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Gitmo - The Law Doesn't Allow Playing Politics with People's Lives

Camilo Ramirez — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:32:11 -0400

Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) - PSA: Stop-and-Frisk and the NYPD are on Trial

Jin Song — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:53:57 -0400

Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) teamed up with the Center for Constitutional Rights for this public service announcement on the harmful impact of stop and frisk on communities and how New Yorkers are taking the fight for their rights to the courts. Click here to learn more about the Center's landmark case challenging the NYPD's practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and frisks.

Why New York Is Still the Capital of Immigrant America

lgazzola@ccrjustice.org — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400

"In March of this year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared New York “the most immigrant-friendly city in the world.” The occasion: the signing of Local Laws 982 and 989, two pieces of of legislation designed to shield immigrants from the long and overzealous arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Passed overwhelmingly by the New York City Council, the laws bar the New York Police Department and Department of Corrections from providing immigration officials with information about those arrested for minor crimes or ordered released after charges are dismissed."

President Obama must act to close Guantánamo

lgazzola@ccrjustice.org — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400

"The process of dying is never easy or painless. Death by starvation is particularly grueling: the body cannibalizes fat and tissue, wasting to skin and bones, leading to dehydration, incoherence and, ultimately, heart failure. It is a slow and agonizing ordeal, even for the most committed hunger striker. It took IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands more than two months to die in Maze prison when he starved himself to death in 1981. And for those who are force-fed, the process is even more excruciating; they may endure as food is pumped up their noses and into their stomachs like a veal calf, but eventually they will die as well. ..."

Hunger strike at Gitmo: ‘We are dying a slow death here’

lgazzola@ccrjustice.org — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400

We want our city back: What’s at stake in the Floyd v. City of New York trial

lgazzola@ccrjustice.org — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:42:19 -0400

“New York is a cosmopolitan, sophisticated city in the leading democracy in the world, yet its residents all too often feel like they are living in an occupied country—only the occupation here is by their very own police force. Every year, the New York City Police Department illegally stops hundreds of thousands of people as part of its stop-and-frisk program. ...”

www.amsterdamnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/we-want-our-city-back-what-s-at-stake-in

Trial to Start in Class Suit on Stop-and-Frisk Tactic

lgazzola@ccrjustice.org — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:42:19 -0400

In one of the most significant courtroom tests of a key Bloomberg administration policy, a federal judge will begin hearing testimony on Monday in a trial to determine whether the New York Police Department has been unconstitutionally stopping black and Hispanic males in the street over the last decade. The outcome of the trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan will...

CCR Executive Director Vince Warren on the Bill Moyers Show

Qaid Jacobs — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:57:09 -0500

Bill explores the moral and legal implications of using drones to target our enemies -- both foreign and American -- as well as other intelligence issues with Vicki Divoll, a former general counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former deputy legal adviser to the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorism Center, and Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Baher Azmy on Pres. Obama signing National Defense Authorization Act

ccr — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:22:16 -0500

Scott Lively Gets His Day in Court

Camilo Ramirez — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:44:24 -0500

Is there anything extremist right-wing preachers won’t blame on LGBT people? After the Newtown shooting, James Dobson listed tolerance of gay marriage as one of the reasons God’s punishment was directed at a bunch of first graders. And who can forget the classic Jerry Falwell moment, blaming 9/11 on “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle….”