Annual Report Our Mission

The Center for Constitutional Rights is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented in the South, CCR is committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change. CCR Annual Report 2009

Letter from the Executive Director 2 Letter from the President 4

International Human Rights 6 Military Contractors in Iraq 8 Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative 10 Racial, Gender and Economic Justice 12 Accountability for Torture 16 Rendition and Ghost Detentions 18 Government Abuse of Power 20 Attacks on Dissent 22

Letter from the Legal Director 24 CCR Case Index 25

The Case for Prosecutions 32

Internships and Fellowships 34 In the News 35 100 Days Campaign 36 Get Involved 37 2009 President’s Reception 38 Friends and Allies 39 CCR Donors 44 Board of Directors and Staff 60 Financial Report 62 In Memoriam 63 Letter from the Executive Director

n November 2008, we witnessed an we see a pronounced chasm between the values extraordinary and historic event in the election Obama extolled on the campaign trail and the of Barack Hussein Obama. This year also saw policies that he is putting into place as president. I Sonia Sotomayor join the Supreme Court, the And CCR has called him out on it. We launched first Latina and only the third woman to sit on our 100 Days Campaign to help focus the national that bench. These important milestones in the debate on issues including indefinite detention, struggle for racial and gender equality are cause torture, the repression of dissent, and illegal wire- for celebration, reflection and remembrance of the tapping. The campaign culminated in our report many people who have fought alongside us – even card on President Obama’s lackluster work in these in the darkest days – but were not with us to see areas. As a result, the nation now sees what we see: these achievements. Now we must take time to that in more ways than not, Obama has adopted assess the landscape before us. What do these the Bush plan in virtually all of these areas. CCR has momentous events portend for our work to also led, and will continue to lead, the national fight create positive social change? More specifically, for accountability for Bush-era war crimes, bringing will current leadership aid our work in dismantling home to the United States the push for a criminal the national security state? investigation that we took to Europe through our universal jurisdiction litigation several years ago. In thinking about these questions, we would do well to remember what , the first Importantly, our work attracted the attention of the Black woman to be elected to congress, taught us president himself. For the first time in our history, 40 years ago, “[t]hat I am a national figure because the Center was invited to the White House to meet I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a with the President of the United States. I was very congressman [sic], black and a woman proves, clear with him that he was on the wrong track and I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.” that, like it or not, history will assess the Obama Even as we celebrate the change in complexion administration, at least in part, on the extent to of some of our government’s leaders, we must which it renounces the illegal Bush-era detention be prepared for the often vicious backlash from and civil liberties policies, brings the U.S. in line the right that is sure to follow. We must push with international law, and holds those responsible aggressively and uncompromisingly beyond the for illegalities accountable through a meaningful status quo and toward the change we want to see criminal investigation. in our society and the world. President Obama starts negotiating from the middle As the new administration gets down to work, and has shown an instinct to move to the right at

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Letter from the Executive Director

the first sign of pressure. The right, for its part, is breathing achieves, there are a thousand losses. For every loss, there new life into the pernicious tactics that were its stock in trade are ten thousand stories of injustice that have yet to be told. It in the South during the 1960’s when CCR was founded. is our role to keep pushing for justice no matter who is in the They have found footing by fomenting racism to effectively seat of power. mobilize angry, hysterical opposition against even the most tepid administration policies. The Supreme Court under John CCR’s mission, forged 43 years ago in the fires of the civil Roberts has the singular mission of closing the courthouse rights movement, is simply to fight – and fight hard – for doors to cases that advance and defend the rights of the justice, and to defend and expand the rights enshrined in the people in this country. Last year, our allies lost all First U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Amendment cases, all environmental cases and 8 out of Rights. When those rights are curtailed by government or 13 employment discrimination cases before that Court. corporations, we defend those rights. When the government Congress has yet to even dip its toe into the pool of leader- or corporations violate those rights, we put the government ship on the issues that are so important to us, even while and corporations on trial. significantly undercutting President Obama on his pledge to close Guantánamo. Indeed, one MSNBC commentator For years we have fought the illegal expansion of executive noted that there are only 90 people in the entire United power to detain and spy on people. As we move forward, States that are afraid to house detainees in U.S. facilities we will focus our efforts on dismantling the national security when Guantánamo closes, and all of them are in the Senate. state erected by George W. Bush and maintained by . Our strategies on Guantánamo and related issues So, even if President Obama and Justice Sotomayor were will continue to shift as the policy debate does. We will also bold social justice visionaries, they would, like us, be faced focus on the root causes of much of the injustice in our soci- with overwhelming opposition from all branches of govern- ety through a focus on the expansion of social and economic ment. But it is clear that they are not such visionaries and rights so people can live and thrive in decency. CCR will it remains to be seen whether they will live the values we remain steadfast in our work to create meaningful change in ascribe to them through their offices. CCR must continue policy and practice, justice for the victims, and accountability to push. This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but may be for those who are responsible. gravely disappointing to many. We must remember that the road to a just and free society is a long one and fraught with severe challenges. For every extraordinary victory that CCR

Vincent Warren 3 Letter from the President

he first few months of the Obama make conviction easier than in regular courts. administration have proven how That is why such commissions are unaccept- difficult it is to make change and able; writing the rules subsequent to the crime T restore the fundamental rights that is anathema to the rule of law. The torture were trampled on by the Bush administration. program appears to be more or less at an end, Our 100 Days Campaign called on Obama but accountability for its architects has been to restore key constitutional rights within the taken off the table. Without such a reckoning first 100 days of his administration. Our list there is no assurance that another president of necessary changes included: the closing will not revive the program, but there is every of Guantánamo and ending of the preventive assurance that other countries will feel free to detention scheme it embodies; an end to mili- follow our infamous example. tary commissions; ending the torture program and accountability for its architects; limitations Despite promises to the contrary, invoking on the assertions by the government of state state secrets is still employed by the adminis- secrets used as a weapon to dismiss lawsuits tration to hide embarrassing or illegal conduct seeking accountability; a reigning in of domes- including the torture program, to subvert tic warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens; the justice for the victims and to prevent account- stopping of renditions; and an end to the use ability in lawsuits against government officials. of signing statements. Nor has there been any change in the war- rantless wiretapping practices of the Bush While there has been progress in some areas, administration. the majority of Bush policies on these issues have been adopted by the new administration. Obama is continuing the rendition program— While we hope Guantánamo will be closed as simply repeating Bush administration assur- a physical location, the preventive detention ances that we would not render someone to a scheme underlying it will apparently become country that tortures. CCR believes that part of our legal landscape. Amazingly, military renditions should never be employed. The commissions to try alleged terrorists are back forcible abduction of a person always involves up and running under procedures that will force and violence, as was recently illustrated

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by the first post-Obama case to come to light. and implemented the torture program to be held President Obama, to our surprise, has continued accountable. We have made a major effort to do so the practice of signing statements which are an and to push the administration into appointing a unwarranted assertion of executive power over special prosecutor with a broad mandate to inves- congressional authority. tigate the torture program to the top. From the earliest days of the Bush administration, This is not to say that we expected change to be CCR has sought accountability, whether through easy. We understood the political limitations of a our FOIA cases, our habeas corpus cases for the somewhat split electorate and the resistance that the Guantánamo detainees, our civil cases on behalf of right wing and institutions such as the CIA would victims and survivors of torture, and our efforts in have to any efforts to reform and hold accountable Europe at international prosecution of the torture those responsible for the disastrous last eight years. conspirators. We have some faith that the courts, as Even the mildest of measures taken by the Obama they occasionally did during the Bush years, will turn administration are viciously attacked as if those back a very dark tide. With continued work and a efforts would inevitably open the country to terrorist lot more pressure, this administration can still do the violence. The recent backlash against the adminis- right thing. So far the administration has fallen short. tration for daring to open a limited criminal investiga- That means we must redouble our efforts. tion of CIA agents provides a good example of the difficulty of what we have set out to accomplish. We are at an historic moment. The sinister policies and practices of the Bush administration must not Despite the antediluvian screaming by the become rooted in our society. We have only a brief right wing, CCR and many others believe it is opportunity to permanently undo the Bush legacy. absolutely necessary for those who formulated That time is now.

Michael Ratner

5 International Human Rights

Wiwa v. Shell forces used deadly force and oppression reached for $15.5 million. The settlement CCR celebrated a significant victory this year, against the local Ogoni people to repress a compensates the plaintiffs who were injured obtaining a major settlement agreement in a growing movement against the oil company and whose family members were killed, and series of cases on behalf of Nigerian environ- in the early 1990s. In 1995, the “Ogoni 9” covers a portion of their legal fees and costs. It mental activists suing Shell for human rights activists, including world-renowned writer Ken also establishes a $5 million trust to benefit the abuses in Nigeria. Saro-Wiwa, were given a sham trial and then Ogoni people, including for education, health, hanged. CCR was determined to hold Shell community development, and women’s programs. Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has a long history of accountable for human rights violations against working closely with the Nigerian government the Ogoni, and after 13 years of litigation, a trial Filed by CCR 13 years ago, and later joined by to quell popular opposition to its presence in the date was set for 2009. co-counsel and EarthRights International, these Niger Delta region. At the request of Shell, and cases are among the first to charge a multina- with Shell’s assistance and financing, Nigerian On the eve of trial, a public settlement was tional corporation with human rights violations.

6 Karadžic Update Over 13 years after being Doe v. Karadžic was the first time that indicted, Bosnian Serb leader a private person was held liable for Radovan Karadžic was arrested in July violations of international law in 2008 and is now in the custody of the U.S. courts under the Alien Tort International Criminal Tribunal for the Statute (ATS), extending accountability former Yugoslavia. He is facing crimi- for human rights violations to non- nal prosecution for numerous crimes governmental entities, including including genocide, war crimes, murder corporations. The ATS, rediscovered and inhumane treatment and torture, by CCR in the landmark 1980 case, including physical and sexual violence Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, allows foreigners committed against Bosnian Muslims, to sue in U.S. courts for human rights Bosnian Croats and other non-Serbs. violations committed anywhere in the world. The statute has become instrumental in holding In 1993, CCR and co-counsel sued Karadžic for foreign officials and corporations accountable to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. the public for human rights violations committed Karadžic appeared in the case until defaulting in around the globe. 1997. In September 2000, a jury awarded a judg- ment of $4.5 billion to victims and survivors of his This year, CCR litigated ATS cases against former brutal campaign of genocide and torture in Bosnia. government officials in Bolivia for attacks on civilian Claims of sexual violence were central to the case, protesters and in Israel for a “targeted assassination” with the court citing rape as a form of genocide and which killed 15 civilians, oil companies for human torture. The judgment is still outstanding. CCR rights abuses in Africa, and military contractors for continues to pursue enforcement of the judgment. murder and torture in Iraq.

This settlement demonstrates that multinational The Center for Constitutional Rights has always corporations can no longer act with the impunity worked towards the strengthening of interna- they once enjoyed. tional human rights and humanitarian law. Our work in this area has contributed to a The struggle for economic and environmental dramatic reshaping of the role of international justice will need to continue, both in Nigeria and law in the United States and around the world. worldwide. This momentous victory helps to validate CCR’s long-held belief in fighting with Wiwa is just one of our many cases against former CCR and our allies launched an international campaign to highlight the issues in this case, including this cam- creativity and persistence for our principles even government officials and corporations that use in- paign website at: www.wiwavshell.org when the odds may seem long and even when ternational legal principles in the struggle towards a successful conclusion may take decades to a more universal application of human rights and Read more on CCR’s website at: achieve. humanitarian standards around the world. www.CCRjustice.org/Wiwa

7 Iraqi and foreign mercenary members of a private security company stand on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad as a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter flies over.

Military Contractors in Iraq

Cases Against Blackwater in Al Watahba Square in Baghdad in September shooters in urban streets knowing that some Blackwater Worldwide is a U.S.-based private 2007 and, days later, killing 17 Iraqi civilians in were abusing steroids or other judgment-altering company that provides a range of services to U.S. Nisoor Square. Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan drugs; and destroyed evidence of criminal acts. agencies operating in Iraq and other locations – v. Prince, et al. and Estate of Ali Hussamaldeen with over one billion dollars worth of government Albazzaz v. Prince, et al. are on behalf of the The Obama administration has continued contracts ranging from providing security for U.S. families of those killed and injured in the attacks. the use of private military contractors in Iraq, officials, to aviation services, to, as reported in the , and beyond. CCR’s challenges NY Times, a covert CIA assassination program. The lawsuits allege Blackwater fostered a to the impunity of military contractors remain culture of lawlessness among its employees, critical to acknowledging and redressing some CCR, working with lead co-counsel, has two encouraging them to act in the company’s of the serious harms done to Iraqis in the course cases against Blackwater (recently renamed Xe) financial interests at the expense of innocent of the U.S. occupation and moving U.S. policy and its founder Erik Prince for shooting Iraqi civilians human life; routinely deployed heavily armed back toward respecting the rule of law.

8 employee of either company has been convicted End Human Rights Abuse of any offense. by Military Contractors

The U.S. government has increasingly been In 2004, the Center and co-counsel brought a outsourcing functions previously carried out lawsuit, Saleh v. Titan and CACI, on behalf of tor- by government employees or members of the ture survivors from Abu Ghraib and their families, military to for-profit corporations. Today, there charging the companies with participating in a are more private military contractors than U.S. conspiracy that included rape and other acts of soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan. torture, and assault and killing of Iraqi detainees held at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, dozens of This case is currently on appeal. private military companies were hired to support U.S. military and government

operations there. These companies provide a In 2008, CCR and co-counsel filed five new cases vast array of services, ranging from personal against individual torturers and the two private security for Iraqi and American officials, to contractors on behalf of new plaintiffs. These protecting oil facilities and providing armed cases have been condensed into two lawsuits. escorts for “reconstruction” businesses. The Al-Shimari v. CACI International is on behalf of four contracts are worth billions of dollars. “hard site” victims of torture at Abu Ghraib prison. According to statements by co-conspirators, Titan/L-3 provided translation services for U.S. personnel at Iraqi prisons. CACI provided certain CACI employees directed some of the interrogation services, at one point supplying most egregious torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib. nearly half of the interrogators at Abu Ghraib. Al-Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services, Inc. is on Employees from both corporations were part behalf of 72 Iraqi plaintiffs who were abused at of the conspiracy to torture Iraqi detainees at more than 25 prisons in Iraq. Abu Ghraib and other prisons. Employees from another contractor, Blackwater Worldwide, L-3 and CACI claim immunity as government opened fire on Iraqi civilians on at least two Torture in Prisons in Iraq contractors and because these violations arise occasions, killing dozens of Iraqi civilians. CCR serves as co-counsel in lawsuits brought by In 2004, the world’s attention turned to the out of detentions in Iraq. CCR agues that torture Iraqis against all three of these companies. torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu is clearly against U.S. and international law and Ghraib prison in Iraq. The release of images anyone who tortures, no matter who they are, The use of private contractors is growing documenting the horrific abuses led to the court- must be held accountable. Survivors of torture at dramatically, both domestically and abroad, martial of a few low-level U.S. soldiers. Relatively Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq have waited in areas including: intelligence, homeland unexamined, however, is the role played by long enough to have their day in court. security, surveillance, policing and prisons. contractors from two U.S.-based corporations: Hiring private contractors cannot be a route L-3 Services (formerly Titan Corporation), and to impunity for illegal acts. Corporations and CCR has factsheets with more those who run them must be held accountable CACI International. Although Titan/L-3 and CACI information on these and other for human rights violations. employees were directly involved in the conspir- issues available at: acy to torture Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib, no www.CCRjustice.org/faqs

9 Guantánamo

Since CCR brought the first lawsuit challenging the second group are those who could be released, President Obama has failed to repudiate the detentions at Guantánamo Bay over seven years but who wait in limbo but because their home irredeemably flawed military commissions ago, we have been responsible for organizing and country routinely engages in torture or other system and spoke of a new preventive coordinating more than 500 pro bono lawyers abuses. The real work of closing Guantánamo detention scheme that would only serve to who represent the men still in detention, and have will be the multilateral effort to find homes for move Guantánamo to a new location and give launched a major international effort to repatriate these men: Guantánamo’s refugees. it a new name. Military commissions have one detainees needing asylum in safe third countries. purpose: to allow evidence not admissible in The third and smallest group – those with real courts – including hearsay, coerced There are three categories of detainees at potential serious criminal charges – need to be statements and information resulting from Guantánamo. The first and largest group is the charged in regular federal courts, which have torture – and must be abandoned completely. people who should never have been picked up, proved able to efficiently and fairly try terrorism Preventive detention goes against every and who could be sent home immediately. The suspects over the last fifteen years. principle our nation was founded on. We have

10 Guantánamo’s Refugees Within the walls of Guantánamo are approximately 60 men who cannot return home for fear of torture or persecution or because they are stateless. The U.S. put these men in the double jeopardy of being forced to stay in the camp because there is no safe resettle- ment option. Working with a coalition of habeas co-counsel and NGOs, the Center has instituted inter- national advocacy efforts and is dedicated to ensuring that detainees are transferred out of Guantánamo safely and through a transparent process that must ensure that the men will not be sent into the hands of a torturous regime.

CCR retained a UK-based barrister to coordinate our European resettlement advocacy and has and present no threat to any country. The international worked with United Nations Special Rapporteurs, community should join us in committing to finding the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, safe havens. These men must not face the impossible the Council of Europe, the European Union, and choice of continued indefinite detention or forcible European Parliamentarians to garner broader regional repatriation to torture or other abuses. support for the resettlement of individuals.

While the U.S. created this human tragedy and legal More information on Guantánamo’s Uighur detainees show a protest sign to travesty, it will take a global response to resolve it. members of the media at Camp Iguana, refugees is available on our website at: Like many at Guantánamo, most of these abandoned Guantánamo. detainees were wrongly detained in the first place, www.CCRjustice.org/refugees

courts and laws in place that cannot be simply courtrooms. Included in this is the case of 13 make diplomatic efforts to release the men. disregarded when they are inconvenient. Uighurs, members of a Muslim ethnic group in China, who face certain persecution and tor- CCR plays a coordinating role in over 200 cases, CCR continues to work on behalf of the men ture if returned to China. After the government as well as directly representing a number of who have spent eight years in detention while failed to defend the legality of their continued individuals on habeas or civil lawsuits. (See our our government wrestles to find the least detention, a judge ordered them released into case index on page 25 for more details.) CCR embarrassing way to undo its mistakes. the U.S. last October. Yet, after a successful will continue to work on behalf of the detainees government appeal these men remain in deten- and to uphold constitutional principles until In the wake of CCR’s and our allies’ Supreme tion and trial courts have interpreted the ruling Guantánamo is closed and all of the men have Court victory last year in Boumediene, the mas- to mean that even when these men win their been charged or safely released. It is time to sive effort of challenging detentions through habeas cases, the court lacks the power to do bring an end to this sad episode in the history the habeas process continues in federal anything more than order the government to of human rights.

11 Racial, Gender and Economic Justice

Policing and Prisons Floyd attempts to fully enforce the consent Project – working in partnership with commu- Continuing CCR’s groundbreaking work on the decree issued in our landmark Daniels case. CCR nity-based groups in New York City to develop Daniels case which forced NYC to collect and turn produced a report analyzing NYPD stop-and-frisk educational materials and accountability over information on “stops,” CCR’s current police data obtained in the course of this litigation. The mechanisms to address all aspects of police accountability work includes a class action lawsuit data revealed that police stops increased by more misconduct, including training, supervision, against the NYC Police Department (NYPD) for than 500% between 2002 and 2006, with Blacks oversight, and appropriate disciplinary racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and- and Latinos accounting for an overwhelming measures. Improving policing in New York frisks. Floyd v. City of New York represents number of those stopped. The full report and the City can serve as a model for reforming police hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have supporting data are available on our website. departments throughout the nation. been stopped on the way to work, in front of their houses, or walking down the street without any In addition to the litigation, the Center has CCR remains active in the movement for police cause, primarily because they were men of color. formed a Police Accountability and Transparency accountability, particularly as it relates to

12 “We were deprived of our rights Racial Disparity in and abused simply because of our NYPD Stops-and-Frisks: CCR’s Preliminary Report, religion and the color of our skin. 2005 through June 2008 I am still waiting for justice more than six years later.” —Yasser Ebrahim, a client in Turkmen v. Ashcroft

rounded up and held for up to nine months on minor immigration violations in the post 9-11 sweeps. While detained in New York and New Jersey, the men were subjected to restrictive confinement conditions with some suffering severe physical, verbal, or religious abuse. We are pursuing discovery as we await a decision on a cross-appeal.

