Posts Tagged ‘Center For Constitutional Rights’

Cover-ups, coups, and drones

Cover-ups, coups, and drones
A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable.  The transparency, which Wikileaks has brought about, unveils many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand,...
December 21st, 2010 | Middle East, Politics, World | Read More

Why Wikileaks is good for democracy

Why Wikileaks is good for democracy
“Information is the currency of democracy.” Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that “state secrets” will not be shared with citizens.  Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of state secrets, but President...
December 2nd, 2010 | Featured, US | Read More

Honduras: crisis and progress

Honduras: crisis and progress
Today, October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in Resistance Day. This event contrasts directly with today’s official recognition of Honduras Armed Forces day. The resistance, which is working for a truly democratic Honduras, renamed the day and created an...
October 21st, 2010 | Featured, World | Read More

Katrina pain index 2010 New Orleans — five years later

Katrina pain index 2010 New Orleans — five years later
It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people...
August 10th, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

Why we sued to represent Muslim cleric Aulaqi

Why we sued to represent Muslim cleric Aulaqi
Anwar Aulaqi is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen.  The US has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him.  The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU filed suit today so we can be pro bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Aulaqi, to stop the government...
August 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

One Year Later: Honduras resistance strong despite US supported coup

One Year Later: Honduras resistance strong despite US supported coup
Co-written by Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond. Bill and Laura work at the Center for Constitutional Rights. One year ago, on June 28, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by gunfire. A coup was carried out by US-trained military officers, including graduates of the infamous US Army...
June 29th, 2010 | Featured, World | Read More

African American Mississippi man starts record sixth murder trial

African American Mississippi man starts record sixth murder trial
Audrey Stewart and Davida Finger also contributed to this article An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to ever go on trial for murder six times for the same crime. Mr. Flowers has been in jail in Mississippi since 1996, accused...
June 10th, 2010 | Criminal Justice | Read More

Bush insider reveals Guantanamo deception: Hundreds of innocents jailed

Bush insider reveals Guantanamo deception: Hundreds of innocents jailed
Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed at Guantanamo were innocent, the top people in the Bush Administration knew full well they were innocent, and...
April 20th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Nine myths about socialism in the US

Nine myths about socialism in the US
Glenn Beck and other far right multi-millionaires are claiming that the US is hot on the path towards socialism. Part of their claim is that the US is much more generous and supportive of our working and poor people than other countries. People may wish it was so, but it is not. As Senator Patrick...
April 12th, 2010 | Featured, Politics, US | Read More

Not just Guantanamo: U.S. torturing Muslim pre-trial detainee in New York City

Not just Guantanamo: U.S. torturing Muslim pre-trial detainee in New York City
Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. Syed Fahad Hashmi For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pre-trial isolation inside in a small cell under 24 hour video and audio surveillance....
April 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More