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Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: New Maciel Revelations on the Heels of Papal Visit to Mexico Underscore Need for Accountability at the Very Top of the Roman Catholic Church
Recent Report Shows Mexico a Destination for Priests Escaping Charges of Rape and Sexual Violence in U. S By Pam Spees, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights While nothing is being done to protect the children of Mexico still being assaulted by Catholic clergy, plenty of preparations have taken place for this weekend’s papal [...]
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Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occupy 4 Prisoners
By Bill Quigley. Bill teaches law at Loyola University New Orleans and works with the Center for Constitutional Rights. A version of this article with sources is available. You can reach Bill at quigley77@gmail.com. Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for [...]
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Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: Working and Poor in the USA
By Bill Quigley, Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans.
“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all [...]
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Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: Live from Guantánamo
This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Wells Dixon, who is currently in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba visiting one of his clients. January 11, 2012 Today marks ten years since the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay. As fate would have it, I am here for a week visiting one of [...] -
Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: Guantánamo: Ten Years Too Many
by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights “Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of Arundhati Roy, the Indian author and activist, but they could also be those of anyone trying to draw up a balance sheet of the [...] -
Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: Migrants’ Rights Are Human Rights! Take The Police Out of Immigration Enforcement
By Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Bill Quigley , Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Nations and organizations around the globe observed yesterday as International Migrants Day . Twenty-two years ago, on December 18, 1990 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the [...] -
Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: Dutch Commission Report Highlights Need for International Response to Clergy Sex Abuse
Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement December 16, 2011, New York – In light of a report released today by an official commission investigating clergy sex abuse throughout the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement:
The extent of child rape and other sexual violence revealed in the [...]
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Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: The Future Of The Occupy Movement
The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public discourse, faces a critical juncture. As many of the larger encampments in New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles are shut down by the police, activists have been searching for the tactics to move beyond Occupation [...] -
Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: Chilean Judge Requests Extradition of US Navy Captain in Decades-Old Murder of US Journalist
By Peter Weiss, Vice President, Center for Constitutional Rights Chile’s 9/11happened in 1973, with the violent overthrow of the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende by army chief Agusto Pinochet. Among the many victims of this violence were two young Americans, Charles Horman, a journalist and filmmaker, and Frank Teruggi, a student. Both were arrested without [...]
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Center for Constitutional Rights wrote a new diary post: How Far Will the Government Go in Collecting and Storing All Our Personal Data?
By Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Scott Paltrowitz, Volunteer Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer equated GPS surveillance with the ultra-repressive government monitoring in George Orwell’s 1984this week during the oral argument in United States v. Jones . The case asks whether the use of a GPS [...]
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