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Volunteer Opportunities Become a Guest Writer We are currently seeking volunteer guest writers. Volunteer bloggers will post content on designated days concerning the core rule of law issues currently facing our nation: surveillance, detention, torture, and secrecy. Posts can be as
Sascha Meinrath Board President Sascha is the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State and director of X-Lab, an innovative think tank focusing on the intersection of vanguard technologies and public policy. Sascha is a renowned technology policy expert and
BORDC’s Patriot Award for July 2015 goes to Marsha Coleman-Adebayo. The granddaughter of African-Americans who escaped state-sponsored terrorism in the Deep South, she grew up steeped in activism in the politically tumultuous Detroit of the late 1960s and 1970s. She
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Making the connection BORDC staff (Executive Director Shahid Buttar and Grassroots Campaign Coordinator Emma Roderick) met LaResse Harvey, an experienced organizer with A Better Way Foundation, at a leadership retreat in upstate New York in February 2010. LaResse, whose work
This post first appeared in Koine On July 1st, a group of ‘illegal immigrants’ were flown from Texas’ overcrowded immigrant detention centers to California and transported in three buses for processing in the city of Murrieta. The immigrants, mostly women
David Greenglass, who died in 2014, was arguably the most notorious American informer of the 20th century. He snitched on his own sister and got her electrocuted.
With a St. Louis County grand jury’s decision on whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown expected in the next few weeks, different elements of the community are getting prepared. Police are stocking up on
Austin, Texas cop-watching activist Antonio Buehler was acquitted Oct. 29 in what the Austin American-Statesman called “likely the most hotly contested misdemeanor trial in Austin’s recent history.” Buehler, who cofounded the Peaceful Streets Project, had been charged with failure to
Bill Quigley is a lawyer with decades of experience fighting for justice on behalf of vulnerable populations and defending the rights of protesters. He doesn’t need magical powers to see into the future to know how police in Ferguson are likely
For holding heart-shaped peace signs and wearing pro-peace T-shirts, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink and 11 other activists were ordered to leave the National Mall under threat of arrest during the Concert For Valor held there on Veterans’ Day. “Park
A group of seven United Nations human rights experts sent President Barack Obama an open letter on Wednesday, Nov. 26, urging him to release the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on Central Intelligence Agency torture tactics “in the most
The legal community has publicly stepped up to provide direct support to protesters against police violence, and has recently begun to take direct action in the streets as an expression of solidarity. In Ferguson and greater St. Louis, where diverse