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Medically Vulnerable Immigrants in Louisiana ICE Facilities File Emergency Petition for Release

April 14, 2020

COVID-19 Could Be “Death Sentence,” Attorneys Say April 14, 2020, New Orleans, Louisiana – Today, 16 medically vulnerable people currently held in six Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Medically Vulnerable Immigrants Detained by ICE in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana Seek Release Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak

April 1, 2020

Prisoners, Some Near-Death, File Urgent Petition for Release from “Ticking Timebomb” Detention Centers April 1, 2020, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National...

Once Anonymous Archeologists Come Forward with Report Indicating More Burial Grounds of Enslaved People Likely Exist on Site Proposed for Controversial Plastics Plant

March 11, 2020

Archeology Firm Identifies Five Additional Possible Cemeteries, Concludes Formosa’s Consultants Repeatedly Looked in Wrong Place for One of Them March 11, 2020, St. James Parish – Today, community...

Muslims Placed on No-Fly List by FBI Agents to Coerce Them to Spy on Their Communities Ask Supreme Court to Allow Lawsuit to Go Forward

February 5, 2020

Case to Be Heard by High Court This Spring February 5, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, Muslim men who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List in retaliation for refusing to spy on their communities...

Trump’s Goal: To End All Non-White Immigration to the U.S., Says Center for Constitutional Rights

January 31, 2020

E xpanded Travel Ban Still a Muslim Ban, Still Xenophobic January 31, 2020, New York – In response to today’s announcement that the Trump administration has expanded its travel ban to six additional...

For First Time, Polls Find Majority of Country Supports Decriminalizing Sex Work, as Do 2/3 of Democrats and Voters Under 45

January 30, 2020

Data for Progress, ACLU, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Campaign, Women’s March, and two dozen other organizations release report and united policy platform on decriminalizing sex...

Residents and Experts Testify, Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

January 22, 2020

They point to alarming new information about cancer risks, company’s failure to comply with promise to protect children and residents, and alert parish about burial grounds of enslaved people January...

Landowners Challenge Oil Pipeline Companies’ Power to Exercise Eminent Domain in Louisiana Court of Appeal

January 8, 2020

Pipeline is Environmentally Destructive, Not in the Public Good January 8, 2020, Lake Charles, LA – Today, attorneys representing Louisiana landowners whose property was taken by an oil pipeline...

Residents, Civil Rights Groups, National Legal Organizations Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

December 23, 2019

Letters Raise Alarming New Information about Cancer Risks, Company’s Failure to Protect Residents and Alert Parish About Burial Grounds of Enslaved People December 23, 2019, St. James, LA – Today,...

Graves of Enslaved People Found on Proposed Formosa Plastics Site

December 18, 2019

Governor Asked to End Project in St. James D ecember 18, 2019, St. James, Louisiana — RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots community group, recently learned that graves of enslaved people have...

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Medically Vulnerable Immigrants in Louisiana ICE Facilities File Emergency Petition for Release

Medically Vulnerable Immigrants Detained by ICE in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana Seek Release Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak

Once Anonymous Archeologists Come Forward with Report Indicating More Burial Grounds of Enslaved People Likely Exist on Site Proposed for Controversial Plastics Plant

Muslims Placed on No-Fly List by FBI Agents to Coerce Them to Spy on Their Communities Ask Supreme Court to Allow Lawsuit to Go Forward

Trump’s Goal: To End All Non-White Immigration to the U.S., Says Center for Constitutional Rights

For First Time, Polls Find Majority of Country Supports Decriminalizing Sex Work, as Do 2/3 of Democrats and Voters Under 45

Residents and Experts Testify, Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

Landowners Challenge Oil Pipeline Companies’ Power to Exercise Eminent Domain in Louisiana Court of Appeal

Residents, Civil Rights Groups, National Legal Organizations Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

Graves of Enslaved People Found on Proposed Formosa Plastics Site

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