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Racial Profiling: Face the Truth
Watch CSPAN Coverage of Senate Hearing on Racial Profiling
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Tue, 2012-04-17 14:42If you weren't able to catch the Senate hearing on racial profiling live. Watch it here on CSPAN!
Tweet the Judiciary Committees in Both House of Congress; Call on them to Support ERPA!
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Mon, 2012-04-16 16:12Support the End Racial Profiling Act? Tweet the judiciary committees in both houses of Congress during National End Racial Profiling Advocacy Week and ask them to support the End Racial Profiling Act. It is truly time to take action on racial profiling. Sample tweets and twitter handles are below.
I Am Not A Stereotype: Working to End Racial Profiling
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Mon, 2012-04-16 15:36At the start of National End Racial Profiling Advocacy Week ACLU Exeuctive Director Anthony Romero blogs about the various communities impacted by racial profiling and the need for federal legislation to ban the practice. Romero will testify about racial profiling tomorrow morning before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Consitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. The hearing gets underway at 10 am.
RWGâs Margaret Huang to Speak Live About Racial Profiling on The Diane Rehm Show
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Fri, 2012-04-13 13:16Margaret Huang, executive director of Rights Working Group, will appear live on-air at 10 a.m. EST, Monday, April 16th, on the Diane Rehm show to talk about racial profiling and the End Racial Profiling Act.
The show will provide a great opportunity to talk about racial profiling and the need for federal action and leadership on racial profiling at the start of National End Racial Profiling Advocacy Week.
The War on Immigrant Women: Part of the Sweeping Crusade Against the Fundamental Rights of All Women
Submitted by Restore Fairness on Mon, 2012-04-09 14:13The DOJ Will Investigate Police Abuse When People Speak Out
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By Angel Fernández-Chavero
Why I am joining âWe Belong Togetherâ in Alabama
Submitted by Restore Fairness on Thu, 2012-03-22 20:25From Alabama: âWe stand in solidarity with our sisters, and all immigrant women around the nationâ
Submitted by Restore Fairness on Thu, 2012-03-22 20:19We are currently in Alabama with the We Belong Together delegation of activists and thought leaders who are working to protect and promote the rights of immigrant women. Read more about our trip here and a statement from the ground below:
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Rights Groups Say New 287(g) Program in TN and SC to Lead to Bias
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Wed, 2012-03-21 13:53FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Keith Rushing, Communications Manager, krushing@Rightsworkinggroup.org, (p) 202.591.3305, (c) 202.557.4291; Tammy Besherse, Staff Attorney, South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center, (803) 779-1113 x103, tammy@scjustice.org; Scott Westbrook Simpson, press secretary, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, (202) 466-2061,
Why the âwar on womenâ is bigger than you think.
Submitted by Restore Fairness on Wed, 2012-03-21 13:17Imagine this scenario: you feel safer staying with your abusive husband than you do calling the cops to report him.
For many immigrant women in Alabama and elsewhere, that scenario is reality. The escalating “war on women” has —- rightly —- sparked broad outrage and urgent action to protect human rights in the United States.
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