Donate to MCLI

Since 1965 MCLI has been educating activists, lawyers, students, professors, union members, and United Nation supporters on human rights and peace law. We depend on financial contributions to support its mission and work. Please give generously to ensure its continued existence. All donations are tax-deductible. If you wish to use a check to make a donation, please mail it to Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, PO Box 673, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 94701-0673.

General Fund

Helps pay for office staff, materials, archive maintenance and overhead.

The New Director Fund

For hiring an Executive Director in 2008, when Ann Fagan Ginger retires after 40 years of pro bono work. Please help support this transition.

Mandela Human Rights Reporting Project

The Mandela Human Rights Reporting Project will work with a diverse group of community activists, teachers, lawyers, students and victims of discrimination from every neighborhood and culture to convince their local governments to protect human rights. The Project will work on the specific duty of local governments to make periodic reports of how their departments and commissions are enforcing the rights enunciated in the three US-ratified UN human rights treaties. Funding for the project is critical to its success.

MCLI Intern Program

Every summer MCLI welcomes interns from colleges and law schools across the country who work on the current MCLI projects. They also represent MCLI at meetings of many sister organizations. And they make reports and speeches on MCLI activities on request. Over 400 interns have helped MCLI since 1965 — writing books, getting out the Human Rights Now! newsletter, filing briefs in a few significant pending cases, occasionally testifying before governmental agencies.

Funding for interns comes from the Arthur Horowitz Program and from the Haywood Burns-National Lawyers Guild fellowships. More funding can support more interns during the summer and during the year.

10th Grade Educational Project on Human Rights

MCLI is taking steps to get peace law into high schools so that students can feel hope that wars are not inevitable and will see steps they can take to keep the peace. One approach will be to present training sessions in peace law for MCLI interns and friends that will prepare them to speak in high school classes and assemblies on the fact that the 18 year old who must register for the draft can register as Conscientious Objectors and why some courageous men have been COs in previous wars. Another part of the Project is to prepare materials than can be used by any teacher in a 10th grade class in History or Government on the founding of the United Nations and the commitments the U.S. Government made when it ratified the U.N. Charter. The material will explain the reporting system of the U.N. Committees, which require reports on human rights violations at the city and state levels, as well as by the federal government. And it will describe how reporting can actually lead to greater protection for human rights.

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