Long Beach Police Department's Troubling Use of TigerText Application
ACLU-SC | indybay.org | 2018-09-22
The Southern California ACLU sent this letter to the Long Beach police department chief and Long Beach City Attorney about LBPD's use of self-erasing messaging app TigerText…
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NAACP PARTNERS WITH 13 LEADING SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS TO LAUNCH DIGITAL AD IN OPPOSITION TO SUPREME COURT NOMINEE, BRETT KAVANAUGH
Rachel Johnson | naacp.org | 2018-09-21
John Legend issues a Call to Action in the new campaign urging the public to #StopKavanaugh BALTIMORE (September 21, 2018) — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost civil rights organization joined forces with 13 leading social justice organizations to release a Call to Action issued by singer-songwriter and […] | The post NAACP PARTNERS WITH 13 LEADING SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIO…
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A Red State Victory for Voting Rights
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-09-21
This technical snafu–where one state agency has not been sharing its latest information with another; in this case, the driver bureau not sharing the latest address information with statewide election officials–is not simply bureaucratic bungling. | It is willfully turning what should be a simple matter–transferring data–into a potential voter suppression tactic. That's because it could complicate the process for hundreds of thousands of people in states with close races, starting with U.S. Senate contests. | Slightly different variations of this problem have surfaced in Missouri and Arizona. | In Arizona, civil rights groups have been frustrated by its state Motor Vehicle Division refusal to forwarded address changes for an estimated 384,000 people to election offices. That number comes from people who did not check a box on a form agreeing to forward the change of address information, a Secretary of State spokesman…
truthdig.com/articles/a-red-state-victory-for-voting-rights/
Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's Shelters Among $226 Million Diverted to Pay for Child Detention
Julia Conley | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-21
Yahoo News reported that in order to continue detaining more than 13,000 children currently in the custody of the ORR, the Health and Human Services Secretary is proposing that up to $266 million be taken from other government health programs. | The post Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's Shelters Among $226 Million Diverted to Pay for Child Detention appeared first on MintPress News.
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Michael Moore: Are We Going to Be Like the "Good Germans" Who Let Hitler Rise to Power?
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-21
In his new documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9," filmmaker Michael Moore interviews the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, who describes President Trump's policy of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border and the large-scale detention of immigrant children as a "crime against humanity." Moore also looks at the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany and compares it to the rise of Trump in the United States.
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/21/michael_moore_are_we_going_to
New Senate Bill Would Allow Indefinite Detention of Migrant Families
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2018-09-21
Advocates for asylum seekers are lining up against the latest effort to expand detention of migrant children, as congressional Republicans continue searching for a legislative "solution" to the intensified family separation crisis resulting from the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policies. | Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican and chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would bolster border security and help the Trump administration to circumvent the 1997 settlement in the major case on immigrant detention known as Flores v. Reno, which has generally prevented the government from detaining children who arrived with their parents longer than 20 days. | The bill is known as the FAMILIES Act. It would embrace President Trump's plan to expand jails for migrant families and allow the indefinite detention of children with their parents — all,…
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2 Native American Teens Were Reported to Police for Joining a Campus Tour. Now We're Stepping In
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-20
We're demanding that Colorado State University change policing practices after the racial profiling of two young Native-American teenagers. | Last spring, Kanewakeron Thomas Gray and Skanahwati Lloyd Gray, two Native American brothers, drove from their home in New Mexico to Colorado State University, excited to tour the college where they hoped to enroll. Their excitement and hopes soon turned to something else. A white parent on the tour called the CSU police department to repor…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-inequality-education/2-native-american-teens-were-reported-police
Recap: NAACP National Call to Action Tele-Townhall
Regan Farley | naacp.org | 2018-09-20
Thousands of concerned Americans participated in the NAACP National Call to Action on September 19. Participants heard from NAACP leaders on how they can help push back […] | The post Recap: NAACP National Call to Action Tele-Townhall appeared first on NAACP.
