BORDC Issues July Newsletter
Posted on July 17, 2012
From Bill of Rights Defense Committee:
Constitution in Crisis: July 2012, Vol. 12, No. 7
In this issue:
Aerial drones to deploy across US skies
- BORDC invites law students to craft legal fellowships for 2013
- BORDC seeks interns for fall 2012
- BORDC in the news
- Read the latest news & analysis from the People’s Blog for the Constitution
- Recent Events
- Grassroots organizers explain their passion for civil liberties
- Patriot Award: George Lippman
- Statewide coalition in CT, working to challenge military detention
- Asheville, NC, organizes a civil rights picnic to build community cohesion
- Miami, FL hosts Freedom Forum
- Cleveland, OH organizes around anniversary of 1982 profiling incident
- Coalitions in Los Angeles, CA challengeLAPD Spying and military detention
- Coalitions in San Francisco, CA resist proposed stop & frisk policy, as well as military detention
- From NY to SF: Rising up to end “Stop & Frisk”
- Berkeley Police Department—Demilitarized and re-constitutionalized
- FBI Faces Investigation for Wrongful Convictions
- President Obama issues executive order allowing government seizure of Internet
- Grassroots momentum compels immigration enforcement policy shift
- Congress Holds Obama Administration Accountable for “Fast and Furious”
- Solitary confinement brings torture to the US for many
- The War on Whistleblowers
New Resources and Opportunities
- Book Review: The Offensive Internet by Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore
- Grassroots Toolkit
- This August, hold your members of Congress accountable
See the full newsletter at BORDC.