In May, the Supreme Court issued a disap- 81% Black/Latino pointing decision in a similar case on behalf of former post-9/11 immigration detainees: Iqbal v. 11% White Ashcroft. The decision severely limits plaintiffs’ 5% Other abilities to sue high-level officials by requiring 3% Asian/Pacific Islander detailed factual allegations proving the official’s actions intended to discriminate against a group Data released as part of CCR’s ongoing immigrants and young men of color. CCR sees of people. This type of information about an racial profiling case, Floyd v. City of New a clear connection between our work to end official’s state of mind is difficult to prove and York, shows that New York City Police the U.S. overseas torture program to the prob- rarely available, even with full discovery. CCR Department’s stop-and-frisk practices are lem of domestic police abuse – including the had filed an amicus brief in Iqbal on behalf or on the rise, with nearly 1,600,000 stops in use of private contractors, extended solitary our clients in Turkmen. the 3 1/2 years beginning in 2005. Over 80% confinement of prisoners, and other forms of of those stops targeted Blacks or Latinos while 11% were of Whites. torture and abuse – in communities and Immigrant detention is the fastest growing detention facilities within the United States. form of detention in the United States. See the case index beginning on page 25 of this report for information on CCR’s other cases CCR’s full report and the Targeting of Immigrants supporting data is available at: In 2002, CCR filed Turkmen v. Ashcroft on defending non-citizens and challenging this www.CCRjustice.org/stopandfrisk behalf of non-citizen detainees who were disturbing trend.

13 Racial, Gender and Economic Justice (continued)

Employment Discrimination Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) joined the DOJ lawsuit, now called U.S.A. The struggle for racial and gender equality filings, the U.S. Department of Justice decided and v. City of New York, and must include achieving economic justice for to file a lawsuit against the city, charging that the continues to work with the Vulcan Society women and racial minorities. CCR has a series test disproportionately disqualifies Black and towards increasing racial diversity in the FDNY. of employment discrimination cases on behalf Latino applicants in a way that does not relate to of women and minorities who are being unfairly job skills. Another challenge to discriminatory testing is excluded from, or marginalized in, the workplace. CCR’s case on behalf of New York public school When the first EEOC charge was filed New York teachers of color. Gulino v. Board of Education CCR has partnered with the Vulcan Society, the City’s fire department was 2.9 percent Black, in represents teachers who were demoted for not organization of Black firefighters in New York a city whose Black population is 27 percent. Five passing a test – often losing licenses, seniority City, to take a stand against the discriminatory years later, those numbers had still not changed. and having their salaries reduced drastically – yet entrance exam used by the Fire Department of The FDNY has by far the worst minority hiring still retained in the same teaching positions on a New York (FDNY). After our successful Equal record of any major city in America. CCR has per diem basis.

14 Victory for Women’s Reproductive Freedom

CCR represents a group of feminist activists who challenged Food and Drug Administration (FDA) poli- cies regarding the Morning-After Pill (also known as “emergency contraception” or by the brand name Plan B). Decades of scientific research and testimony from women show that the Morning-After Pill is effective and safe as an over the counter self-medication. Restric- tions on access to the drug are motivated by anti-birth control politics and political pressure, not science.

Following legal and organizing pressure, the FDA had approved the switch of Plan B from prescription only women’s health when it limited access, ordering the to over-the-counter use in 2006, but only for women agency to reconsider its decision and to extend over- 18 and older. In practice, this meant that Plan B the-counter access to 17-year-olds in the meantime. could only be obtained from behind a pharmacy This is a major victory that expands reproductive counter for women 18 and older, and only if they rights and access to contraception for women all over show identification. the country.

The lawsuit, Tummino v. Hamburg, asked the CCR worked in support of the Center for Reproductive court to order the FDA to make Plan B available to Rights on this case. The activist clients are women of all ages and without any behind-the-counter organizers with the Morning-After Pill Conspiracy. restrictions or identification requirements. In , For more information visit their website at the court agreed that the FDA had put politics before www.nationalwomensliberation.org.

CCR is also defending the religious freedom by its brand name, Plan B. The agency must now constitutional rights to privacy and equal and First Amendment rights of Sikh transit make the Morning-After Pill available to women protection by unlawfully restricting access to workers. Harrington v. MTA is on behalf of a 17 and older without a prescription and has to contraception and discriminated against women, subway motorman who was ordered by the review the age and other restrictions currently who are the exclusive users of Plan B. Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York to placed on the drug through reconsideration of a either wear an MTA cap instead of his turban or “Citizen’s Petition” previously filed by numerous CCR has been supporting the feminist movement choose a yard job out of sight of the public. reproductive health organizations and advocates. and the struggle for women’s reproductive free- dom since bringing the country’s first abortion Women’s Reproductive Rights The case, Tummino v. Hamburg, charged that rights cases in the 1960’s. Unrestricted access In March, CCR scored a major victory when a the FDA bowed to political pressure from the to the Morning-After Pill is an important step federal court ruled that the Food and Drug Bush administration when it imposed medically towards realizing women’s liberation through the Administration (FDA) must reconsider its policies unnecessary age restrictions on a drug that is ability to control the direction of their lives by regarding the Morning-After Pill, often referred to safe and effective. The agency violated women’s choosing if, or when, to have children.

15 Accountability for Torture

Since the first days of the public revelations launched criminal lawsuits in Europe under also has torture cases pending in U.S. courts. regarding the Bush administration’s torture the principle of universal jurisdiction. program, the Center for Constitutional Rights has In one of the German cases, the prosecutor made efforts to hold high level officials and their CCR has now tried three times, twice in Germa- found that there was “no indication” that the lawyers accountable for their crimes. ny and once in France, to bring criminal cases U.S. would “refrain” from investigating these in Europe against former Defense Secretary allegations, and dismissed the case. Our motion European Cases: Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet, for reconsideration was denied. When it became apparent that the Bush and former White House Counsel/former At- administration and Congress would not properly torney General Alberto Gonzales as well as the Those who bear the greatest responsibility for investigate and punish those responsible for other lawyers who were part of the conspiracy the torture policy and practices employed by serious violations of U.S. and international law, that authorized the torture program in Guantána- the United States must be held individually CCR and our co-counsel and allies in Europe mo, Iraq, secret CIA sites, and elsewhere. CCR criminally responsible. (The center spread of

16 A Prosecution Despite the health professions’ universally by Book recognized duty to do no harm, doctors and As part of our ongoing psychologists have played a key role in the U.S. efforts to hold Bush government’s policy of torture in its administration officials overseas prisons. They crafted and justified criminally responsible for war crimes, CCR torture tactics, inflicted pain, oversaw abuse released The Trial of and enabled, covered up and turned a blind eye Donald Rumsfeld: A to cruel treatment. CCR launched our “When Prosecution by Book. Healers Harm” campaign as part of our efforts Presented in the form of a court case brought by CCR, the book lays out the to hold accountable those most responsible for proof that high-level officials ordered, authorized, torture and abuse. implemented, and permitted war crimes, in particular the crimes of torture and cruel, inhuman, Most torture regimes - even ones as old as the and degrading treatment in the name of fighting the “war on terror.” Holy Roman Empire and as notorious as the Nazi government during World War II - have The right of every human being to be free from relied on health professionals to facilitate tor- torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment ture. It is critical that we also explore the role of is universal and absolute. Under the laws of war, commission of such acts constitutes war crimes. health professionals in our systems of injustice War crimes and acts of torture are some of the at home - since our mainland prisons are no most serious international crimes that exist. They strangers to abuse. Wherever torture and abuse are an attack on humanity as a whole, and it is in occurs, it is time to hold accountable the healers the interest of all that the authors of these crimes who have harmed. be prosecuted. For these reasons, international law provides that all states have an obligation to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of these crimes or turn them over to another state for prosecution. this report has more information on our work towards prosecutions in the U.S.) If the United This obligation applies regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator, the nationality of the victim, or States does not initiate a meaningful criminal the place where the crime was committed, and investigation, then other venues must be applies regardless of the rank or political station of pursued to ensure that justice is done. the perpetrator up to and including heads of state. This is the principle of universal jurisdiction. When Healers Harm - From The Trial of Donal Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights This year, CCR expanded its accountability efforts to include government and contractor health professionals who have been involved Read more on CCR’s website at: in the torture program at both policy and More information on CCR’s work to hold health professionals accountable for torture is available on the campaign website: www.CCRjustice.org/trialofrumsfeld operations levels. www.whenhealersharm.org

17 Government-censored documents in the Arar Inquiry being released in Canada.

Rendition and Ghost Detentions

Arar v. Ashcroft other officials with violating Mr. Arar’s right to Arar continues to speak out on behalf of human In 2002, Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, be free from torture and arbitrary detention as rights as he awaits the Court’s decision on whether was detained at JFK airport while changing well as his right to have access to a court. this case can proceed. He remains on a “watch list” planes on his way back to Canada. He was and is not allowed to enter the United States. interrogated, detained for two weeks, denied The case was dismissed primarily on national his right to go to court, and sent to Syria where security grounds in 2006, and a majority of a Ghost Detentions he was tortured and held in a grave-like cell for three-judge Second Circuit Court of Appeals CCR is participating in two Freedom of Informa- ten months. Mr. Arar was returned to Canada panel affirmed the dismissal on similar grounds. tion Act (FOIA) lawsuits seeking records pertain- in 2003 and was eventually cleared of all allega- However, the full Second Circuit Court of Ap- ing to secret detentions, extraordinary rendition tions by a Canadian government inquiry. He was peals (twelve judges) reheard Mr. Arar’s appeal and torture. This information is critical to many of never charged with any crime. Arar v. Ashcroft in December 2008. The argument was aired by our civil cases and for exposing abuses committed charges former Attorney General Ashcroft and C-SPAN and can be viewed on our website. Mr. under the guise of the so-called “war on terror.”

18 Extraordinary Rendition Extraordinary rendition is the forced transfer of a person from one country to another in order to hold that person with no legal oversight and to conduct interrogations under torture. Suspects are put on planes and secreted off to either a prison run by cooperative countries in the Middle East or Central Asia, or to one of the CIA’s own covert prisons, also called “black sites.”

Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration used extraordinary rendition to covertly transport an estimated 150 persons—and possibly more—for detention and interrogation as part of the so-called “war on terror.” Victims of extraordinary rendition are sent to countries where torture is routinely practiced on detainees. CCR represents rendition victims Maher Arar, who was sent to Syria where he was tortured and jailed for a year before being returned home to Canada, CCR and Witness Against Torture coordinated a rally and and Majid Khan, who was detained in secret for years procession to the courthouse before the en banc Court of before being transferred to Guantánamo Bay. Appeals argument in Arar v. Ashcroft.

For more information on this case, including interviews with Maher Arar and video of the Court of Appeals argument, visit: www.CCRjustice.org/Arar

ACLU, CCR, et al. v. Department of Defense detention program; and show the DOD delayed “This is who I am. I am a father and a charges that government agencies illegally the release of cleared Guantánamo prisoners for husband. I am a telecommunications withheld records concerning the abuse of de- a month and a half merely to avoid embarrassing tainees in American military custody. Amnesty press coverage. engineer and entrepreneur. I have International, CCR, et al. v. CIA, Department of never had trouble with the police, and Defense, et al. seeks information about “disap- It is clear this is only the tip of the iceberg and that peared” detainees, including those at CIA ‘ghost’ most agencies have not complied with President have always been a good citizen. So I sites, and has produced thousands of documents Obama’s memo promising more transparency in still cannot believe what has happened so far. These documents, even in their heavily government, including Freedom of Information redacted form, confirm the existence of secret Act (FOIA) requests. CCR will continue to work to me, and how my life and career have prisons at Bagram (Afghanistan) and in Iraq; af- towards exposing these abuses and ending tor- been destroyed.” — Maher Arar firm the DOD’s cooperation with the CIA’s ghost ture and illegal detentions wherever they occur.

19 Government Abuse of Power

Illegal Surveillance conducting warrantless surveillance of com- The agency is refusing to either confirm or deny Since at least 2001, the U.S. Government has munications in the U.S. This case is still pending, the existence of any relevant materials, claiming worked with major telecommunications compa- although Congress has since passed legislation that to do so “would reveal information about nies in a massive program of illegal surveillance intended to legalize part of this program. the NSA’s capabilities and activities.” It would of individuals’ communications. The Center for be unconstitutional and illegal to eavesdrop Constitutional Rights is continuing our work to Wilner v. NSA is a Freedom of Information Act on lawyers without a warrant, and FOIA expose and challenge this program. (FOIA) lawsuit demanding records of wiretapping exemptions cannot shield illegal conduct. of 16 attorneys who represent Guantánamo de- The new administration has no legal basis for Shortly after details of the program were tainees. The plaintiffs – who include CCR staff at- refusing to come clean about any violations of released, CCR filed CCR v. Bush, charging that torneys Gitanjali Gutierrez and Wells Dixon – may attorney-client privilege by the NSA. the program was illegal and seeking an injunc- have been the subjects of the National Security tion that would prohibit the government from Agency (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program.

20 George W Bush extending the “Protect America Act” (PAA): an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege (FISA) that removed the warrant requirement for government surveillance of some foreign intelligence targets. Later, the During its tenure, the Bush administration sought undermines the very idea of an independent FISA Amendments Act of 2008 reauthorized many provisions to centralize power in the executive in order to carry judiciary; contradicts the core idea of judicial review, of the PAA. out its policies without oversight by any other branch in which independent judges make independent of government. In the name of the “war on terror,” evaluations of all of the facts; and essentially allows the government spied on American citizens, tortured the executive branch to dictate to the federal courts and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, what cases they can and can’t hear. Guantánamo and CIA “black sites” and carried out abuses of human rights around the globe in defiance In addition to challenging NSA warrantless of U.S. and international law. wiretapping, CCR v. Bush challenged the abuse of this doctrine by the Justice Department. In this When these unconstitutional actions were case, which is fundamentally about Americans’ challenged in court, the administration resorted right to be free of unchecked government surveil- more than any previous one to invoking the “state lance, the government professed its own need for secrets privilege,” in attempts to prevent these secrecy in order to block scrutiny of blatantly challenges from ever being heard by a court of unlawful actions and asked the judge to dismiss law. This privilege allows the head of an executive the case without reviewing the evidence. CCR’s department to refuse to produce evidence on the extraordinary rendition case, Arar v. Ashcroft, was grounds it would harm national security or foreign also met with “state secrets” claims. (See p. 18 of this relations interests if disclosed. report for more on that case.)

The Bush administration frequently invoked the The judicial system must serve as a check upon privilege in order to dismiss cases altogether, the power of the executive. Preventing judges from attempting to use it to cover up government abuses seeing the evidence in question is an end run and criminal activities and to block embarrassing around judicial review and an unacceptable shield disclosures. This abuse of the state secrets privilege for government lawbreaking.

Challenging the “Material Under these provisions it is a crime to provide a designated organization. The case is Support” Provisions support, including humanitarian aid, literature pending review at the Supreme Court under The 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death distribution and political advocacy, to any the consolidated case name: Holder v. Penalty Act made it a crime to provide “material foreign entity that the government has Humanitarian Law Project. support” to any organization designated by the designated as a “terrorist” group. CCR has been U.S. State Department as a “Foreign Terrorist tackling these provisions in court for nearly ten The Center for Constitutional Rights has always Organization.” Expanded by the USA PATRIOT years, with a series of cases on behalf of the taken a stand when government oversteps its Act and an executive order by President Bush, Humanitarian Law Project, a Los Angeles-based constitutionally defined boundaries and abuses these provisions violate the First Amendment non-profit that advocates for the peaceful reso- its power. In an era that has been marked by and amount to guilt by association by criminal- lution of armed conflicts, and Tamil-American a culture of secrecy paired with a dramatic izing support that is intended to promote the aid groups which sought to provide tsunami increase in the reach of the executive branch, lawful activities of a designated organization. relief in areas of Sri Lanka that are controlled by these challenges remain vitally important.

21 Attacks on Dissent

The Center for Constitutional Rights, founded In 2003, for meetings of the Free Trade The Center celebrated another victory for the out of the Southern , has Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) in Miami, right to dissent with a major settlement for over always represented demonstrators who have authorities adopted a repressive approach to 70 protesters who were arrested outside the been wrongfully arrested and movements that policing protests that came to be known as the NYC offices of an affiliate of the Carlyle Group, have been infiltrated and spied on. The right to “Miami model”—the extreme use of surveillance, a defense-related investment firm with financial political dissent is a fundamental and necessary brutal force, and mass arrests, that effectively ties to the Bush and bin Laden families. The liberty in any democratic society. The Bush suspended the First and Fourth Amendments protesters were illegally arrested, detained for era saw a rise in the criminalization of dissent, in the city. This year we reached a settlement excessive periods of time and denied access from the surveillance of activists and the federal- agreement in a FTAA protest case, Bell v. Miami- to their lawyers. CCR sued for violations of the ization of local law enforcement, to the labeling of Dade County, on behalf of 29 activists, including First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment. The activists as “terrorists.” a CCR staff attorney, who were arrested at a jail lawsuit, Kunstler v. City of New York, settled for solidarity vigil for others arrested earlier. $2 million.

22 The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: The Most Dangerous Domestic Terror Law You’ve Never Heard Of

In 2006, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism CCR is currently defending four animal rights Act (AETA) became law. Presented as a activists in the first prosecution under the AETA. way to crack down on violent extremists, the Our clients in this case, USA v. Buddenberg, are bill in fact criminalizes legal, constitutionally accused of chanting, making leaflets and writing protected activity in order to silence political with chalk on the sidewalk in front of a senior dissent. bio-researcher’s house, as well as using the internet to research the company whose actions The AETA primarily targets animal rights and they planned to protest. They are charged with environmental activists, but is written in language acts of animal enterprise terrorism. so broad that it can be read to cover many types of political activism. It uses a broad definition of The AETA is a serious threat to free speech. “terrorism” that includes protest that causes a Part of a larger effort by corporate interests company, or “animal enterprise,” to lose profits. to use the terrorism label to constrain social It even extends to attempting to interfere with an activism, it is one of the most extreme pieces animal enterprise company, even if no economic of legislation to come out of the last eight damage actually occurs. Use of the internet years. The Center for Constitutional in conjunction with these actions is sufficient to Rights, in partnership with the Civil Liberties trigger prosecution under this federal criminal Defense Center and grassroots activists law. Put another way, if you and a friend go on around the country, has launched the Coalition the web to research a company whose practices to Abolish the AETA to put an end to this you plan to protest, you may have just become repressive legislation and to protect your right a terrorist. to dissent.

The “Green Scare” under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act The “Green Scare” refers to recent government (AETA). CCR is mounting a direct challenge targeting of environmental and animal rights to the constitutionality of the act arguing activists under the guise of fighting terrorism. the law violates the First Amendment and The federal government, at the behest of Due Process. corporate industry groups, increased the surveillance and intimidation of activists in these From our beginnings in the Southern civil movements, as well as the severity of criminal rights movement, CCR has always worked penalties, declaring the animal rights movement to defend activists and organize legal support Learn more and join “the number one domestic terrorism threat.” for political movements. Our commitment to standing up to the silencing of dissent and the campaign at: CCR joined the defense team in United States the targeting of political activists has never www.CCRjustice.org/anti-AETA v. Buddenberg, the first criminal prosecutions been more necessary. 23 Letter from the Legal Director Why I Am at the Center for Constitutional Rights

I joined the Center for Constitutional Rights as This annual report demonstrates both the challenges Legal Director in May and it feels like I have been we are up against and the tremendous energy and building towards this job for over 30 years. passion that CCR staff and supporters bring to this work. The index of cases that follows represents a My ties to CCR go back 30 years, to my first job truly stunning breadth and depth of work and an out of law school as the law clerk for legendary audacity of spirit that is exhilarating and at times civil rights lawyer and CCR founder daunting. The good news is that CCR is up to the task. Ben Smith. I went on to become a civil and hu- man rights lawyer in New Orleans where I fought Looking ahead, I see CCR continuing our efforts for voting rights, decent public housing, quality to prosecute President Bush and his torture team, public education, ending homelessness, creating to hold private military contractors accountable a living wage, justice after Katrina, and against for the damage they caused, to challenge the police brutality and sanctions against Iraq, the racist prison system of this country, and to close death penalty, and the imprisonment of political Guantánamo once and for all. prisoners in Haiti. New CCR work on the horizon will expand our commitment to international Along the way, groups of public housing grandmothers, Haitian human rights, particularly in the areas of economic and social rights. I also revolutionaries, as well as peace and community activists took me in and look forward to helping CCR get back to its roots in the South with new trained me in social justice advocacy and solidarity. Together, we went to cases along the Gulf Coast. We will actively support Gulf Coast struggles housing developments, classrooms, shelters, death row chambers, military for rebuilding, especially for low-income and marginalized groups. We will installations, and the back streets of Baghdad and Port au Prince. We remain strongly supportive of the right to dissent by representing protesters, sued, marched, boycotted, demonstrated, petitioned, lobbied, sang, targeted press, and marginalized groups like animal rights activists. prayed, sat in, blockaded, did vigils, poured blood, witnessed deaths, got shot at and got arrested for standing up for human rights. For a stretch of On a personal level, it is clear to me that CCR is the place I belong at this over 15 years, I was privileged to teach and practice social justice lawyering important moment in history – the logical next step on my 30-year journey at Loyola University’s Poverty Law Center and Social Justice Clinic. as a social justice lawyer. Thank you to all of you who have stood by CCR in these difficult years and who will be there with us in our work to restore Joining CCR I have found a community of staff, directors, board members our rights and move forward on opportunities in the future. and allies working furiously to challenge the status quo in our courts, in the media, and in our communities, and to further social justice work and support movements for change.

