UPDATE JUNE 28: The Supreme Court today handed down its decision on the Seattle and Louisville schools cases. Read our statement here. This term, the Supreme Court faces a question that it set itself on a collision course with three decades ago.[1] The Court will decide whether school districts in Seattle and Louisville can consider [...]
Recently Eva Paterson asked about the relationship between the civil rights and the war in Iraq. I began to think about the complex relationship between Latinos, Military and Citizenship. Military recruiters target Latino neighborhoods and schools. This is essentially a poverty and race draft, and is definitely a civil rights issue. There are troubling reports [...]
Unflagging Courage By Elaine ElinsonLos Angeles Daily JournalJune 14, 2007 Charlotte Gabrielli was 9 years old in 1936, when she was suspended from Fremont Elementary School in Sacramento. The bright little girl with brunette sausage curls and a sweet smile was not suspended for misbehaving; in fact, she was trying to obey her parents’ instructions. [...]
Working Assets Wireless congratulates members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for voting to approve legislation restoring habeas corpus by passing the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act. Working Assets (workingassetswireless.com) presented senators with petitions representing more than 4,000 lawyers, retired prosecutors and other members of the legal community urging the Senate to restore the constitutional writ of [...]
When Gary Sheffield recently made comments about MLB teams preferring players from Latin America to African Americans because the Latinos are seen as being less likely to stand up for themselves, many took it to be insulting to both Latinos and African Americans. However, King Kaufman has pointed out in his that Sheffield’s comments should [...]
UPDATE 6/26: Jeremiah Owyang just emailed me about a post on feministing.com on Jeremy Bearer-Friend’s thoughts below. I was in Los Angeles yesterday sitting in a hotel bearing Paris Hilton’s family name (getting ready to deliver an e-advocacy workshop for the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network) when I received a call from Rex Huppke at the [...]