June 20, 2016“Where were you on March 20, 2003?,” Aaron Hughes , an Iraq War vet and artist, asks our group. We’re sitting on the floor around a Persian rug while Aaron brews a large pot of fragrant Alwazah tea...
June 27, 2016Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention...
Come work with other fierce social justice warriors! From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention at Guantánamo, the Center for...
Updated: October 18, 2016
Survey and Public Comments Will Help Inform Policy That Will Govern 1000-Camera Pilot Ordered in Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit June 29, 2016, New York – The Policing Project at New York University launched...
June 29, 2016The NYPD has created an anonymous online survey to get the public’s thoughts about body cameras soon to be worn by cops. The survey was conducted with New York University to get a read on the average...
June 29, 2016The so-called "guaranteed minimums" assure that a specific number of detainees will be held in captivity at all times at the for-profit ran institutions. "Guaranteed minimums, which appear mostly in...
June 30, 2016Dr. Maha Hilal is the Executive Director of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, an organization dedicated to addressing civil and human rights abuses in the War on Terror by directly...
Civil rights groups mark 50th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Act by filing requests to expose government surveillance of activists of color July 5, 2016, New York – Color Of Change (COC) and...
July 5, 2016Originally publised on Medium.com . Whether you ride public transportation every day to and from work or drive your own car. Whether you go to a public school with security guards or an upscale...
June 30, 2016Immigrant mothers and their children are being detained under guaranteed minimum provisions, which assure fixed detainee quotas, effectively rendering immigrants a source of profit for private and...
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