Bill Quigley

24 Case Index

Below is an index of cases and amicus briefs that CCR litigated or filed during this past year. In addition, we are continuously developing new cases and working closely with progressive attorneys and other Guantánamo organizations on a host of constitutional and human rights issues.

Guantánamo Habeas Cases at Guantánamo Bay and is at risk of continued imprisoned at the same facility, Muhammed has serious harm if forcibly transferred to Algeria. been held in solitary confinement in Camp 6 and Al-Qahtani v. Obama He is seeking third country resettlement. separated from his father for years. Habeas corpus petition for Mohammed Status: urgent precautionary measures granted Status: pending in D.C. District Court al Qahtani, who suffered physical and in August 2008; petition pending before the psychological torture when he was subjected IACHR Kiyemba v. Obama to the extraordinarily abusive “First Special Consolidated habeas corpus petition for ethnic Interrogation Plan,” a regime of “systematic Barre v. Obama Uighurs captured by bounty hunters, sold to enhanced interrogation techniques” Habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of the U.S. military and detained at Guantánamo authorized by Donald Rumsfeld. Mohammed Barre, a United Nations High Bay. Despite being found not to be enemy Status: pending in D.C. District Court Commissioner for Refugees mandate refugee combatants and ordered released by a U.S. from Somalia. Mr. Barre has never been charged federal judge, some of the Uighurs still remain Ameziane v. Obama with any crime and wishes to return to his family in Guantánamo awaiting an offer of resettlement Habeas corpus in Somaliland, an autonomous, stable region in from a safe third country. petition on behalf northwestern Somalia. Status: ordered released into U.S. in October of Djamel Amez- Status: pending in D.C. District Court 2008; Court of Appeals reversed; petition for iane, an Algerian certiorari review in Supreme Court is pending man who requires Khan v. Obama urgent resettlement Habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Majid Taher v. Obama protection. Mr. Khan, who was held and tortured in CIA secret Habeas corpus petition for Mohammed Taher, Ameziane has never detention for several years prior to his transfer one of the remaining 95 Yemenis in Guan- been charged with to Guantánamo. Because the government has tánamo. Yemenis comprise over one-third of any crime and fears classified Khan’s experiences in CIA detention, the remaining Guantánamo population due to forced repatriation CCR Client Djamel Ameziane. access to our client is subject to extraordinary breakdowns in negotiations between the U.S. to Algeria. security and censorship procedures. and regarding their return. Status: pending in D.C. District Court Status: pending in D.C. District Court Status: pending in D.C. District Court

Ameziane v. United States Khan Tumani, et al., v. Obama Zalita v. Obama First ever Inter-American Commission on Habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Syrian Habeas corpus petition involving the first legal Human Rights (IACHR) petition and request father and son, Abdul Nasser and Muhammed challenge brought by a Guantánamo detainee to for precautionary measures filed on behalf of Khan Tumani, detained at Guantánamo Bay. an intended transfer to his native country, Libya, a Guantánamo detainee Djamel Ameziane, Muhammed was still a juvenile when he was where he would likely face torture or execution. an Algerian man who has been severely abused originally detained with his father. Despite being Status: pending in D.C. District Court

25 International Law Guantánamo and Accountability

Guantánamo Civil Cases Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld Human Rights Abuse by Military Civil suit for damages against Donald Rums- Contractors in Iraq Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld feld and others responsible for the detention, Civil suit for damages filed on behalf of an torture and mistreatment of five men illegally Al-Shimari v. CACI Egyptian doctor who is now confined to a detained in Guantánamo for years, including Al-Quraishi v. Nakhla wheelchair due to the torture and mistreat- two men detained for more than four years and L-3 ment he experienced at Guantánamo Bay. and released years after being classified as Saleh v. Titan Status: stayed pending outcome of appeals in non-enemy combatants. Lawsuits on behalf of Rasul v. Rumsfeld Status: stayed pending outcome of appeals in nearly 340 Iraqi civilian Rasul v. Rumsfeld detainees alleging that Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld individual military Civil suit for damages on behalf of the families contractors and the and estates of Yasser Al-Zahrani and Salah corporations that hired Ali Abdullah Al-Salami, two Yemeni men who them (CACI and L-3), died while in U.S. custody at Guantánamo participated in a torture Mr. Al-Janabi, a plaintiff in Al-Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3, was Bay in 2006. conspiracy at Abu Ghraib held and tortured at Abu Ghraib Status: pending in D.C. District Court; and other detention prison for nearly a year. government’s motion to dismiss will be facilities in Iraq. briefed during fall of 2009 Status: Saleh appeal is pending following oral argument in February. In Boumediene et al. v. Bosnia and Herze- Al Shimari, CACI’s motion to dismiss was denied; govina (amicus) CACI’s petition for interlocutory appeal is pending. The “Tipton Three.” From left: Shafiq Rasul, Rhuhel In Al-Quraishi, Defendants’ motions to dismiss were The first case on behalf of Guantánamo Ahmed, and Asif Iqbal. detainees before an international tribunal, this briefed and argued; a decision is pending case at the European Court of Human Rights Rasul v. Rumsfeld addresses the responsibility of countries that Civil suit for damages against former Secre- Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan v. Erik Prince assisted the U.S. in transferring men to tary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on behalf Suing the private military contractor, Blackwater, Guantánamo for the violations that occur of four British former detainees seeking on behalf of Iraqi plaintiffs injured or killed when there. damages for their arbitrary detention and Blackwater shooters opened fire at Nisoor Square in Status: the European Court of Human Rights torture while detained at Guantánamo. Baghdad, September 2007. ruled the application inadmissible Status: Court of Appeals dismissed all Status: voluntarily dismissed in the District claims; Supreme Court reversed for reconsid- of Columbia and re-filed in the Eastern District of eration in light of Boumediene; Court of , where preliminary motions are pending Appeals again dismissed all claims on sovereign immunity and qualified immunity grounds; petition for certiorari review in Supreme Court is pending 26 Case Index

Estate of Ali Hussamaldeen officials for war crimes and torture under the Albazzaz v. Erik Prince principle of “universal jurisdiction.” Suing the private military contractor, Blackwater, Status: in 2007, CCR and our allies appealed the on behalf of two Iraqi civilians killed near Al Wa- decision not to open an investigation – appeal tahba Square in Baghdad in September 2007. was dismissed and a motion for reconsideration Status: voluntarily dismissed in the District of was filed and dismissed Columbia and re-filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, where preliminary motions are pending Mamani v. Sanchez de Lozada Mamani v. Sanchez Berzain Corporate Human Rights Abuse Cases against former President and former Min- ister of Defense of Bolivia for attacks on villagers Bowoto v. Chevron to suppress popular civilian protests in 2003. Photo: Qa’id Jacobs Part of a team suing Chevron for its involvement Status: plaintiffs were ordered to exhaust CCR clients in Wiwa v. Shell, Karalolo Kogbara (left) and in a helicopter-borne attack killing unarmed envi- Friday Nuate (right) with CCR attorney Maria LaHood (center). remedies in Bolivia for their Torture Victim ronmental protesters in Nigeria in 1998 and 1999. Protection Act claims, and a decision on their Status: lost at trial – appealing based on the Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell other claims is pending district court’s trial errors Wiwa v. Anderson Wiwa v. Shell Petroleum Matar v. Dichter Development Company Corrie v. Caterpillar Suing Israeli official for a “targeted assassina- 13-year-long battle on behalf of Ogoni human Suing Caterpillar, Inc. for selling D9 bulldozers to tion” in Gaza that killed eight children and seven rights defenders and their relatives suing Shell the Israel Defense Forces knowing they would be adults and injured more than 150 civilians. for complicity in torture, arbitrary detention and used to unlawfully destroy homes and endanger Status: Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal, extrajudicial killings in Nigeria. civilians. deferring to the U.S. Executive’s position that Status: settled on the eve of trial for $15.5 Status: petition for rehearing was denied, ending Dichter had immunity, ending the case the case on grounds that it would interfere with million to compensate plaintiffs and to establish U.S. foreign policy a trust fund to benefit the Ogoni people

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (amicus) Government Officials Arguing that the executions of the Ogoni 9 in Nigeria constitute extrajudicial executions under Complaint to German Federal Prosecutor international law and are justiciable in U.S. Courts. re: Individual Criminal Responsibility of U.S. Officials in Abu Ghraib and Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (amicus) Guantánamo Torture A second amicus in this case regarding the legal Petition submitted to the German Prosecutor definitions of crimes against humanity, arbitrary requesting an investigation into the responsi- arrest and detention, and cruel, inhuman or bility of civilian and military high-ranking U.S. degrading treatment or punishment. Rally supporting CCR’s lawsuit Matar v. Dichter. 27 Racial, Gender and Economic Justice

Policing and Prisons Cardenas Abreu v. Holder Petition to review a Board of Immigration Bandele v. The City of New York Appeals precedent decision that orders a Representing members of the Grass- deportation based on a criminal conviction roots Movement who were arrested while peace- that is not yet final. fully and lawfully videotaping NYPD officers. Status: petition for review pending Status: successful settlement Turkmen v. Ashcroft Floyd v. The City of New York Ivey Walton, plaintiff in Walton v. NYSDOCS. Class-action lawsuit seeking to hold former Class action lawsuit against the New York City Wright v. Corrections Corporation of Attorney General and other Police Department challenging widespread racial America (FCC Rule-making Petition) high-level officials accountable for unlawful profiling and unconstitutional “stop-and-frisk” Petitioning the FCC to regulate interstate prison racial profiling, mass detentions, and abusive practices. telephone calls to ensure fair and reasonable treatment of South Asian, Arab, and Muslim Status: in discovery – CCR has received raw rates for prisoners and their families. non-citizens after 9/11. statistical data on the number of “stop-and-frisks” Status: awaiting FCC action on Petition for Status: in discovery; awaiting decision on for 1998 through 2008 Rule-making cross-appeal from Second Circuit

Graham v. Florida (amicus) Sullivan v. Florida (amicus) Targeting of Immigrants Argues that under international law, life in prison Ashcroft v. Iqbal (amicus) without parole is indecent and excessive punish- Supreme Court amicus in this post 9-11 ment for juveniles under 18. The United States detention case regarding immunity for high is the only country in the world that imposes level government officials. Companion case to sentences of life without parole against juveniles. Turkmen v. Ashcroft (see below). Status: Supreme Court will hear the case in its Status: Supreme Court ruled that top govern- fall 2009 term ment officials were not liable for the actions of their subordinates absent evidence that they Walton v. New York State Department of explicitly ordered the discriminatory activity Correctional Services (NYSDOCS) and MCI/Verizon CCR attorneys Matthew Strugar (left) and Rachel Meeropol Anderson v. Holder, DHS v. Anderson (right) with Turkmen v. Ashcroft clients Yasser Ebrahim and Challenging the NYSDOCS monopoly telephone Hany Ibrahim (center) in Alexandria, Egypt. contract with MCI/Verizon, which forced family Habeas petition and immigration case defending members to pay exorbitant phone rates to speak a mentally disabled and mentally ill permanent with incarcerated family members. resident facing deportation. Status: on appeal to Court of Appeals Status: successfully ended deportation proceedings – client was released to his family

after two years in detention 28 Case Index

Employment Discrimination

Gulino v. The Board of Education of the City of New York and the New York State Education Department Class action on behalf of public school teachers of color who are challenging the use of discrimi- natory tests and licensing rules. NYC firefighter members of the Vulcan Society and CCR clients in United States of America and Vulcan Society v. City Status: Second Circuit Court of Appeals of New York. From left: Duery Smith, Paul Washington and remanded to the District Court with instructions John Coombs. to reevaluate the challenged tests – awaiting further order from District Court United States of America and Vulcan Society v. City of New York Challenging discriminatory hiring practices of Harrington v. New York Metropolitan the NYC Fire Department on behalf of an Members of CCR client organization, Morning-After Pill Conspiracy, at a speak out and civil disobedience. Transit Authority association of Black firefighters and individual Defending the First Amendment rights of class representatives. The NYC fire department Women’s Rights Sikh transit workers to wear turbans at work as is the least racially diverse of any major a religious observance. U.S. city – 2.9% Black, of a population that is Amador v. Superintendents of the Status: pending – awaiting decisions on 27% Black. Department of Correctional Services summary judgment Status: district court found that the entrance (amicus) exams had a discriminatory impact on African- Supporting the Legal Aid Society of New York American and Hispanic test-takers and is in challenging the systemic sexual abuse and currently deciding on the appropriate remedy – harassment of women prisoners in New York Vulcan Society’s intentional discrimination claim State. is still pending Tummino v. Hamburg Feminist activists sued the FDA for relying on political bias instead of science in refusing to approve the Morning-After Pill as an over-the- counter drug available to women of all ages. Status: won on cross motions for summary judgment. Agency ordered to make Plan B Co-counsel Amardeep Singh of the Sikh Coalition (right) available to 17-year-olds and up without a and Ravinder Singh Bhalla (left) with CCR Attorney prescription and reconsider all age and other Shayana Kadidal at press conference showing photos of restrictions MTA employees wearing permitted non-religious headgear.

29 Government Abuse of Power

Illegal Government Surveillance U.S. v. Sanders Amnesty International, CCR, et al. v. CIA, Legal defense of people in penalty proceedings Department of Defense, et al. CCR v. Bush due to alleged violation of the Cuba travel Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Challenging NSA warrantless domestic electronic embargo, and a constitutional challenge to the seeking information about renditions and surveillance, asserting that it violates FISA and process by which the government investigates “disappeared” detainees, including those at CIA the First and Fourth Amendments. Lawsuit is on suspected violations. ”ghost” sites and unregistered prisoners. behalf of CCR attorneys, seeking to protect our Status: CCR’s appeal was denied and the fine Status: over 6,000 pages of documents from the clients’ right to confidential attorney-client increased – planning a broader challenge to the Department of Defense, Department of State communications. the entire investigative process in federal court and Central Intelligence Agency have been Status: Congress amended FISA statute in released – litigation is pending mid-2008; case remains pending in Northern Vilaseca v. U.S. Department of Treasury District of California (amicus) Arar v. Ashcroft Federal lawsuit in challenging severe Challenging the “extraordinary rendition” of Wilner v. NSA and DOJ restrictions imposed by the Bush administration Maher Arar and seeking accountability from FOIA lawsuit to determine if the government has on travel to visit close family members in Cuba. Ashcroft, Mueller and other U.S. officials for engaged in warrantless wiretapping of CCR Status: stipulation agreement voluntarily sending Canadian citizen Arar to Syria to be attorneys and Guantánamo habeas counsel. dismissing the case after the rollback of family tortured. Status: appeal pending to Second Circuit on travel restrictions to Cuba Status: decision by the full Second Circuit is Glomar issues pending after it decided on its own to rehear the case Rendition and Ghost Detentions Cuba ACLU, CCR, et al. v. Department Ruben Campa v. U.S. (amicus) of Defense Requesting the Supreme Court to review the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Miami convictions of five Cuban government charging that government agencies illegally agents, the so-called “Cuban Five.” withheld records sought concerning the abuse Status: Supreme Court refused to review the of detainees in American military custody. convictions Status: litigation pending in the Southern District of New York and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals

CCR board member David Cole arguing for Maher Arar at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

30 Case Index Defending Dissent

Challenging the The Right to Political Dissent United States v. Stop Huntingdon Animal “Material Support” Statutes Cruelty (“SHAC7”) (amicus) Bell v. Miami-Dade County In support of animal rights activists convicted Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project Challenging mass arrests and police misconduct of violating the Animal Enterprise Protection Series of cases challenging the material during the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas Act (AEPA) for website postings and organizing support statue that makes it a crime to provide meeting in Miami, FL. demonstrations. support, including humanitarian aid, literature Status: successful settlement Status: filed an amicus brief distribution and political advocacy, to any foreign entity that the government has Kunstler v. City of New York (“A7”) designated as a “terrorist” group. Suing the NYPD on behalf of protesters who Status: partial victory in the lower court, were illegally arrested during an anti-war rally holding significant parts of the statute unconsti- in April, 2003 and detained for excessively long tutional on vagueness grounds; Supreme Court periods of time. has accepted the case for review; argument will Status: settled for $2 million take place in February 2010 United States v. Buddenberg Humanitarian Law Project v. Department of Defending four animal rights activists who are From left: Andrew Stepanian, Lauren Gazzola, Kevin Kjonaas, the Treasury being charged under the Animal Enterprise Joshua Harper, Jacob Conroy, Darius Fullmer, members of Challenge to similar restrictions under the Terrorism Act (AETA) for First Amendment – the “SHAC7.” Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations, the protected political activity. IEEPA statute, and post-9/11 Executive Order Status: our motion to dismiss the indictment is 13,224. pending Status: further action stayed pending Supreme Court ruling in Holder v. HLP (see above)

More information on all of CCR’s cases can be found on our website CCR clients in USA v. Buddenberg. From left: Nathan Pope, at: www.CCRjustice.org/our-cases Adriana Stumpo, Maryam Khajavi and Joseph Buddenberg (the AETA 4). 31 The Case for Prosecutions

he unlawful activities of the Bush administration A criminal investigation and the prosecution of any of- are now well documented, in many cases as ficials responsible for egregious human rights violations a direct result of CCR’s litigation and early are required under both domestic and international law, T detainee representation. The evidence is including Article 4 of the Convention Against Torture. clear that officials at the highest level of government As a treaty ratified by the U.S., the Convention is were involved in egregious and illegal actions, including binding as “supreme law” under the U.S. Constitu- the authorization of torture and other war crimes. The tion. As the Supreme Court said last year in CCR and United States must immediately undertake thorough co-counsel’s Guantánamo case, Boumediene v. Bush, investigations and prosecute those government officials “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, who designed, orchestrated, or implemented the U.S. and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and torture program. security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law.” Why prosecutions? President Obama has indicated his reluctance to pursue What crimes were committed? prosecution for the crimes of the Bush administration, The Bush administration displayed shameless contempt saying that he prefers to look forward rather than back- for the rule of law and conducted their policies under an ward. CCR strongly disagrees. That egregious crimes unprecedented veil of secrecy, consistently attempting were committed is undeniable. President Obama has to evade judicial, congressional, and public inquiry. In reiterated the fundamental principle that no one is above closed meetings, the so-called “Principals Committee”– the law. Therefore, he must not step back from this which included Vice President Cheney, Attorney General principle by granting a pass to the perpetrators of those Ashcroft, Secretary of State Powell, CIA Director Tenet, crimes for the sake of political expediency. By definition, and National Security Advisor Rice – authorized the use fully investigating those crimes requires looking back. of “enhanced interrogation techniques” that included Prosecuting the high-level former officials responsible for waterboarding and other interrogation methods that torture and other crimes can offer a measure of justice clearly amounted to torture. to the victims, re-establish higher standards for human rights protection, and provide the strongest deterrent Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld authorized and against future administrations going down this dark implemented unlawful interrogation practices; in fact, path again. Prosecutions will also be a clear signal to a recently released Senate Armed Services Committee countries around the world that the U.S. has drawn the report held Rumsfeld largely responsible for the abuses line at torture. No commission, executive order, policy committed against detainees at Guantánamo, Abu change or new legislation will have that same power. Ghraib and other prisons. Inexcusably, administration 32 lawyers – including David Addington, John Yoo, Alberto field may have gone further than the limits so ghoulishly laid Gonzales, Jay Bybee and others – constructed strained out by the lawyers who twisted the law to create legal cover rationales to give the torture program legal cover. for the program, but the lawyers and officials who oversaw and approved the program must also be investigated and The prohibition against torture and cruel, inhuman and held accountable. degrading treatment is reflected in several international treaties and domestic laws. These include the Convention It is essential that any inquiry or commission not be a Against Torture, the Geneva Conventions, the War Crimes substitute for criminal prosecutions. Furthermore, the Statute and the Anti-Torture Statute. Torture is prohibited possibility of prosecutions must not be undercut by under any circumstance and for any reason, and when it is commissions that offer amnesty or any other measure committed during a war, is considered a war crime. When that would shield those responsible from being held it comes to charges of torture, officials who hold high office accountable. Only prosecutions will send a clear message to are not entitled to immunity. As the U.N. High Commis- the rest of the world, to future government officials, and to sioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, has stated: the victims of torture that these crimes are unacceptable and “People who order or inflict torture cannot be exonerated.” that the rule of law has been restored in the United States.

