Equal Justice Society e-Newsletter - Issue 8 - Fall 2006

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IN THIS ISSUE

Table of Contents

Letter from the President: Connecting the Dots

Notes on the Right: The Enduring Importance of Strategy

EJS December 8 Fundraiser Features Harriet Tubman Jazz Oratorio

Vote Yes on 89: 'Clean Money' Initiative

First California, Now Michigan: Putting Race up for a Vote

Supreme Court to Revisit Brown v. Board in School Cases

EJS, CTA Look at Unconscious Bias in Schools

U.N. Committee Criticizes Racism in U.S.

New Voting Rights Act Under Attack

A First Look at the Roberts Court

Latina/o Law Student Symposium

Foundations Support EJS Efforts to Balance Racial Justice Debate

Farewell from our Irmas Fellow

Staff News and Notes

 

Newsletter Editors:
Elaine Elinson
Miguel Gavaldón

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EJS December 8 Fundraiser Features Harriet Tubman Jazz Oratorio


By Miguel Gavaldón

Harriet Tubman’s heroic spirit will come alive for one special evening when the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra performs a brilliant new work-in-progress, Bound for the Promised Land. This jazz oratorio composed by Shelby will be performed  at the  2006 EJS Annual Gala on Friday, December 8th at The Regency Center in San Francisco.  For tickets & more information, please visit http://www.harriettubmanjazz.com

Bound for the Promised Land is an original secular oratorio for jazz orchestra, choral and solo vocals inspired by Tubman.  Tubman escaped slavery and risked her life many times over to return to the South and free hundreds more slaves from bondage.

"Moses is coming!" These were the hopeful words whispered by slaves of the 1850s when Harriet Tubman, a 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad, came down from the North to guide slaves to freedom in the dark of the night. During a 10-year span she made 19 trips and escorted over 300 slaves to Canada where they were deemed free. As she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."

Music -- her blues-inflected spirituals sung in coded call and response with other slaves -- provided a critical method of communication along the Underground Railroad.  Music served Tubman as a powerful source of personal strength, making jazz composition an excellent medium for telling her story.

Proceeds from the event  support EJS’ programs to  advance racial justice through law & public policy, communications & the arts, and alliance building.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share an inspiring evening with longtime colleagues and new friends – please visit our event website, http://www.harriettubmanjazz.com or contact Ron Wong & Associates at 415-355-9988 x10 or at TubmanEvent@wongway.net for more information.

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to seeing you on December 8th!

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The Equal Justice Society (www.equaljusticesociety.org) is a national advocacy organization strategically advancing social and racial justice through law and public policy, communications and the arts, and alliance building. Serving as guiding principles for its programmatic goals, we contend that a) the United States has not achieved racial equity; and b) government and other institutions must actively intervene in order to advance racial justice.

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