New Newsletter Available Online!
MCLI has launched a new site for its quarterly newsletter, Human Rights Now!. You can go there by clicking on the newsletter tab above or go directly to www.mcli.com/newsletter. There you will find all of the articles in the current newsletter, news about upcoming events, as well as the entire newsletter in PDF.New Publications
"The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights is the Law:
A Guide to U.D.H.R. Articles in Treaties Ratified by the U.S." Just in time for the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights! This book, published December 10th, 2008, is a useful guide for any activist, law-maker, or citizen concerned with international law. Now shipping! ORDER today!“Undoing the Bush/Cheney Legacy: A Tool Kit for Congress.”
Now on SALE! -- ORDER today!Now that Obama/Biden and the new Congress have been elected, here's the book you need to make real change in the first 100 days! This book contains a succinct summary of over 100 laws that should be ammended or repealed. Now with a Supplement on the Economic Crisis. Published in November, 2008.
Read excerpts from the first few pages by clicking here.
Upcoming MCLI Events:
Talk with Marjorie Cohn | Thursday, June 18 5:30PM
Marjorie Cohn is President of the National Lawyers Guild, professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and author.
Her most recent book is Rules Of Disengagement: The Politics And Honor Of Military Dissent.
Marjorie is just back from the IADL Tribunal on Agent Orange in Paris and the IADL conference in Hanoi.
You will also have the chance to speak with Steve Bingham, new president of MCLI about MCLI's new projects and books. Wine & cheese provided. MCLI annual membership meeting following the event at 6:45PM.
At the Office of Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Brogen & Dardarian 300 Lakeside Dr. in Oakland.
Ann F. Ginger on the KPFA Morning Show, January 6, 2009
MCLI's Executive Director discusses Israel's shelling and invasion of Gaza with the hosts of the KPFA Morning Show. Listen here!
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) seeks to promote social change by increasing the recognition and use of existing human rights and peace law at the local and national levels.
Click here to read our 2007 Annual Report and find out what MCLI has accomplished for human rights and peace law in the past year.
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