Five Ways the Trump Administration Has Attacked the U.N. and International Human Rights Bodies
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-24
Trump's assault on international cooperation and human rights is ultimately self-defeating. His U.N. address Tuesday will likely be more of the same. | On Tuesday, President Trump will make his second appearance at the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly, where he will reportedly use the international spotlight to deliver a speech that centers on favoring U.S. "sovereignty" over our commitments to the global community. | The world has now witnessed the human costs of Trump…
aclu.org/blog/human-rights/five-ways-trump-administration-has-attacked-un-and-international-human-rights

Why the NAACP and His Friends at the Top Can't Make Ben Jealous the Next Maryland Governor
Jon Jeter | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-24
Ben Jealous' abysmal campaign reflects the inertia of an African-American polity that was on the move only a generation ago and beginning to restructure central cities that were wholly unresponsive to people of color. | The post Why the NAACP and His Friends at the Top Can't Make Ben Jealous the Next Maryland Governor appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/naacp-friends-top-cant-make-ben-jealous-next-maryland-governor/249744/

Chechnya Forms Concentration Camps for Gays
Gwendolyn Smith, The New Civil Rights Movement | alternet.org | 2018-09-24
Chechnya has begun the torture of LGBTQ people, creating the first concentration camps in Europe since World War II. | According to a report in The Week, 100 gay men were detained — and three killed — in concentration camps in the last week. Those detained in the camps are forced to agree to leave Chechnya.
alternet.org/chechnya-forms-concentration-camps-gays

Long Beach Police Department's Troubling Use of TigerText Application
ACLU-SC | indybay.org | 2018-09-24
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…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/21/18817685.php

76 Reasons To Oppose The Nomination Of Brett Kavanaugh
Impeach Kavanaugh | indybay.org | 2018-09-24
100 civil rights groups, 25 major enviornmental groups, hundreds of women's groups, Native American tribes, civil libertarians, abolitionists, | animal rights coalitions, peace networks, etc oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court…
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/23/18817725.php

Lindsey Graham Says He's Made Up His Mind to Vote for Kavanaugh Regardless of Christine Blasey Ford Allegations
Gwendolyn Smith, The New Civil Rights Movement | alternet.org | 2018-09-23
It's all happening. | Lindsey Graham has decided in advance of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony that he will not change his mind on Kavanaugh, no matter what she brings to the table. On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Graham laid out his opinion on the Ford accusation, saying "you can't bring it in a criminal court, you would never sue civilly, you couldn't even get a warrant. What am I supposed to do? Go ahead and ruin this guy's. . .
alternet.org/lindsey-graham-says-hes-made-his-mind-vote-kavanaugh-regardless-christine-blasey-ford-allegations

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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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

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.
naacp.org/latest/recap-naacp-national-call-action-tele-townhall/

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/

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

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

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 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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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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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…
naacp.org/latest/presidents-statement-allegations-brett-kavanaugh-allegations-impact-character-fitness-serve-supreme-court/

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…
naacp.org/latest/marvin-owens-economics-environmental-cbc/

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/