April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room 3543 18 th Street #8 San Francisco, CA Featuring: Zahra Billoo , Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic...
Updated: April 1, 2011
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