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Erosion of American Civil Rights

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Source: Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights and the Center For American Progress

The Erosion of Rights: Declining Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Bush Administration

Executive Summary

The erosion of civil rights across our nation over the past six years is the result of willful neglect and calculated design. The Bush administration continues to use the courts and the judicial appointment process to narrow civil rights protections and repeal remedies for legal redress while allowing the traditional tools of the executive branch for civil rights enforcement to wither and die. The resulting inequality of opportunity, deteriorating civil liberties, and rising religious and racial discrimination are sad commentaries on the priorities of the current administration.

This new report by the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights and the Center For American Progress catalogues why this is happening and how Congress can take action to remedy the situation. The 10 essays in this report encapsulate the administration's failure to enforce civil rights, protect civil liberties and confront long-standing and emerging threats to our nation's shining virtue: equality of opportunity. The authors of the report, many of them veterans of civil rights enforcement and advocacy, detail the methods employed by the administration to carry out these serious civil rights policy reversals and offer concrete solutions to slow the deterioration of our nation's civil rights and restore our promise as the land of equal opportunity. Read Full Report

Unconstitutional - 66min. documentary video

January 23, 2008

Locked up indefinitely? No lawyer? No trial? If you think this can't happen to an American citizen, think again. Since 9/11 and the USA Patriot Act, America has faced a fearsome erosion of civil liberties. This week's big budget documentary reveals how paranoia, fear and ethnic profiling have led to the subjugation of America's constitutional rights. Made for a theatrical release by Hollywood director Robert Greenwald, 'Unconstitutional' exposes how the Patriot Act, made to defend America, is actually leaving it more vulnerable to future terrorist attacks.

Documentary on the Erosion of Democracy, Our Constitution & Civil Rights