[NYTr] Center forConst'l Rights: Beyond Guantanamo - Rrescue the Constitution

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Center for Constitutional Rights - Oct 25, 2007
http://www.ccr-ny.org
http://www.ccrjustic.org  (NEW SITE)

BEYOND GUANTANAMO: RESCUE THE CONSTITUTION

We're writing you today to announce exciting new developments at the
Center for Constitutional Rights: a completely redesigned website, a
new case we've filed, and a new campaign we're launching, Beyond
Guantanamo: Rescue the Constitution.

You can find out about both by visiting our new address [sic]
http://www.ccrjustice.org

We're calling this campaign Beyond Guantanamo because it's about more
than just President Bush or Guantanamo, it's about all the areas where
the government is taking the law into its own hands. It's about the
systematic dismantling of the Constitution and the erosion of
everyone's rights, not just those of the detainees. It is time that we
think beyond Guantanamo and this administration's disastrous policies.

Also many of you have probably also heard about the case we filed
recently against Blackwater USA for the killings of innocent Iraqi
bystanders in September. This lawsuit cannot bring back those killed at
Nisoor Square but it can make Blackwater accountable for its actions.
Read more about this case on our new website.

In these months leading up to the December 5 Supreme Court arguments
that will decide again whether detainees have the right to contest
their detention, CCR will be rolling out ads in magazines and on the
web as well as launching a speaking tour and a radio tour.

Our new website features an updated and expanded case index; issue area 
pages; a much-improved search function so that you can more easily
access our resources and find exactly what you need; and new features
like podcasts with our attorneys on our issues, clients, and cases.
Stay tuned?in the coming months, we'll be adding more videos and more
actions for you to take on the issues you care about.

You can also watch this video featuring Venssa Redgrave reading from a 
letter she received from a former detainee.

Please take some time today to go to our new website, explore all it
has to offer, and read about our new campaign Beyond Guantanamo. Most
important - please tell five of your friends about CCR's campaign to
not only close Guantanamo but rescue our Constitution. We need your
help to spread the word to your friends and family that we're starting
this important new campaign.

As a people, we need to move beyond the example of torture and 
dehumanization set by our government. Let's move Beyond Guantanamo and 
Rescue the Constitution.

Thank you,
Vincent Warren
Executive Director