NCPPF ~ National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom
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COALITION DISBANDED

The board of directors of NCPPF voted to disband the coalition on November 21, 2006. The core materials on the website will remain to help educate people about government use of secret evidence and related bill of rights issues. The website will be located within that of the Defending Dissent Foundation.

For more information about the work of NCPPF
contact www.defendingdissent.org.

WHY WE WERE FOUNDED

NCPPF was a coalition founded in 1997 following the passage of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, after it became clear that the U.S. government use of secret evidence in certain deportation proceedings was codified. We worked also on the so-called ‘material support for terrorism’ issues in which aid to particular designated foreign groups in areas of conflict, even including humanitarian supplies, was outlawed.

MISSION/GOALS

Our mission was to defend the constitutional rights in the United States of political association and due process for immigrants and citizens alike. Our goal was to help change the political climate to support due process and First Amendment rights by facilitating effective legal and political action. As a coalition, we took no position on the correctness of any political cause or conflict so that we were able to advocate for the right of any of them to be fully expressed in the U.S.

MEMBERS and DONATIONS

We were a coalition whose members were organizations. We were an incorporated, 501c3 organization. As the group is now disbanded, we no longer take donations.


FORMER NCPPF MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS:

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
www.adc.org

Arab American Institute (AAI)
www.aaiusa.org

Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC)
www.bordc.org

Building Resistance
www.buildingresistance.org

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
www.ccr-ny.org

Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights (CCDBR)
ccdbr@poboc.com

Coalition for Civil Liberties (CCL)

Committee for International Human Rights Inquiry (CIHRI)
MochCIHRI@aol.com

Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
www.cair-net.org

First Amendment Foundation (FAF)
www.defendingdissent.org/faf/

Irish Northern Aid Committee (INAC)
www.inac.org

Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
mas4freedom@aol.com
www.masnet.org

Muslim Civil Rights Center (MCRC)
www.mcrcnet.org

Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
www.mpac.org

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
www.nacdl.org

National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL)
www.defendingdissent.org/ncarl/

National Committee of Women for Democratic Iran (NCWDI)
http://ncwdi.igc.org/

NLG National Immigration Project
http://www.nationalimmigrationproject.org

National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
www.nlg.org

Sikh Mediawatch And Resource Task Force (SMART)
www.sikhmediawatch.org

Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace

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