Support

The success of Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and the Human Rights Reporting Project depend on the support and involvement of people dedicated to protecting and ensuring human rights in the United States. Many people have helped to carry the message to their co-workers, clients, students, friends and to judges and government officials: that the people of the United States demand that their government, at all levels, respect and ensure the human rights and fundamental freedoms set forth in U. S. domestic and treaty law.

For more information on publications, internships, or how Meiklejohn Institute, the Human Rights Reporting Project, the Center for the Covenant, or the India Centre for Human Rights and the Law can help you and your organization in your efforts to ensure justice and human rights and peace, please do not hesitate to contact us. See below for more information on how you can help us.

Newsletter

Human Rights Now! is MCLI's quarterly publication to over 2000 readers on the most important and little known aspects of the movement for human rights and peace law in the United States and how people can get connected to this movement in the U.S. and around the world. The newsletter welcomes brief reports on projects readers are working on, especially stories of successes — however large or small. Volunteers are needed to help mail out the copies at end of February, May, August, and November. Send an email to volunteer@mcli.org if you can help.

See Projects/Newsletters for past issues of HR newsletters.

Donate

All donations to MCLI are tax-deductible. Donations can be sent online using a credit card or by mail.

The New Director Fund

MCLI is raising funds for the New Director Fund, for hiring an Executive Director in 2008, when Ann Fagan Ginger retires after 40 years of pro bono work.

Planning to move to or within the Bay Area?

One of MCLI long-time supporters, Mickey Tenenbaum, has a proposal that could result in a large donation for the Institute. Mickey is a real estate broker who represents buyers and sellers in Berkeley, Albany, Oakland, and Richmond in California. If there are sellers who live farther away, Mickey could work with you in partnership with a local agent. Mickey will donate 20% of his commission to MCLI on completion of a sale. This could be a significant amount — ranging from $2,000 to $8,000 or more, depending on the amount of his commission. If you need a progressive broker with lots of experience — 20 years in Berkeley — please call Mickey at 510-843-8075, or send him an email at mickeyten@aol.com. Be sure to tell him you want part of his commission to go to MCLI.

Internships

MCLI has two internships for work on the Mandela Human Rights Reporting Project for the summer of 2008. Law and college interns will do legal research, talk to community groups, write city ordinances, prepare accurate, detailed reports of violations, and enforcement, of human rights laws in the U.S. in 2008 and 2009. The Haywood Burns Fellowship Program will provide half of the $2,000 for one law student; MCLI will pay the rest. The Arthur Horowitz Law Intern Grant will provide $1,000 toward a second internship.

Here is the 2008 Internship Application. Please contact afg@mcli.org for future possibilities.

Volunteer

People of all ages and interests are needed to input data, to work on web content, to clip periodicals, to phone for information, to put on affairs. If you can help, please contact volunteer@mcli.org.

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