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Bay
Area Launch of Book on Supreme Court's
Erosion of Our Rights and Its Impact on Real People
Tuesday,
April 18, 2006 (7:30 pm - 9 pm)
Black Oak Books
1491 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
Map = http://tinyurl.com/p3kqz
The
event is free and refreshements will be available.
Please RSVP on our evite at http://tinyurl.com/qpb6o
or to kkamisugi@equaljusticesociety.org.
The
National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights and the Equal Justice
Society will host a book discussion on "Awakening from the
Dream: Civil Rights under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal
Justice".
Edited
by Denise C. Morgan, Rachel D. Godsil and Joy Moses, with a forward
by Erwin Chemerinsky, the book examines the Supreme Court's methodical
dismantling of federal laws that advance inclusion, equal membership,
political participation, and economic mobility in our diverse
community. This important book weaves the plight of real people
with incisive legal essays documenting the devastating impact
of the Supreme Court's federalism revolution on our society.
Bill
Lann Lee, Partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, and
former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and Assistant
Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will speak.
Kimberly
Thomas Rapp, Director of Law and Public Policy of the Equal Justice
Society, will moderate the reading.
MORE
ON THE BOOK -- Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege
and the New Struggle for Equal Justice exposes the Supreme Court’s
methodical dismantling of federal laws that advance inclusion,
equal membership, political participation, and economic mobility
in our diverse national community. The ongoing Federalism Revolution
has crippled Congress’s legislative powers and made it difficult
for individuals to bring suit to enforce their civil rights. Activists,
law professors, public interest lawyers, and students discuss
some of the Americans who have been deprived of justice by this
rollback, making vivid the impact of the increasingly right-wing
federal judiciary.
Visit
http://www.cap-press.com/books/1415
to order the book if you can't make the event.
ABOUT
NCRCR -- The National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights and over
110 partner organizations are working together make sure that
all Americans work to protect fairness, our freedoms and our rights.
http://www.rollbackcampaign.org
ABOUT
EJS -- The Equal Justice Society is a national organization of
scholars, advocates and concerned individuals advancing creative
legal strategies and public policy for enduring social change.
http://www.equaljusticesociety.org
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THE
EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY
Invites
you to join us at
our holiday reception in honor of
THE
HONORABLE DIANNE FEINSTEIN
UNITED STATES SENATOR
THE
HONORABLE BARBARA BOXER
UNITED STATES SENATOR
THE
LATE HONORABLE CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY
JUDGE, U.S. DISTRICT COURT,
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Friday,
December 2, 2005
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The City Club
155 Sansome Street, 10th Floor
San Francisco Financial District
With
remarks by Prof. Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
And Chairman, EJS Board of Directors
Music
by Marcus Shelby Trio
Tickets
are $125
(Non-profit and community rates available)
RSVP to Swati Kapadia at 415-288-8702 or
skapadia@equaljusticesociety.org
For
more information on the Equal Justice Society,
Visit www.equaljusticesociety.org.
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July
27 Briefing and Reception for Summer Associates & Law Students:
"The Federal Courts, Public Opinion and the Media"
The
Equal Justice Society will host a briefing and reception for summer
associates and law students on Wednesday, July 27, from 5 p.m.
to
8 p.m. at The City Club of San Francisco, 115 Sansome St., 11th
Floor.
The
event will feature an informative dialogue with national pollster
David Mermin, Partner, of Lake, Snell, Perry, Mermin & Associates,
and veteran legal affairs reporter Bob Egelko of the San Francisco
Chronicle about our Federal courts and the judicial selection
process. Entrance is free to summer associates and law students.
As
progressive lawyers, we cannot afford to work in a vacuum. We
need to
know what the American public is thinking, and how the media is
portraying major legal issues, including the role of the federal
courts.You might be surprised to learn that recent polling showed
that many Americans think there are nineteen Justices on the U.S.
Supreme Court and that most Americans have no idea who Antonin
Scalia is!
Please
RSVP by Wednesday, July 20, to Swati Kapadia at 415-288-8700
or skapadia@equaljusticesociety.org.
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MULTI-CULTURAL
BAR ALLIANCE
OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Cordially
Invites You To Our
Annual Networking Reception
Complimentary light dinner!
Special
Guest:
Eva
Paterson
President, Equal Justice Society
Thursday,
July 14, 2005
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Taipan Restaurant
330 South Hope Street, Second Floor
(Located in the Wells Fargo Center Building)
Telephone: (213) 626-6688
Three Hours of Parking Validated
Admission
is free for MCBA members and their guests.
Please join us and bring all of your friends and colleagues.
For additional information, or to RSVP,
Please contact Chirag Shah, 818-501-8030 or chirag.shah5@gte.net.