What can be done? Take action! The Attorney General must appoint an independent prose- Join us in the call for meaningful investigations and cutor with a full mandate to investigate those responsible for prosecutions. This important moment in our nation’s history torture and war crimes, especially the high-ranking officials provides us with the opportunity to take some critical steps who authorized and orchestrated the torture program. We to protect and expand human rights and social justice. call on the Obama administration not to tie the prosecutor’s hands but to let the investigation go as far up the chain of To get involved with CCR’s ongoing command as the facts lead. accountability work and other campaigns, sign up for our e-Action Alerts on our website: ? Responsibility for the torture program cannot be laid solely www.CCRjustice.org/get-involved at the feet of a few low-level operatives. Some agents in the 33 Internships and Fellowships

The Fellowship Program was named in honor of a great and often unheralded leader of the civil rights movement. The program strives to exem- plify Ella Baker’s firm commitment to mentoring and developing young leaders to carry the mantle of the struggle for social justice through the generations. In addition, CCR hosts undergraduate students who work on cases and campaigns throughout the year. Our International Scholars program brings law students, legal scholars and lawyers from around the globe to work with CCR attorneys on constitutional, international and human rights litigation.

Terri Nilliasca grew up in Virgin- Hiba Hafiz was born in Al-Khobar, ia, the child of a Filipina immigrant Saudi Arabia, where her family mother and an Anglo-American still lives. After graduating from father. Racism, displacement and Wellesley College, she completed a loss of culture had a profound, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at radicalizing effect on her and she Yale University. She was involved began organizing around issues in organizing with HERE and spent of race and gender in college. a summer interning in the Ramallah After graduation, she organized office of the Palestinian Academic welfare recipients, was an Society for the Study of International organizer at UNITE, organized Affairs where she researched the low wage textile workers in the effects of Israel’s Wall on Palestinian religious rights. Now a student U.S. South and worked in the Phil- at Columbia Law School, she has worked on a variety of international ippines with a progressive labor federation. Inspired by the depth of human rights issues. the movement in the Philippines, Terri decided to go to law school in Hiba is incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to intern at order to gain tools for the struggle for social justice and the liberation the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has long admired the work of all peoples. She is the proud and exhausted mother of four year- of CCR founders Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler as people’s old twins and a second year law student at CUNY School of Law. lawyers, as well as CCR’s pioneering work in Alien Tort Statute cases and in challenging U.S. illegal detention and torture policies “It has been an honor to work at the Center. CCR’s work is vitally in Guantánamo and elsewhere. important to our ability to resist forces that seek to crush the poor, incarcerate and torture people of color, and deny our rights as “I applied to CCR because I see it as the ideal model of social justice women, LGBTQ peoples or political activists. Interns made substan- lawyering. My experience as an Ella Baker intern was transformative tive contributions to CCR’s work and the seminars and discussions and deeply enriching. It allowed me to participate in the breadth of added political depth to our journey towards becoming people’s CCR’s public interest work and to meet a community of activists that lawyers in this struggle for a truly just world.” will inspire me for the rest of my life!”

More information on all of these programs is available on our website: www.CCRjustice.org/ella-baker-fellowship

34 In the News Honors

CCR understands that the court of public opinion can be as important as CCR is proud of our staff and board members who have received any court of law for bringing about change. Getting the right messages out awards this year for their work with the Center. Below are a few can affect outcomes both in and out of the courtroom. That’s why we work of these honors: with bloggers, reporters, producers and editors to make our voice heard and bring our perspective to the widest possible audiences. • The same week the President Obama signed the executive Our staff members are interviewed for their insight and expertise in publi- order to close Guantánamo, CCR president, Michael Ratner, was cations, and on radio and television around the world. Our communications awarded BuzzFlash’s Wings of Justice Award for his work fighting department keeps the media up to date on our cases and campaigns and against illegal detentions “from the very beginning” lays the groundwork for a more progressive point of view to deepen the way a story is covered. • The Houston Peace and Justice Center honored CCR at its annual awards dinner. CCR attorney Pardiss Kebriaei accepted the award on behalf of the Center.

• CCR attorney Shayana Kadidal was honored for his CCR attorney Pardiss Kebriaei (left) work at CCR by the South accepts an award from the Houston Asian Bar Association with the Peace and Justice Center President, Access to Justice Award. Debbie Antoon.

• The Williams J. Butler Human Rights Medal was awarded to Michael Ratner by the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law for his “leadership on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights for the defense of Clockwise from top left: CCR Executive Director Vince Warren on The Rachel Maddow Show prisoners at Guantánamo.” discussing preventive detention after his meeting with President Obama. CCR President, Michael Ratner, speaks with Democracy Now! about pushing for prosecutions of former Bush administration officials. CCR attorney Darius Charney gives a television interview on the courthouse steps. CCR • Michelle DePass, former Kunstler Fellow and CCR board attorney Shayana Kadidal on World Focus, speaking about the decision to close Guantánamo. member, has been appointed Assistant Administrator for For more news and updates or to set up an interview, visit: International Affairs at the Environmental Protection Agency www.CCRjustice.org/newsroom Office of International Activities.

35 100 Days Campaign

CR has always approached challenges with Congress to restore the Constitution and the from multiple angles: combining our traditional checks and balances of our democratic litigation with public education and system. Cstrategic organizing work. The Center organizes speaking engagements, summits, Based on our clients’ own stories, CCR’s analysis to restore the constitution community forums and legal education seminars. often puts a face to the policy debates. We laid We also produce reports, provide expertise to out the very human consequences of prolonged Our series of white policy makers and conduct grassroots campaigns. detention in places such as Guantánamo and the papers outlining policy inherent likelihood of abuse in prisons like Abu recommendations to The 100 Days project exemplified CCR’s Ghraib. restore the Constitution approach to integrating non-litigation advocacy are available on into our work. The project combined research, In January, CCR convened a summit of national our website: www.CCR policy analysis, legislative advocacy, public educa- human rights organizations in Washington, D.C. justice.org/100days. tion and organizing work in a multi-faceted effort to set a human rights agenda for advocates and to inform and mobilize the public to insist the new government – The First 100 Days: Bringing administration take strong first steps to undo the Human Rights Home. The groups joined in a call The Right to Dissent explores attacks harm from the past eight years. to rein in executive power, restore the rule of on dissent, from surveillance of activists, law and ensure accountability. to federalization of local law enforcement, While CCR never shies away from challenges in to labeling activists as “terrorists.” court, we know that real change comes from building The final phase of the campaign included an Ending Arbitrary Detention, Torture a movement outside of the courtroom. CCR will assessment of the new administration’s first 100 and Extraordinary Rendition provides utilize every avenue available in pursuing our mission days. Sadly, little progress had been made in many an overview of these Bush administration to use the law as a creative force for social change. important areas. CCR continues to push for a swift policies and what must be done to reverse closure of Guantánamo; the safe resettlement them. The 100 Days Campaign or return of the detainees; the end of the use of To make the most of the opportunities presented extraordinary rendition; increased protections Amend the War Powers Resolution by the presidential transition, CCR implemented against domestic wiretaps; and for the complete outlines the executive abuse of war-making an aggressive media, educational and web-based repudiation of the Bush program of “enhanced power, and calls for restoring checks and balances and increased congressional organizing campaign to keep our issues upfront interrogations.” CCR continues to fight for inde- oversight. in the political debate, provide alternatives to pendent and full investigations and prosecutions the tepid reform plans offered by many of the of officials who violated U.S. or international law. Stop Warrantless Wiretapping candidates, and engage our supporters in advo- exposes the last eight years of secret cacy efforts to demonstrate political support for More information on our 100 surveillance, including the expansion of meaningful reforms and real change. Days Campaign is available on warrantless wiretapping and the dangers our website at: A centerpiece of these efforts was our 100 Days inherent in the erosion of privacy rights. www.CCRjustice.org/100days project, calling on the new president to work

36 Get Involved

CCR sponsors numerous events across the country each year. Get Involved To find out about upcoming “Is there anything I can DO about this horrible situation?” is a refrain often heard CCR events in your area, sign up for email at CCR from people concerned about social justice work. We regularly generate email action alerts, or visit our calendar page at: alerts that include calls to take specific actions in critical situations, or to inform you of important www.CCRjustice.org/calendar developments in cases or issues. This year, action alert topics have ranged from calls to “pack the courtroom” for one of our cases, to sending letters to President-elect Obama calling on him to stand by his promise to close Guantánamo.

Our emails are informative, motivating, and help to mobilize our many wonderful supporters on important issues. Our work in the courtroom will not always be enough to turn back the tide; we need you to keep the pressure on.

• Watch one of CCR’s videos on YouTube. If you like a video you can give it a good rating, pass it along to friends or embed it on a webpage.

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From left: CNN’s Rachel Maddow, General Ricardo Sanchez, CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and Want the torturers prosecuted? journalist Ron Suskind at Blueprint for Accountability, a Tired of the “few bad apples” line? The Center for panel arranged by the Culture Project. Constitutional Rights has partnered with CREDO Mobile to distribute Torture Team trading cards to Download Reports On-line spark the conversation about responsibility for torture CCR partnered with the University of California, at the highest levels. View them all or order your own Berkeley to study the impact of Guantánamo on the set of cards for free at www.tortureteam.org lives of former detainees. The report, Guantánamo and Its Aftermath: U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Detainees, based on a two-year study, reveals in graphic detail the To sign up for email updates, follow us on YouTube or become a fan of the Center on cumulative effect of Bush administration policies on Facebook, visit our website at: http://CCRjustice.org/spread-word the lives of 62 released detainees.

37 2009 President’s Reception

The Center for Constitutional Rights held our annual President’s Reception in New York City in May. This event is an expression of gratitude and appreciation for our generous donors and supporters who are indispensable partners in advancing and protecting fundamental rights for everyone.

CCR major donors Laurie Arbeiter and Jennifer Hobbs were honored for being outstanding partners to CCR through their unstinting support, tireless activism for government accountability, and fearless and outspoken leadership for the right to dissent.

CCR presents a Pro Bono Service Award each year to lawyers and firms who, without compensation, have provided legal services for those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources. This year the award went to the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, for their tenacious and impassioned representation of Uighur prisoners, past and present, at Guantánamo Bay.

The event welcomed CCR’s new Legal Director, Bill Quigley, who spoke about his connection to CCR and his vision for where the legal work is headed. Special Recognition was also given to the JEHT Foundation for its visionary support for social justice and human rights work. The JEHT Foundation and its staff exemplified CCR’s determination to find innovative and effective approaches to advance justice and defend human rights.

Left: Sabin Willett accepted the Pro Bono Service Award on behalf of the legal team at Bingham McCutchen who represented Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Right: CCR donors Jennifer Hobbs and Laurie Arbeiter were honored for their tireless financial support and activism. Top: CCR welcomed Bill Quigley as Legal Director.

38 Friends and Allies

Over the past year, the Center for Constitutional Rights has worked with hundreds of attorneys, legal organizations, private law firms, clients and activists on our cases, campaigns and fundraising efforts. CCR extends its deepest appreciation for all they have done as volunteer attorneys, cooperating attorneys, co-counsel and colleagues in the struggle for justice. (* CCR board member/co-counsel)

Demissie Abebe Chiann Bao Andrew Brouwer Coalition for an Ethical Psychology ACLU Octavia Barber David Brown Coalition for Parole ACLU of Florida Garvey Schubert Barer Jessica Buchanan Restoration (CPR) ACLU of Massachusetts Nigel Barrella Allan Buchman Coalition for the Defense ACLU of Vermont Chris Bartlett Susan Burke of Human Rights Action Réfugiés Montréal Monika Batra Burke O’Neil LLC Coalition to Raise Minimum Debo Adegbile Jack Beck Paul Butler Standards at NYC Jails Suzanne Adely Beldock, Levine & Hoffman LLP Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP Stanford Cohen Agit-Pop Derrick Bell Brian Byrd Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll Amna Akbar Bellevue/NYU Program for Jean Callahan Cindy Cohn Shereef Hadi Akeel Survivors of Torture Canadian Council for Refugees Marjorie Cohn Akeel & Valentine P.C. Khadine Bennett Alan Cantos David Cole* Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld Najla Benson Edmund Cardoni Sandy Coliver Kali Akuno Nancy Bernstein Cheri Carr Community Church of New York Iyad Alami Frida Berrigan Juan Cartagena Community Service Society Ashlee Albies Ravinder S. Bhalla Kenavon T. Carter Jenny-Brooke Condon Debbie Almontaser Anurima Bhargava James Cavallaro Sophia Conroy Adrian Alvarez Chandra Bhatnagar* Antonia Cedrone Rhonda Copelon* Brigit G. Alvarez Andy Bichlbaum Center for Human Rights Correctional Association American Univ. International John A. Bick and Global Justice of New York Human Rights Clinic Bingham McCutchen LLP Center for International Human Rights, Clare Coss Amnesty International Bob Bloom Northwestern Univ Sch of Law Nicholas Coster Amnesty International USA Douglas Bloom Center for Justice and Accountability Brenda Coughlin Chris Anders Patty Blum (CJA) Andrea Cousins Heather Andersen Martha Boden Center for Justice and International Law Kurt Coutain Rumzi Araj Jocelyn Bogdan (CEJIL) Covington & Burling LLP Nan Aron Heidi Boghosian Center for Reproductive Rights CREDO/Working Assets Ahilan Arulanatham Jeremy F. Bollinger Devon Chaffee Catherine E. Creely Frank Askin Victoria Bolton Nathaniel Charny Critical Arts Ensemble Defense Fund Barbara Aubrey Mike Bonanno Marco Chelo (CAE) Audre Lorde Project Trudy Bond Erwin Chemerinsky Culture Project Tracy Austin Jenn Borchetta Emily Chiang D.C. Prisoners’ Project John Austria Karen Borg Judith Brown Chomsky Jamil Dakwar Michael Avery Andrew Boyd Cindy Chupack Matthew Daloisio Mojgone Azemun Bob Boyle Civil Liberties Defense Center George Daly Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC Emma Bradford Melanca D. Clark Ron Daniels Sandra Babcock Sharon Bradford Franklin George Clarke Jennifer Daskal Baker & McKenzie LLP Matt Brinckerhoff Right Reverend Barry B. Clarke, Davies David Baluarte Yael Bromberg Anglican Bishop of Montreal Jeff Davis

39 Friends and Allies (continued)

Martha Davis Electronic Frontier Foundation Sharon Flaherty Cathe Giffuni Pat Davis Laurie Elkin Laura Flanders John Gilmore Shelbi Day Elkin, Steliger & Elkin Ltd. Laurel Fletcher Beth Gilson Maddy DeLone Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP Tina Foster Leah Gitter Janet Dench Kathy Engel Rachel Fowler Sarah Goetz Jamie Denvir Megan Erickson Ben Fox Miriam Gohara Meera Deo Ethical Culture Society Caroline Fredrickson Deborah Golden Detention Watch Network European Center for Constitutional Spencer Freedman Eliza Golden Jeff Deutch and Human Rights (ECCHR) Daniel Friedman Brian Goldman Anthony DiCaprio Chinyere Ezie Friends of the Earth Carla Goldstein Angelia Dickens Fabulous Independent Educated Agnieszka Fryszman Thomas C. Goldstein DLA Piper US LLP Radicals for Community Jose Luis Fuentes Bill Goodman George Dobbins Empowerment (FIERCE!) Kit Gage Melissa Goodman Domestic Workers United Natasha Fain Rosa Garcia Debbie Gordon Paul Donowitz Families for Freedom Janice Gehlmeyer Sabrina Gordon Terrence Dougherty Families Rally for Emancipation Mary Geissman Richard Gottfried Drop the Rock and Empowerment (FREE) Georgetown Law – Institute for Amy Gottlieb Drug Policy Alliance Susan Farbstein Public Representation William Gould Thomas Duane Jamie Fellner Andrew Geraghty Amanda Gourdine Jon Dubin Arwa Fidahusein Carsten Gericke Eldon Greenberg Malika Dutt Omar Figueroa Frances Geteles-Shapiro EarthRights International (ERI) Jonathan Fine Rana Ghaleb Kate Greenwood Harrison Eiteljorg, II Davida Finger Tyler Giannini Colin Greer Edward J. Elder Gregory H. Finger* Gibbons P.C. Olivia Greer

Merry Neisner is a CCR volunteer who for several years has distributed our Jailhouse Lawyers CCR Spotlight Handbook (JLH), a free CCR/NLG publication that we send to prisoners throughout the country. Merry responds to hundreds of prisoners’ letters per month, sending out a package of print resources and often researching further referrals, resources or answers to legal questions. She has made a real and positive impact on the lives and conditions of prisoners as well as on the work of the Center.

“ I got the idea to volunteer at an event where CCR presented The Articles of Impeachment against our last president. Sending the JLH, the Constitution and the Human Rights Declaration to prisoners who write in is such a concrete and simple act. The fact that thousands of incarcerated people ask for legal information, and then receive it, is mind-boggling to me. For me, knowing CCR lawyers whose cause is the Constitution and who are in this struggle for the longhaul is a source of real inspiration.”

