Human Rights and Peace Law Docket
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ABOUT MEIKLEJOHN CIVIL LIBERTIES INSTITUTE The Institute
• responds to calls for help from grassroots activists on how to raise the strongest legal issues in their campaigns — in the streets, in hearings and legislative bodies, in courts, elections, and the media
• finds new places for people to go for redress of their grievances, from city commissions on peace & justice to UN Committees on Human Rights and Racial Discrimination
• finds "new" laws to use — United Nations Charter, Nuremberg Principles, International Covenants, along with U.S. and state Constitutions and Bills of Rights
• collects and archives important documents from past struggles.
Founded in 1965, MCLI has become part of the infrastructure of the peace and justice community, empowering people to protect and expand their rights under the law.
The Institute publishes and distributes this Human Rights & Peace Law Docket, the Human Rights Organizations & Periodicals Directory, Peace Law Packets and a Newsletter. (See the Order Forms at the back of this book.)
Meiklejohn is a center for peace law, an organizer for the right to education, an information clearinghouse on social change, an advocate of government accountability, a training center, and repository of history.
Since 1984, the Institute's Peace Law and Education Project has been using peace law to work for human rights, full employment, economic conversion, and saving the environment.
The Institute's highly regarded Studies in Law and Social Change include Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom, The Cold War Against Labor, and The Ford Hunger March.
The Institute offers internships and work-study opportunities to high school, college, law school, and library school students, and significant work for seniors.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(organizational affiliations for identification only)
- Ying Lee, President
Senior Legislative Assistant to
Congressman Ronald V. Dellums- Anne Braden
Southern Organizing Committee, Louisville- Seth Chazin
Criminal Justice Attorney- Zipporah Collins
Editor- Ignacio De La Fuente
West Coast International Officer,
Glass, Molders, AFL-CIO- Troy Duster
Institute for the Study of Social Change,
University of California, Berkeley- Abby Ginzberg
Video Producer; Attorney- Aileen C. Hernandez
Urban Consultant- Siegfried Hesse
Appellate Counsel- Seymour Kramer
Union Activist, School Bus Driver,
Student Advocate- Frank Newman
Professor of Law Emeritus,
University of California, Berkeley- Camilo Perez-Bustillo
Kellogg Fellow; Multicultural Education,
Training & Advocacy Staff, Mexico- Colleen Rohan
Criminal Appeals Attorney- Jim Syfers
Chair, Philosophy Department,
San Francisco State University- Anne P. Wagley
Human Rights Activist, Attorney- Ann Fagan Ginger, Executive Director
Lawyer, Author, Lecturer