November 13, 2015The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has reached a settlement of $875,000 for firing a professor over his anti-Israel tweets. UIUC fired Steven Salaita for tweets criticizing “the...
November 14, 2015As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
Freedom Flicks in partnership with DCTV is excited to announce that we will co-host a free screening of Laura Poitras’ suspenseful documentary, CITIZENFOUR on Wednesday December 16th. Join us...
Updated: January 5, 2016
November 19, 2015With a wealthy donor's behind-the-scenes influence and a university chancellor's use of a private email account, the withdrawal of a professor's job offer became both a mystery to unravel and a...
November 25, 2015My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000--far less than the assumed amount of wages...
December 23, 2015On November 13, 12 members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at the University of Texas at Austin peacefully protested a public event hosted by UT's Institute for Israel Studies (IIS)...
Please pack the court for oral arguments in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication Management Units.” The CMUs are experimental prison units that impose...
Updated: March 4, 2016
January 25, 2016Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) was a plaintiff in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s federal lawsuit challenging policies and practices at the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s)...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) have engaged in advocacy to oppose legislation in New York that would threaten core First Amendment-...
Updated: October 16, 2017
February 5, 2016This Saturday will mark 40 years since political prisoner Leonard Peltier was arrested and charged with the deaths of two federal agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Since that time...
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