Novel in progress. This is a copyrighted working draft. Edit suggestions welcome.
The legacy of ... more Novel in progress. This is a copyrighted working draft. Edit suggestions welcome.
The legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow comes to play in a series of dramatic events in the heartland and beyond, and an ensemble of unforgettable characters are forced to choose between lies and truth, life and death, with implications for their futures, their relationships and for the the future of democracy in the United States.
The Founding Director of the NE Iowa Peace and Justice Center reviews, from a social justice prac... more The Founding Director of the NE Iowa Peace and Justice Center reviews, from a social justice practitioner's perspective, Epidemiologist Drucker's creative yet limited analysis of the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States.
A legal and tactical criticism of the Community Rights Movement as applied to environmental prote... more A legal and tactical criticism of the Community Rights Movement as applied to environmental protection.
An appeal to faith-based constituencies to directly support criminal justice reform: specifically... more An appeal to faith-based constituencies to directly support criminal justice reform: specifically to advocate for [then] Senator Jim Webb's reintroduction of his landmark National Criminal Justice Commission Act, which would create a blue-ribbon, bipartisan commission of stakeholders charged with undertaking an 18-month top-to-bottom review of the nation’s criminal justice system and offering concrete recommendations for reform.
• The people of the USA should have all of the facts on torture – and in particular the Senate In... more • The people of the USA should have all of the facts on torture – and in particular the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA interrogations should be released to the public. • The laws against torture should be strengthened to prevent a repeat of past mistakes. • The U.S. should not transfer detainees to countries where torture is likely to occur. • The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) should be required to publish its opinions and tell the public when it is issuing a classified opinion. • Physicians should be required to report abuses to authorities. • The Executive Branch should declassify evidence regarding abuse and torture of captives. • “Congress should pass legislation that makes clear that acts of torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are not legitimate… under the National Security Act.” • The state-secrets privilege should not be invoked to dismiss lawsuits by victims of torture. • Congress should amend the Army Field Manual to eliminate Appendix M, and “[l]anguage prohibiting the use of stress positions and abnormal sleep manipulation that was removed in 2006 should be restored.” • The International Committee of the Red Cross should always be granted access to all detainees. • The United States should sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All People from Enforced Disappearance. • The “forced feeding of detainees at Guantanamo is an abuse and must end.” • The prison at Guantanamo be closed by no later than the end of 2014.
Personal and professional reflections on the life and impact of an unsung civil rights hero, Luci... more Personal and professional reflections on the life and impact of an unsung civil rights hero, Lucinda Wilson Todd, the initiating and organizing plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Decision.
The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking (2005) was distributed to representative... more The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking (2005) was distributed to representatives of 55 governments and a number of representatives from institutions such as UNHCR, UNICEF, UNMIK, UNODC, OSCE, Council of Europe, European Parliament, IOM, Interpol, Europol etc., at a high-level conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.
In order to combat this egregious and growing threat to human dignity, the government leaders, scholars, expert practitioners and students present at the symposium on human trafficking held on the campus of St.Thomas University Law School on February 10, 2005, hosted by the Law School’s Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights and its INTERCULTURAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW, shared their expertise, engaged in thorough, problem- and policy-oriented discussion and formulated the following set of consensus principles to recommend to decision-makers and practitioners around the world.
Novel in progress. This is a copyrighted working draft. Edit suggestions welcome.
The legacy of ... more Novel in progress. This is a copyrighted working draft. Edit suggestions welcome.
The legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow comes to play in a series of dramatic events in the heartland and beyond, and an ensemble of unforgettable characters are forced to choose between lies and truth, life and death, with implications for their futures, their relationships and for the the future of democracy in the United States.
The Founding Director of the NE Iowa Peace and Justice Center reviews, from a social justice prac... more The Founding Director of the NE Iowa Peace and Justice Center reviews, from a social justice practitioner's perspective, Epidemiologist Drucker's creative yet limited analysis of the crisis of mass incarceration in the United States.
A legal and tactical criticism of the Community Rights Movement as applied to environmental prote... more A legal and tactical criticism of the Community Rights Movement as applied to environmental protection.
An appeal to faith-based constituencies to directly support criminal justice reform: specifically... more An appeal to faith-based constituencies to directly support criminal justice reform: specifically to advocate for [then] Senator Jim Webb's reintroduction of his landmark National Criminal Justice Commission Act, which would create a blue-ribbon, bipartisan commission of stakeholders charged with undertaking an 18-month top-to-bottom review of the nation’s criminal justice system and offering concrete recommendations for reform.
