On April 28, 1987, Benjamin Linder, a U.S. citizen, and two Nicaraguans were murdered by contras who attacked the site of a small dam they were building in the village of Bocay. The dam was part of a project to…
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Like Paterson v. Bush, 26-year old college student Michael Ange objected to his deployment to drive a five-ton fuel truck in Saudi Arabia, claiming that it exceeded the oath that he and other reservists took because “we never swore to…
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On August 29, 1991, 22-year-old Californian Jeffrey Paterson publicly proclaimed his opposition to the Gulf war and refused to join the hundreds of thousands of U.S. armed forces President Bush had already sent to the Middle East. While staff sergeants…
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Maria Teresa Tula viuda de Canales, a Salvadoran woman, is seeking political asylum in the United States. In El Salvador she worked with Comadres, the “Committee of Mothers,” an organization of women formed to advocate for “disappeared,” arrested and otherwise…
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Dessima Williams, former Ambassador from Grenada to the Organization of American States and a leading critic of U.S. Caribbean policy, was seized in Washington, D.C. by immigration officials in October 1984. The arrest took place on the anniversary of the…
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Ancient and sacred textiles, many of which date frpm Pre-Colombian times, have been wrongfully taken by U.S. dealers from their owners-the Indian people of the Andean village of Coroma, Bolivia. The loss of the textiles has had a devastating effect…
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As the President deployed soaring numbers of U.S. armed forces to the Gulf, and campaigned for authorization from the United Nations and Middle Eastern states to oust Iraq from Kuwait militarily, an offensive attack on Iraq loomed. At this stage,…
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CCR filed suit on behalf of documentary filmmakers whose films were denied “certificates of educational character” by the U.S. Information Agency (USIA). Such certificates are granted under an international treaty designed to facilitate the free flow of ideas among nations….
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While accepting a diploma in June 1991 as distinguished scholar during commencement ceremonies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Guatemalan ex-Defense Minister Hector Gramajo was stopped and served legal papers charging that he designed, ordered, implemented and directed a program…
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On December 20, 1989, the United States invaded the Republic of Panama, violating the integrity, sovereignty and self determination of this nation. Independent Panamanian human rights organizations estimate that over 2000 Panamanian civilians were killed and many thousands wounded during…
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