We are reeling from this Supreme Court’s retrograde decision in Dobbs v. Whole Women’s Health. We are reeling from its arrogant dismissal of universally recognized principles of bodily autonomy, self-determination, and equality.
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“Nothing demonstrates the endemic corruption in Phoenix more vividly than the power of [ALEC], the pay-to-play operation that collects hefty fees from corporations in exchange for private access to state lawmakers” —
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“ALEC has a long history of playing a crucial role in the development of laws that have directly contributed to the further exploitation and degradation of Black and other marginalized communities.” #stopALEC
— Percy Christian of
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“Most people would be disgusted by the spectacle of lobbyists and lawmakers wining and dining in lavish resorts while they craft legislation that often causes harm to the most vulnerable, hardworking Arizonans.” #stopALEC
— Arizona Representative-Elect
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"Groups are asking the court to make public all notes and materials from the meeting and to enjoin legislators from attending future meetings of this sort."
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“ALEC has weaponized the legislative process to push through the alt-right agenda… the legislature needs to be held to the highest standard when crafting legislation that will impact real people’s lives” — of #stopALEC
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“The documents and depositions we have taken in this case repeatedly show how the BPD has unconstitutionally targeted Black people in deeply harmful and dehumanizing ways as a matter of standard operating procedure,” — 's for
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In the letter to Blinken and Nides, and argue that maintaining and expanding the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is a violation of international law, just as moving the Embassy to Jerusalem and declaring it the capital of Israel was.
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🚨 TODAY: Join us for the Meta, #LetPalestineSpeak Webinar!
Together we sent over 3,000 emails to Meta execs demanding that they stop silencing Palestinian voices & narratives. Now it is time to make sure they know we’re still paying attention!
Register: cutt.ly/NNmo9Xg
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Update: Urooj's sentencing hearing has been postponed and is no longer on 11/9. Stay tuned for a new date.
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Join the , , & allies to support Urooj Rahman and attend her sentencing hearing in the Eastern District of New York, Courtroom 8D South!
There would be no justice in sentencing Urooj to anything more than time served.
RSVP: bit.ly/SupportUR
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#FIDHCONGRESS2022: international solidarity call for Black lives, Black love, Black justice in the US, making connection bt US imperialism abroad & domestic repression of Black & brown communities @ home. United liberation from racial capitalism & colonialism
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Congratulations -& merci- for 100 years advancing & demanding universal respect for #humanrights & building a global community to protect the most vulnerable in times of war & peace, build better world. Beautiful music & opens the celebration! #FIDHat100
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#FIDHCongress2022: An activist, a lawyer & a storyteller can change the world -
For the lawyers, we need to step-back, create space for the activists & impacted communities, so they have access & platforms they seek to make the change they are demanding.
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🔴At a public hearing, and will be addressing the treatment and due process rights of the prisoners, and the lack of transfers at #Guantánamo, as well as the question of the prison’s closure. US representatives will also be present.
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🔴For 20 years, the has reiterated its call for immediate closure of #Guantánamo. The #Biden administration has transferred only 4 detainees. 22 of the remaining 36 detainees are immediately eligible for transfer, but continue to be held indefinitely.
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🔴In 2013, the reaffirmed the measures and required the immediate closure of #Guantánamo in light of the US’ failure to comply with any of the measures since in 2002, the indefinite detention of the prisoners, and allegations of abuse and mistreatment.
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🔴The prison at #Guantánamo was opened on January 2002, and it has since held nearly 800 prisoners, all of them Muslim men from across the world. In March 2002, the issued precautionary measures to protect detainees held at #Guantánamo.
