Private Military and Security Companies: hired guns, profiting from war and conflict escalation, accountable to no one. And our governments are relying on them more and more. What can we do about it...
Updated: May 30, 2013
CCR Social Justice Institute fellow Chauniqua Young will take part in an important forum between family members of folks murdered by the NYPD, community organizers and advocates. Save the date! More...
Updated: March 13, 2014
This was originally posted on Huffington Post on December 15, 2010 Well, that didn't take long. Last week I blogged about concerns that "the U.S. government is likely manipulating the Swedish...
Updated: December 15, 2010
August 2008"The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq. The...
March 2009A USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that 62 percent of Americans favor a criminal investigation or an independent panel to look into the use of torture, illegal wiretapping, and other alleged...
March 2009Following up on my earlier post about whether the Obama Justice Department really ought to be representing John Yoo — the notorious former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer during the Bush...
April 2009On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John Nirenberg, a Brattleboro man who walked from...
October 2013"My name is Kevin Cooper. I am a 55-year-old African American man on death row in California. I have been here, trying to prove my innocence, for 28 years. In 2004, I came within hours of being...
November 2013A federal appeals panel on Friday denied a request by lawyers for New York that it overturn a judge’s sweeping ruling on the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, all but ending...
July 2012Part I Pastor Scott Lively greets me with a skeptical smile, though we’ve talked several times by phone. I don’t blame him for his reluctance to meet in person – there aren’t...
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