• The people of the USA should have all of the facts on torture – and in particular the Senate In... more • The people of the USA should have all of the facts on torture – and in particular the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA interrogations should be released to the public. • The laws against torture should be strengthened to prevent a repeat of past mistakes. • The U.S. should not transfer detainees to countries where torture is likely to occur. • The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) should be required to publish its opinions and tell the public when it is issuing a classified opinion. • Physicians should be required to report abuses to authorities. • The Executive Branch should declassify evidence regarding abuse and torture of captives. • “Congress should pass legislation that makes clear that acts of torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are not legitimate… under the National Security Act.” • The state-secrets privilege should not be invoked to dismiss lawsuits by victims of torture. • Congress should amend the Army Field Manual to eliminate Appendix M, and “[l]anguage prohibiting the use of stress positions and abnormal sleep manipulation that was removed in 2006 should be restored.” • The International Committee of the Red Cross should always be granted access to all detainees. • The United States should sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All People from Enforced Disappearance. • The “forced feeding of detainees at Guantanamo is an abuse and must end.” • The prison at Guantanamo be closed by no later than the end of 2014.
Personal and professional reflections on the life and impact of an unsung civil rights hero, Luci... more Personal and professional reflections on the life and impact of an unsung civil rights hero, Lucinda Wilson Todd, the initiating and organizing plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Decision.
The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking (2005) was distributed to representative... more The Miami Declaration of Principles on Human Trafficking (2005) was distributed to representatives of 55 governments and a number of representatives from institutions such as UNHCR, UNICEF, UNMIK, UNODC, OSCE, Council of Europe, European Parliament, IOM, Interpol, Europol etc., at a high-level conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.
In order to combat this egregious and growing threat to human dignity, the government leaders, scholars, expert practitioners and students present at the symposium on human trafficking held on the campus of St.Thomas University Law School on February 10, 2005, hosted by the Law School’s Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights and its INTERCULTURAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW, shared their expertise, engaged in thorough, problem- and policy-oriented discussion and formulated the following set of consensus principles to recommend to decision-makers and practitioners around the world.
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The legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow comes to play in a series of dramatic events in the heartland and beyond, and an ensemble of unforgettable characters are forced to choose between lies and truth, life and death, with implications for their futures, their relationships and for the the future of democracy in the United States.
• The laws against torture should be strengthened to prevent a repeat of past mistakes.
• The U.S. should not transfer detainees to countries where torture is likely to occur.
• The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) should be required to publish its opinions and tell the public when it is issuing a classified opinion.
• Physicians should be required to report abuses to authorities.
• The Executive Branch should declassify evidence regarding abuse and torture of captives.
• “Congress should pass legislation that makes clear that acts of torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are not legitimate… under the National Security Act.”
• The state-secrets privilege should not be invoked to dismiss lawsuits by victims of torture.
• Congress should amend the Army Field Manual to eliminate Appendix M, and “[l]anguage prohibiting the use of stress positions and abnormal sleep manipulation that was removed in 2006 should be restored.”
• The International Committee of the Red Cross should always be granted access to all detainees.
• The United States should sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All People from Enforced Disappearance.
• The “forced feeding of detainees at Guantanamo is an abuse and must end.”
• The prison at Guantanamo be closed by no later than the end of 2014.
In order to combat this egregious and growing threat to human dignity, the government leaders, scholars, expert practitioners and students present at the symposium on human trafficking held on the campus of St.Thomas University Law School on February 10, 2005, hosted by the Law School’s Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights and its INTERCULTURAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW, shared their expertise, engaged in thorough, problem- and policy-oriented discussion and formulated the following set of consensus principles to recommend to decision-makers and practitioners around the world.
The legacy of Slavery and Jim Crow comes to play in a series of dramatic events in the heartland and beyond, and an ensemble of unforgettable characters are forced to choose between lies and truth, life and death, with implications for their futures, their relationships and for the the future of democracy in the United States.
• The laws against torture should be strengthened to prevent a repeat of past mistakes.
• The U.S. should not transfer detainees to countries where torture is likely to occur.
• The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) should be required to publish its opinions and tell the public when it is issuing a classified opinion.
• Physicians should be required to report abuses to authorities.
• The Executive Branch should declassify evidence regarding abuse and torture of captives.
• “Congress should pass legislation that makes clear that acts of torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are not legitimate… under the National Security Act.”
• The state-secrets privilege should not be invoked to dismiss lawsuits by victims of torture.
• Congress should amend the Army Field Manual to eliminate Appendix M, and “[l]anguage prohibiting the use of stress positions and abnormal sleep manipulation that was removed in 2006 should be restored.”
• The International Committee of the Red Cross should always be granted access to all detainees.
• The United States should sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All People from Enforced Disappearance.
• The “forced feeding of detainees at Guantanamo is an abuse and must end.”
• The prison at Guantanamo be closed by no later than the end of 2014.
In order to combat this egregious and growing threat to human dignity, the government leaders, scholars, expert practitioners and students present at the symposium on human trafficking held on the campus of St.Thomas University Law School on February 10, 2005, hosted by the Law School’s Graduate Program in Intercultural Human Rights and its INTERCULTURAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW, shared their expertise, engaged in thorough, problem- and policy-oriented discussion and formulated the following set of consensus principles to recommend to decision-makers and practitioners around the world.