[Marxism] Marxism and the law

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marxist Attorney Ann Fagan Ginger , the mind and soul of the Meiklejohn
Civil Liberties Institute, is one of today's foremost legal authors and
intellectuals. Her work in international and human rights law is
unparalleled.

CB



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New Book


"Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations Since 9/11"


Report by Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Ann Fagan Ginger, Editor
Prometheus Books, April 2005

The report was submitted by the Berkeley City Council on March 31
<http://www.mcli.org/law/localstate/resolution_berkeley_911report.html>  in
New York City, at the Church Center for the United Nations. See press
release <http://www.mcli.org/challenging/release022205.html>  for more info.


This book was submitted as a shadow Report to the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, and to the U.S. State Department in
Washington on April 18, 2005.

"This report is a veritable roadmap to the countless ways in which the Bush
Administration has used lies and the politics of fear to assault the Bill of
Rights, trash human rights, and launch a phony 'War on Terror.' It is
equally thorough, gripping, and frightening, but demands to be read by every
concerned citizen. Aroused voters, not timid politicians, have always been
the ones to set America back on course. This is both their call to arms and
a loud alarm for the United Nations." John Conyers, Jr. Ranking Member,
Judiciary Committee, US House of Representatives. More testimonials
<http://www.mcli.org/challenging/testimonials.html> ...

After carefully collecting and sorting all of the violations by all U.S.
Government agencies since 9/11, MCLI editors enunciated 30 categories of
rights and duties being violated.

>From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to NYPD to Los Alamos, the book includes 180
reports of 11 human rights violated by the U.S. Government (starting with 1.
Right not to be killed or disappeared; 2. Right not to be tortured) and of
19 duties not performed by the U.S. Government (starting with 12. Duty to
count votes accurately and report truthfully to the people, including 13.
Duty not to send troops for regime change or 14. for invasion of Iraq; 18.
Duty to protect people's rights to due process of law; 27. Duty to fund
environmental protection. See Table of Contents
<http://www.mcli.org/challenging/toc.html>  with list of 180 reports.

Books and Law

The book lays out new paths to action for concerned people to take against a
particular violation, from suing to filing a complaint with the Office of
Inspector General to reporting to the three UN human rights reporting
committees -- always invoking the Mobilization of Shame that has proved so
effective, from South Africa to East Timor.

This publication can be ordered <http://www.mcli.org/store/index.html> .


CURRENT


6/5/06: NGOs urge use of ICCPR: 3/23/06 Resolution in NYC  |   Press Release
|   Letter to Officials  |   Flier  |   details
<http://mcli.org/projects/newsletters/Mar06-d-pdf.pdf>  (on p.1, col.1)

3/6/06: Cong. Barbara Lee re US report to UN Human Rights Committee: view
... <http://www.mcli.org/BarbaraLee-mcli.pdf>

1/13/06: MCLI at UN Human Rights Cttee., March 2006: details...
<http://www.mcli.org/mcli-unhrc.pdf>

12/27/05: Issues presented to the UN Human Rights Cttee. Press release
<http://www.mcli.org/IssuesPR.pdf>   |   List of issues as presented
<http://www.mcli.org/Issues_dec19B.pdf>

10/29/05: NLG Resolutions re Katrina
<http://www.mcli.org/reso-nlg-katrina2-4pdf.pdf> , re UN Treaties
<http://www.mcli.org/reso-nlg-UN.pdf>

10/25/05: GENEVA. US Judge reports Massive Violations to UNHRC details...
<http://www.mcli.org/morcom-un.pr.html>     |    Judge Morcom's 10/17/05
speech in full <http://www.mcli.org/morcom-un.html> .

9/16/05: KATRINA. Human Rights Violations in treatment of Katrina victims.
details... <http://www.mcli.org/hurricane.html>

8/29/05: UNPRECEDENTED. UN Human Rights Committee wants reports on US
violations. details... <http://www.mcli.org/hrc-rqst.html>


COMING EVENTS IN 2006


UPDATE! Check where and when Ann Fagan Ginger will speak about the
Challenging book and other events.


SUMMER 2006
Human Rights Now!

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by increasing the recognition and use of existing human rights and peace law
at the local, national, and international levels.





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