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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Captain Compassion" |
| Date: |
18 Aug 2006 12:09:56 PM |
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Organizations and People Supporting the NSA Lawsuit |
Organizations and People Supporting the NSA Lawsuit (4/20/2006)
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/25192res20060420.html
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed two friend-of-the-court
briefs supporting its lawsuit challenging the National Security
Agency's illegal domestic spying program. One brief was submitted on
behalf of prominent leaders of the nation's business community and the
other by leading civil rights organizations.
The signers of the civil rights friend-of-the-court brief:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
Japanese Americans Citizens League (JACL)
United for Peace and Justice
Signing onto the business leaders' friend-of-the-court brief are:
Ronald Algrant
Michael Kieschnick
Mal Warwick
Adam Kanzer
Peter Strugatz
Joe Sibilia
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a
non-profit membership corporation chartered by the State of New York
in 1909. The Nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,
the NAACP has more than 500,000 members and 2,200 units in the United
States and overseas.
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is a civil rights
organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab
descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage. ADC, which is
non-sectarian and non-partisan, is the largest Arab-American
grassroots civil rights organization in the United States. It was
founded in 1980 by former United States Senator James Abourezk; has 38
chapters nationwide, and members in all 50 States. ADC is at the
forefront in addressing discrimination and bias against Arab Americans
wherever it is practiced. ADC also serves as a reliable source for
information and education about the Arab and Muslim American
community. ADC is an active organizational member of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights.
Read the ADC's statement >>
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, founded in 1974,
is a non-profit organization based in New York City devoted to
defending the civil rights of Asian Americans. AALDEF is concerned
that the government’s reliance on vague and unchecked war powers is
the same purported basis that resulted in the unlawful internment of
Japanese Americans during World War II.
Read AALDEF's statement >>
Japanese Americans Citizens League
The Japanese American Citizens League was founded in 1929. JACL is the
nation’s oldest and largest Asian American non-profit, non-partisan
organization committed to upholding the civil rights of Americans with
Japanese ancestry.
Read JACL's statement >>
United for Peace and Justice
United for Peace and Justice, with more than 1,400 member groups, is
the nation’s largest antiwar coalition coordinating efforts in
opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq. Since October 2002 United for
Peace and Justice has supported hundreds of local protests and the
three largest against the war: at the U.N. in New York City on
February 15, 2003; on the eve of the Republican Convention on August
29, 2004; and in Washington D.C. on September 24, 2005.
Ronald Algrant
Ronald Algrant is the Senior Vice President of International Sales at
HarperCollins Publishers and is the former Chair of the Freedom to
Publish Committee of the American Association of Publishers.
HarperCollins is one of the world’s leading English language
publishers with over $1 billion in annual revenues. It has operations
in the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand, and it works with authors and agents all over the world.
HarperCollins’ books are sold world-wide in more than 60 languages.
Read Ronald Algrant's statement >>
Michael Kieschnick
Michael Kieschnick is President, Chief Operating Officer, and a
co-founder of Working Assets Funding Service, Inc. Working Assets is a
telecommunications, credit card and media company with more than $100
million in annual revenue. International telephone service is one of
the many services that Working Services provides to its customers. Mr.
Kieschnick has written several books on capital markets and
development, most recently Credit Where It's Due (with Julia Parzen),
the authoritative study of development banking.
Read Michael Keischnick's statement >>
Mal Warwick
Mal Warwick is founder and Chairman of Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc.
MWA is a leading provider of fundraising and marketing consulting
services for domestic nonprofit organizations, many of which are
international in focus, including the Global Fund for Women, East
Meets West Foundation and Corporate Accountability International. Mr.
Warwick consults with major nongovernmental organizations all over the
world. He is the author of numerous books on nonprofit fundraising and
regularly presents at major fundraising conferences on every
continent.
Read Mal Warwick's statement >>
Adam Kanzer
Adam Kanzer is General Counsel and Director of Shareholder Advocacy of
Domini Social Investments LLC. Domini is an investment firm that
manages over $1.8 billion in assets for its individual and
institutional investors. Its family of managed funds includes the
Domini European Social Equity Fund, which is devoted entirely to the
stocks of mid- to large-cap European companies.
Peter Strugatz
Peter Strugatz is the President of Strugatz Ventures, Inc., a private
equity investment firm, and is the founder and co-CEO of IceStone LLC,
a leading manufacturer of sustainable home building products.
Joe Sibilia
Joe Sibilia is the President and CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital. MBLC
is an investment bank, whose principals have over $17 billion worth of
transaction experience. MBLC provides a wide range of investment
banking and other financial and strategic services for its clients,
which have included many Fortune 500 companies with global operations.
MBLC also owns a controlling interest in CSRwire, a global news
distribution and resource service.
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