Archive for November, 2008

Nov30

Eva Paterson on ABC7′s ‘Profiles of Excellence’

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EJS President Eva Paterson was profiled on the latest installment of the Emmy Award-winning “Profiles of Excellence,” hosted by Carolyn Johnson and produced by the ABC 7 Public Affairs Department to celebrate the cultural and ethnic diversity of the Bay Area. Mimi Kwan and Laura Kutch produce the series.

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Nov27

Transitioning Our Site

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I’m moving our site over to the WordPress platform so you’ll see an incomplete site for a few days.  The rest of our site is still live and you can access our old home page here.  If you’re looking for information on our Dec. 5 gala, click here.

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Nov27

Eva Paterson on Lateefah Simon in the Chronicle

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The San Francisco Chronicle’s Leslie Fulbright covers Lateefah Simon, the new executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, in today’s edition. Leslie quotes Eva Paterson on her meeting Lateefah for the first time: She said the two were at a function meant to unite older leaders of the [...]

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Nov14

Civil Rights Groups Ask California Supreme Court to Stop Prop. 8

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Civil rights groups on Nov. 14 filed a petition (PDF) with the California Supreme Court to stop the enactment of Proposition 8 because it would mandate discrimination against a minority group and did not follow the process required for fundamental revisions to the California Constitution. In the petition, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Mexican [...]

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Nov10

Blog Phenomenon: Social e-Movements

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Join me at “Blog Phenomenon: Social e-Movements,” a panel on Wednesday, December 3, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch (Koret Auditorium) 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. RSVP on our Facebook event listing. Sin Yen Ling at the Asian Law Caucus put together this discussion about the role of blogs in [...]

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Nov07

Colorado Voters Reject Ward Connerly’s Attack on Opportunity

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OCT. 7 UPDATE: We may see the end of the Ward Connerly anti-opportunity initiatives. The Rocky Mountain News reported yesterday that voters in Colorado have rejected Amendment 46, Ward Connerly’s ballot initiative to destroy equal opportunity programs and policies in that state. Coloradans soundly defeated this attack on equal opportunity because they know that thriving [...]

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