Danny Sheehan (Christic Institute, see link) is George Knapp's guest on

Coast to Coast tonight at 11pm,PST.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christic_Institute

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

I've never listened to Coasttocoast, basically because I usually fail to remember it's on.

But I'll try to catch up with this program ---

I see the mention that he represented John Mack --- killed a few years ago in London --
hit and run driver. Mack was a fine man -- and his work very intereesting.

:hi:

and I'll have to catch up with this airing down the line ---

(And thanks very much for the heads up on this program.)

http://www.skepticfiles.org/socialis/christic.htm

Since 1980 the Christic Institute has won some of the most celebrated public
interest cases of our time. The Institute's strategy combines public interest
law and progressive political education in a unique model for social reform in
the United States.

We commit our resources to legal investigations carefully selected for their
potential to advance human rights, social justice and personal freedom--at home
and abroad. The Institute is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organization.
We are supported financially by foundations, churches, synagogues and private
citizens. Because we represent our clients without charging legal fees, the
Institute is dependent entirely on the generosity of our supporters.

The Christic Institute's daily work is grounded in the idea of social justice,
an idea that is basic to many religions--old and new. Religious belief is a
powerful force in civil society, shaping the political convictions of millions
of Americans. It can either be manipulated cynically for destructive political
ends or used reverently to build a just society. Ours is a broadly pluralistic
commitment to religious values and their proper place in American society.

The Institute's strategy combines investigation, litigation, education and
organizing. Our goals:

- to represent the victims of injustice before the courts and create a factual
basis for political education.

- to help citizens understand that single cases of injustice are often
symptomatic of deeper threats to the freedom of every United States citizen.

- to help grassroots activists and religious communities organize for
effective political change.

This strategy of public interest law and progressive political action has
proved a winning combination:

- In Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee, the Institute organized a team of lawyers to
represent the family of Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee Nuclear
Corporation who died in 1975. The case, decided in 1984 by the U.S. Supreme
Court in the Institute's favor, established precedents in law that give
citizens and states more power over the hazardous operations of nuclear
corporations. The Institute proved in court that Kerr-McGee was responsible for
Silkwood's contamination by radioactive plutonium, and forced the corporation
to pay more than $1.3 million to her children. The Institute's case files on
were the raw material for the movie Silkwood, directed by Jack Nichols.

- After a death squad organized by the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux
Klan murdered several demonstrators in 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the
Institute won a verdict in federal civil court against five of the assailants
and two police officers. The verdict is one of the few decisions in a Southern
court to date against law enforcement officials accused of collusion with Klan
violence.

- In 1989 Christic Institute South and the American Civil Liberties Union
helped the black voters of Keysville, Georgia, win back the right to elect
their town government, abolished by the town's white minority in 1933. Deprived
of political power, the town's citizens had no sewers, water system, fire
department or schools. Now the town is governed by its own elected council and
mayor.

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There's more,but this gives the idea. Permission for more than the usual 4 paragraphs is given in the source article:

"Permission is granted to reprint any article in the public domain posted on
this conference, provided the Christic Institute is credited and its address
included. For information about subscriptions to Christic Institute
publications, please write us at 1324 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20002. The Christic Institute is a nonprofit organization, and depends
entirely on contributions from its supporters."

In the first hour I learned Sheehan is working for John Edwards this time around.

Hmmm. Interesting.

:hi: