No kidding....
Feb. 21‚ 2007
Lynne Stewart and Michael Ratner are beginning a West Coast Tour this Friday night, February 23, at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. The tour is a joint benefit for the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee and the Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Michael Ratner is also a renowned attorney. He is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), an organization that has helped lead the fight against the massive repression unleashed in the wake of 9/11.
A list of Stewart’s clients over the years tells the tale. They have included, among others, members of the Black Panthers, participants in the 1971 Attica prison uprising, and Puerto Rican independence fighters. Her conviction arises from her legal defense of the “blind Shiek” Omar Abdel Rachman, now serving a life sentence for “seditious conspiracy,” a prosecution which grew out of investigations of the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
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Obama should prosecute Bush officials who designed torture policy
By Michael Ratner, December 3, 2008
One of Barack Obama’s first acts as president should be to instruct his attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former Bush Administration officials who gave the green light to torture.
http://www.progressive.org/mag/mpratner120308.html
Michael Ratner is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of “The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book.” He can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.
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Michael Ratner, a professor at Columbia Law School
Michael Ratner hopes Americans will pressure Obama to end the war in Iraq.
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights ... ‘CHANGE has come to America’