CCR has launched a podcast!

We are excited to announce the launch of the CCR podcast, The Activist Files! The monthly series will feature the stories of people of the front lines fighting for justice, including activists, artists, and lawyers. The Activist Files brings you the stories beyond the headlines, looking at them from unexpected angles and surfacing the humor, hope, and compassion that shapes the work of all of our guests. On our first episode, The Activist Files hosts—Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain and Senior Legal Worker Ian Head—fill you in on some recent victories, and Ian talks with immigrant-rights activist Ravi Ragbir and his partner Amy Gottlieb about their struggle to resist Ravi's deportation. Ravi is the Executive Director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, and Amy is an Associate Regional Director for the American Friends Service Committee. They met through their immigrant rights work and have been married since 2010. Ravi has been fighting his own deportation order since 2006, and was recently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following a regularly scheduled check-in. Ian serves on Ravi's defense committee and has formed a close friendship with Ravi and Amy. This episode is an intimate conversation that takes you inside their efforts, from what you can do to support Ravi and immigrant rights generally, to what Ravi and Amy admire about each other. Give it a listen and share! 

Events in NYC and DC

If you are in NYC this Friday, please join CCR for a screening of the film Call Me Kuchu, featuring a talk-back with CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees and activists fighting hate in Uganda. Call Me Kuchuis an award-winning feature-length documentary that portrays the last year in the life of the late Ugandan gay activist, David Kato, who was tragically murdered in 2011. The film examines the realities faced by the LGBTI activist community in Uganda as they fight a proposed "Anti-Homosexuality Bill," while combating persecution and discrimination in their daily lives.

Call Me Kuchu
Friday, April 20, 2018, 6:30pm
Dweck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library – Central Branch
More information here.

Then, next Wednesday, April 25, join us in Washington, D.C. for #NoMuslimBanEver events. CCR is proud to endorse the National Day of Action, which will take place that morning as the Supreme Court hears arguments on the Muslim Ban 3.0 in Hawaii v. Trump. In the evening, join us for a screening of the Al Jazeera Fault Lines short film Between War and the Ban with a talk-back featuring CCR Staff Attorney Diala Shamas and Legal Worker Ibraham Qatabi. As the war in Yemen worsens, many Yemenis are fleeing to safety and desperately trying to reunite with family in the United States. But with Donald Trump's controversial travel ban now in effect, the path to family reunification has been halted. Fault Lines examines how Yemeni-Americans have been caught between war and the ban and their lives put on hold as they wait for a Supreme Court decision that will ultimately decide their families' futures. Join us in D.C. to learn more.

National Day of Action - #NoMuslimBanEver
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 8:30am
U.S. Supreme Court, 1 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002
More information on the website and Facebook.

Between War and the Ban: Screening & Talk-back
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 7pm
George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs, Room 309
More information here.