We've got to take our government back because this administration doesn't know what's right," charged Ann Wright, addressing the tribunal against the Bush administration recently at the Manhattan Center. During his keynote address Marcus Raskin, whose anti-war credentials go back to the Vietnam era, told the modest but enthusiastic crowd that it was not a matter of conscience, but of citizenship that their voices should be raised and their outrage demonstrated. "It is as citizens of this country that we should be saying to the [Bush administration], 'You are not going to get away with this.' From the very beginning we have been deceived," he said. These sentiments were echoed by historian Howard Zinn in his videotaped remarks and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights. ...
For months, Ratner and his colleagues at the left-wing law group Center for Constitutional Rights had been working with French lawyers, preparing a prosecutorial brief against the former secretary of defense They waited until October, when Rumsfeld was scheduled to be in Paris for a round-table discussion on international relations sponsored by Foreign fbfcymagazine. When the federal government began rounding up terror suspects after September 11, his Center for Constitutional Rights took the lead in suing to guarantee that the suspects had access to the federal courts.
The event opened Friday at Riverside Church in Harlem, where Harry Belafonte had the stage once again to voice his opinions on the [Bush] administration. Recent comments from Belafonte include calling Bush a "terrorist" and comparing the Homeland Security Department to the "Nazi Gestapo. As this session of the tribunal began, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights sharply laid out the aims of the tribunal and the urgency of the times: "We are putting the Bush administration on trial. We investigate in order to expose. We document in order to indict. We arouse consciousness in order to create mass resistance. We want this trial to be a step in the building of mass resistance to war, to torture, to the destruction of our earth and its people. It's a serious moment. Our co...
WASHINGTON - Several Democrats and civil rights advocates charged yesterday that a Republican compromise about the treatment of terrorism suspects leaves the door open for torture and abuse while stripping captives of a basic right to a court appeal. This is a bill that's essentially going to continue to allow coercive interrogations," said Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has represented about 500 detainees, many of them held for more than four years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "I find it just shameful as a human rights lawyer who's spent my life suing every dictator in the world over this kind of stuff.
[Jean-Bertrand Aristide] said that he was kidnapped," Waters (D-Calif.) said during a recent interview with Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now!" on WBAI-FM. "He said that he was taken from his home by a contingent of U.S. Marines and told that he must leave right away. They took him and his wife, Mildred, to a plane without telling them where they were going. "Aristide is still the president," Harry Fouche, Haiti's Consul General, said on "Democracy Now!" Wednesday morning. Attorney Michael Ratner, president of the Center For Constitutional Rights, supported this contention, noting that if Aristide was forced to write a letter of resignation then it was not valid. "Nor can the chief justice take over the government, since his appointment hasn't been ratified by the legislature." Like...
Over the line Defense lawyers have been protesting the conviction of radical attorney Lynne Stewart, in a federal court in New York, on charges of aiding terrorism in her representation of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. "The purpose of this prosecution ... was to send a message to lawyers who represent alleged terrorists that it's dangerous to do so," warned Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
... Court challenging the statute's constitutionality. The District Court held the statute unconstitutio... for Criminal Justice; and by Michael Ratner for the Center for Constitutional Rights. Briefs o...
MORGANTOWN - A handful of freelance journalists and computer programmers are launching what they hope will become Appalachia's own version of WikiLeaks, a website where government and corporate whistle blowers can anonymously share documents. Honest Appalachia launches Tuesday, and co-founder and spokesman Jim Tobias says it will be a place where people can safely post information without fear of being identified as the source and suffering retaliation. Users download a software program to render their own computers anonymous, and the Honest Appalachia team then strips out other data that could make the document traceable.
... enlisted support from attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the Natiional Lawyers Guild. Michael Ratner, a board member and former president of the Center...
MORGANTOWN - A handful of freelance journalists and computer programmers are launching what they hope will become Appalachia's own version of WikiLeaks, a website where government and corporate whistle-blowers can anonymously share documents. Honest Appalachia launched Tuesday, and co-founder and spokesman Jim Tobias says it will be a place where people can safely post information without fear of being identified as the source and suffering retaliation. Users download a software program to render their own computers anonymous, and the Honest Appalachia team then strips out other data that could make the document traceable.
... enlisted support from attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the Natiional Lawyers Guild. Michael Ratner, a board member and former president of the Center...
... presents the question of the constitutionality of the independent counsel provisions of the Ethic...Freund, and Philip B. Heymann; for the Center for Constitutional Rights by Morton Stavis, Michaeel Ratner, Frank Askin, and Daniel Pollitt; for Public Citiz...
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