by Michael Withey | May 13, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Michael Ratner was a visionary and former Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Among his numerous accomplishments, he was also the co-counsel in the original Domingo v. Republic of the Philippines lawsuit brought by The Committee for Justice for...
by Michael Withey | Feb 8, 2016 | Uncategorized |
On behalf of The Domingo and Viernes Story, we salute the pioneering work performed by the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) in this important case and are happy to support their efforts. We have fought for justice in the murders of our slain brothers Gene...
by Michael Withey | Jan 28, 2016 | Uncategorized |
— Original Post from Daily Kos, Jan 13th 2016 The North Carolina legislature wants to punish anyone who blows the whistle on illegal or cruel acts on factory farms, nursing homes, daycare centers . . . or just about anywhere else. In fact, North Carolina’s law,...
by Michael Withey | Nov 13, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Many Chileans and human rights advocates have long suspected foul play in the death of the poet Pablo Neruda, who died 12 days after the 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Now, the government of Chile has said it is “highly probable” that those suspicions are...
by Michael Withey | Nov 1, 2015 | Uncategorized |
On behalf of the Estates of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, a new effort to gain information from the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) was launched this month in the form of a renewed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The request seeks documents from the US...
by Michael Withey | Oct 29, 2015 | Uncategorized |
International Attorney Almudena Bernabeu and the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a public interest/human rights project based in San Francisco received the prestigious Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award from the Institute for Policy Studies, which...
by Michael Withey | Oct 23, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet Almost 40 years after the political assassination of Chilean economist, Socialist, and diplomat Orlando Letelier and his assistant Ronnie Moffit in a car bomb in Washington D.C., the US...
by Michael Withey | Oct 19, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Original content from KUOW Silme Domingo, left, and Gene Viernes, right, were murdered at a union hall in Seattle. It took a determined group of people to find out the murderers. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DIGITAL ARCHIVES Listen: A Seattle Murder Mystery Turned...
by Michael Withey | Oct 8, 2015 | Uncategorized |
This report, released by the Center for Constitutional Rights (link) and Palestine Legal (link) in September 2015, documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States. Between January 2014 and...
by Michael Withey | Sep 23, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Ken Kashiwahara, an ABC-TV journalist who was the brother-in-law of former Philippine Senator Benigno Aquino (Ninoy), was interviewed recently by the BBC program “Witness” about the August 21, 1983 assassination of the Senator which led to the fall of Marcos in 1986....