MULTI-CULTURAL BAR ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Asian Pacific American Bar Association * Asian Pacific
American Women Lawyers Alliance * Black Women Lawyers
Association of Los Angeles * Italian-American Lawyers
Association * Japanese American Bar Association * John
M. Langston Bar Association * Korean American Bar Association
* LACBA Barristers * Latina Lawyers Bar Association
* Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association * Mexican American
Bar Association * Philippine American Bar Association
* South Asian Bar Association of Southern California
* Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association *
Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
***
First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak
out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the
Communists and I did not speak out because I was not
a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak
out for me.
[1945, Pastor Martin Niemöller]
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The Society of American Law
Teachers and
the Equal
Justice Society
invite you
to a welcome reception
followed
by an open discussion on the theme:
"Strategic
Scholarship: Opportunities and Obstacles for Progressive Faculty"
Wednesday,
January 5, 2005
6:00 - 8:00
P.M.
The Hotel
Nikko, 25th Floor
Bay View
Room
The Bay View
Room on the 25th Floor of the Nikko Hotel is the site for this annual gathering of veterans
and newcomers. Light refreshments will be provided for guests,
and alcoholic beverages will be available for
purchase.
There will be opportunities for newer faculty to talk with members of these two important,
activist organizations and to meet other novice teachers.
Experienced
faculty will have the chance to see old friends and to reach out to new ones. At 6:30,
an informal panel discussion will begin. Panelists will address the commonly
felt conflict between institutional
demands (particularly
in the choices of what to write about, where to publish, or whether to work
outside traditional civil rights fields) and personal progressive agendas.
The panel
will also touch on the political context, with a focus on both how the Right has systematically
created a well-funded scholarship network and how progressives
can start to build a more cohesive structure of their own. Everyone is encouraged
to join in the discussion.
Panelists:
* José
Roberto Juarez, Jr,
Professor of Law, St. Mary's University
School of
Law/SALT Co-President
* Marcia
Henry, Senior Attorney/Legal Editor,
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
* Moderated
by Margaret Russell, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
For more
information on this event:
Rico Oyola,
Equal Justice Society
415-288-8707,
royola@equaljusticesociety.org
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The American
Constitution Society, Equal Justice Society and the Bar Association of San
Francisco present:
A RECEPTION
FEATURING REMARKS BY:
LONI HANCOCK,
GAVIN NEWSOM
AND PAUL M. SMITH
Thursday,
January 6, 2005
5:00 p.m.
to 7:00 p.m.
San Francisco
War Memorial and
Performing Arts Center
This jointly
sponsored reception will feature remarks by:
LONI HANCOCK,
California
State Assemblymember, District 14;
GAVIN NEWSOM,
Mayor of
San Francisco;
and
PAUL M. SMITH,
Counsel in
Lawrence v. Texas,
and Member,
ACS Board of Directors
January 6,
2005, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Green Room,
Second Floor of the Veterans Building
San Francisco
War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
401 Van Ness
Avenue
San Francisco,
California
This event
is free and open to the public. Please RSVP and direct questions to Joe L. Lucero,
Director of Development, Equal Justice Society, jlucero@equaljusticesociety.org,
or by phone to
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Host Committee
Jennifer Bell and
William C. McNeill III
Gary Blasi
Julian Bond
Karen Brown
Janet Carter and
Robert Allen
Beryl Crumpton
Belva Davis
Brenda Drake
Kate Dumbleton
Troy Duster
Dorothy Ehrlich and
Gary Sowards
Elaine Elinson and
Rene CiriaCruz
Deborah Gee
Pat Guthrie and
Beverly Tucker
Loni Hancock and
Tom Bates
Kamala Harris
Aileen Clarke Hernandez
James C. Hormel and
Timothy C. Wu
Norman Lear
Joe Lucero and
Vince Calcagno
Reverend Diana McDaniel
Tom Meyer
Dale Minami
Jeannie Oakes
LaDene Otsuki and
Jörg Rupf
Barbara Rodgers
Margaret Russell and
Lee Halterman
Demetrius Shelton
Roberto Vargas and
Rebecca Mendoza
Marilyn Waller and
Doron Weinberg
Cheryl Ward
Dezie Woods Jones |
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December 8, 2004 | The Palace Hotel, San Francisco
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Eva Paterson
Equal Justice Society
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Marcus Shelby
'Port Chicago' Composer
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Prof. Charles Ogletree
Event Emcee |
Thank you for your tremendous support. The event was a
great success!
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In 1944, a tragic explosion at the munitions loading dock at Port Chicago,
just north of San Francisco, killed more than 320
sailors, most of them African American, and injured
hundreds more. The surviving men refused to load munitions
ships until safety conditions were improved. Fifty
sailors were court-martialed for mutiny, imprisoned
and dishonorably discharged.
Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund came to their defense
– and the movement continues to honor these
heroic black servicemen whose courageous actions ultimately
led to the desegregation of the U.S. Navy.
Recent headlines about 18 men and women in the U.S. Army in Iraq who
refused to deliver supplies with sub-standard, dangerous
equipment along a perilous route remind us how relevant
the Port Chicago mutiny is in our own times.
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We invite you to join us in celebrating the courage of these servicemen
and women with an inspiring confluence of civil rights
and art, Port Chicago: Suite for Jazz Orchestra.
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Past Event : Equal Justice Society Brownbag Lunch
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'Same Sex Marriage and the Law: Time For Change' |
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Monday, October 4, 2004
12:00 - 1:30pm
Morrison & Foerster
425 Market Street
San Francisco
With Panelists:
James Brosnahan, Partner,
Morrison & Foerster
Kate Kendell, Executive Director, National Center
for Lesbian Rights
Margaret Russell, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
School of Law
Tobias Wolff, Professor of Law, U.C. Davis School
of Law
This event is free and open
to the public. Please RSVP to Swati Kapadia at (415) 288-8702
or skapadia@equaljusticesociety.org.
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Over the Valentine's Day
weekend, same sex couples were able to marry and embrace
an equality that many straight people take for granted.
For several glorious weeks, same sex couples from around
the world flocked to San Francisco. We were all jubilant
to be in the forefront of such a revolutionary movement.
Just a few months later, the California Supreme Court invalidated
these marriages. Central to their decision was the notion
that Mayor Newsom had exceeded his executive authority in
overriding state law.
Our distinguished panelists
have played important legal, educational and organizing
roles in the movement for same sex marriage, and we look
forward to sharing their insights and experiences with you.
When a Mayor looks at a law that clearly discriminates against
the citizens he is honor-bound to serve, may he act to right
that wrong through executive order? If this were 1904 and
not 2004, and interracial marriages were illegal (which
they were!), would we not want our public officials to do
all they could to thwart the racist impulses of an unenlightened
public? Wouldn't we want impassioned advocates to challenge
the immoral ban to wedded bliss by all?
These and other issues raised
by the same sex marriage revolution will be discussed at
this unique panel. Please join us.
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Past Event : 'Port Chicago' by the
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
Monday, September 27
8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Yoshi's at Jack London Square
510 Embarcadero West, Oakland,
CA 94607
(510) 238-9200
8:00pm Show $12
10:00pm Show $8
Buy tickets online at yoshis.com
The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra will perform "Port Chicago", an original
75 minute jazz and swing composition in honor of the 60th
Anniversary of the Port Chicago Mutiny commissioned by the
Equal Justice Society to honor the African American sailors
who were killed during a devastating munitions explosion
in July 1944, and those who were court martialed for refusing
to continue the dangerous, segregated work at the Port.
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Poster Design by Tiffany
Sankary
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Past Event: Port Chicago Jazz Concert at the African American
Museum and Library
Saturday, July 31, 2004
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
African American Museum
and Library
14th St. and Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland (directions)
The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra
performed "Port Chicago", an original 75-minute jazz and
swing composition commissioned by the Equal Justice Society
on Saturday, July 31, in honor of the 60th Anniversary of
the Port Chicago Mutiny.
A Q&A and reception with
composer Marcus Shelby, historian Robert Allen, and civil
rights advocate Eva Paterson followed the performance.
In 1944, a tragic explosion
at the munitions loading dock at Port Chicago, just north
of San Francisco, killed more than 320 sailors, primarily
African Americans, and injured hundreds more. The surviving
men refused to load munitions ships until safety conditions
were improved. Fifty of them were court-martialed for mutiny,
imprisoned and dishonorably discharged.
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund
and Thurgood Marshall came to their defense - and today
the movement continues to honor these heroic black servicemen,
whose courageous actions ultimately led to the desegregation
of the U.S. Navy.
Composer and bassist Marcus
Shelby led the 15-piece Jazz Orchestra on a musical journey
through the soldiers' lives during their their life in the
barracks, their joy in rare liberty, romance, and introspection,
and ultimately the explosion at Port Chicago that altered
their lives. Shelby believes in the essential need for urban
arts and the place of jazz within the modern urban context.
With Shelby's leadership, the Los Angeles based jazz group
Black/Note released four critically acclaimed albums under
the Columbia Records and GRP Impulse! labels. His work also
includes collaborations with Bay Area choreographers on
original modern dance pieces and compositions for several
Hollywood and independent films and plays.
The event was produced by
Noir Records, the Equal Justice Society, and the African
American Museum and Library of Oakland.