40 Grinnell College Jayne Huckerby Kairys Rudovsky Messing & Elena Landriscina Bob Guild Human Rights First Feinberg LLP Darren LaVerne Barbara E. Hadsell Human Rights Watch Johanna Kalb Law Office of Judith Brown Chomsky Hadsell, Stormer, Keeny, Richardson Marianne Humbersot Wolfgang Kaleck Daniel Lee & Renick Chaumtoli Huq Carolyn Kalos Legal Aid Society of New York Jonathan Hafetz Zaid Hydari Joy Kanwar David Lerner Hiba Hafiz Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project Craig Kaplan Judy Lerner Lisa Hajjar Institute for Policy Studies Dana Kaplan Rachel Levine Melissa Hale Woodman Institute for Redress and Woody Kaplan Kirsten Levingston Julie Hall Recovery at Santa Clara Univ Jonathan Kaufman Richard Levy Kimberly Hamper Interfaith Coalition of Advocates for Paul Keegan Levy Ratner, PC Harvard Human Rights Program Reentry and Employment (ICARE) Allen Keller Eric Lewis Harvard Law Student Advocates International Center for Transitional Kate Kelly Megan Lewis for Human Rights Justice (ICTJ) Sarah Kermensky Dahlia Lithwick Dalia Hashad International Federation for Mahdis Keshavarz Paula & Barry Litt Katherine Hawkins Human Rights (FIDH) Ateqah Khaki Jules Lobel* Steve Hawkins International Human Rights Seher Khawaja Terry Lodge Mike Healey Clinic at Harvard Law Sch Doane Kiechel Carlos Lopez Art Heitzer International Human Rights Clinic Michael Kieschnick Dana Lossia Eric Hellerman at Seattle Univ Sch of Law Jane Kim Sonia Low Owen Henkel International Network for Economic, Peter Kinoy Nicholas Lusiani Caitlin K. Henry Social and Cultural Rights Kim Paula Kirkley Lutheran Immigration and Madeleine Hensler Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship - HLS Rachel Kleinman Refugee Services Rick Herz Bernard Koteen Office of Public Klimaski & Associates Tarek Maassarani Damon Hewitt Interest Advising Jennifer Kostyu Lisa Magarrell Daniel Heyman Philip Irwin Makane Kouyate Make the Road, NY Carolyn Hicks Renee Isely Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Colette Makenian Ginny Hildebrand Jackman & Associates Susan Krehbiel Vladimir Makhlis Jaribu Hill Marianne Jackson Ruth Kreinik Carmelyn Malalis Morgan Hill Ethan Jacobs Michael Krinsky Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Rachel Hill Omar Jadwat Frank Krogh (MXGM) Claire Hobden Jameel Jaffer Lisa Kung Anjana Malhotra Paul L. Hoffman Meetali Jain Emily Kunstler David Mandel- Anthony Taylor Hoffman Alan Jenkins Margaret Ratner Kunstler Susan Baker Manning Jean Hoffmann Bonnie Scott Jones Sarah Kunstler Joe Margulies Sarah Hogarth Keith Jordan Steven Kurtz Melissa Marks Adrienne Holder Jessica Juarez Leonard Kurz Frank Marotta Toni Holness Judson Memorial Church Ira Kurzban Robin Martin Scott Horton Justice Committee Kurzban Kurzban Weinger & Tetzeli Rikki Martinez Sumi Hoshiko Justice in Nigeria Now Neal Kwatra Molly McCowen Ina Howard-Parker Juvenile Justice Project Dror Ladin Alison McCrary Carolyn Hsu of Jim Lafferty Neil McGaraghan Margaret Huang Marie Kahn Lambda Legal Defense and Brian McTigue Shanti Hubbard David Kairys Education Fund Garth Meintjes

41 Friends and Allies (continued)

Ari Melber Tom Nolan Michael Rapkin Douglas Sapola Pamela Merchant Northwestern Univ Sch of Law’s Center Michael Ratner* Meg Satterthwaite Cassie Metcalf-Solvo for International Human Rights Ratner, DiCaprio & Chomsky LLP Sally Saulvester Matthew Meyer NYCLU Nathaniel Raymond Pamela Sawnhey Danny Meyers NYU Washington Square Legal Cynthia Reed Jeremy Scahill Jill Meyers Services Lauren Regan Ann Marie Scalia Steven Miles October 22nd Coalition to Stop Katja Rehm Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP George Miller Police Brutality Paul Rehm Rocky Schoen Katherine Miller Ricky and Cheri O’Donoghue Norman Reimer Marty Schoenhals Monica Miller Office of the Appellate Defender Steven Reisner Schonbrun, DeSimone, Seplow, Sam Miller Zara Ohiorhenuan Remember Saro-Wiwa Harris and Hoffman Miller & Chevalier Chtd Oil Change Isha Renner-Wright Steven H. Schulman Susan Misner Barbara Olshansky Reprieve Mark A. Schwartz Neera Mohess Brad Olson Republican Attorneys Association Judy Scolnick Jonathan Moore William T. O’Neil (RAV – Germany) Scott & Scott Tamara Morgenthau Rachel Oppenheimer David Rhodes Randy Scott-McLaughlin Morrison & Foerster LLP Ramona Ortega Anne Richardson Seattle Univ Sch of Law Sahr MuhammedAlly Palestinian Center for Human Rights Rights for Imprisoned People with Liliana Segura Jumana Musa Daniel Pancotti Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD) Stephen Seliger Rafael Mutis Egizio Panetti Rights Working Group Brad Seligman Marie N’Diaye Carly J. Pansulla Jenny Rivera John Sellers Joanna Naples-Mitchell Brian Paragas Riverside Church Barbara Seniawski National Association of Environmental Vikram Parekh Richard Roberts Seton Hall University Law Students Dennis Parker Marion Rodriguez Sex Workers’ Project - Urban National HIRE Network Helene Parker Franklin Romeo Justice Center National Lawyers Guild, National Office Tom Parker Mindy Roseman Meera Shah National Lawyers Guild - Jill Pasquarella Alex & Carole Rosenberg* Han Shan Bay Area Chapter Mona Patel Ben Rosenfeld Steve Shapiro National Lawyers Guild - LA Chapter Peoples’ Justice Jordan Rubenstein Moh Sharma National Lawyers Guild - NYC Chapter People’s Law Office Len Rubenstein Ted Shaw National Organization for Defending C. William Phillips James Rubin Stanley & Betty Sheinbaum Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) Physicians for Human Rights Abby Rubinson Shell Guilty NC Stop Torture Now Jason S. Pinney David Rudovsky Julie Shelton Merry Neisner Police Transparency & Visuvananathan Rudrakumaran Peter Shepherd Victoria Nelson Accountability Project Rheba Rutkowski Galen Sherwin Sarah Netburn Ai Jen Poo Ellen Ryan Henry Shi Nation Katherine Porterfield Miriam Saag-Maasz Kareem Shora New York Coalition Against Torture Emily Powers Kathryn Sabbeth Reggie Shuford New York Lawyers for the Fred Pratt Safe Streets/Strong Communities Siegel & Yee Public Interest Freya Putt Naomi Sager Natalie Ngoc Truong Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Seema Saifee John Sifton Andrew Nicolai Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C. Radhika Sainath Sikh Coalition Terri Nilliasca Leila Rachidi Yanick Salazar Julie Simeone Nixon Peabody LLP Karen Ranucci Ivor Samson Marco Simons

42 Amardeep Singh Eric Stover Traber & Voorhees Blanche Wiesen Cook Amrit Singh Nan Strauss Robert Trujillo Sabin Willett Gwynne L. Skinner Ted Strauss UC Berkeley Human Glynis Williams Skirball Foundation Vivian Stromberg Rights Center Sarah S. Willie Claudia Slovinsky Robert Stroup Sue Udry Elizabeth Wilson Prof. Ronald C. Slye Matthew Strugar United for Peace & Justice John Wilson Michael C. Small Sarah Sturges Unrepresented Nations and Michael Winger Alexandra Houston Smith Zeeshan Suhail Peoples Organization Michael Withey Carol A. Sobel Liz Sullivan Urban Justice Center WITNESS Joshua A. Sohn Joanne Sum-Ping US Human Rights Network Witness Against Torture Stephen Soldz Martha Swan Uyghur American Association Ben Wizner Lucia Sommer Leigh Sylvan Meredith Vacek Naomi Wolf Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal Sylvia Rivera Law Project John L. Van Sickle Chic Wolk Michael S. Sorgen Dwede Tarpeh Eric Vang Women’s Rights Law Reporter, Raji Sourani Charles Tate Venceremos Brigade Rutgers Univ Sch of Law Southern Legal Counsel Mateo Taussig Mara Verheyden Hilliard Gordon Woodward Elisabeth Springer Lauren Teukolsky Angela C. Vigil Laura Flahive Wu Jennifer Stark Nikki Thanos David Vladeck Mel Wulf Nancy Stearns Gerald Thompson Bert Voorhees The Yes Men Arlene Steinberg James McNair Thompson Vulcan Society Jacqui Zalcberg Irene Steiner Eric A. Tirschwell Ian Wallach Dorothy Zellner Beth Stephens Katherine Toomey Mariann Meier Wang Kimberly Zelnick Christina Stephenson Gabriel Torres Rivera Peter & Cora Weiss* Weiqi Zhang Michael J. Sternhell Torture Abolition and Survivors Raymond Welch Tobias Eli Zimmerman Dan Stormer Support Coalition (TASSC) Phil Wider Jason Zoladz Michele Storms Theresa Traber Richard R. Wiebe

CCR Spotlight Elizabeth Gilson calls herself “profoundly marked” by the Sixties’ hope for a better America. That inspiration is evident in so much of her work, from teaching in a Lebanese village, to working for civil rights, to her law practice suing polluters and devising environmental solutions. Her zeal for speaking out against injustice motivated her to bring habeas corpus petitions on behalf of two Uighur men detained at Guantánamo since 2002. These cases are a significant undertaking, particularly for a solo practitioner, requiring regular travel to the prison; to D.C. courtrooms to fight obstructive government motions; translator costs; plus countless hours away from paying clients. Beth says she couldn’t do this work without the expertise and support from CCR’s staff, and the collegial network of habeas lawyers CCR has built. The Center for Constitutional Rights is grateful to Beth and the many other lawyers for their commitment and dedication to the rule of law.

43 CCR Donors July 1 2008 - June 30 2009

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Ethel G. Ackley Curt J. Firestone William Parsons Doris Shaffer Salah and Solomon Fisher Mahlon F. and The Center for Constitutional Catherine Al-Askari Cecily Fox Lovel P. Perkins Vicki A. Alexander Mary J. Geissman Rachel Porter Rights mourns the passing Evelyn Alloy Frances Goldin Jeanne Audrey Powers of our dear friend and long- Thomas E. and Edward E. Goldman Dolores M. Priem time supporter, Doris Shaf- Donna Ambrogi Del Greenfield † David G. Rich fer (1929-2009). A history Ruth Andrews Ellen Harris Jack L. Rihn professor at Nassau Commu- Carol Ascher John Hayward Marie H. Rothman nity College, Doris served as Ruth Bardach Martin and Mildred Hird Michael A. Schlosser president of the faculty union Philip Bereano Doris Shaffer † Timothy A. Holmes for 14 years. One of her proudest accomplishments Gene C. Bernardi † Edwin Salpeter † and Leo Hurvich was winning the inclusion of sexual orientation in Harvey Blend Martin and Antonia L. Shouse David M. Block Carolyn Karcher Robert M. Siegel the union contract’s non-discrimination clause, mak- Robert H. Bonthius Gordon D. Kent Rosalie K. Stahl ing NCC one of the first unions to do so. With her Frederick Briehl Hilda Knobloch Margot Steigman husband, Donald, she helped form the Great Neck Peter Broner Elizabeth S. Landis Joseph Stern Committee for Human Rights, and she served as a Mary L. Carr Helen S. Lane Barbara Stewart board member and chapter advocate of the New Matthew Cooper Joan Lewis Clio Tarazi York Civil Liberties Union for more than 35 years. Shulamit Decktor Evelyn C. Lundstrom Ethel Tobach Margaret R. de Rivera Florence Wagner Hilda and Doris devoted much of her life to working for Theresa Del Pozzo Charles N. Mason, Jr.† Peter Weiss Marial Delo Normon Masonson Barbara West social justice causes, and became a member of Jeffrey M. Dickemann Alice G. McGrath Ginia D. Wexler CCR’s Thelma Newman Planned Giving Society George and Priscilla J. McMillan John H. Wilson when she took out a Charitable Gift Annuity with us. Minna Doskow Barbara Michael Howard D. Zucker After her retirement Doris could regularly be found Wendy Dwyer Joseph Morton volunteering in the CCR office. All of us at the Carl H. Feldman Eva S. Moseley Center will miss her good company and unfail- George and Mary Ferger and the many members James Odling who have chosen to remain ing support. We send our deepest condolences to Leona Feyer Edward H. and anonymous Donald and their family. Anne L. Filardo Chorale† Page

44 deceased † Founders Circle gifts of $1,000 and above $100,000 And above The Common Counsel Foundation The Fiduciary Trust Company International Anonymous CREDO Mobile The Firedoll Foundation The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA), Inc. Robert A. Friedman and Anita Davidson The Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation Hilda and Charles N. Mason, Jr.† Leo and Sherry Frumkin The Fritz and Yvonne Pappenheim Fund The CS Fund/Warsh-Mott Legacy John and Kathryn Greenberg of the Tides Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Victor and Lorraine Honig Adelaide Gomer The Ford Foundation The Jewish Communal Fund The Grodzins Fund Lise Giraud † The Kaphan Foundation The Helena Rubinstein Foundation Del S. Greenfield† Shel Kaphan John B. and Sarah L. Henry The HKH Foundation Alfred Knobler † Iara Lee and George Gund III Foundation The JEHT Foundation Joanna Knobler The Jeannette and H. Peter Kriendler The Oak Foundation Peter and Jane Knobler Charitable Trust The Open Society Institute Elizabeth S. Landis The JKW Foundation The Tides Foundation The Libra Foundation Stephen and Marian J. Kent † The Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Zella Luria The Liberty Hill Foundation The Vital Projects Fund, Inc. Katherine and David Moore Jules Lobel The Wallace Global Fund Abigail Norman The Lois and Irving Blum Foundation Inc. The Normandie Foundation Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss $50,000 - $99,999 Marie Henderson Rothman Eva S. Moseley Anonymous Samuel Rubin Foundation Holly Myers and Kirk Neely The 1848 Foundation The Scherman Foundation, Inc. The New Prospect Foundation The Angelina Fund Deborah H. Wald M. William Pomerance † The Funding Exchange National Community Funds Peter and Cora Weiss The Puffin Foundation John Gilmore John H. Wilson Steve and Carolyn Purcell Muriel Goldring † The Ratner Family The John Merck Fund $10,000 - $24,999 Reed Smith Madison Community Foundation Anonymous The Richard A. Busemeyer Atheist Foundation Richard B. and Marilyn L. Mazess The Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation Perry and Gladys Rosenstein MoveOn.org Thomas E. and Donna Ambrogi Alfred and Jane Ross James Robertson † Eric and Cindy Arbanovella Rotonda Foundation The San Francisco Foundation Laurie Arbeiter and Jennifer Hobbs Silicon Valley Community Foundation Samuel Wiener, Jr. Frederick Benenson Louis Slesin The Blue Oak Foundation Adam and Jane Stein $25,000 - $49,999 The Bright Horizons Fund of the Tides Foundation Jean Stein Anonymous DLA Piper Foundation Florence Wagner Bardon-Cole Foundation The Epstein Teicher Philanthropies William B. Wiener, Jr. The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation Lois B. Feinblatt The William B. Wiener, Jr. Foundation 45 CCR Donors

$5,000 - $9,999 Maryanne Mott Gregory H. Finger and Joan Hollister The Susan Sarandon Anonymous The New York Community Trust Louis Fisher Charitable Foundation Franz and Marcia Allina Richard L. Pearlstone The Elizabeth M. Gitt Foundation Katrina Vanden Heuvel Joan Antonucci † The Posel Foundation Janice Goodman Workable Alternatives Foundation The Aquidneck Foundation Anne Posel Patricia B. Greenwald The Wyss Family Foundation Kay Berkson and Sidney Hollander Mitzi C. Raas Lisa Honig Diane Boehm Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc. The John D. and Catherine T. $1,000 - $2,499 Martin D. Branning Ronald and Deborah B. Ratner MacArthur Foundation Anonymous Virginia Brody Alex J. and Carole Rosenberg Eugenia Kalnay Leslie Abbey and Steve Dietz The Bydale Foundation Beatrice Stern Julie Kay and Tom Fergus Michelle and Bernard Aisenberg Elizabeth A. Castelli The Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust Jeffrey M. Keller Theresa F. Alt L. Sandra Coliver Steven R. VanBever Timothy J. Lee and Eleanor McBride Donna Katzin and Alan Altschuler David Kimmel Foundation Wendy Vanden Heuvel Mark Lopez and Leslie Spira Lopez J.W. Anderson Thomas Durst Nancy K. Viola Tom W. Lyons Ruth Andrews Nels Ekroth † George Wallerstein Mahmoud and Laila Mohamed Harry Anduze Marc Falkoff William Lehrer Charitable Fund Richard A. Moran Barbara M. Armento Solomon Fisher Anne C. Wilson National Philanthropic Trust Janet S. Arnold and Michael H. Rubin James B. and Louise Frankel Chic Wolk Jill W. Nelson and Thomas R. Bidell Sally Arnold and Christine Weir Daniel Greenberg and Karen Nelson Barbara A. Zeluck Network for Good The Arthur & Henrietta A. Sorin Evelyn Haas Wendy R. Olesker and John Crow Charitable Trust Susan J. Haas and Keith J. Patti $2,500 - $4,999 The Overbrook Foundation Cindy Barber and Horace Horton Jewish Community Federation Anonymous Mary R. and Benjamin I. Page Joseph Baribeau of Cleveland Alterman & Boop, LLP The Philanthropic Collaborative The Beavertides Foundation The Key Foundation Daniel L. Alterman and Li Wah Lai William L. and Sandra L. Rosenfeld and Kevin Danaher David Kimmel Foundation Nabil M. and Ann S. Amer Eric C. and Fiona Rudin Charles L. and Leslie A. Berger William D. Kirby Rita L. and William J. Bender Edwin E. Salpeter † and Antonia Matthew A. Berlin and Linda Krupa † Maryalice Bigham-Hughes Lhamo Shouse Simone Liebman Landau Family Foundation Trust and Investment Alfred H. Schwendtner and Ara and Linda Bernardi William Lankford Management Company Carole Wagner Francella W. and Jose F. Betancourt Thomas A. Lehrer John Caruso Seymour & Sylvia Rothchild Family Alexis and Michael Bleich Joan Lewis John A. Chandler and 2004 Charitable Foundation Charles R. and Linda Brainard Barry and Paula Litt Elizabeth V. Tanis Donald and Doris† Shaffer Judith T. and Donald S. Broder Daniel Margolis The Community Foundation Wallace M. Shawn Peter and Alice Broner William G. Mascioli Peter and Stella Elliston Morton Sobell and Edward J. and Marion D. Bronson Rob McConnell and Maria DeCastro Corrina Fales Nancy Gruber Allan and Muriel Brotsky Vincent McGee Evan M. Fales Richard A. Soble Judith Butler Mildred Miller † Daniel and Anita Fine Lynn S. Stern Tara A. Caffrey and Jeffrey J. Vroom

46 deceased † CCR Spotlight The JEHT Foundation supported CCR on projects ranging from the New York Telephone Justice Campaign to Guantánamo, and to cases against Blackwater, the notorious military contractor. JEHT always went “out on a limb” funding work that many found too politi- cally sensitive. Sadly, the foundation closed its doors in 2009, their investments a casualty of Bernard Madoff’s fraud. CCR will miss the deep relationship we had with this staunch partner in the social justice struggle. JEHT helped CCR become the effective institution that it is today and their past support will continue to have an impact for years to come. “ I am proud of JEHT’s support for CCR, which, as it so often does, jumped out first to challenge the U.S. government’s lawless detention of prisoners in Guantánamo and elsewhere. CCR acts with the haste Robert Crane, Foundation President, accepting an award that those in peril demand from a human rights organization!” on behalf of JEHT from CCR Executive Director, Vince – Garth Meintjes, former JEHT Program Officer Warren, at CCR’s President’s Reception in May 2009.

John Callas James K. Donnell Waleed K. and Hannah Gosaynie Abdeen M. Jabara and Ann Cammett and Marcia Gallo Kevin Donovan Frank and Judith Greenberg Holly Maguigan James T. Campen and Phyllis Ewen Daniel L. and Lee M. Drake Lynn Greiner and Chung-Ja and Cassim M. Jadwat Capital Trust Company of Delaware Paul and Susan I. Durrant John B. Midgley Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Teresa M. Castelli M. Scott Dutton Byron A. Hammer Maile N. Johnson Laura and Richard Chasin Diane Early and Daniel Gigone Gina Harman Joseph Rosen Foundation David D. Cole and Eddie Easterling Marjorie Heins William Josephson and Barbara Haws Cornelia T. L. Pillard Shiva Eftekhari The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Henry S. Kahn and The Community Foundation Harrison Eiteljorg, II Foundation Mary Gillmor-Kahn of Santa Cruz Tony Elias Robert and Claire Heron Wendy Kaminer and Woody Kaplan Rhonda Copelon Esdaile, Barrett and Esdaile Susan J. Hessel Terry L. Karl Janet Corpus and John Hoffmeyer Edward A. Everts and Rosemary Hicks Joyce Kirschner and Charles M. Crane and Wendy Breuer Deborah C. Davis Winifred W. Hirsch Richard S. Aronson Grace B. Crecelius Robert M. Factor Michael J. Hirschhorn and Joanne Kliejunas and Irving Lubliner Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP Robert Fertik and Antonia Stolper Jimena P. Martinez Marily Knieriemen Emily Deferrari and Mel Packer Robert Fodor and Thurid H. Clark Zach Hochstadt and Sadie Honey David Korman Madeline H. deLone and Margaret A. Geddes Randall D. Holmberg and Evelyn Yee Rochelle Korman Robert L. Cohen Lola and Isaiah Gellman Timothy A. Holmes Joyce and Max Kozloff Democrats.com LLC John J. Gibbons Ruth W. Hubbard Merle and Phyllis Krause Michelle J. DePass Sherna B. and Marvin Gluck Hunton & Williams Doug Kreeger Herman A. Dobbs, Jr. Leonard C. Goodman Steven and Miriam Hyman Edward M. Krishok and Peggy K. Hong

