Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
Set to take place on the anniversary of the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, the call for a national prison strike today, Friday, September 9, by those inside prison...
As New Yorkers, we at CCR all have our personal stories of that terrible day. As an organization, our 9/11 story is about how we sprang into action and how we have continued to respond to the...
The cancellation of a Black Lives Matter benefit concert Sunday because the Movement for Black Lives platform “accuses Israel of genocide and endorses a range of boycott and sanction actions” is the...
"I wish to see him and hug him and sit next to him and hold his head in my arms and tell him that I love him." This week, Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain...
This week, the New York City Council passed Resolution No. 1058-A, which condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli human rights abuses and violations of...
Three years ago, my friend Tyler and I crept onto a squalid and cramped fur farm in northern Illinois and released two thousand mink from their cages to save their lives. Approximately a year later,...
Image: drawing by Marco Perez Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring...
The United Nations Human Rights Council is underway in Geneva, with diplomats and experts covering such important topics as the rights of indigenous peoples, enforced disappearance, and the critical...
In the days after the 9/11 attacks, Congress was asked to give President Bush the authority to use the military “to deter and preempt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the United...
