All day yesterday I got text messages from queer friends. “Are you OK?” “OMG it could have been me.” “I had two friends who were there.” “How are you holding up?” “I used to go to Pulse all the time...
Last night, on what would have been his 73rd birthday, nearly 1000 people turned out to commemorate CCR's late President Emeritus Michael Ratner. Executive Director Vince Warren, among two dozen...
Today in Albany a Civil Service Commission is meeting to consider a cadet program aimed at increasing racial and gender diversity in the New York City Fire Department. The proposed program grew out...
On Monday night, friends, family, colleagues, and clients gathered to remember CCR's late president emeritus Michael Ratner. Many of them touched on Michael's and CCR's guiding belief of success...
Lawyer, professor, and writer Jonathan Hafetz shares his memories of late CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner and the enduring mission of efforts to close Guantánamo, which is further explored in...
As part of CCR’s discriminatory policing , sexual and gender-based violence , and LGBTQI persecution work, CCR successfully challenged Louisiana’s requirement that those charged under the archaic and...
Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
This Sunday, June 26, is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture . On this day, and every day, CCR recognizes the courage and resilience of our clients, allies, and movement...
Tomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an...