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Joseph B. and Rachel Kruskal Gloria C. Phares and Richard Dannay Stanley and Betty Sheinbaum Julia A. and James E. Wallace Roger S. and Belle Kuhn Hanna F. Pitkin Peter and Elizabeth C. Shepherd Vincent Warren and Ann Marie Scalia Luis and Lee Lainer Frances R. Posel Albert D. Shuldiner and Peter and Cora Weiss John W. and Claudia Lamperti James R. Potter Emily B. Myers Lee Wallis Whiting Eileen and Paul F. Le Fort William P. and Debra Dupre Quigley Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Sabin and Marta Willett Phyllis and John Lehman Brian J. Ratner Emily M. Skolnick Lincoln and Wilma C. Wolfenstein Stephen O. Lesser Kenneth Reiner Michael Steven Smith and Richard K. Worthington Daniel Levin Jennie Rhine and Tom Meyer Debby Smith Ellen Yaroshefsky William L. Lewis David Rhodes Michelle D. Smith Ann Yasuhara Philip and Elsa R. Lichtenberg Adrienne Rich Carolyn J. Sorensen Niki and Manoucher Yektai Leslie Lomas Lawrence and Janet A. Rivkin Michael S. Sorgen William D. Zabel and Deborah Miller Gail K. Lopez-Henriquez Ronald A. and Susan Hirtz Robboy Douglas K. Spaulding Michael F. Zweig and Hubert and Rachelle Marshall James Roberts and Patricia Calberson Emily A. Spieler and Gregory Wagner Kathy Chamberlain Warren E. and Joyce W. Mathews Wayne Roberts Barbara S. Starfield and Lisa B. Zycherman Alice G. McGrath Fredelle and John Robinson Neil A. Holtzman Priscilla J. McMillan John Rogers Lewis M. and Kitty Steel $500 - $999 C. Victor McTeer Albert Ruben Robert B. Stewart and Anonymous Robert H. and Ellen V. Meeropol Joseph L. Ruby Susan Waterman Pearla Abramis Juliet A. Melamid The Saint Paul Foundation Elizabeth and Byron Stookey Karen Abravanel Donald and Suzanne Miller Eleanor C. Salkind † Clayton A. Struve Ethel G. Ackley Ruthann B. and Warren H. Miller Jack Sawyer Susan D. Susman Cathy Albisa L. David Mirkin James A. Schamus and Alan and Victoria Sussman Neil Altman Daphna H. Mitchell Nancy Kricorian Judith A. Szepesi and Judy A. Austermiller and Richard W. and Barbara F. Moore Julie Schecter Charles Merriam Warren R. Betty Richard H. Morse Anne and Tom Scheuer John Thackray Radhika Balakrishnan and Patricia F. Mullahy Robert E. Schoen and Betsy Thomas and Adrian Wenner David W. Gillcrist Nancy J. Newman and Nancy Bernstein Thomas and Sue Pick Family Fund Margo Baldwin Mark Walstrom William J. and Katherine L. Schrenk Bonnie E. Thomson and The Family Fund Louie D. Nikolaidis and Edwin M. Schur and Eugene Tillman Bo Barker Rachel Horowitz Joan Brodsky Schur Merry Tucker Rainer C. Baum Michael O. Nimkoff Schwab Charitable Fund Edward R. Tufte Richard Beale Henry Norr Steven Schwartz Hazel Tulecke and William B. Houston Myron Beldock and Karen Dippold The O Live Fund Susan Scott Barbara C. and Franklin M. Turner Alvin Bennett Gregory O’Kelly William Seaman James S. Tyre James M. Bergin and Ellen P. Lukens Isabelle C. Osborne Steve Seltzer Nina Untermyer Amanda Bergson-Shilcock Wayne Outten Elizabeth and Stephen Shafer Marshall and Deborah Wais Judy Bierbaum Mahlon F. and Lovel P. Perkins Careen B. Shannon Daniel J. and Judith Walkowitz Helen C. Black

48 deceased † George and Eleanor Bollag Hildegard Dorrer Rachel J. Harris Jeffrey Lamkin Beth Marie Bonora and Michael Laine Lewis and Edith S. Drabkin Mary E. Harvey † Judy Lerner Eve Borenstein Barry N. and Ismartilah Drummond Paul Hathaway and Lynda Dailey David R. Lewis Belinda B. Breese Robert Dubrow Joseph Herron and Patricia Baird Betsy Lieberman and Angela Brooks Margaret L. Eberbach Louise S. Hertz Richard Groomer Jonathan Brown Anne Ehrlich Catherine N. Holmes Ray Lightstone Richard J. Brown Susan L. Einbinder Honeybee Foundation Richard and Rita G. Lipsitz Robert E. L. and Sylvie Maria Brown The Elias Foundation Allen M. Howard and Miriam H. Lukens † Calvert Social Investment Foundation Peter Erlinder Peggy Friedman M. Brinton Lykes and Deborah Campbell Wallace B. and Heike Eubanks Richard R. and Elizabeth C. Howe Catherine M. Mooney Tim Caro and Diane Farsetta Embry M. Howell Green Meadow Fund of the Monique Borgerhoff Mulder Lenore Feigenbaum and J. William Ingeman Community Foundation Ira Carp Simon J. Klein Zeljko Ivanek Richard Makdisi and Lindsay Wheeler Rachel K. Charny Ed and Ann Ferguson Margaret Jahn Elena S. Manitzas Douglas and Ann L. Christensen Jan L. and Cornelia Flora Jewish Community Endowment Fund Richard W. Mark and Kay Cloud Kathleen Fones Gail K. Johnson Maura L. Harway Hope Cobb Angela and Jeremy Foster Marc E. Johnson John B. and Martha S. Marks Timothy Coffey Maria C. Freeman and Tim C. Johnson Peter J. Mayer Jerry Cohen Donald K. Larkin Brian P. Johnston Harold A. Mayerson Colchamiro Family Foundation William H. Frelick Kenneth M. Jones and Carol Koury David McColgin The Columbus Foundation Amanda H. Frost Herschel and Margrit Kaminsky The McGraw-Hill Companies David B. Cone and Kellie Stoddart Gail Furman Amy Kaplan Employee Giving Campaign Michael Cooper Kit Gage and Steven J. Metalitz Martin and Carolyn L. Karcher Barbara J. Meislin Mary Ellen Copeland and Ronald E. and Jacqueline Garrett Patrice Kaska Barbara Michel Edward M. Anthes Mary Geddes Antje Katcher Shelley and Joe Miller Asho I. Craine Sheila Geist Mark Kempson Lynn and Arthur R. Mink Robert A. Cunningham General Board of Global Ministries John I. Kennedy Helen R. Moore E. Patrick Curry and Daniel Gillmor Charles L. and Anna Kerstein John Mueller Susan B. Campbell Maxine S. Goad Jerry Kickenson Thomas B. and Johannah Newman David Cynamon Kurt and Sorel Gottfried Ashish Kilam Caroline M. Paul Mohammed and Marcia F. Daoudi Jane S. Gould † Donald D. and Margaret A. Kioseff Don Pierce Datacap, Inc. Allen and Nancy Greenleaf Heinz J. Klug Ellyn and James Polshek Kenneth Deed Jerry A. Greenwald Hilda Knobloch Nancy R. Posel Bindu Desai Ariela Gross Karen Krahulik Bennett M. Pudlin and Riva Dewitt Collier M. Hands Philip Kramer Margaret Ann Judd Annette W. Dickerson Sara and Donna Haney Fayette F. Krause Christopher H. and Cynthia F. Pyle Roger R. Dittmann Guy M. Harris James Kwak C. Raphael

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Tina L. Rasnow Richard P. Sutter America’s Charities Waifun Becky Chan and Julie B. Rauch The T. Rowe Price Program Stuart H. Anderson Kurt Breuninger Marcus Rediker and Kelly F. Taylor Andrew M. Ansorge and Gordon A. Chapman Wendy Z. Goldman Richard Teitelbaum Laura S. Koopman Ava Cheloff Claire Reed and Mark Theune Barbra Apfelbaum and Renee D. Chotiner and Jonathan R. Scheinbart William Thomas Michael Reuveni Stuart W. Gardner Carol H. Arber A. Stephens and Helen Clay Doris E. Reed Joseph and Cornelia C. Tierney Bella D. August and Wallace B. Cleland Ann Reinhart Murray Tobak Everett Belvin Williams Marilyn B. Clement † George Renninger Elizabeth Tuccillo Jaime S. and Christine Austria Jane C. and John G. Comfort Joyce L. Richardson Mark Tushnet George S. and Jill S. Avrunin The Community Church of New York Jill and Ronald Rohde United Way Rebecca Bakunin Unitarian Universalist Barbara and Oren Root Joseph Vitale Frank C. and Blythe Baldwin Janet M. Conn The Rose Foundation Steven Vogel and Jane Henderson Will Beatty Jim and Cecilia A. Conroy George S. Rothbart and Geraldine Wallman Beate K. Becker Karen Cooper and George Griffin Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart Richard F. Watt Michael Beer Clare M. Coss Dean G. Ruby Michael Wax Denise Bell Susan Crile Virginia C. Rusch Alan M. Weiner and Nancy Maizels Douglas J. Bender and Barbara Cuneo and Alan Kesselhaut Gladys B. Rustay Daniel Weiss and Anne Stewart Emma B. Trejo Peter and Phyllis Davies Ruth G. and Carl S. Benson Dayton Foundation Depository Naomi Sager Anne Widmark Andrew J. Berlinger and David P. Dean and Sigrid Salo Sarah S. Willie Nancy C. Scerbo Berlinger Catherine M. Bergmann Brian Sandlin Jeffrey and Lucinda Wilner Estelle A. and Howard A. Bern Richard A. Denison Robert Schaibly and Steven Sorla Jo-anne Wolfson William I. Bernell Stuart Desser Edward Schiff and Betsy Pinover Robert R. and Blaikie F. Worth Bethesda Friends Meeting: Robert and Susan Deutsch Deborah Schifter and Frank O. Wyse Religious Society of Friends Gerald Dickinson Alan Schiffmann Robert J. and Karen R. Zelnick Helga K. Bilik Joseph F. Doherty Ruth K. Selby Peggy Billings Jeron E. and Marjorie Donalds Evan D. and Janet Shaad $250 - $499 Stephanie G. and Jacob G. Birnberg Alan and Susan S. Dranitzke Ann and Ahmad Shirazi Anonymous Stanley and Naomi Bleifeld Brendan Driscoll Benjamin R. Shreck A Hundred Monkeys Anne Bloom Barbara L. Dudley Milton Abelson Dorothy Slater-Brown Scott Bohning Camille Ehrenberg Robert and Miriam Abramovitz Barton and Barbara Boyer Michael Ehrlich Cherida C. Smith Stephen R. and Virginia Abrams Lila Braine Laurel and Eugene Eisner Ann W. Speckman Merritt and Barbara Abrash Kevi P. Brannelly Abdul El-Tayef John Spragens, Jr. William H. Abrashkin Paul Brewer Pamela D. Emerson Peter D. Stansky Emory W. and Marilyn M. Ackley Lois V. Bromson Brad P. Engdahl and Patricia L. Layton Norton and Irene Starr Judy Allen Brad and Liana Brooks-Rubin Anthony Ewing Nancy Stearns Daniel Altman Wes Callender Traci L. Ext Amanda Stent Ethan D. and Sandra D. Alyea Phil M. Campbell Martin R. Feinman

50 deceased † CCR Spotlight The Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) Defense Fund recently celebrated a victory for the First Amendment with the dismissal of criminal charges against artist and SUNY Professor, Steven Kurtz. In 2004, Dr. Kurtz’s wife, Hope, died suddenly as the couple was putting together a show about genetically modified agriculture for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The police who responded after Hope’s death decided the couple’s art materials represented a bio-terrorist threat. Dr. Kurtz and his supporters spent the next four years fighting mail and wire fraud charges against him and a colleague. The team has graciously decided to donate the bulk of their remaining funds to CCR.

“ The CAE Defense Fund committee is extremely honored to be able to donate Steven Kurtz and participant in Critical Art to the Center for Constitutional Rights. Throughout the rogue years of the Ensemble’s science-theater project GenTerra, at the London Museum of Natural History, 2003. Bush administration and to this day, CCR has stood on the just side of The project was among several seized in the every legal dispute regarding rights on both national and international FBI’s 2004 raid of Kurtz’s home. levels, no matter how unpopular or risky. “

Ruth Finkelstein and Ruth Craig Amy Gladstein H. K. Hall, Jr. Lori D. Hudson Stuart M. Flashman Richard A. and Carolyn Glickstein David Harbater Kevin M. Hunt and Margaret Downing Paul D. Fogel and Ventura Y. Chalom Harriet S. Goldberg and Leora T. Harris Kristine A. Huskey Murray Fogler Gregory C. Johnson Sule Harsh Stella Jacobs Erica G. Foldy Edward E Goldman and Judith Riven Jed Hartman Omar C. Jadwat John M. and Nancy E. Foster Ellen R. Goldman Thomas L. and Dorothy W. Haskell Roberta Jaffe Katrin E. and Steven B. Frank Richard A. and Jill Gollub Stephen A. Hayes Jewish Foundation of Greensboro Robert A. and Evelyn D. Frankel Katherine Gomez Jenny Heinz Norman I. Johnson Elliot Fratkin and Martha A. Nathan George M. Goodburn Horace Heitman Ralph A. and Bonnie C. Johnson Bernard Friedman and Lesley Hyatt Claire Gottfried Russell K. Henly and Jeffrey A. Jones Robert Fuld Harold Greenblatt Martha Lee Turner Lee T. Joseph William R. Garner Marcelle Greenfield Edward S. and Mary W. Herman Just Give Edward I. Geffner Jeffrey Grey Betty and Jackson Herring Robert Kehr Martin Gellert George and Ingrid R. Guerci David G. Herrmann Judy K. Kern Paula Gellman Karen W. Guzak Noa Heyman Peg Keyes Margo R. George and Hans C. and Linda Haacke Hans Himelein Joan D. and Arthur J. Kidnay Catherine Karrass Alice L. Hageman and Jean Hoffmann Nobal E. and Martha E. King Jamie W. German Aubrey N. Brown Sherrill Hogen Peter S. Klosterman Patricia A. German Kathleen A. Hager and Christopher W. Hornig and Teresa M. Kohlenberg Ellen F. Gesmer and Alan S. Hyde Arthur A. Wasserman Nancy J. Garruba Bonnie Korman and Robert Bishop John Gibson Dwight Hahn Carole R. Horowitz and Richard L. Last Jane and Ladis Kristof Karen Ginsburg Constance Hall Stephen J. Hrinya Eric Kruh

51 CCR Donors Karin Kunstler Goldman Scott Morgan Kay G. Reeves Christopher Simpson and Neal Goldman J. Malcolm Morris David G. Rich Jaswinder Pal Singh and Silvia Ercolani Lillian and Herbert Laskin Stephen Morris The RMF Foundation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Ellie Lau Peter and Gail S. Mott Roberta Roban Meagher & Flom, LLP William E. Leavitt Thomas V. Muller Herbert W. Robinson David Skinner Lisa Leff Kathryn Mulvey Steven D. and Joyce Robinson Carl and Jane Smith Martin and Gita Lefstein Edward S. Munyak Paula Rogovin Carol Smith and Joseph Esposito Sue Leonard Laura S. Murra Beth Rosner Stephen S. Smith Cathy J. Levine Smita Nayak Janet R. Ross Rebecca Solnit Eve Levy Jan Nefke and Ginny Hildebrand Matthew Rothschild Carolyn Sonfield Richard A. Levy and Marilyn Neimark and Alisa Solomon Esther and Lewis Rowland Timothy Sozen Jane R. Hirschmann Robert C. Newman Marcie A. Rubel and Mike Rufo Sandra M. Squire Fluck Ida J. Lewenstein William K. Nisbet Mark Rudd Ben R. Stavis and Marjatta Lyyra Donald Lipmanson Julie Novkov Phillip M. Runkel Burton Steck George F. Loewenstein and Craig Oettinger Jennifer Ryan David J. Steichen, Jr. Donna Harsch Edward H. Page Howard D. Sacks Jens Stenger Matthew London Cynthia L. Pansing and Regina Sandler-Phillips Wayne Stinson William Lorentz Arlin S. Wasserman Marc Sapir and Sheila Thorne Ian E. Stockdale Sivia W. Loria Julie Paradis Gilbert and Alicia Saucedo Mildred B. Stout Cathy Lui Kristin Parker Pauline and Richard G. Saxon Bert Stover and Teresa Holder Lorraine Lyman Barbara Parsons Vivian Schatz Nancy Strong Ramsay MacMullen Alexandra E. Paul Gordon Schiff and Mardge Cohen Alice S. Sturm Sutter Ngaere Macray and David Seeler Steven Pederson Camilla L. Schneider Daniel B. Szyld Annie Makhijani Rosselle Pekelis Steven A. and Janet H. Schneider Martin Thomson Harvey and Carole Mallement Rosalind Petchesky Martin Schoenhals John L. Thorstenberg Gene Marchi and Travis Smith Dorothy Z. Peters Ellen Schrecker and Jean Toche Bonnie L. Maslin Charlotte Phillips and Oliver Fein Marvin Gettelman Michael Touger and Margaret Levitt William H. and Judith W. Matchett Lynette B. Phillips Ruth and Charles B. Schultz Robert Traver Robert J. and Maryann Maxwell John W. Pilgrim and Petra E. Janopaul Michael Schwalbe Randall H. Trigg and Caitlin Stanton Richard C. and Barbara B. Polk Meryl Schwartz Sue Lee K. Troutman Francesca A. McCleary John A. Pollack Jonathan Seidman Selma and William Tucker Sarah McKee Bruce K. Pollock Deborah G. Senft Charles F. Turner Martin and Margaret Melkonian Florence B. Prescott Rupa Shah David B. Turner Carol J. and Donald Merrick Katharine M. Preston and Anthony Shih Richard H. and Gail M. Ullman Beth and David P. Meshke John Bingham Amy Shipman United Way California Capital Region Paul Michabofsky Kurt Preston Eugene and Marina Shpirt Jill van Berg Jacqueline Miller Jim Radford Alfred and Mary Siano Marc Van Der Hout and Marvin and Marline Miller Vicki Rajendra and Franklin Siegel Jodie Le Witter Mae K. Millstone † R. S. Krishnaswamy Robert M. Siegel John and Mira Van Doren Charles Moore Joanna M. Rankin and Mary Fillmore Susan A. Silverstein Dirk Van Loon Whitney More Martha Rayner Susan Simone and David Bellin Christine A. Vassallo

52 deceased † Deborah Ventura Harold Ahrens William J. Carry Michael Drohan Susan von Arx Robert Aisenberg Lynne and George Carvell Eileen Drutz Mary K. Voss Lawrence Alberts Jim Cassidy H. Stewart Dunn Mark D. Wainger and Norman Altstedter Daniela Casta Jeanne M. Dursi Rhoda Han Pu Woo Ameriprise Financial Darlene Ceremello and David J. Eck Doris B. Walker Mark L. Amsterdam Jessea Grennman Glenn Edwards Clifford E. Anderson Carolyn Chambers Melanie and Kenneth Ehrlich Daniel F. Wallowitz Stephen C. and Betty Ann Anderson Mortimer H. Chambers, Jr. Colin Eisler Francis M. Walters Rona Z. Armillas Stephen R. Chapman Susan Elan Jennifer Warburg M.L. Armstrong Julian D. and Mildred Chazin Steven and Deborah Elkinton Joan M. Warburg Kent Autrey Chantal and Gregory L. Cherlin T. David Epley Chris Way Ivan A. Backer Sara P. and Ralph C. Chernoff Matthew Evangelista John Weeks and Christine L. Chinni Katherine Baker and Peter Titelman James R. and Roshan Christensen Saralee E. Evans David R. and Joan Weimer Patrick and Cheri Baker Antonie K. Churg Leonard and Helen Evelev The Weithorn and Lee Bartell Deborah Coatsworth Hossam E. and S. H. Fadel Ehrmann Families Foundation Pauline M. Bassett and Alan Katz Richard W. and Georgiena Cobb Jeffrey A. Fagan and Stanley S. and Muriel Weithorn Paul W. Beach, Jr. Bruce S. Cohen Connie S. Fishman Lenore Beaky James M. and Lori Wellman Joseph D. and Cathy J. Cohen Blythe Cutler and Jerry Fair Mirriel Bedell and Judy D’Amore Virginia and Douglas Cole Mark D. Falkoff Carol Ann Wells and Esther M. Beebe Joanne M. Collier Frances T. Farenthold Theodore T. Hajjar Sara E. Beinert The Community Foundation Martha S. and Donald Farley Lawrence Weschler Arthur and Anne Berndt of Western Mass. Adriene Faulkner John L. and Linda Wetherby Jerry Bernhard Farok J. Contractor Harriet A. Feinberg Danny C. Wharton and Chandra Bhatnagar and Sunita Patel Christie Cooper Joan M. Ferrante Marilyn C. Hoyt Russell Birch Sandi E. Cooper and Judith A. Fiestal Richard P. and Tobey M. Wiebe Cameron Bishop John M. Cammett Dolly Filártiga and Diego Calles John P. Wilson Evelyn Blackman Edward F. Corwin Joan Finger Jeremy Woodburn Patty Blum Fred B. and Joyce Cowan May Fisher Antonia Woods Ellen Beth Bogolub and Neil Friedman Jennifer R. Cowan and Dan M. Jacob Pat L. Flierl Jeanne Bornstein Judith Yanowitz and William Cowlin Anne E. Flynn Edna Boslet Thomas S. Crane Kenneth Fogarty Harry S. Hochheiser Joan G. and Jack Botwinick Deborah Crawford Arnold and Renee Frank Wayne N. Young Gerard and Sabina D. Braunthal Ken Crossman Steve Frankel June Zaccone Robert S. Briggs and Virginia I. Lohr Gillian M. Dale Jane M. and Howard Bruce Franklin Thomas Zaslavsky Gregory P. Brown Marion S. and Arthur D. Damick Freedom Socialist Party Mitchell H. and Jane Zimmerman Francis Bruey Ron D. Daniels Harris Freeman John Brundage and Harriet Parsons Sidney and Selma Davis Herbert Freeman $101 - $249 Arthur W. and Alice R. Burks Barbara E. Dawson Nancy and Julian Frieden Anonymous Antonio W. Burr and Diane di Mauro Thomas E. DeCoursey Joseph C. and Pearl G. Gale David J. Aalderks Jerrold S. and Barbara H. Buttrey Betty Devalcourt Katherine Gallagher Emily Achtenberg Renee Cafiero Joel Dobris Sheryl P. Gardner Andrew Ackerman Blair and Josephine Campbell George and Minna Doskow Allen Garrett Alice K. Adams Vicente L. Caride and Melissa Marks Ruth Drake William H. Gavelis Miriam S. and Stephen M. Adams Cheri Carr Keith Dreier Mary J. Geissman

53 CCR Donors

David G. and Elisabeth Gelzer Corwin Greenberg and Keith Hefner and Diana Autin Joan B. Indusi Paul George Parvati Maggie Grais Phyllis Heft Anne Irving and Armin T. Wright Frances Geteles-Shapiro Stuart J. and Kathleen A. Greenberg Virginia Hendry Peter Israel William J. Gilson Bruce Griffiths Christopher L. Henley Frederick Jacobs Stephen Gimber Joan L. Griscom Peter Henner Judy and Henry Jacobs David C. Glick William and Sharon Gross John and Rachel Heuman Marc Jahr Robert M. Gold Kathy Gruber and Fred Levy Gregory Hipwell Warren Jones and Marian Gee Jean R. Goldman Ruthe S. and Arnold Grubin Amy Hoch Marie I. Jordan and Joseph P. Lyons Elizabeth Golubritsky Scott Grusin Tamara Hodgson Russell F. and Mary L. Jorgensen Goodrich Quality Theatres Inc. Margaret and David Gullette John D. and Lynne E. Hoffman Shayana Kadidal Bernard H. Gordon Albert L. and Virginia T. Hale Joan Holt Alfred E. and Mary S. Kahn Debbie Gordon Peter Hanauer Raymond A. Hrycko Stephanie Kaplan Amy Gottlieb Laura Hanks Elizabeth L. Huberman Margo Kasdan and Martin Fiebert Patricia M. Gracian and Helen Hardacre and Linda J. Stein Kabeer Hussain Anne Kastor Mikail K. Syeed William T. Hardison, Jr. Stanley T. Hutter Joanna B. Katz

In honor of Those listed below had donations made to CCR in their honor by thoughtful friends, family members or organizations that wanted to make a meaningful gift with lasting impact. Many of these donations were in lieu of birthday, wedding or holiday gifts, or in commemoration of a special occasion. We thank both the donor and the recipient for sharing their support and for introducing new people to CCR’s work.