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American Prison: Shane Bauer Traces History of U.S. For-Profit Prisons from Slavery to Today
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-20
"American Prison." That's the name of the new book by award-winning journalist Shane Bauer, who dives deep into the profit-earning motives of U.S. prisons, from convict labor in colonial-era settlements all the way to present-day mass incarceration, including Bauer's own stint as an undercover prison guard at the privately owned Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. We speak with Shane Bauer in New York City.
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/20/american_prison_shane_bauer_traces_history
'Want more shootings? Listen to the ACLU, Black Lives Matter & Antifa' — Jeff Sessions tells cops
RT | rt.com | 2018-09-20
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Chicago officers that the anti-police rhetoric of the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, and Antifa is partly responsible for the city's spiralling murder rate.
rt.com/usa/438927-sessions-chicago-murder-aclu/
I Came to the U.S. Fleeing Horrific Abuse in My Home Country. Jeff Sessions Wants to Send People Like Me Back
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-19
People like me come from countries where the justice system does not protect women and girls. To deny us refuge says our lives mean nothing. | I don't have a lot of memories of my childhood that don't involve violence. My father beat my mother up all the time in our hometown a few hours outside of Mexico City. He hit her with his hands and with any object he could find. Several times he used a knife to cut her. I think my father's sexual abuse of me started when I was 4 or 5. | I lived in terror of this man who claimed my body as his and thought of me as disposable. He could hit me or touch my most private parts…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/deportation-and-due-process/i-came-us-fleeing-horrific-abuse-my-home-country
New Bill Would Ensure No Woman Is Forced to Give Birth in Chains
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-19
The practice of shackling pregnant women who are incarcerated is as shocking as it is widespread. | When a woman becomes pregnant, the nature of her health care by necessity becomes tailored to her being pregnant. This is no less true when a pregnant woman is incarcerated. But corrections officials across the nation would often rather ignore the fact and needs of incarcerated pregnant women than address their health care needs or even their basic rights. For example, pregnant prisoners are often shackled during childbirth in this country as well as put in solitary confinement, practices that are as shocking as th…
aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/women-prison/new-bill-would-ensure-no-woman-forced-give-birth-chains
How Facebook Is Giving Sex Discrimination in Employment Ads a New Life
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-18
We're taking on Facebook and 10 companies for using the social platform to direct job ads toward men, excluding others. | In 1967, the newly formed National Organization for Women staged a weeklong protest of The New York Times and other newspapers. Their demonstration targeted the long-standing practice of printing classified listings in two separate columns: "Help wanted: Male" and "Help wanted: Female," which of course resulted in the exclusion of women from high-paying jobs and indust…
aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/womens-rights-workplace/how-facebook-giving-sex-discrimination-employment-ads-new
In Guatemala, a Tireless Search for Parents Separated From Their Children
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-18
Working with the ACLU, human rights defenders look for missing parents in villages and remote regions of the country. | When Lesly Tayes, a Guatemala City-based tax lawyer, first saw images of children locked in cages inside immigration detention facilities near the southern U.S. border, she was stunned. "It made me very upset and sad," she said. "Later I learned that Guatemala had the highest number of separated families and I felt even worse. I wanted to help." Within weeks, she'd have her chance. | Earlier this summer, the ACLU sued the Trump administration over its policy of separating parents from their chi…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/deportation-and-due-process/guatemala-tireless-search-parents-separated-their
Blavity Op-Ed: Millennials Can Be The Power Bloc In November Elections — If We Choose To Be
Juliana Bolden | naacp.org | 2018-09-18
NAACP Youth and College Division leader Tiffany Dena Loftin penned a piece for Blavity the importance of millennial voters in the upcoming midterm elections: "School is back in session for the NAACP's Youth and College Division, members are entering the school year after a tough and emotional summer. While young folks should have been enjoying summer jobs […] | The post Blavity Op-Ed: Millennials Can Be The Power Bloc In November Elections — If We Choose To Be appeared first on
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Immigrants Seeking Shelter After Hurricane Florence Fear Deportation as FEMA Shifts Funds to ICE
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-18
While the worst of Hurricane Florence is over, officials say the most dangerous flooding is yet to come for residents of the Carolinas and Virginia, as thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes and hundreds more have sought rescue from rising floodwaters. But undocumented immigrants have expressed concern they will encounter immigration enforcement if they seek help. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA's budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations. We speak with Laura Garduño García, a DACA recipient and Greensboro-based organizer with Siembra N…
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/18/immigrants_seeking_shelter_after_hurricane_florence
ACLU suing Facebook after 'women excluded' from seeing certain job ads on platform
RT | rt.com | 2018-09-18
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social media giant of gender discrimination in job advertisements on its platform.
