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In what has become the nation’s largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates…
Bill Quigley
Bill Quigley is a law professor and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. He served as Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He has been an active public interest lawyer since 1977. Bill has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including Katrina social justice issues, public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience.
“We are faced with the daily reality of an imminent collapse of our criminal justice institutions.” New Orleans Police Chief Warren…
In a small still mostly segregated section of rural Louisiana, an all white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by…
Step One. Delay. If there is one word that sums up the way to destroy an African-American city after a disaster, that…
Cathy Webster, a grandmother living in Chico California, organized “A Thousand Grandmothers for Peace” to protest in November 2006 against the torture-training…
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, it dropped another atomic bomb on…
They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after…
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) More evidence of the…
After over a week in jail, the charges against Haitian priest Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste have finally been made public by the government.…
In addition to the death and destruction caused by the recent hurricane and floods, there is another disaster going on in Haiti…