Jim Adams Charles M. Crane Joseph Margulies Jeffrey Schwartz Carolyn Aquino Berger J. Wells Dixon Pati and Bill Meadows Jennifer Seltz and Niall O’Murchu Maher Arar Norma and Tom Drysdale Nathanael Miller Mike Seltz and Gillie Campbell Laurie Arbeiter and Jennifer Hobbs David P. Elkinton and Janis Hurst J. Griffin Morgan Brian Sheppard Rona Z. Armillas Gregory H. Finger Douglas Mullkoff Susan and Dan Simons Lisa Barnett Mark Fleming Jen Nessel Jane Sloan Rita L. and William J. Bender Roma Foldy Harold Norton Barbara E. Smith Chandra Bhatnagar Bill Goodman Faith Olson Leilani Squire Carrie Blankfield James Gormley Marissa Patsey and Elizabeth Stiles Linda Stein Robert Bloom Dan Gottlieb Connie Platt Eric Van Buskirk Sascha Bollag Karen Gropper Frances R. Posel Eric Vang Danielle Brian Gitanjali Gutierrez William P. Quigley Geraldine Wallman Gerard Buznick Gerald Harting Michael D. Ratner Vincent Warren Tom and Emma Byrne Daniel Hatfield Kevin Roe Richard W. Weiskopf Elizabeth A. Castelli Ezra Molik Katz Love Alex J. Rosenberg Peter Weiss Rhonda Copelon Narasimhan Larkin Nicholas S. Ryan Margee H. Wolf Joe Courtney Joe Maranzano Lowell Sachnoff Chic Wolk

54 deceased † Caryn B. Kauffman Jeanette D. and Daniel J. Macero Jason A. Neidleman John Quimby Arnold Kawano Peter G. Macharrie Ronald Neschis Joni Rabinowitz and John Haer Lynda Keating Arthur Maisel Greta Newman Elizabeth Radley Seymour Kellerman Emily M. Maloney John S. Nichols Susan G. Radner Mha Atma Singh Khalsa Jerome H. Manheim Rael Nidess Deborah Rand Sara J. Klein Peter and Frances Marcuse Barry J. and Ellen Nigrosh Margaret J. Randall and Barbara Byers Daniel L. Kniesner Lou Marjon William A. Norris Ann B. Reichsman and Rivko Knox Stephen E. Marston H. Toni Norton Bruce A. Catalano Lawrence Koplik and Sarah Roberts Elaine K. Martinez William J. and Patricia C. Nottingham Robert A. and Mary J. Resnik Richard Koretz and Judy E. Bauer Elaine Matthews Marie Brutvan and Jay M. Novello Wesley Reutimann Tammany M. Kramer and Shankar Iyer Marian Matthews James O’Connell Nina Reznick Fred P. and Beverly P. Krasner Alan Maximuk Jane O’Grady Tracy Rice Saul Kripke James McCabe Mahmoud Ohadiesfahani Dale Richardson Robert E. and Francoise Kulp Kevin McCaffery Lucienne O’Keefe Kathleen L. Richardson Robert P. Kunreuther Eileen M. McCarthy Margaret Okuzumi Steven Riskin Cathryn H. Kurtagh † Delbert McCombs Patricia Oldham Peggie Roast Maria LaHood Steven McKinney and Jane Shofer Olaf S. and Sondra S. Olsen Craig Rose Lynne Lane Nancy and William F. McLoughlin Christine Olson Jeffrey Rosenberg and Sally Stanley David J. Lansner Donald M. and Sandra B. McPherson Nels Olson Paul C. Rosenblatt Thomas R. Lansner Cheren Meade Sean O’Meara Dennis A. Rosenblitt and Jack L. Larsen Marcos Meconi Martin Orner Arlene M. Pitman Lester J. Le Viness Medco Health Solutions Helen M. Ortmann Paul Rosenblum Susan L. Lee Jennifer E. Meeropol Norman Oslik and Madeleine Golde Harriet Rosenfeld † Leon Lefson Sarah Mehta Michael T. Ozog R. William Rosenfeld and Dale and Gail Lehman Pamela M. Merchant and Kirby Sack Nancy M. Page Suzanne M. Rubel William J and Ellen S. Leibold Carlin Meyer and Peter Bienstock Donald and Ellen Parker Anton B. Rosenthal Shari Leinwand Terry Meyer Sean L. Patrick Robert Roth and Judith Lerner Edward and Ann Leonard Bruce and Jane O. Miller Timothy Patterson Jesse and Polly Rothstein Jerry D. Levine Elliot Mishler and Victoria Steinitz Lowell C. Paul Erin Runions Albert and Lulu Lee Levy David B. Mitchell Andrew Pavelchek Gail Runk Jay Levy Thomas C. Mitchell Robert and Ruth Peck Nerissa Russell Lisa Levy Karen Mock Eve Pell R. A. Ryan Daniel H. Lichtenwald Philip C. Monrad Donald C. and Edith Pelz Laura and John Saade Jeffrey D. Lifson and Aloha E. Keylor Ward Morehouse and Suzanne D. and Robert J. Petrucci Lowell Sachnoff Elisabeth Linder Carolyn Toll Oppenheim Pfizer Foundation Matching Michael and Barbara Sacks Robin Lloyd Jose L. Morin Gifts Program John J. Saemann Anthony Loeppert Robyn P. Morris Anthony and Lizbeth H. Piel Dewitt Sage Robert Loftfield Denis D. Mosgofian and Erika Poethig Nancy F. and Stefan Sage Leonard and Rosemarie Lorensen Lori Liederman Anne M. Poirier Arnold S. Saks Mrs. Oscar C. Lundstrom John J. and Darlene Murnin Rachel Porter Lisa J. Samuelson Mary W. Lunt Peter F. Naccarato Mary E. Pratt Donald E. Sanderson Russell Lyons Shadi Nahvi and Mitra Rastegar Homer E. Price Don Erik Sarason and A. Kent and Kathleen MacDougall Mariel Nanasi and Jeffrey H. Haas Brian Pridham Mary H. Jennings John J. and Janet A. Macdougall Andrea E. Nash Robert J. Quartell and Florence D’Emilia Juliet Sarkessian

55 CCR Donors

Giuseppina Scalia David Smith Jonathan Tepperman Joel Weisberg and Janet Watchman Martin M. Scher and Sylvia Chavkin Margaret M. Smith Jonathan C. and Marilyn J. Weissman Daniel H. and Paula Schiller Rosalind B. Smith Katsuyo H. Tetherly Dolores Welty Sybil E. Schlesinger and Jeannette Smyth Dianne V. Thiel John Wetherhold Steven Rosenberg Marc A. Snyder Thomson Reuters Workplace Hilda M. Wilcox Ann M. Schneider Sidney J. and Ethel B. Socolar Giving Campaign L. Bosworth Williams Keith Schwab Stanley Sorscher and Judith M. Arms Jerome S. and Hazel Tobis Lawrence B. Williams Renata M. Schwebel John D. Spence and Lee H. Tockman Cree M. Windus Robert B. and Nancy Scott W. Katherine Yih Howard and Nina Tolley Patricia Winer Marilyn Searcy Cary Stegman Betsy Towle Ordl Ellen J. Winner and David A. Lewis Sybil Shainwald Robert A. and Elaine Stein Corin Trachtman Janet A. Winston Carol Ruth Sheinfeld and Julie Steinberger Michael H. Traison Linda Wintner Yoshifumi Tanaka Henry J. and Bernard Tuchman Charles S. Withuhn Scott Shershow Pamela Pomerance Steiner Robert Twombly Steven J. Wolf Sylvia Shih Mark Stephens Connie W. Tyler Elizabeth A. Wolfskill Ruth E. Shinn Evelyn Stern James A. Van Sweden Arnold C. Woodrich, Jr. Mary and Henry N. Shoiket Michael J. Sternhell Stephen F. Vause and Carlyn Syvanen Rachel Wysoker Frederick L. and Susan C. Shriver Melvyn T. Stevens John K. Wade Kate Yavenditti Reggie Shuford Barbara Stewart Colton P. Wagner Mona Younis Aaron M. and Ruth Shure Bertram and Lynne Y. Strieb Gordon G. Waldron Leonard and Ellen Zablow Daniel M. Siegel and Anne B. Weills Lucy A. Suchman Gail Walter Sandra A. Zagarell Matthew Siroka Alice C. and Arthur R. Swift Lowell Waxman George and Sondra Zeidenstein Elmer D. and Patricia Sitkin Ronald J. Tabak Alexis B. Waysberg Jeanette Zelhof Peggy Skinner Dolores S. Taller Marvin J. Weinberger H. Berrien Zettler Victor Skorapa, Jr. Evelyn P. Taylor Edmund and Mary Brizius Weingart Howard D. Zucker Barbara S. Smith Frances H. Taylor and Iris Biblowitz Jeffrey Weinrich Burton and Sally Zwiebach In memory of Friends, family and loved ones made gifts to CCR in memory of the people listed below. By designating CCR for support (often instead of flowers), donors both promote their own social justice values and recognize that the individual being honored shared these values and would want the work to continue after them. Robert L. Black Leo M. Hurvich Bernard S. Robboy Vivian Erdreich Dorothea Jameson Hurvich Harriet Rosenfeld Luis G. Espinola William Kunstler Edith Rosenthal John Leonard Ruth Fales Edwin E. Salpeter Gladys Lyles Carol Ferry Doris Shaffer Iris Mansour Anita Fried Norman Marcus Elton J. Warren Jack Friedman Rebecka Peters Richard A. Weinstock Louise A. Halper Richard Roast Irving M. Wolfe

56 deceased † $100 Anonymous F Aaron Abend F Rosalind and Robert Abernathy F Jane H. and Michael P. Adas F Susan S. Addiss F The Agape Foundation F Edwin Aiken F L D Albin F Charles K. Alexander II F Deborah Allen F Genevieve Allen F Nicholas Allen and Stacie Hammersberg F Alison B. Alpert F William C. Altham F James S. and Marilyn Bender Altschul F Rodolfo Alvarez F Daniella Ambrosino F Susan D. Amussen and David Underdown F Helene M. and James Anderson F Richard Angell F William and Kendall S. Anthony F Alan and Judith Appelbaum F Daniele Armaleo and Laurie Fox F Alice Aronow F Ken Ashe F Norman B. and Lenore E. Asher F Mike M. Asla F T. Whit and Jean L. Athey F Erik Azulay F Christian Balintec F Marion R. Banks F Dena Barbara F John Barker F Harvey Barlow F David Barnard F Alan W. and Ruth P. Barnett F Richard H. and Joanne L. Barsanti F Keith D. Barton F Martha Baskin F Robert Baskin F Patricia Bass F T. and E.C. Bastasch F Barbara S. and Philip L. Bayless F Mekayla Beaver F Irwin N. and Adeline Becker F Julie Beckman-Key F William P. Beckwith F Mario Beer F Mary and Robert Belenky F Edith and Alice Bell F Malcolm H. and Nancy Bell F Nick Bell F Karima Bennoune F Nathaniel and Mary M. Bercovitz F Beth Berkowitz F Berkshire Taconic F Daniel E. Berning F Alison Bernstein F Barry and Ocie Bernstein F Judith Bernstein F The Bernstein-Maslansky Fund of California F Ann E. and Warner B. Berthoff F Ricardo and Michelle Bertran F J. Beverley and G. Beverley F Jaime Biderman and Lauren Leroy F Robert M. Biesemeyer F Linda Billings F Harvey Blend F Linda and Mitchel S. Bollag F Max and Margot Bollock F Robert H. Bonthius and C. Frances Truitt F William M. and Ruth R. Boothby F Constance and David C. Borde F Stephen M. Born F Leslie Bornstein F William H. Bortree F Eric R. Boucher F Renee L. Bowser F James R. and Elizabeth W. Boylan F Jacqueline Boynton F Jeanne R. Boynton F Pamela Brennan F James Bridges F J. Patrick Briscoe F Chuck Broscious F Frieda S. Brown F E. Wayles Browne F Thomas W. Browne F Robert H. and Helene Browning F June L. Brumer F Donald Brusselars F Daniel J. Brustein F William Burke F Cathleen Burnett F Maxine Burress F John Burton F Helga Busemann F Barton Byg F David Byrne and Adelle Lutz F Harry A. Caddow, Jr. F Stephanie Campbell and Richard Gillock F The Carmel Hill Fund F Julia Carol F Eugenia T. Cayce F Florence Chan F Ernest Chanes F Roger Chapanis F Andrea Charles F Victor H. Chechanover F Michelle Chen F Wes Cherry F Steve A. and Laurel Chessin F Noam Chomsky F Robert J. and Bonnie J. Cindrich F Caleb Clausen F George S. Cleaver and Erin Y. Lee F Steve Clemens F Robert F. Cohen and Kathleen Abate F Vicky E. Cohen F Jennifer G. Collins and Mark H. Ettinger F Eli Bernard and Helen Comay F David R. and Sally Y. Conrad F Hugh Cosman F Jason M. Cox F Gary L. Cozette and Joe Lada F James Crittendon F William and Mary H. Crotty F David Crowley F Lea Csala F Damian Cuffel F Barbara Curtis F Leif Danielson F Anya E. Darrow F Ernest Simon and Bianca Iano Davis F Hal Davis F Judith and Malcom Davis F Day is Done Foundations F Peter De Rege and Alison Hyslop F Dale Stull and Peter M. Demy F Frederick Dettmer F Masada Disenhouse F Richard Doberstein F Bill F. Dombrowski F Robert Donohue F Larry D. Doores and Janet R. Wolfe F Alvin and Rochelle Dorfman F Stephen N. and Phyllis B. Dorsi F Jim Douglas and Sasha Harmon F Lee Draper F Carol F. Drisko F Connie Drysdale F Walter Ducharme F Mark Dumont F David B. Dunning F Barbara H. Dupee F Lloyd Duren F Patricia Durham and Douglas L. Hammer F Thomas A. Durkin F Steven B. Dutky F Leslie Ebert F Joan E. Edelstein F Arthur Efron F Lance Egley F Michael C. and Tracy Bachrach Ehlers F Howard Ehrman F Nora Eisenberg and James Halper F Hester Eisenstein and Michael Tanzer F Calvin C and Eloise R. Eland F Jacqueline J. and Tareck Ralph Elass F Sheldon Elsen F Julie Elson F Mary Taggart Emeny and Hunter Ingalls F Ruth C. Emerson F Gilbert English F Steve and Amy Eppler-Epstein F Samuel I. Eskenazi F Gerald and Sandra Eskin F Essex County Faculty Association F Caroline L. Everts F Hillary Exter F Garold and Joyce Faber F Michael C. Fahey F Jeffrey S. Falk F Nancy Falk F Edna Farkas F Elizabeth Farnsworth F Joan L. Faust F Carolyn Federoff F Stephen Fein F Nina E. Felshin F Patricia Ferrari F A. Belden Fields and Jane Morhaz F Marie A. Finston F Roland and Gloria Finston F Richard and Miriam Flacks F Nancy Fleischer F Rachel Fletcher F Lionel L. Fogelman F Raquel For- sythe F Jane and Eugene Foster F Lorry S. Foster F Josh Fraidstern F Tovia G. and William Freedman F Timur Friedman F George Friemoth and Dale Sorensen F Michiko Fukuda F Dorah Funmilayo Rosen F Victoria J. Furio F Gregory T. and Gladys S. Furness F Elizabeth Gaines and John Mason F Stephen Gallant F The Gannett Foundation F Walter and Joan L. Geier F Gail Gelburd and Joel H. Meyers F Sherry Gendelman F Wendell A. George F Gale Gerogalas F John R. Gibson F James Gicking F Martha Gies F Leah Gitter F Bruce Gladstone F Nona Glazer F Herbert P. Gleason F Mary G. Gleysteen F Kayla E. Gluck F Amy M. Godine F Dan Goldberg and Melissa Jacobs F Donald Goldhamer and Nancy B. Mikelsons F Joan and Bert Golding F Jeremy P. Goldman F Susan D. Goldman F Margaret P. and William W. Goldsmith F Debora Goldstein F James E. Gonzales, II F Gordon Goodman F

