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  The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
While many of the charges raised by Christic regarding the La Penca bombing and the private pro-Contra network are documented, some of their assertions regarding the nature and operations of a long-standing conspiracy of high-level CIA, military, and foreign policy advisors inside the executive branch remain undocumented, and in a few instances, are factually inaccurate.
A few weeks before the case was slated for trial, the Christic Institute still had not diagramed the elements of proof, a legal procedure where the text of the complaint is broken down into a list of single elements that have to be proven with either valid documentation, a sworn affidavit, or a live witness.
Christic told the radio audience that it was untrue that LaRouchians had supplied information to the Christic Institute, and blasted a passing reference to this matter in Dennis King's book, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism.
www.publiceye.org /rightwoo/rwooz9-13.html   (1947 words)

  
 Christic Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Christic Institute was a liberal public interest law firm founded in 1980 by Daniel Sheehan, his wife, Sara Nelson and their partner, William J. Davis, who was a Jesuit priest.
The institute first gained national prominence in a successful lawsuit against the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Power Company, representing Karen Silkwood, a battle that was later made into the motion picture, Silkwood.
The Christic Institute respresented two journalists, Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey involving the La Penca bombing in Nicaragua.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christic_Institute   (175 words)

  
 Christic Institute: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The Christic Institute was a liberal[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] public interest law law quick summary:
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Karen silkwood (october 24, 1946 - november 13, 1974) was a labor union activist and chemical technician at the kerr-mcgee plutonium...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christic_institute.htm   (557 words)

  
 435 pm Oct 19, 1990 WHAT IS THE CHRISTIC INSTITUTE? This is an article about the Christic
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.
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.
"Christic" was one of the concepts Teilhard used to describe the spiritual energy in history which, he believed, is drawing creation toward a future unity.
www.skepticfiles.org /socialis/christic.htm   (2761 words)

  
 The Lighthouse Report
The pivotal issue, King ruled, was that the Institute had not produced enough evidence proving the identity of Amac Galil, the alleged bomber, his relation ship to the other defendants, or even that he was at La Penca when the bomb exploded.
King did not allow the Institute to present evidence showing that Galil planted the bomb, including the eyewitness testimony of reporters who were present at the bombing and videotape footage shot by a Costa Rican news cameraman — who died in the explosion.
Hull case and entered sanctions against Daniel Sheehan, the Institute and plaintiffs Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, the Institute took the dismissal and the sanctions on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia.
www.redshift.com /~damason/lhreport/articles/cristic.html   (1568 words)

  
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In the event the Christic Institute was given the runaround by the judicial system, which denied them a jury trial, and with the unprecedented - politically-motivated - removal of their tax-exempt status looming as well as awards of huge costs and fines totalling $1.7 million against them, they may soon lie in financial ruins.
Some sympathisers say that the Institute itself may be partially to blame for casting its net too wide and bringing in so much insufficiently well-prepared evidence along with superfluous and sometimes unsourced conspiracy theory that their case became too cumbersome.
The Christic Institute has a praiseworthy record of legal actions in the public interest: it helped with the successful Karen Silkwood case against Kerr McGee Nuclear Corporation and with a number of important civil rights cases in southern fl communi ties.
www.spunk.org /library/pubs/openeye/sp000941.txt   (1588 words)

  
 Bo Gritz - Third Party Encyclopedia
During this period, Gritz established contacts with the Christic Institute, a leftist group which was then pursuing a lawsuit against the U.S. government over charges of drug trafficking in both Southeast Asia and Central America.
Speakers at that conference included October Surprise researcher Barbara Honegger, Bill Davis of the Christic Institute, conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins, and several others.
This newfound interest in conspiracy theories proved to be as controversial as Gritz's earlier missions searching for POWs, especially after allegations surfaced of anti-Semitism directed at one of the speakers, Eustace Mullins.
www.thirdpartywatch.com /encyclopedia/index.php?title=Bo_Gritz   (922 words)

  
 The New Paradigm Institute is a non-profit public policy institute focusing on the study of alternative worldviews.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The New Paradigm Institute is a non-profit public policy institute focusing on the study of alternative worldviews.
Danny and Sara were the co-founders and the co-directors of the The Christic Institute in Washington, D.C. who were directly responsible for surfacing and prosecuting the unconstitutional conduct of George Bush, Senior and numerous members of his Administration in the Iran/Contra Scandal during the 1980s.
The New Paradigm Institute is working with experts and scholars to elucidate the positions that correspond with each paradigm in each public policy issue area.
www.newparadigminstitute.org   (1080 words)

