CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol and CCR Board member Jules Lobel will speak at a biannual conference at UCLA for advocates around prison issues in September. Rachel is taking part in the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
September 15, 2016"I wish to see him and hug him and sit next to him and hold his head in my arms and tell him that I love him." This week, Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shayana Kadidal will join a panel discussion about the tragic December 2015 shooting in San Bernardino, California and subsequent heated dispute: should law enforcement be...
Updated: September 15, 2016
September 16, 2016This week, the New York City Council passed Resolution No. 1058-A, which condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli human rights abuses and violations of...
September 21, 2016, Chicago – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to strike down the federal Animal...
September 21, 2016Three years ago, my friend Tyler and I crept onto a squalid and cramped fur farm in northern Illinois and released two thousand mink from their cages to save their lives. Approximately a year later,...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present at a panel discussion, "Perspectives on Police Violence" at Hobart and William Smith (HWS) Colleges in Geneva, New York. Zamani will speak...
Updated: September 22, 2016
September 21, 2016Democracy Now! hosted a roundtable on police killings of black men. Protests escalated in Charlotte, North Carolina, overnight when hundreds took to the street and blocked Interstate 85 to express...
September 22, 2016...Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which challenged New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy in court, said the tactic effectively treated “race as a...
September 22, 2016CCR Executive Director talks about stop and frisk on All In With Chris Hayes.
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