It was sprinkling rain throughout, but my boyfriend and I stood outside for over 6 hours; on line, waiting to be married. This wasn’t something we had planned; it was 2004 and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome had determined that the California State Constitution necessitated the right for gay couples to marry. [...] read more »

While the devastating ecological impacts of BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are obvious, the less visible but also long-lasting psychological, community and personal impacts could be worse, according to social scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists. read more »

TUE AUG 10 10:30am · FREE HEARING/RALLY: SAVE COMMUNITY GARDENS Rally around the hearing and let them know how you feel about saving our community gardens! Bring instruments and props - be creative! Remember if you want to speak at this Public Hearing, email by August 9th Laura Velle, at Laura.LaVelle@parks.nyc.gov and write, I intend to make a [...] read more »

The panelists talked about U.F.O. wreckage and aliens fusing a human head on a cow. I looked at the audience, assuming they weren’t buying it until a woman asked, “Who here has had contact with U.F.O’s.” Like an army lifting their spears, everyone raised their arms. Faces shined with bright defiance. Near the back wall [...] read more »

Anwar al-Awlaki is a U.S. citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The U.S. has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU filed suit today so we can be pro bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Awlaki, to stop the government from killing him. read more »

Last week Arizona’s law legalizing racial profiling, known as SB 1070, went into effect. Hundreds of people rallied and marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in solidarity with immigrants July 29, demanding just and humane immigration reform that places human rights over increased enforcement. Immigrant communities, elected officials anditizens gathered to condemn SB 1070 — which [...] read more »

Jeeps in the Bedouin encampment above where we are staying. PHOTO: ELLEN DAVIDSON Anata (the West Bank part) —The Israeli Border Police paid a visit today to this dusty Palestinian town. I am here as part of the summer camp organized by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and we are now on our [...] read more »

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We are well over two years into a deep and difficult downturn. Whatever the GDP numbers tell us, and those numbers do matter, the vast majority of Americans are in pain. Recent work by the Pew Research Center reveals that 55 percent of Americans have lost jobs, hours, or pay. Numbers [...] read more »

NEW ORLEANS – Environmental experts warn that the ecosystems and food chain in the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding region already deeply harmed and toxified by the ongoing British Petroleum (BP) oil disaster likely face much greater damage.“You know how the pelicans die of oil,” Dean Wilson, the Executive Director of Atchafalaya Basinkeeper asked [...] read more »