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🔴 #185IACHRPeriod - Public Hearing: the closure of #Guantánamo continues to be a matter of enormous national, regional, and global importance. Since 2002, the & have advocated before the to protect rights of the men held there
🗓️October 28
🕐11:00 ET
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., why are you labeling press conference seeking #JusticeForShireen @ #ICC as "inappropriate for some users"? YET ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO SILENCE PALESTINIAN VOICES & CALLS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ISRAELI CRIMES #Shame! Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=Prh3sh
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For folks who still don’t believe Palestinian voices are marginalized/censored, check out YoutTube’s throttling of access to a press conference on findings of an actual investigation into killing of journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh. twitter.com/alhaq_org/stat…
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Int'l child rights norms & Israel’s own laws prohibit a 7 yr old from being arrested/prosecuted, yet heavily-armed Israeli soldiers flagrantly ignore this reality, chasing/ detaining young Palestinian children, striking fear, ensuring they have no safe spaces to develop & thrive”
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“Israeli forces know no bounds as they attempt to control an incredibly young occupied Palestinian population through intimidation, threats, nighttime incursions, collective punishment & by instilling fear. - #NoWayToTreatAChild 1/2👇
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Rayan Suleiman’s family says the seven-year-old’s heart stopped and he collapsed after running in fear from Israeli soldiers who were raiding his home in search of alleged “stone-throwers.” bit.ly/3dQwi0A
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Join us October 6, 6–9 p.m. for an evening screening and discussion of Al-Jazeera Fault Lines The Jim Crow Convictions. The film investigates the legacies of Jim Crow legislation and follows Brandon Jackson as he fights for his freedom. Register at bit.ly/jim-crow-convi
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We are almost there! Tune in this Monday, 9/26 5:30PM EST and learn about the tangible solutions to real-life movement challenges that were collectively brainstormed during our Liberation Labs and how to get involved. Register at bit.ly/LibLabReport
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Join us on Monday September 26, 2022 from 5:30-6:30pm EST for a report back from the participants and hosts of the Liberation Labs from our Lawyering for Liberation Conference. Tune in and see how you can throw down for movement! Register at bit.ly/LibLabReport
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Amazing work by NYU law students Vibha Kannan, Rebecca Schectman, Katie Gallagher! Order is here: ccrjustice.org/sites/default/
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2) The court remarked that a FOIA request "is to be read in a capacious manner befitting an agency of the U.S. government charged with the statutory responsibility to produce for public consumption the greatest number of records that fall within the FOIA request..."
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1) Great #FOIA ruling today in @theCCR & NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic's case supporting sanctuary leaders on behalf of @SanctuaryAustin @Free_Migration @Grassroots_News ordering new searches of ICE leadership and the architects of the civil fines program!
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Critical & investigation: models out where #ShireenAbuAkleh & 2 journalists were & where #Israel's marksmen were to show no cross-fire & press vests clearly visible. , confirms Israel's "investigation" whitewash #JusticeForShireen
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New evidence on the killing of @AlJazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh by our Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit & @ForensicArchi. Our advanced spatial technologies establish that Israel's report on the incident is false & deliberately misleading.
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They languished for months without charges or explanation, until they were finally cleared of any connection to terrorism and then deported. Their lives were destroyed, their families ripped apart.
Donate at bit.ly/911-detainees-
First $20,000 will be matched!
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Longtime staffer Rachel Meeropol has launched a GoFundMe for the for the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men who were rounded up and tortured in the weeks after September 11, 2001.
The goal is $80,000. Donate at bit.ly/911-detainees-
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ACLU is proud to support this important complaint to on extreme sentencing including life imprisonment without parole which effectively condemns individuals to death by incarceration. theguardian.com/us-news/2022/s
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A coalition of people in prison and out are calling on the UN today to urge the abolition of life sentences in the US - aka Death By Incarceration - as a violation of basic human rights - including the right to hope
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Today, @theCCR is joining dozens of organizations to submit a complaint appealing the UN to hold the US accountable for torture and racial discrimination through life sentences, aka Death by Incarceration (DBI). #DBIisTorture
Read here: deathbyincarcerationistorture.com/the-complaint
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“The U.S. should abolish death by incarceration sentences and ensure that the disproportionately Black and aging individuals serving these sentences are afforded the right to dignity, hope and redemption,” , staff attorney
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Today, dozens of orgs submitted a complaint to alleging that the US is torturing and racially targeting people through death by incarceration sentences (DBI), AKA life sentences. More here:
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By depriving individuals of any hope of life outside of prison, DBI is torture. As one person serving the sentence said: "It's like being buried alive." Read from 40+ people impacted by DBI here: deathbyincarcerationistorture.com/letters-from-p
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