NY’s Rockefeller Drug War: The Human and Fiscal Price We All Pay Time: 6:30 pm (doors open); 7:00 pm Program Cost: Free! Attendees will learn about the impact of the harsh, ineffective, and racially...
Updated: March 5, 2009
October 2014"The Second Circuit Court of Appeals granted the city’s request to withdraw its appeal in Floyd v New York, a 2008 case challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk...
Read the complete letter. CCR writes to ask you to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Capital punishment, as it is applied in the United States, is expensive, racist, arbitrary, fallible...
Does Obama Want to Close Guantánamo or Not? President Obama says he wants to close the Guantánamo Bay prison, but behind the scenes we see a frighteningly different story of inter-agency...
Updated: August 26, 2015
February 16, 2016A court-appointed monitor has called into question the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk data, finding that some officers still don't understand the rules governing the practice and that...
March 27, 2016Ahsan Samad sits on the sofa in the living room of his small family home in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old plumber leans forward and carefully pours the coffee his mother has just brought in...
May 11, 2016Michael Ratner, the civil and human rights attorney who represented Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in the US, died Wednesday at age 72, leaving behind an outsized legacy of advocacy for whistleblowers...
CCR is a proud cosponsor of the upcoming march, rally, and vigil to #CloseRikers. We will join a contingent of New Yorkers to show Mayor Bill De Blasio that the City is united! The march will begin...
Updated: September 20, 2016
January 20, 2017...“These legislators, and no doubt future ones, are emboldened by the narrow, authoritarian caste of mind emanating from the new President—one that is ignorant of the basic premises of a healthy...
December 1, 2021...Each episode features heartbreaking testimony from the relatives and loved ones of missing women, as well as activists and volunteers who’ve experienced loss themselves, along with law enforcement...
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