CCR to UN: Whistleblower Protections Must Include Publishers Like WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
By Michael Ratner an Carey Shenkman The Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes is deeply indebted to the Center for Constitutional Rights and Michael Ratner for their early support for our justice efforts. The CCR entered an appearance as co-counsel for the...
CCR to President Obama: Confront CIA Torture
Our friends and supporters at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York were helpful in shaping our civil lawsuit against the Marcos Regime in the early days of our justice efforts in 1981. The CCR, headed then by Michael Ratner and now by Vince Warren,...
Former Superior Court Judge on the Lives of Gene and Silme
What follows is a personal account of Mike Fox, one of the attorneys who represented Gene Viernes, Silme Domingo and Silme’s brother Nemesio Domingo in their fight against race discrimination in the cannery industry in Alaska. Mike had dedicated his life and career to the representation of farm workers, cannery workers, and the downtrodden and neglected. On the bench he was widely acclaimed for his fairness, and sense of justice. It is my personal honor to present Mike’s heartfelt reflections on our fallen heroes, Gene Viernes and SIlme Domingo:
US intelligence agents complicit in the 1973 murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi
On September 11, 1973, the duly elected Socialist government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a military coup engineered by Col. Augusto Pinochet with the backing of the Nixon/Kissinger administration in Washington. President Allende died in his...