February 5, 2018CCR is joining a coalition of groups in a Week of Action beginning today in support of the Divest from the War Machine campaign . The campaign calls on individuals and institutions to divest from...
February 2, 2018...Environmentalists had requested a variety of records from Gov. John Bel Edwards' office concerning meetings and communications between government staff and pipeline builders. But Attorney Pam...
February 3, 2018An attorney with radical environmentalist organization Earth First! claims her group is essentially impervious to lawsuits alleging its members sabotage energy projects. ... Read the full piece here.
Dakota Access Lawyers Abused Legal System to Stifle Advocacy, Sanctions Motion Argues February 6, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Earth First! Journal urged a...
February 7, 2018Oil has been flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline for months now, and lawsuits surrounding protests there in 2016 are winding their way through the court system. Wednesday, the Center for...
February 8, 2018The Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal court to sanction Energy Transfer Partners and Energy Transfer Equity for “misusing” the legal system when it sued “Earth First!” for “federal...
Please join CCR's senior staff attorney, Katherine Gallagher , at San Diego State University for her keynote speech on the U.S. detention and interrogation program in response to 9/11. Katherine will...
Updated: March 1, 2018
February 21, 2018In early 2016, Indigenous activists on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in so-called North Dakota began protesting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a 1,172-mile-long oil...
One year ago, a force of local, state, and federal law enforcement evicted the Dakota Access pipeline resistance camps. Only in the movement’s aftermath has the close coordination between police and...
Updated: March 13, 2018
Please join CCR from 6:30 pm - 9:00pm on March 12th to watch a short-film series that takes an in depth look at the Louisiana Water Protectors on the front lines of resisting Energy Transfer Partners...
Updated: February 28, 2018
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