57 CCR Donors

Robin Goodman F Kathy Goos and Barry A. Werth F Robert Gould F Gene J. and Virginia Grabiner F Vera Grant F Spencer B. Graves and Betsy Wolf- Graves F Alice Green and Charles Touhey F Graham Green F Philip I. and Gloria Greenblat F Louise L. Gregg F Paul Grekin F Newton H. Gresser F John W. Grula and Joan Depew F Miguel Guerrero F Phyllis E. Guest F Lloyd H. and Virginia E. Guptill F Henrietta Gwaltney F Ruth A. Hafter F William F. Hagel and Martha Weisman F Elaine Hagopian F Christopher J. Halkides F John L. Hammond F Cynthia S. and Edwin Hamowy F Hedda Haning F James R. Hanson F Paul R. Hanson and Betsy A. Lambie F Faith Harasack F Robert B. and Kristi Hardin F James Hargrove F Robert W. Harmon F Sheldon M. and Margery Harnick F Harriet P. and Philip S. Harper F Robert J. Harris F Gerald Harting F Bartlett and Margaret Harvey F Judith Harway F Marguerite H. V. Hasbrouck F Mark A. and Jane D. Heald F Healey and Hornack P.C. F Dick S. and Loretta Heiser F Virginia P. Held F Peter N. Heller F Christopher Hess F Carolyn F. Hicks and Frank C. Marotta F Martin and Mildred Hird F Richard and Jean Hirschler F Charles J. Hitchcock and Deborah M. Snyder F Leo J. Hoar F David K. and Judith A. Hoffman F Paul L. Hoffman F Penny Holland F Samuel and Mary Holland F David P. and Jean H. Hoose F Sue Hoover F Zoia Horn and R. Dean Galloway F Philip Hornik F Richard A. Horvitz F C. Douglas Hostetter and Barbara E. Smolow F Donald G. Hudson F Derrick A. Humphries F Julie Y. Hungar F Ruth D. Hunter F David Igasaki F Elizabeth Imholz F Carl Imparato F Barbara and Allen Isaacman F Joel and Helen R. Isaacson F Jenifer F. and Peter Ives F Gloria Jacobs F David Jaffe and Amie B. Kennedy F Kevin and Adrienne James F Sitaram S. and Alice J. Jaswal F The Jewish Community Foundation F Corinne B. Johnson F Harmer and Judith Johnson F Ben and Kathleen Jone F Beatrice Jones F Lynn Jones F Kiara Jordan F David A. Judd F Kathleen Judge F Robert G. Kahl F David Kairys F Daniel Kaiser F Mordechai Kamel F Louis Kampf F Arnold and Carol Kanter F Jay M. Kappraff F Aslam Karachiwala F Rhoda H. Karpatkin F Frank and Dorothy Kehl F Florence M. Kelly F Gregory Kelly F Kevin B. Kelly F Jane Kelsberg F Elizabeth L. Kennedy and Barbara J. Prebis F James Kerwin and Gretchen Steadry F Billy Kessler F Kimberly A. Kessler F Edwin King F Robert King and Sharon Riddler F John P. Kirk F Stefi L. Kirschner and Gilbert Z. Schneider F Robert Z. Klein and Nancy K Vandewart F Jay C. Klemme and Anne S. Wilson F Eric Klinger F Sharon L. Knopp and Ingolf Vogeler F Philip O. Koch F James T. Kofron, Jr. F Ellen D. and Marshall M. Kolba F Maurice and Lorraine Kosstrin F Lawrence Krantz and Diane Pittman F Beatrice Kreloff F Dennis J. and Estelle I. Krumholz F Robert and Lorri Kurzfeld F Elizabeth Kushigian F Kendall Landis F Robert E. and Helen S. Lane F Eleanor Lange F Leslie Laurie F Robert J. Lavenberg F Elizabeth A. Leader F Deidre Leavell F Thomas M. Leimkuhler F Mary Lellouche F Art Leonard F Thomas Lesser F Judy Lessing F Charles Levenstein F Robert Levey F Claire and Lawrence Levine F Daniel J. Levy F Morton Philip and Ellen Strauss Levy F Edward R. Leydon F Charlotte and Martin Lichterman F Lori B. Liederman F Theodore M. Lieverman F Bruce and Louise Lincoln F Lucy R. Lippard F Eden R. Lipson F Ann and John Livengood F Annea Lockwood and Ruth Anderson F Lyn Lofland F John R. Long F Paul Loomis F Lois Lorentzen F Marsha L. Love and Maarten Bosland F Louise C. and Bernard Lown F Sylvia and Raymond Lubow F Ellen Luks F Maribeth S. Lynn F Sandra N. and David B. Lyons F Robert D. Mabbs F Joan and Wally MacDonald F Cord MacGuire F Miriam D. and Darryl Mack F Theodore G. Macklin F Barbara Macri-Ortiz F Lorne and Susan Magnone F June Makela F Louise R. and Michael P. Malakoff F Susan E. Manuel F Laura C. and Robert S. Marin F George F. and Rose A. Markham F Diane D. Marks F Eisha Mason F John Mason F Joshua Mayes F Mary G. McCall F Joan A. and Richard D. McCarthy F Leon R. and Judith McCulloh F D. D. McGill F Kelly Mcmahan F Bruce J. McWhirter F Lynn M. McWhood F Morton Mecklosky F Horace Medwed F Michael Meeropol F Isa-Kae Meksin F Michael and Heli Meltsner F Saul H. Mendlovitz F Kate Menendez F The Mennonite Foundation F Patricia Messick F Alvin and Edna Meyer F Joseph Miller F Vann Miller F Andrew C. and Helen S. Mills F John Mineka F Ralph E. Miner F Ruth R. Misheloff F Paul R. Monroe F Marilyn Montenegro F Madelyn F. Morales F Annselm Morpurgo F Alan B. and Anne S. Morrison F Lawrence B. and Claire K. Morse F J. Andrew Moss F Stephen and Joan Mudrick F Norman Mullen F Valerie R. Mullen F John H. Muse F Dory S. Myers F Afsaneh Najmabadi F Judy and Roy Nakadegawa F Helen Nau F Donald M. Neill F Merry E. Neisner F Bruce D. Nestor and Susana De Leon F Ronald M. Neuman and Jane Zimmy F Ann Nevans F Carol G. Newman F John S. and Margaret Newton F Neil L. Nininger F Hans Noll F Regina Nugent F Rudi H. and Laureen K. Nussbaum F Samuel P. Oast, III F Anthony J. and Nancy Ody F Matthew and Barbara O’Hara F Richard M. Ohmann F John O’Hyun Kim and J. Neiderhauser F John R. and Mary R. Oleson F David Olivenbaum F Scott Oliver F Mary K. O’Melveny F David R. Oran and Silvia M. Arrom F Paul O’Rorke F Jim Oswald F John M. and Suzanne Otter F Nieba Paige F Naomi Paley F Carrie S. Parks and Gary M. Akizuki F Stephen and Debbie Paschall F Patrick Patterson and Maria Wilkens F Jacob Patton F Frank Paysen F

58 deceased † Judith Pecho F Jane Peebles and Linda Flournoy F Paul Peloquin F David Perk F Kira Perov and Bill Viola F Beth Peterson F Edgar G. and Pauline Petry F Stephen Pew F Douglas W. Philips F Lemoine D. Pierce F Anne Pilsbury F Tom Pirko F Johanna M. and Thomas F. Plaut F Tim Plenk and Janet Axelrod F Hertha Poje-Ammoumi F John G. and Barbara Polk F Wendy Pollock F Stephen Pomerance F James G. Pope and Nancy S. Marks F Andre Popovici F Robert and Marcia Popper F Frances D. Potter F Joan C. and Charles W. Pratt F Dolores M. Priem F Edward A. Purcell, Jr. F Carolyn Quenon F Frances Leon Quintana and Joel K. Swadesh F Michael Rabb F Jean Rabovsky F Shankar Ramamoorthy F Ron Rattner F Helen Reed-Gray F Julie Reeve F Kenneth C. Regal and Judith A. Ruszkowski F William D. Reilly F Nancy Reimer F John M. Reinke F Victoria Reiss F Margaret A. and David Reuther F Judy R. and Jeffrey L. Reynolds F Paul D. Rheingold F Albert D. Rich F M. Hytham Rifai F Robert Rios F Candice Roberts F Justine Roberts F Susan Robinson F Evangeline H. Rocha F Maria C. Rodriguez F Fritz Rohrlich F George Roman F Theodore Romer F Sheila Ronsen F Daniel Rosenberg F Jean and John Rosenberg F Lawrence Rosenberg and Judith Somberg F Susan Rosenberg F Leslie A. Rosenfeld F Karen Rothman F Sara Rothstein F Lisa Rotterman F William J. Ruane, Jr. F John W. Rudolph and Sheryn R. Holinsworth F Jane P. Rundell F Rachel E. Sanborn F Miriam and David M. Sanders F Gail A. and M. H. Sangree F Matthew Schell F Lawrence J. Schiff F June and Gerald Schiller F Paul G. Schmidt F Richard Schoen F Penny Schoner F Manuel and Bonnie Schonhorn F Henry Schreiber F Daniel G. Schulof F Anne Schwartz F Barry L. Schwartz F Robert D. Schwartz F Steve L. Schwartz F Joan W. Scott F Gerda Seaman F Rebecca Seawright and Jay Hershenson F Joshua Seff F Arif Sehba F Sara J. and Henry M. Seiden F Gabrielle Semel and Mark Levitan F Lew D. Serbin F Estelle and Ralph Shabetai F Al Shehadi F Allen W. and W. F. Shelton F Sloane Shelton F Alan Shieh F Joy Shigaki F Donald A. Shipley F Jack Shuck F Alix Kates Shulman and Scott York F Victor W. and Ruth Sidel F Selma R. Siege F Dorothy E. Siegel and Michael R. Abram F Norman Siegel F Lisa Siegman and John K. Young F M. Roy Silberstein and Brian E. Garrison F Michele Simon F Bonita M. and Jack Singal F Miriam Sirott F Sisters of Saint Dominic F Calvin L. Skaggs F Blanche J. and Eugene D Skurnick F William H. and Ursula Slavick F Hugh Smart F Brian Smith F Maureen Smith F Nancy C. Smith and David N. Rockwell F Ruth P. Smith F Ben and Betty-Jane Sobin F Denise Soffel F Leona and Sidney N. Solomon F Renee Solomon F Fred J. Solowey and Kathryn L. Ries F Paul J. and Ann Sperry F Jerold M. and Judy Starr F Otto L. and Diana B. Stein F Michael Steiner F Nancy Steinson F Michael Stelmach F Mae Stephen F Helen Stephenson F Anne F. Sterling F Arthur Stern F Ellen Stevenson F Richard and Judith Stillinger F Ian A.F. Stokes and Nancy Zimny F Daniel J. and Ruth Stone F Christopher Strawn F Douglas and Margie Jean A. Sturm F Randall Styers F Charles J. Sugnet F Aaron Sussman F David Sutter F Anand Swaminathan F Jennifer Szalai F Jerilyn Tabor F Harold Taggart F Dee L. Taitt F Anne R. Teicher and Sy Rutkin F Michael C. Thielmann F Teresa Thompson F Alan C. Thomson F Harriet B. Todd F Cris Toffolo F Joseph and Minette Tolciss F Martha C. Tompkins F Lucile P. Townsend F George Trevor F Mark Underwood F Gregory P. and Sharon A. Urban F Katherine Vang F Radha Vatsal and Daniel Welt F Marko Velikonja F Joan Vermeulen F Mari Vlastos F Janet von Reyn F Joachim Vosgerau F Kevin and Teresa Vukson F Michael S. and Johanna H. Wald F Katherine Waldbauer and Ronald L. Henry F Mary Jane Wallace F James F. and Jacquelyn M. Walsh F Terry Walsh F Tim Walton F Judith P. Ward and Bernard D. Tuchman F Arthur O. Waskow and Phyllis O. Berman F Peggy D. Watson and Victor Teich F Jonas Waxman F J. Richard and Margaret Weaver F Elizabeth Weed F David A. Weiner and Sally Kux F Margot A. Welch F Raymond Welch F Carolyn M. Welshhans F Janet E. and James Wenninger F Hermine L. Weston F Verity A.J. Weston-Truby and T. James Truby F Lucille Whalen F David A. White F Nicholas White F Hope D. Williams F Jack and Mary Willis F Jane and Robert H. Willis F Camilo Wilson F Ellen S. Wilson and Fredric V. Price F Warren B. Wilson F Richard C. Winant F Barbara Winslow F David A. Wirth F Martin A. Wohl and Marisa G. Labozzetta F Richard M. Wolfe F A. Wolper F Margaret Wood F Jonathan A. Woodbridge F Charles B. Woodbury F Gregg Wright F Jerome Wujek F Sarah R. Wunsch F Laurence and Muriel Ann Wyatt F Peter Yarrow F Ronald H. and Lorraine S. Yuccas F Michael A. Zagone F Ron Zajac F Arlene S. Zaucha F Maurice and Marilyn Zeitlin

This list includes gifts of $100 and over made between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. All gifts are greatly appreciated and collectively allow CCR to continue its work; unfortunately, space limitations prohibit us from listing every gift. Most stock transfers come to us without attribution, untraceable to the donor, so if you made a gift of stock (or any kind of gift) which is not listed, please contact us so we may we may correct our files and acknowledge you in our next newsletter.

59 Board of Directors and Staff

Board of Directors

Catherine Albisa David Cole Michael Ratner President Harry Anduze Rhonda Copelon Alex Rosenberg Radhika Balakrishnan Michelle DePass Vice-President (Treasurer - beginning January 2009) Gregory H. Finger, Secretary Franklin Siegel Ajamu Baraka (Treasurer - through January 2009) Michael Smith Karima Bennoune Abdeen Jabara Richard A. Soble Chandra Bhatnagar Wilhelm H. Joseph, Jr. Peter Weiss Ann Cammett Julie F. Kay Vice-President Marilyn Clement † Jules Lobel Ellen Yaroshefsky Vice-President

Directors Administrative Staff Development Department Vincent Warren, Executive Director Gregory Butterfield, Administrative Assistant Sara Beinert, Major Gifts Officer Kevi Brannelly, Development Director Orlando Gudino, Network Administrator Kevin Gay, Database Manager Lisa Levy, Executive Assistant Emily Harting, Foundations Relations Officer Carolyn Chambers, Associate Executive Director Dwede Tarpeh, Administrative Assistant (temp) Rachel Hill, Development Assistant (temp) Jeffrey Weinrich, Finance Manager Eliot Katz, Grant Writer Annette Warren Dickerson Director of Education & Outreach Alberto White, Office Manager Christine Kim, Development Associate Jose Monzon, Development Assistant Sam Miller Communications Department Jeremy Rye, Major Gifts Officer Interim Legal Director Qa’id Jacobs, Web Communications William Quigley, Legal Director and Multimedia Manager Education & Outreach Lindsey Kaley, Communications Assistant (temp) Department Jen Nessel, Communications Coordinator C. Lynne Kates, E&O Associate (through 5/09) Alison Roh Park, Communications Associate Lauren Melodia, E&O Associate Deborah Popowski, Kaufman-Skirball Fellow Laura Raymond, E&O Associate An-Tuan Williams, E&O Assistant

60 deceased † Legal Department Gitanjali Gutierrez, Staff Attorney Consultants Heather Andersen, Susan Hu, Legal Worker (through 7/08) Sabrina Gordon, 100 Days Video Project Assistant to Legal Director (temp) Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney Glover Park Group, Jessica Baen, Legal Worker Pardiss Kebriaei, Staff Attorney Communications and Media Liz Bradley, Legal Worker Marc Krupanski, Legal Worker Sarah Hogarth, Darius Charney, Staff Attorney Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney Project Management/Writer/Editor Andrea Costello, Staff Attorney (through 8/08) Emi MacLean, Staff Attorney (through 5/09) Riptide Communications, Communications and Media Chaneen Cummings, Legal Worker Rachel Meeropol, Staff Attorney (through 5/09) Irena Sabic, Carolyn O’Neil, Assistant to Legal Director Guantánamo Resettlement Liason Claire Dailey, Legal Worker Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney Ibraham Qatabi, Legal Worker Karl Kamau Franklin, Racial Justice Fellow (through 9/08) Anjana Samant, Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher, Staff Attorney Matthew Strugar, Staff Attorney (through 5/09) Jennifer Green, Senior Staff Attorney Claire Tixeire, Legal Research Assistant

CCR staff with colleagues from the U.S. Human Rights Network (Ajamu Baraka, Kali Akuno, and Rachel Fowler) and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (Cathy Albisa, Phil Wider, Liz Sullivan and Meredith Vacek). The three groups received a grant from the Omega Institute in New York for a strategic planning retreat to discuss opportunities for strengthening our social and economic justice work.

61 Financial Report July 1 2008 – June 30 2009*

Net Assets

Net Assets as of June 30, 2008 $4,472,207 Change in Net Assets $2,048,493 Net Assets as of June 30, 2009 $6,520,700

Revenue, Gains and Other Support Expenses

Foundations (including Donor Advised Funds) $6,159,223 Program: Litigation, Education and Outreach $5,068,554 Individuals (including Planned Gifts) $2,468,382 Development $845,519 Court Awards and Attorney Fees $368,381 Administration & General $610,890 Interest $94,039 Total Expenses $6,524,963 Other $(44,362) Total Revenue, Gains and Other Support $9,045,663 For an independent evaluation of our financial health visit Charity Navigator at www.charitynavigator.org, which gave us a perfect four star rating

*audited figures pending board approval. 62 In memoriam

Lise Giraud The following CCR supporters passed away this year and many thoughtfully honored CCR with a This year the Center mourned the loss of our longtime donor, Lise Giraud. Born in bequest. It is always sad to lose a member of our Austria in 1924, Lise escaped with her parents after the Nazis had killed most of her community, but their ideals will live on in the work family. She earned a library degree and worked as a librarian at Stanford University, they supported at CCR. where her husband Raymond was a professor of French literature. The Girauds worked tirelessly for human rights, including serving as election observers in Jane Buffett Mae K. Millstone Haiti and supporting student anti-war protests, and were passionate advocates for animal rights. Ray and Lise were members of our Thelma Newman Planned Giving Scott Charles Arthur M. Moosen Society, memorializing their commitment to human rights with a generous legacy gift to CCR. Neal Daniels Herbert W. Neil

Robert Dunne Rebecka Peters Chorale Page Chorale Page was a lover of life and justice until her passing in October 2008. Nels Ekroth Richard Roast Named after a musical composition by J.S. Bach, Chorale graduated from Wellesley College and received a Masters in Counseling from Montclair State College in New Vivian Erdreich Edith Rosenthal Jersey. She worked variously as a representative for Blue Cross of Chicago, a career counselor and hospital ombudsman until she and her husband Edward retired to Shirley Fingerhood Edwin E. Salpeter Sarasota, Florida. Chorale and Ed were proud supporters of the Center for Constitutional Rights for more than 20 years, and generously named the Center as C. M. Berndes Franck Doris Shaffer a beneficiary of their Charitable Remainder Trust. All of us at CCR are very grateful for their support and share in the loss of Chorale. Leo M. Hurvich Steve M. Slaby

Cathryn H. Kurtagh Lloyd P. Tyler Edwin Salpeter CCR supporter Edwin Salpeter, who passed away in November 2008 at age 83, was Eva R. Lederman Elton J. Warren an eminent astrophysicist whose theories revolutionized the field. Salpeter fled his homeland of Austria as the Nazis rose to power and arrived at Cornell University, John Leonard Richard A. Weinstock where he remained throughout his career. In his wide-ranging research, he gained notoriety for debunking Ronald Reagan’s proposal for a “Star Wars” missile defense Marianne L. Levey Mortimer Weiss system. Ed and his wife, Antonia Lhamo Shouse Salpeter, frequently visited New York City for CCR events and cultural outings, and were generous to CCR both Mildred Miller Irving M. Wolfe financially—and in the occasional gift of opera tickets! He will be greatly missed.

63 In memoriam

Marilyn Clement The Center for Constitutional Rights perpetrators in U.S. courts. While at CCR, Marilyn also helped found the mourns the passing on August 3, National Anti-Klan Network. As CCR President Michael Ratner notes: 2009, of a core member of the CCR “Marilyn was incredibly courageous putting herself into people’s struggles, family, Marilyn Clement. A lifelong especially on issues of race.” social justice activist who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. in in Marilyn later headed the U.S. office of the Women’s International the 1960s, Marilyn served as CCR’s League for Peace and Freedom and helped organize the WILPF Peace Executive Director from 1976 to 1989, Train to the International Women’s Congress in Beijing in 1995. When Rep. and continued working with the John Conyers introduced legislation in 2003 for a national, single-payer Center as an active member of our health care system, Marilyn decided to devote her energies to building board of directors. a movement to support that important cause and she founded the organization, Healthcare-NOW! After being diagnosed with multiple Marilyn receiving an award from CCR at our Marilyn was fond of quoting myeloma in June 2008, Marilyn continued to serve as Healthcare-NOW’s 2008 President’s Reception. civil rights activist Ella Baker, who National Coordinator and helped train a younger generation of leaders to famously said, “We who believe in keep the movement growing. freedom cannot rest.” In her own life, Marilyn worked tirelessly for a wide range of progressive causes. Marilyn Clement possessed a remarkable combination of passion, creativity, personal honesty, extraordinary organizing skills, and a great During her twelve years as Executive Director, Marilyn’s vision and sense of humor and friendship that all of us here at CCR will deeply miss. leadership shaped CCR into a nationally renowned instrument for social justice without compromising the principles which motivate our work. Her initiative to open CCR South led to a docket of voting rights cases which had a profound impact on the American South. CCR’s Movement Support Network, which Marilyn championed, broadened our work to include community education and organizing. The Ella Baker Program, which brings progressive law students to the Center each summer, may be one of Marilyn’s most enduring contributions to CCR. The program has trained hundreds of law students to be effective social justice and legal advocates in the service of the people.

Marilyn was CCR’s Executive Director during the landmark Filártiga case, which pioneered the use of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) to enable victims of human rights abuses from anywhere in the world to sue the with Victoria Gray Adams at a CCR event honoring Arthur Kinoy in 1999.

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