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Center for Constitutional Rights CCR files amicus brief in support of South African Apartheid case currently before US courts. The case seeks to hold US and German corporations accountable for allegedly assisting the Apartheid regime: http://bit.ly/4rpmnH
Center for Constitutional Rights NYC Thursday 12/3: Join CCR on the 40th anniversary of the murder of Fred Hampton and the release of "The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther." Spread the word! http://bit.ly/7NqAdE
Center for Constitutional Rights "There is no middle ground when it comes to human freedom." Michael Ratner on Obama's preventative detention: http://bit.ly/7LlTCG
Center for Constitutional Rights McCarthy era blacklist victims, peace groups, academics, and media file amicus briefs in CCR case about law that makes speech advocating human rights a terrorist act http://bit.ly/54nwhy
COINTELPRO Then and Now: 40 years since the FBI and Chicago police assassinated Fred Hampton
Location:The Community Church of New York
Time:Thursday, 03 December 2009 18:30
Center for Constitutional Rights CCR Files Opening Brief in First Supreme Court Case to Challenge Patriot Act. Obama Administration Defending Law that Makes Speech Advocating Human Rights a Terrorist Crime http://bit.ly/2X2NTf
Center for Constitutional Rights CCR charges Congress violated Constitution in vote to de-fund ACORN, affiliates and allies. New lawsuit seeks temporary restraining order in Bill of Attaindercase: http://ccrjustice.org/acorn-v-usa
Center for Constitutional Rights
CCR charges Congress
violated Constitution in vote to de-fund ACORN, affiliates and allies.
New lawsuit seeks temporary restraining order in Bill of Attainder
case: http://ccrjustice.org/acorn-v-usa
ccrjustice.org
On November 12, 2009, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a case challenging Congress’s unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The case charges Congress with violating the Bill of Attainder provision in the U.S. ...
Center for Constitutional Rights U.S. Court allows CCR lawsuit re: extrajudicial killings by former Bolivian President and Defense Minister to Proceed http://bit.ly/1XOg2I
Center for Constitutional Rights CCR Senior Staff Attorney Maria LaHood talks about the dismissal of Maher Arar's case on Democracy Now! http://bit.ly/3U05vK
Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US
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On Monday, a federal court of appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar's case against US officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled ...
Center for Constitutional Rights CCR: Rendition Victims Can Get Justice in Italy and Canada But Not in U.S. http://bit.ly/4hER
Center for Constitutional Rights 5 Muslim, Arab and South Asian New Yorkers detained and abused in post-9/11 immigration sweeps settle case for $1.26M http://bit.ly/nieYx
Center for Constitutional Rights No justice for rendition victim Maher Arar: Court refuses to hold U.S. accountable for complicity in torture abroad http://bit.ly/1oWYRo
Center for Constitutional Rights Guantánamo Uighurs, CCR clients, released to temporary home on island nation of Palau: http://bit.ly/PQ3wB