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Past Event: Lunchtime Brown Bag on Race, Law and Social
Science
 
Download the summary report here (PDF)
EJS
held a Lunchtime Brown Bag on Race, Law and Social Science with
leading scholars Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery
Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School and Troy
Duster, Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow, Institute
for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University;
Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley.
Monday,
August 2, 2004
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Equal Justice Society offices
220 Sansome, 14th Floor
San Francisco
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Past Event: Reception and Book Signing with Charles J.
Ogletree, Jr.
Thursday, June 17, 2004
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Equal Justice Society Offices
EJS held a special reception
for its Chair of the Board, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard
Law School's Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, to celebrate
his new book, With All Deliberate Speed: Reflections
on the First Half-Century
of Brown v. Board of Education. (See coverage of
Prof. Ogletree's visit to the Bay Area in the San Francisco Chronicle, or buy his book on Amazon
through EJS.)
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Past Event: "The Iraq War and The Constitution: Has President
George W. Bush Committed Impeachable Offenses?"
Tuesday,
April 13, 7:00 pm
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Attorney
and author (and EJS board member) John C. Bonifaz and the Executive
Director of the Equal Justice Society, Eva J. Paterson, will speak
at a public forum entitled “The Iraq War and The Constitution:
Has President George W. Bush Committed Impeachable Offenses?”.
The forum will be moderated by EJS board member Tobias Barrington
Wolff, Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School and Assistant
Professor of Law, UC Davis Law School. The event is co-sponsored
by Global Exchange and the Center for Education and Social Action
at New College of California. Mr. Bonifaz will be available for
a book-signing following the event. Requested donation $5, benefits
Global Exchange. No one turned away for lack of funds. For advance
tickets or more information call 415-575-5542.
Complete
event information
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Covers from the Colorblind
Conference DVDs.
Past Event: Colorblind Racism: The Politics of
Controlling Racial and Ethnic Data Conference
October 2-4, 2003, Palo Alto, Calif.
To purchase a Colorblind
Racism Conference DVD (a 4-DVD set), please send a check for $25
payable to the Equal Justice Society to Allegra Churchill, Equal
Justice Society, 220 Sansome Street, 14th Floor, San Francisco,
CA 94104 or call Allegra at 415-288-8700 to pay by credit card.
View
panelist presentations (click on link to download PowerPoint file):
Friday
Sessions:
Saturday
Sessions:
(If
you don't have PowerPoint, Microsoft provides free
software to let you read the file.)
Press
coverage of the conference and related topics is now available
on the conference Web site.
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Past Event: The Assault of Federalism
on Civil Rights: Developing New Strategies to Protect Civil Rights
in a Conservative Era
First Annual Equal Justice Society National Conference
April 5-6, 2002
Harvard Law School
Over
the course of two historic days, lawyers, professors, students,
civil rights workers, and policy and media experts from across
the country joined together to renew our commitment to counter
the assault of federalism and to develop a strategic plan for
addressing ways to enforce civil rights. The conference introduced
the Equal Justice Society to the national legal community and
provided opportunities for students to connect with professors
and practicing lawyers.
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Past Event: Reclaiming Progressive
Justice: Equal Justice Society Organizational Summit
June, 2001
Berkeley, California
More
than 50 diverse and influential legal academics and practitioners
from throughout the country came together for a two-day meeting
to develop the guiding principles and long-term strategic agenda
for the Equal Justice Society. Panel sessions were held on the
Federalist society, its impact on jurisprudence and on our communities,
and possible strategies for developing progressive legal theories.
Speakers included: Professor Mari Matsuda of Georgetown University
Law Center; Professors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic of the
University of Colorado at Boulder; Julie Gerchik and Alfred Ross
of the Institute for Democracy Studies; Professor Pamela Karlan
of Stanford Law School; Susan Serrano, Lawyers’ Committee
Thurgood Marshall Fellow; and Michelle Alexander, Director of
the Racial Justice Project of ACLU Northern California.
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Other Past Events
- June 2003: A Summer Reception to Support Affirmative Action, Hosted
by Bingham McCutchen
- April 2003: Reclaiming Civil Rights: Access to Justice, Co-sponsored
by the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal
- March 2003: Debate on the Racial Information Ban
- March 2003: Affirmative Action — African Americans Speak Out!
A Town Hall Meeting
- February 2003: An Event with Ninth Circuit Judge John T. Noonan
- November 2002: EJS Reception at Shaking the Foundations Conference
- October 2002: “Care Not Cash” Debate and Discussion
- September 2002: Kick-Off Celebration for Bay Area Law Students
- July 2002: The Assault of Federalism: Reclaiming Our Past, Shaping Our
Future
- February 2002: Opening the Courthouse Doors: A Regional Forum
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