...“The thing all these people have in common is their activism on behalf of freedom for Palestinian people,” said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal...
Jalil Muntaqim, Jailed 48 Years, Has 12 th Parole Hearing This Year May 21, 2019, New York – Today, a group of prominent academics, lawyers, and activists published an open letter calling for the...
Pipeline Protesters, Journalist, and Landowners Sue Over Louisiana Law M ay 22, 2019, Baton Rouge – Today, landowners, community members, environmental justice advocates, and a journalist filed a...
Anne White Hat is a member of the Aske Tiospaye (clan) of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate. The Sicangu Lakota are one of the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota Oyate (the Lakota Nation)...
Ramon Mejía is an eighth grade social studies teacher and the Field Organizer for About Face: Veterans Against the War, an organization dedicated to building a movement of service members and...
Sharon Lavigne is a resident of Louisiana who lives and owns property in the predominately African-American Fifth District of St. James Parish, which is heavily pervaded by pipelines and...
Harry Joseph is a resident of Louisiana and pastor of the 114-year-old Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James Parish, Louisiana. With a 95 percent African-American population, St. James shoulders...
...According to the 37-page federal complaint filed in Baton Rouge by attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Loyola University College of Law, the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and...
...After protests erupted near Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline and Bayou Bridge beginning in 2016, 18 states including Texas, Pennsylvania and South Dakota have introduced bills similar to...
...The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights, argues that the law is “so vague, overly broad, and sweeping in scope that people in the state cannot be sure of where in the...
