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Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans and Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans and Legal Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Challenging Vatican Old Boys Network It started when the Rome police spotted the three women in long white church liturgical garments robes, the man in a roman collar dressed all in black, and their supporters walking several blocks down the middle of Via della Conciliazione directly towards the Vatican, the headquarters of the institutional Roman Catholic Church and the Basilica of St. Peter.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 14, 2011
Million Plus Remain Homeless and Displaced in Haiti: One Year After Quake One year after the tragic earthquake, more than a million people remain homeless in Haiti; almost half of them are children.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 10, 2011
Guns and Terrorism: Two Unasked Question in Tucson Mass Murder What about guns? Why no terrorism discussion?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire -" What Does It Say About US? Eight homeless youth died in a fire in an abandoned warehouse in New Orleans overnight.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 24, 2010
Obama's Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention by Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People Guantanamo is coming up on its 9th anniversary. The proposal floated by Obama administration will only make things worse.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 22, 2010
Honduras: Crisis and Progress Honduras resistance lives, fights for human rights and celebrates despite deaths, beatings and arrests.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The United States of Fear - Ten Examples Since September 11, 2001, fear has been the main engine of change in the United States. Who would have thought that across the US, where people boast that it is the home of the free and the land of the brave, people would gladly surrender their freedom and liberty because they so fear terrorism?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Another False Ending: Contracting Out the Iraq Occupation In Iraq, while thousands of US troops are marching out, thousands of additional private military contractors (PMCs) are marching in. The number of armed security contractors in Iraq will more than double in the coming months.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 7, 2010
Katrina Pain Index 2010 New Orleans Five Years Later the challenges facing New Orleans after Katrina are the same ones facing millions of people of color, women, the elderly and disabled and their children across the US. Katrina just made these challenges clearer in New Orleans than in many other places. Here is where we are five years later.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 16, 2010
Dissent Victory for Animal Rights Activists Attacks by government on our human and civil rights are always first directed at people on the margins who do not have widespread popular support. Animal and environmental activists are the ones under attack today. Unless we stand up and vigorously protect their rights to dissent, others, including us, will be certainly be next.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 1, 2010
BP and Bhopal - USA Double Standard When a US corporation was responsible for killing and disabling hundreds of thousands in Bhopal India, the US was not very aggressive in holding it accountable. Why a different approach when US citizens are involved?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 28, 2010
One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US-Supported Coup The pro-democracy resistance in Honduras is strong one year after US supported a coup. Solidarity by US activists is needed.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 10, 2010
Mississippi Starts Sixth Murder Trial for African American In a small town in Mississippi, they are prosecuting an African American man for murder for the sixth time.
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Corporations Profit from Permanent War: Memorial Day 2010 Remember this Memorial Day that, while thousands have been laid in their graves and hundreds of thousands wounded, private military contractors are prospering and profiting as the business of war booms.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 13, 2010
Taking Back Homes from the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing There are lots of people without homes. And there are lots of vacant homes owned by banks. Put them together for the human right to housing.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Assassinationn of US Muslim Cleric Illegal Immoral and Unwise Assassinating Awlaki in the US would be murder, a capital crime, punishable by life in prison or even the death penalty. Morally, few would argue that agents of the FBI or the CIA could murder the cleric in the US. If it is illegal and immoral to kill a Muslim cleric in the US why would it be legal, moral or wise to do so in Yemen?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 2, 2010
Fire on the Bayou: Non-Stop River of Oil Heads to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida "This isn't a spill. This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse," said Kerry St. Pe, the former head of the Louisiana oil spill response team. The Gulf spill is really a river of oil flowing out of the bottom of the Gulf according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 30, 2010
Not Just Arizona: Immigration Enforcement Out of Control on Federal Level While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Bush Insider Reveals Guantanamo Deception: Hundreds of Innocents Jailed Bush insider reveals that the President, the VP, Rumsfeld and others knew early on that hundreds of people detained at Guantanamo were not terrorists but innocents.

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