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Nov20

UC Fee Hike Endangers Our Future, EJS Stands With Protesters

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Photo by kendrak from Flickr used under Creative Commons license The Equal Justice Society stands in solidarity with the thousands of student protesters opposing the 32 percent fee hike recently adopted by the University of California Board of Regents. (Follow the protest on Twitter @ucbprotest and #ucstrike) This tuition hike will bring the total cost [...]

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Oct28

President Obama Signs Bill Establishing Port Chicago, Site of Largest World War II Homefront Disaster, as Full Unit of National Park System

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President Obama today signed legislation that will incorporate Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial as a full and permanent unit of our National Park System – enhancing the ability of the site to receive needed federal funding to share the important story of Port Chicago with the public. Five years ago at its inaugural gala, [...]

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Oct20

EJS Screens Stirring Films on Incarceration and Family Detention

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On Wednesday, October 14, more than 100 EJS members and friends from around the Bay Area joined us at the Sundance Kabuki Theater for the screening of two films about contemporary criminal justice issues. The screenings were spearheaded by EJS staffers Sara Jackson and Miguel Gavaldón. The Trust (http://www.trustcommunity.org), currently in post-production, takes a personal [...]

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Oct05

EJS Accepting Applications for 2010-2011 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship

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UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to Jan. 11, 2010. The Equal Justice Society is now accepting applications for its 2010-2011 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship, named after the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench. Applicants for the one-year paid fellowship should be recent law school graduates with up [...]

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Aug06

Sotomayor Confirmation: ‘Momentous Step Forward for the Court and Our Country’

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The Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor this afternoon, 68-31, making her the 111th Supreme Court Justice, only the third female Justice, and the first Latina to serve on our nation’s highest court. As a prosecutor, litigator, and trial and appellate judge, Judge Sotomayor brings more federal judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any justice [...]

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Jul22

EJS Co-Presents Unconscious Bias Panel at Writers Guild in LA, Introduction by Norman Lear

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The Equal Justice Society will co-present in late-September a thought-provoking discussion on unconscious bias offering insights that will challenge and inspire new ideas in developing and producing programming that reflects the true diversity of our rapidly changing society. EJS joins the Writers Guild of America West, Screen Actors Guild, Americans for American Values and the [...]

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Jul15

Press Conference and Rally for the People’s Budget Fix

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Our friends at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights have organized a rally to propose criminal justice reforms to help solve California’s budget crisis and we encourage you to attend! The rally is at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 30, at the Elihu M. Harris State Building, 1515 Clay St., in Oakland, near the [...]

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Jun29

Ricci Decision Threatens Constitutional Values of Equal Justice for All

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In a 5 to 4 decision in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the city of New Haven, Connecticut violated Title VII when it declined to make promotions in the fire department on the basis of a test that disproportionately screened out minority candidates. The Equal Justice Society [...]

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