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March 9, 2021
Blog Post
This year, we are celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We selected March 11 to launch this celebration of our legal and advocacy social justice work because it's the anniversary of the Fannie Lou Hamer filing, one of our first cases.
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April 11, 2021
CCR in the News
...The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center in November filed the federal lawsuit for Diamond, who is imprisoned at Coastal State Prison in Chatham County. Diamond previously sued Georgia corrections officials in 2015 over similar allegations during a previous term...
April 7, 2021
Blog Post
U.S. federal judge dismisses lawsuit filed by Jewish National Fund against Palestinian rights nonprofit A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and others against a U.S.-based Palestinian rights organization. The JNF had accused the US Campaign for Palestinian...
CCR Blog
April 7, 2021
Blog Post
First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City joins lawsuit against ICE The First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City joined a lawsuit, brought by four sanctuary leaders and immigrant rights advocacy groups, suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and various officials for targeting the women...
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April 7, 2021
Blog Post
18th anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq--we join Iraqi calls for redress and demand Biden end militarism On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we issued the following statement: Eighteen years after the United States invaded Iraq on a patently false basis, we uplift the work of...
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