  
 Article - Southern Changes Digital Archive
Christic asserts that the Secret Team is headed by defendant Theodore Shackley, who served as CIA Deputy Director in charge of worldwide covert operations under the agency's former director, George Bush.
Although the Christic Institute wants to see the members of the Secret Team brought to justice, it also views the lawsuit as an opportunity to inform the American people of the crimes being committed in the name of their country.
Christic conducted the investigation and successful lawsuit against the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant in Oklahoma on behalf of Karen Silkwood, who died mysteriously while trying to go public about her massive exposure to radiation at the plant.
beck.library.emory.edu /southernchanges/article.php?id=sc10-3_010&mdid=sc10-3_001   (3291 words)

  
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The southern division of the Institute one year later moved its headquarters to Carrboro, N.C., and then in 1991 to Durham, N.C. By 1992, it had separated from the Christic Institute to become an independent organization known as the Southern Justice Institute.
Beginning in 1993, the Institute participated in several suits under the auspices of the Committee, focusing principally on child custody and adoption cases aimed at gaining recognition by the courts of children as legal persons with access to the legal process.
It includes both administrative files related to the Institute's relationship with both organizations, and case files, concerning mostly child custody cases, adoption cases, and a paternity suit challenging a lesbian mother's custody of her daughter.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/s/Southern_Justice_Institute   (3953 words)

  
 Christic Institute at AllExperts
The Christic Institute was a liberal public interest law firm founded in 1980 by Daniel Sheehan, his wife, Sara Nelson and their partner, William J. Davis, who was a Jesuit priest.
The institute first gained national prominence in a successful lawsuit against the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Power Company, representing Karen Silkwood, a battle that was later made into the motion picture, Silkwood.
The Christic Institute respresented two journalists, Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey involving the La Penca bombing in Nicaragua.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/christic_institute.htm   (260 words)

  
 Christic Institute. Sheehan Affidavit. 1987-01-31
The Christic Institute was a public-interest litigation and policy center headed by lawyer Daniel Sheehan, his wife Sara Nelson, and William J.
Christic made massive improvements in the affidavit as they became familiar with the historical record by taking depositions, consulting experts, and doing research.
Christic's situation is that of an optimistic Teilhardian liberalism that suddenly discovers the clandestine state, but doesn't know what to do about it.
www.namebase.org /sources/IM.html   (244 words)

  
 Archives: Daniel Sheehan Speech
The Christic Institute ws asked by the church to come to Texas to undertake the first of the criminal defenses for the people from the sanctuary movement.
The Christic Institute went in and undertook the defense of Martha and Tony, helped them organize witnesses and bring them to the bar of justice, and brought them on to testify, and defeated John Hull.
"Christic" is a phrase that comes from Tahard Shardan, who was the Jesuit paleontologist who had discovered Peking Man. He was a theologian in the church, and this phrase has to do with the bonding force that bonds everything together in harmony in the universe.
www.apfn.net /dcia/sheehan.html   (14133 words)

  
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The institute's case is headed by Daniel Sheehan, once an attorney for the New York Times, who won the Karen Silkwood case.
The thesis of the Christics is that for a quarter of a century, members of the U.S. military and the CIA have wagesd secret wars, trafficked in drugs, stolen from the government and subverted the will of Congress and the American people.
They are pursuing, as the Christic Institute suit charges, "a secret team, guilty of subverting the will the the Constitution, the Congress and the American people.
www.apfn.net /dcia/fitz.html   (2266 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: James Gritz
During this period, Gritz established contacts with the Christic Institute, a leftist group which was then pursuing a lawsuit against the U.S. government over charges of drug trafficking in both Southeast Asia and Central America.
Speakers at that conference included October Surprise researcher Barbara Honegger, Bill Davis of the Christic Institute, conspiracy theorist Eustace Mullins, and several others.
This newfound interest in conspiracy theories proved to be as controversial as Gritz's earlier missions searching for POWs, especially after allegations surfaced of anti-Semitism directed at one of the speakers, Eustace Mullins.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-Gritz   (1075 words)

  
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Christic Institute General Counsel Daniel P. Sheehan called the ruling ``an act of judicial hypocrisy of the highest order,'' and said that the Institute will ask for a review of the three-judge ruling by all twelve judges of the 11th Circuit.
If the Fed succeeds in delivering its death blow against the Christic Institute, then another obstacle will have been removed from the path of its totalitarian steam roller which was designed to crush our freedom and consequently, our children's freedom, once and for all.
Tell the Christic Institute that you support their efforts to defend our laws and the Constitution upon which they rest.
www.holman.net /ufo/archives/research/newfiles2sort/conspire/christic.txt   (4951 words)

  
 Brought to Light - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Both are based on material from lawsuits filed by the Christic Institute against the US Government.
The two stories are Shadowplay: The Secret Team by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, and Flashpoint: The LA Penca Bombing by Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan.
Flashpoint: The LA Penca Bombing is written by Christic Institute members Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brought_to_Light   (331 words)

