January 18, 2017Fordham University has denied an application to form a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on campus, citing as its rationale the group's political goals -- including its support for the...
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin In 1979, author James Baldwin wrote a 30-page letter outlining a biography of slain civil...
Updated: February 1, 2017
January 20, 2017...“These legislators, and no doubt future ones, are emboldened by the narrow, authoritarian caste of mind emanating from the new President—one that is ignorant of the basic premises of a healthy...
February 14, 2017... The vast majority of “terrorists” cited in the CIS study were convicted for providing “material support” to designated terrorist organizations, not for actually planning or committing acts of...
February 14, 2017...In Maryland, opponents of anti-BDS legislation include Muslim, Jewish and Christian advocacy organizations working together to promote a better future for all in the Middle East. Civil rights...
Candidate Trump’s May 2016 statements urging the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank did not come out of nowhere: less than a month earlier, Trump had appointed his bankruptcy...
Updated: March 7, 2017
March 8, 2017, New York, NY -- Three anti-BDS bills were fast-tracked out of committee and passed today without debate by the New York State Senate. Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional...
March 9, 2017...The legal advocacy organizations Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a statement saying it would fight to prevent the bills from passing the Assembly and becoming law...
March 17, 2017Last Wednesday, as thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Central Park for an International Women’s Day demonstration, New York State Senators were hard at work in Albany, limiting our right to protest...
CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren will discuss what can be done both inside and outside of courtrooms and legislatures as new threats to basic rights and people’s movements call for new...
Updated: March 20, 2017
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