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| Michale Ratner & Dr. Stanley Greenfield - Air date: 04-07-0 |
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Michael Ratner is President of the Center for
Constitutional Rights and co-author, with
political journalist Ellen Ray, of the forthcoming
book Guantánamo: What The World Should Know
(Chelsea Green Publishing). He serves as
co-counsel in Rasul v. Bush, the historic case of
Guantánamo detainees currently before the U.S.
Supreme Court. His timely new book is a primer on
the dangers that U.S. policy in Guantánamo
presents to our democracy. The book will be
released as the Supreme Court prepares to rule in
the Rasul case in June/July 2004.
At a time when the Bush Administration is acting
to radically alter the US's historic commitment to
civil and human rights, Michael Ratner is a
leading force defending the values of a democratic
society. Under Michael's leadership, the Center
for Constitutional Rights has aggressively
challenged the constitutional and international
law violations undertaken by the United States
post-9-11, including the constitutionality of
indefinite detention and the restrictions on civil
liberties as defined by the unfolding terms of a
permanent war. In addition to the Guantánamo
litigation, the Center for Constitutional Right's
cases include a suit on behalf of Canadian citizen
Maher Arar, who was sent by the U.S to be tortured
in Syria, as well as a class action suit against
the detention of non-citizen, Muslim and Arab men
within the United States. In the 1990s Michael
also acted as a principal counsel in the
successful suit to close the camp for HIV-positive
Haitian refugees on Guantánamo Bay. Over the
years, he has litigated a dozen cases challenging
a president's authority to go to war without
congressional approval. He has written and
consulted extensively on Guantánamo, the Patriot
Act, military tribunals and civil liberties in the
post-9/11 world.
Michael Ratner has also been lecturer of
international human rights litigation at the Yale
Law School and the Columbia School of Law,
president of the National Lawyers Guild, special
Counsel to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide to assist in the prosecution of human
rights crimes, Legal Director of the Center for
Constitutional Rights, and radio co-host for the
civil rights show Law and Disorder.
In Guantánamo: What The World Should Know, Ratner
and Ray give an authoritative account of what
Guantánamo means for the rule of law, for
liberty, democracy, and the right to dissent. To
schedule an interview please contact Mahdis
Keshavarz 212.260.5000 , ext. 10.
Email: maddik@riptideonline.com
Sidney M. Greenfield EDUCATION:
1954 A.B. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Major Fields: Economics and Sociology 1959 Ph.D.
Columbia University, New York, NY.
Major Field: Anthropology AWARDS: 1954 Phi Beta
Kappa, Magna Cum Laude (Brooklyn College) 1954-55
Yale University Fellowship (declined) 1955-56
Columbia University Fellowship 1955-56 George
William Curtis Fellow (Columbia University)
Research Institute for the Study of Man in the
Tropics Fellow 1956-57 Social Science Research
Council Fellow 1960 Purdue University Research
Council X.L. Research Award 1964 University of
Wisconsin Summer Research Award 1965-66 Social
Science Research Council Fellow Land Tenure Center
Fellow (The University of Wisconsin)
1967 Fulbright-Hays Center Faculty Fellow
(Brazil) 1972-73 National Science Foundation
Fellow 1978 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Graduate School Summer Research Award 1982
Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School Summer
Research Award
1983 UW-System American Ethnic Studies
Coordinating Committee Award 1984-85 UW Sabbatical
Leave Award UW-System Undergraduate Teaching
Improvement Grant
1985 Academic Specialist Grant, United States
Information Agency 1986-87 UW-System
Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Grant
1988 Fulbright Fellow (Brazil) 1989 University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate School/UWM
Foundation Research Award
1990-91 School of American Research Resident
Scholarship (declined) 1993-94 UW Sabbatical
Leave Award 1994-95 Fellow, Center for Twentieth
Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1996 Fulbright Award (For Nigeria) Could not
accept for political reasons in Nigeria.
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