  
 Christic Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The Christic Institute was a liberal public interest law firm founded in 1980 by Daniel Sheehan his wife Sara and their partner William J. Davis who a Jesuit priest.
The institute first gained national prominence in successful lawsuit against the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Power representing Karen Silkwood a battle that was later made the motion picture Silkwood.
The law firm's most high-profile case was involvement in suing CIA officials and ex-officials it claimed were involved in the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid- 1980s.
www.freeglossary.com /Christic_Institute   (453 words)

  
 Daniel P. Sheehan - The Education Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The Christic Institute moved to Los Angeles and in 1995 Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Sheehan as director of the “Strategic Initiative to Identify the New Global Paradigm”.
The main objective of the Christic Institute was to unite Christians, Jews and other religious Americans on an effective and practical platform for political change.
Since Sheehan, the Christic Institute, Avirgan, and Honey chose not to abandon this case, the district court properly awarded attorney's fees and costs to the appellees.
educationforum.ipbhost.com /index.php?showtopic=5551   (7465 words)

  
 [CTRL] (1) Chronology of the Dulles-Nixon-Bush "Octopus"
The Christic Institute ws asked by the church to come to Texas to undertake the first of the criminal defenses for the people from the sanctuary movement.
Given the resources that we had at the Christic Institute, the experience that we had in doing the Karen Silkwood case, prosecuting the Klan and doing the Three Mile Island case, and others, we decided to devote our resources, time, and energy to making this happen.
The Christic Institute went in and undertook the defense of Martha and Tony, helped them organize witnesses and bring them to the bar of justice, and brought them on to testify, and defeated John Hull.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg28823.html   (6532 words)

  
 Accuracy In Media - AIM Report
The Christic Institute has raised millions to fund its smear campaign and legal case against 29 individuals whom it alleges constitute a "secret team" that has run U.S. foreign policy and carried out covert operations dating back to the Vietnam War.
With the Christie Institute case reduced to rubble by Judge King, PBS decided the time was ripe for another rehash of the theme that any covert intelligence activity, whether official or private, is evil and a threat to our system of government.
He was also named as one of the defendants in the Christic Institute's discredited suit, and he may eventually be reimbursed for the large legal expenses incurred in defending against that.
www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1989/02b.html   (4034 words)

  
 Article - Southern Changes Digital Archive
In a funding appeal mailed to supporters shortly after the decision, the Christic Institute suggested that political motives were behind the abrupt dismissal of their case.
Corn therefore charged that the Christic Institute, "in pursuit of its educational and political mission, is offering this version of history to the public at $15 a copy" and is therefore placing a historically "problematic document" in the hands of its constituency.
But Christic's focus on the Secret Team should not be taken to suggest that the shadow consists solely of a radical fringe of rogue operative I perpetuating such countersubversion outside of the government and outside of the law.
beck.library.emory.edu /southernchanges/article.php?id=sc10-5_012&mdid=sc10-5_001   (1010 words)

  
 Christic Institute & TLPJ
It is important to note that, with the Christic Institute's admitted financial difficulty, this case appears to be just the type for which the supersedeas is designed--"the financial distress of the debtor puts the judgment creditor in peril if it waits for the appeal to take its course." See Olympia Equipment Leasing Co. v.
Furthermore, while the Institute argues that it is in a precarious financial position, its disclosures reveal that they have assets sufficient to secure the bond and pay the expenses of the bond.
Moreover, because it acted through its officers, the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, the Institute must be held accountable for its agents' neglect of their continuing duty under all three authorities to avoid this frivolous lawsuit.
www.geocities.com /iran_contra_christic_institute/christictlpj.html   (17277 words)

  
 whiteout review
The Christic Institute had deposed Robert Owen on behalf of Avirgan and Honey and had received the memos as part of that deposition.
The Christic Institute as well as CISPES were grass roots organization, a fact missed or dismissed by the airheads and wannabees like former Nation columnist David Corn and many others in the alternative press.
The Christic Institute too had nothing to hide; the press and the courts had to do that for them.
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 Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
She has been a member of the California Commission on the Status of Women, the National Chair of the Labor Task Force of the National Organization for Women, she launched the national Karen Silkwood Project and became the Executive Director of the Karen Silkwood Fund.
She was the Founder and Executive Director of the Christic Institute in Washington, DC, the Executive Director of the State of the World Forum in 1999, an organization born of the Gorbachev Foundation.
Nelson is currently the Executive Director of the Romero Institute, a non profit organization concerned with law, human rights and spiritual values, the Director and Co-Founder of the ECO Mary project and the Executive Director of the New Paradigm Institute.
www.newparadigminstitute.org /Bios.html   (304 words)

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