rt.com/usa/438762-facebook-gender-discrimination-ads/
NAACP to Host National Call to Action Tele-Townhall Conference Call on Wednesday
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-09-17
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17, 2018 CONTACTS: NAACP@sunshinesachs.com and Malik Russell: mrussell@naacpnet.org
Thousands to discuss social and political climate for Blacks in America
WASHINGTON (September 17, 2018) — With less than 50 days to the critical midterm elections, the NAACP will be holding a national call to action Tele-Townhall conference call on Wednesday, […] | The post NAACP to Host National Call to Action Tele-Townhall Conference Call on Wednesday appe…
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NAACP President to Commemorate African Maafa
Juliana Bolden | naacp.org | 2018-09-17
Event to honor ancestors and mark African holocaust in Brooklyn, NY Baltimore, MD — On Tuesday, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson will speak at the 24th Commemoration of The Maafa at the St. Paul Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York at 7pm EST. President Johnson will address the relevance of the African Maafa and the current […] | The post NAACP President to Commemorate African Maafa appeared first on NAACP.
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Statement: Kavanaugh Allegations Impact Character and Fitness to Serve on Supreme Court
Juliana Bolden | naacp.org | 2018-09-16
Washington, D.C. — NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson issued the following statement on the recent allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: "For far too long we've seen the majority leadership in Congress pander to the dangerous decisions of the Trump Administration, and the recent allegations against Brett Kavanaugh have only confirmed that enough […] | The post Statement: Kavanaugh Allegations Impact Character and Fitness…
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NAACP Provides Disaster Management Resources in the Wake of Hurricane Florence
Vanessa Mbonu@naacpnet | naacp.org | 2018-09-15
NAACP, the nation's foremost civil rights organization, released the following statement regarding Hurricane Florence: "On Friday, Hurricane Florence, deemed by meteorologists to be a beast of a storm, made landfall in North Carolina, and it has already proved to be fatal," said Jacqui Patterson, Senior Director, NAACP Environmental Climate and Justice Program. "Although […] | The post NAACP Provides Disaster Management Resources in the Wake of Hurricane Florence appeared first on
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NAACP's Marvin Owens to Talk Economics, Environmental Justice at CBC
Juliana Bolden | naacp.org | 2018-09-14
NAACP Senior Director of Economic Programs Marvin Owens to Discuss Intersection of Economics and Environmental Justice during Congressional Black Caucus Braintrust Washington, D.C. — NAACP Senior Director of Economic Programs Marvin Owens will discuss the intersection of economics and environmental justice during the 48th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference. The Environmental Justice Braintrust will focus on […] | The post NAACP's Marvin Owens to Talk Economics, Environmental Justice at CBC…
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The Movement Against Prison Abuse–From the Inside
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2018-08-29
Janos Marton of the ACLU's Smart Justice program talks about a growing public awareness of the rampant inequality perpetuated by prisons, jails, arrests, and prosecutions, and what people on the outside can do.
progressive.org/dispatches/janos-marton-prisons-180829/