Movement Support Resource Center (MSRC)

The MSRC is envisioned as a neutral place where individuals, movements, and organisations committed to human rights and advocacy work can gather on a regular basis. The MSRC serves to facilitate the exchange of information, experiences, and resources. (Details about forthcoming rights-related events are also available though tools such as CCR's online calendar of events). Users of the MSRC together identify areas where "know-your-rights" training sessions and publications might be useful. In this sense, the MSRC aims to facilitate networking and the regular flow of communication and information between organisations/agencies/constituencies and to explore ways and means of building operational unity.

The MSRC works to enable CCR and fellow civil rights agencies to strategically undertake collaborative initiatives. For example, MSRC has engaged in a campaign for telephone justice in prisons in light of the concern that prisoners in several states "are charged as much as 60% above market rates for collect calls, in a practice that violates federal and state anti-trust laws. Statistically, it can be demonstrated that the majority of prisoners' families are poor, and also that prisoners who maintain close relations with friends and relatives on the outside are less likely to commit further crimes." In addition to the filing of lawsuits against state and private prison systems, strategies for challenging this system include public service advertising, media relations, legislative advocacy, and political organising.

Human Rights.

Founded in 1966, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organisation working to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower economically poor communities and communities of colour, to protect the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to train constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights.