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Support For Health Law Dips, GOP Aims To Seize Opportunity ...

But McDowell defends the Obama plan, which was in danger of failing until Stupak delivered a handful of votes from House Democrats who had feared it would allow federal funding of abortions" (Flesher, 10/17). Meanwhile, the election results could change the GOP's dynamics in the upper chamber. The Wall Street Journal: "The Senate is likely next year to see the largest group of strong conservatives enter the chamber since 1995" and "the tea-party activists pressing them say they view their initial mandate narrowly: Cut federal spending significantly, even in defense programs, and block the [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 14:37:00

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Kentucky Candidates Spar Over Who Is Anti-Christian | The Atlantic ...

Having said that, "you do wonder if being on the wrong side of the dominant majority might sensitize Rand Paul to the need for things like the Civil Rights Act. A mean ad about your anti-Christian college pranks isn't comparable, of course, to being the target of a state-sponsored campaign of terror and discrimination against you and everyone who looks like you. But the emotions that Conway is playing on here are the same that, in an amplified and legally unchecked environment, can lead to the persecution of those who don't find themselves comfortably within the majority's [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 18:32:14

Kenya government still accused of abusing civil rights despite new ...

Kenya's government heralded the country's new constitution as a "fresh start," but human rights groups said Friday that new reports of killings and illegal extraditions raise questions about whether any real changes have been made.The International Center for Policy and Conflict alleged that five men have been killed by police officers since the constitution became law in August. The government denies knowledge of the killings. Eight Kenyan suspects also have been illegally extradited to Uganda, the group said.The new constitution, which was heavily backed by U.S. President Barack Obama, was [more...]

Date: 2010-10-15 15:50:33

The Crime Report » Archive » Professor's Lawsuit Challenges ...

In a federal civil rights lawsuit, Hill says DeCoatsworth and a partner ater pulled Hill over and searched him and his car without a warrant, violating several constitutional rights. DeCoatsworth allegedly asked Hill whether he could afford his BMW and went through Hill’s checkbook, asking Hill about his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Hill was told he was being stopped for “illegal discharge of a passenger and blocking the street.” He was not charged. Hill cited the ”city’s policies, procedures, customs, and practices of allowing its officers to make stops [more...]

Date: 2010-10-15 11:01:59

Feds Clear FBI Agents In Shooting Of Michigan Imam « WWJ Newsradio 950

Four FBI agents who shot and killed a Michigan mosque leader during a 2009 raid have been cleared of criminal and civil right violations by the Justice Department’s civil rights division. The department announced its findings Wednesday. Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was shot 20 times during an Oct. 28, 2009, raid at a suburban Detroit warehouse. Federal authorities have said agents shot and killed Abdullah only after the Detroit cleric fired at them as they tried to arrest him. The agents, who have not been identified, have previously been cleared of wrongdoing by Michigan Attorney General [more...]

Date: 2010-10-13 20:42:52

Struggle of immigrants is a continuation of the civil rights ...

Struggle of immigrants is a continuation of the civil rights movement The Hill - Today, I want to talk about two important words: Hard Work. I want to talk about the men and women who clear the dishes in restaurants. The man who supports his family by working as a janitor. The women bent over sewing machines making our clothes — the women caring for America’s children – the families picking America’s fruit. It’s hard work. Yet immigrants come to our nation to work at dangerous and sometimes demeaning jobs, to face the risk of discrimination and deportations. They come to do hard [more...]

Date: 2010-10-05 16:51:17

DOJ attorney to testify in Civil Rights Commission's investigation ...

In a dramatic development that could shake the political leadership of the Justice Department, career lawyer Christopher Coates has sent a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights offering to testify Friday on matters related to the controversial New Black Panthers voter-intimidation case. Ten months ago, Coates, the award-winning former chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, was subpoenaed by the Commission to testify about the case. He was subsequently instructed by DOJ officials to ignore the subpoena. Within the past hour, commissioners were informed that Chairman [more...]

Date: 2010-09-24 03:07:54

A Year After Review, Immigrant Detainees Still Treated Like ...

The system has many problems, according to human rights organizations, but among the biggest is its treatment of the detainees. Some argue that illegal immigrants broke the law and should not be in a “Club Med-like” setting, as a spokesman from the pro-enforcement group Federation for American Immigration Reform said. But deportation is a civil process, and immigrant rights groups argue it is too often punitive, as if detainees have been convicted of a crime. On Oct. 6, Detention Watch Network, the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights released a [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 14:17:17

Justice Department stands behind controversial Tennessee mosque ...

The U.S. Justice Department filed a legal brief Monday stating its support of the continued construction of a controversial mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, that was targeted by arsonists in August. In the friend-of-the-court brief - filed in response to a lawsuit brought by local landowners against Rutherford County, Tennessee - the department argued that practicing Islam is a freedom protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. "A mosque is quite plainly a place of worship, and the county rightly recognized that it had an obligation to treat mosques the same as churches, [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 20:42:26

NewBlackMan: Mad at 'Mad Men'

Mark Anthony Neal is the author of five books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005) and the forthcoming Looking for Leroy: (Il)Legible Black Masculinities. Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2nd Edition) which will be published in January of 2011. Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department [more...]

Date: 2010-10-17 23:46:00

DOJ Civil Rights Head Goes To TN To Reassure Muslims ...

For 50% of the cases brought against Muslims in the U.S. to be dismissed means that these charges were either without a legal basis or unsupported by probable cause, meaning that there was insufficient evidence to convince an ordinary, reasonable person that there is a basis to remand the accused to trial. This is far from the “beyond reasonable doubt” standard needed to convict. Thus, for over half of the cases not to have risen to this low threshold, particularly in light of the national percentage in federal cases, is quite telling. The other cases, with the exception of a dozen or [more...]

Date: 2010-10-14 02:40:15

American Tribune » Blog Archive » Hate & Hypocrisy in the Home of ...

Given the news over the past weekend, I’m reminded of some time I spent in Mississippi in ’63 and ’64. I was lucky…Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, not so lucky… Many years later, I had an acquaintance in one of the federal prisons—don’t even recall his real name, everyone called him Mississippi Mud. He was an old guy in a wheelchair and he’d been convicted on some ancient civil rights case…a lynching. Mud was quite a character. The cause célèbre de jure in the NY Times this past weekend was about the Scott sisters, Gladys and Jamie. They were 19 and 22 back in [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 09:30:44

Charles Rangel New York Congressman | Garment Company, Garment ...

He furthered his Education at the New York University School of Commerce and received his degree in 1957. Having excelled in his studies at the university and making the deans list he was awarded a full scholarship to attend St John’s University School of Law where he graduated in 1960. Soon after law school Charles passed the state law exam and began working for a prestigious black law firm. His involvement with representing black civil rights activists gave him instant recognition and prominence in the community. U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy appointed Rangle Assistant U.S [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 17:41:22

County in Ohio Settles Defamation and Discrimination Lawsuits ...

In February, 2007, an African-American deputy filed a complaint with the Ohio Civil rights Commission alleging that he was punished more strictly for violating an inter-office policy than white deputies who violated the policy. At the time he was the only African-American deputy in the office. There were roughly 40 white deputies. In November of that year he filed a race discrimination claim in Ohio court alleging discrimination and retaliation. The discrimination claim in the lawsuit was based upon the disparate disciplinary treatment he reportedly received. In the lawsuit he further alleged [more...]

Date: 2010-10-08 13:57:31

The Libertarian Challenge To ObamaCare - Richard Epstein - The ...

The plaintiffs do not have to explain why their theory invalidates Medicare and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, both of which fall under any originalist theory of the Commerce Clause. The simple answer is that it doesn’t. Second, it puts the government lawyers on a slippery slope, by forcing them explain why the U.S., if it can require individuals to get health care coverage, cannot also mandate that everyone eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly, or enroll in yoga classes—or pay a hefty penalty if they do not. This elegant Commerce Clause argument generates, however, several odd [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 16:08:33

Depression Discussions at DailyStrength: School bullying

The other thing that occurred to me is not only is this 'simple' bullying, it may also be a civil rights issue. You might contact a civil rights attorney and see if you can get him to write a letter to the bully's parents. ... Content on DailyStrength.org is for informational purposes only. We do not provide any medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. More info. Portions of support group and treatment information provided by Wikipedia under the GNU FDL license [more...]

Date: 2010-10-17 21:12:14

Kirk Tanter's Blog: Emmitt Till remembered

Most people believe that the beginnning of the Civil Rights Movement was when Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to White Man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama during the Jim Crow Segregaton era. Parks actions ignited the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, which introduced Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the world. But consious African-Americans living in 1955 will say it was the day that Emmett Till died. Emmett Louis Till in the summer of 1955 in Mississippi, allegedly whistled at a white woman at a local grocery store where the white woman worked. Days later a mob of white [more...]

Date: 2010-10-10 03:44:00

Emerald | Journal of Educational Administration | Making all ...

Purpose – “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound with mine, then come, let's work together”. These words of Lill Watson, an indigenous activist, frame the context for this article. The purpose of this research was to examine the historical evolution of “grassroots movement leadership” model and its incarnation in the present time. A corollary purpose focused on how this model can transform urban schools by focusing on “movement” efforts of one large urban school district that espouses the values of this form [more...]

Date: 2007-10-07 13:36:22

White Civil Rights » There's No Business Like Shoah Business

Never mind the fact that a wealth of evidence has been uncovered by the Institute of Historical Review which casts tremendous doubt on the Holocaust story. With the economy collapsing, the Jews are no doubt eager to instill a guilt complex into the heads of all White people. Increasingly in patriot circles, brave White people are pointing out that the Jews are responsible for changing the US immigration laws so that an endless flood of Third World people could enter the US. Today America has over 100 million Blacks, Latinos and other Third World people, and this gigantic burden on the White [more...]

Date: 2010-10-15 01:53:22

The tension between intentions and outcomes « Education News ...

It was to make a difference; it was to continue the social justice work that I had always been prepared for by my childhood experience in Chicago, working with migrant workers who struggled to make a living. Going to Operation Push gatherings to listen to Jesse Jackson encourage people to continue the good fight. I wanted to, and still want to promote education reform as a civil rights issue, the civil rights issue of our time. As a new teacher I embraced my passion and used it to get through those tough first years of teaching. But as I gained more insight in to the day-to-day [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 11:56:07

US Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s… at PLHS – Support for Learning

In particular, this week we are looking at racial segregation in the US and the Civil Rights Movement led by Dr Martin Luther King Jnr. One of the key sub-plots in Hairspray is exclusion of those who are different to the majority. The lead role is that of an overweight teenager who wants to be a dancer on a famous television show but is excluded because she is too heavy. Meanwhile, on the very same show black youths are only allowed to appear once a month – on something called “Negro Day”. We decided that we would like to find out more as to why this kind of segregation happened, who [more...]

Date: 2010-10-12 07:14:55

Remembering Mama Rosa - Behind Politics - what's really happening

Parks was both a fighter and a civil rights activist. And the action she displayed 50 years ago, procured more for Blacks than they were able to attain in four centuries under the auspices of White dictatorship. And now after hundreds of awards and thousands of accolades, the world bids farewell to a woman for whom everyone, regardless of race, gender and socioeconomic status owe a debt of gratitude. For it was Mama Rosa that showed a nation of 22,000,000 Blacks why they could no longer remain buried under the shackles of oppression. It was Mama Rosa who showed the world that you can still [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 22:12:22

FBI — Civil Rights

Hate-fueled crimes are not just a thing of the past. And that’s why—as the lead agency for enforcing federal civil rights laws—the FBI remains dedicated to protecting the cherished freedoms of all Americans. That includes aggressively investigating and working to prevent hate crime, “color of law” abuses by public officials, human trafficking and involuntary servitude, and freedom of access to clinic entrances violations—the four top priorities of our civil rights program. We also support the work and cases of our local and state partners as [more...]

Date: 2010-10-06 07:00:00

Dialog - UA Faculty & Staff News » Fall Issue of Alabama Heritage ...

The Fall 2010 issue of Alabama Heritage magazine showcases a brave but roguish Confederate cavalry officer, unearths the contents of a century-old time capsule, celebrates the sacrifices of a civil rights martyr and draws attention to historic sites in need of preservation. In this issue, historian Zack C. Waters traces the life and exploits of Colonel Harry Maury, who led a Confederate cavalry regiment in rooting out and punishing those deemed dangerous and disloyal along the Gulf Coast during the Civil War. His heroic zealousness was countered by fiery impulsiveness and a penchant for [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 13:00:42

New FBI raids raise questions about civil rights violations ...

In light of recent disclosures about illegal conduct by the FBI who then lied to Congress about surveillance of those who were simply engaging in peaceful protest, new reports that the FBI has been engaging in raids of anti-war activists’ homes raises a number of obvious questions. Michael (“Mick”) Kelly, one of those whose residences were searched yesterday, is a a food service worker at the University of Minnesota and a member of a socialist organization, FRSO, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. The Kelly warrant was signed by a federal magistrate in Minnesota on September [more...]

Date: 2010-09-25 21:04:38

This Will Be The GOP's Best Chance To Reach Black Americans For A ...

Then there's the civil rights movement in America, which came about after positive changes had started occurring, but didn't seem to be moving fast enough. That brings us to Barack Obama. There's a reason Barack Obama has a 90% approval rate with black Americans. They're looking at him like Jackie Robinson, Jack Johnson, or Rosa Parks. In other words, Barack Obama isn't just another President; to many black Americans he's a stand-in for them and his success or failure reflects on them personally. This is problematic because Barack Obama has been an utter disaster as President. He's a complete [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 15:28:01

Springs legal seminar for ministries happening Monday ...

The former workers sued, arguing that World Vision is a humanitarian group and therefore not protected under the Title VII exemption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The exemption enables religious organizations to legally hire only like-minded people of faith. A district court found in favor of World Vision, and in August a circuit court upheld the ruling. But the opinion written by one of the appellate judges has opened up potential issues. The judge wrote that an additional test to determine if an employer is a religious organization is that the group must not sell goods or services. The [more...]

Date: 2010-10-16 13:00:00

Condoleezza Rice Details Her Civil Rights Roots

That life arc might strike some as unlikely -- and Rice says that when people ask her how she traveled from the civil rights era to the White House, she points to her parents. "I always say, you had to know John and Angelena Rice," she tells NPR's Renee Montagne. "So, this is really their story, and my life wrapped in their story." Rice tells those stories in her new book, Extraordinary, Ordinary People, the first half of a planned two-book memoir. The book is a deeply personal account of growing up under segregation in Birmingham, Ala., where the threat of violence was never far away. But [more...]

Date: 2010-10-13 12:07:06

UTV News - Lawyer's emotion over Bloody Sunday Inquiry

The leading human rights lawyer, who has been involved in some of the most famous cases in recent legal history, represented a number of families during the long-running inquiry.Thirteen marchers were shot dead on 30 January 1972 in Derry when British paratroopers opened fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration. Fourteen others were wounded, one of whom later died.The Saville Report was heavily critical of the Army and found that soldiers fired the first shot.Asked if the 12-year inquiry was worth it, Mr Mansfield said: "If you ask any of the families, they felt, quite rightly, that the [more...]

Date: 2010-10-17 13:23:21

China: independent UN experts urge stepped-up respect for human ...

“Liu Xiaobo is a courageous human rights defender who has continuously and peacefully advocated for greater respect for human rights” in China, the experts said in a joint news release. This year’s Nobel laureate took part in the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in the capital, Beijing, in 1989, worked as a professor at Beijing Normal University and co-authored the ‘Charter 08’ document calling for multi-party democracy, they noted. The experts said that they have expressed concern over the violation of his fundamental human rights for years. A UN Working Group found his 1997 [more...]

Date: 2010-10-14 02:09:27

Advocacy

This presents us with the historic opportunity to rise and meet this desire for civil rights and individual freedoms with a comprehensive program of capacity building and advocacy to ensure that respect for human rights remains central and urgent. We will be adding more information about the efforts of Arseh Sevom and other organizations both in advocating for those facing abuses of human and civil rights and in advocating for the embrace of respect for those rights. Similar Posts: Recommendations to EU about Human Rights in Iran: Posted July 8, 2010 Attack on Civil Society in Iran: [more...]

Date: 2010-10-13 09:25:13

Recent Civil Rights Violation | DarkGovernment

Editors Note:This garbage goes on many times all over the country and to all races of people. I'm not sure if these sorts "stop and see" operations fall under the patriot act or not, but regardless, they are always humiliating and usually unnecessary. The below story was sent in by the victim in the story, Merle T. Rutledge Jr. CHATHAM Va.— A Chatham man filed a complaint against the town’s police department Tuesday accusing an officer of violating his civil rights when he stopped and detained him as he walked down the street. Merle T. Rutledge Jr. said he was walking Tuesday along the [more...]

Date: 2010-08-28 15:02:11

Rev. Jesse Jackson launches UK civil rights group (AP)

Rev. Jesse Jackson launches UK civil rights group (AP). AP - American civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson is starting a group in the U.K. to oppose what he calls the abuse of police powers to stop and search people. Read the original story here. ... The Writer. This post was written by admin on Monday, October 18, 2010, 12:35. admin has written 7774 posts on this blog. [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 16:35:53

FBI investigating two former State Police troopers - News - The ...

The e-mail address(es) that you supply to use this service will only be used to send the requested article. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The FBI is investigating two former West Virginia State Police officers for possible civil rights violations while on duty. Joe Ciccarelli, FBI supervisory senior resident agent in Charleston, confirmed that former troopers A.H. Young and K.E. Young are being investigated for allegations stemming from their arrest of Brian Joseph Wilson, 32, of Charleston on July 28. The Youngs, who are brothers, arrested Wilson and charged him with operating a meth lab, possession [more...]

Date: 2010-10-14 23:07:27

US attorney joins legal battle over Tennessee mosque, says Islam ...

Their complaint claims that the county failed to determine whether the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is entitled to protection under the First Amendment. They have also claimed that the county violated the state's Open Meetings law in the approval process.Martin said his office was not intervening in the lawsuit itself to take sides, but attorneys felt the need to weigh in on issues raised during three days of testimony in Rutherford County Chancery Court."Plaintiffs' implication that Islam is not a recognized religion by the United States is wrong and is not supported by any authority [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 21:55:11

Leaders And Legislation Of The Civil Rights And Black Power ...

Date: 2010-10-08 03:29:11

Baba Ramdev Known For Herbal Medicines And Yoga Challenge For the ...

Ramdev principle in life is to protect the human rights of all civilizations throughout the world. His goal is to build the world’s largest center for yoga, herbal medicine and Indian medicine for common people around the world. The Trust will include treatment facilities, research and university education in yoga, herbal medicine and Indian medicine. Trust offers free care to those who cannot afford the treatment and others would be much cheaper than the best hospitals and elsewhere. What is the political party-Bharat Swabhiman Baba Ramdev. Bharat Swabhiman is a political movement [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 06:24:42

Politics, Policy, Pathology and Hope WITHIN The Black Community ...

I am made to wonder if this new book expressing the "civil rights era" rape and injustice bestowed upon Black women here in America will blind out in Black America's consciousness the travail that other Black women experience regarding "sexual injustice" in the Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The title of this post challenges the power of the dynamic of "time" versus "distance" as it relates to our attentiveness and prioritization. I am made to wonder out loud about which offense burns more powerfully within our mind: The offenses that have happened in a time in the past but upon the [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 06:18:00

The "BIG LIE" Keeps Surfacing

In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes. I know these facts will not change perceptions among liberals and minorities - the "Big Lie" has been tol;d so often for so long that it has become truth in the minds of the uninformed. [more...]

Date: 2010-10-15 01:41:00

Women in the Civil Rights Movement | Fenway News Online

The Museum of African American History Presents Sisters in the Struggle Women in the Civil Rights Movement Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:30 pm Reception 6:00 pm Program 46 Joy Street, Beacon Hill Judy Richardson and Janet Jemmott Moses Two remarkable women served on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in Richardson and Moses contributed to a new book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, intense stories of 52 courageous women in this monumental struggle for social change. RSVP at (617) 725-0022 X 25 or rsvp@maah.org Admission: Museum Members – [more...]

Date: 2010-10-17 06:41:11

Thur update: Downtown editorial, Russian bath house, 1884 Lounge ...

He states that Downtown is the brand of Memphis, and I agree. When people come here, they’re going to want to see the Peabody, the Orpheum, Beale Street, the FedExForum, the river, the National Civil Rights Museum, and all of Downtown’s many other attractions. It’s important to show them a great time so visitors will want to come back, and so people and businesses considering moving here will have a favorable impression of Memphis. Okay, this is interesting. Due to a follow on Twitter, I learned this afternoon that a Russian bath house is coming to Memphis, with the address listed as 85 [more...]

Date: 2010-10-14 22:30:23

Journalists back civil society on human rights issues

“Our new coalition government in the UK has made clear that values such as support for human rights and the rule of law are an indivisible part of our foreign policy. Accountability and transparency to protect democratic freedom and human rights is something that Britain supports around the world, including here in the Philippines. An important element of this project is to shine a light on stories and issues that otherwise may not receive enough attention. The project spearheaded by VERA Files will enable these civil society organisations to improve their production of in-depth reports [more...]

Date: 2010-09-29 04:57:58

Greg Palast » Tonight on NBC TV:Greg Palast busts Rove's Caging Stooge

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., civil rights attorney, has said bluntly, that Griffin's racially poisoned attempt to attack the voting rights of soldiers and other citizens, aimed at Black, Hispanic, Jewish and poor voters violated the criminal provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. After reviewing the evidence, Palast said, bluntly, "Tim Griffin and Karl Rove ... should be in prison." Griffen, it appears, was acting on Rove's orders. ***** Greg Palast has investigated the illegal disenfranchisement of voters for BBC Television, Rolling Stone (with Robert Kennedy Jr.), Harper's, The Nation and [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 18:37:05

SzaboServices News: Black Panther Investigation Broadens, Could ...

The federal investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the Black Panther voter intimidation case has widened its scope in ways that increase the chances the president will be impeached in the new year. In a letter delivered today to Attorney General Eric Holder, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights indicated its investigation has shifted from a narrow focus on dropping the Philadelphia case to the broader question of whether the DoJ – and the Obama administration – is systematically discriminating against white victims. Commission members voted 5-1 to send the new [more...]

Date: 2010-10-14 21:23:00

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Unique Philadelphia Monument Honors Workers

A new monument, the Labor Monument: Philadelphia’s Tribute to the American Worker, was unveiled in a ceremony earlier this month at the city’s Elmwood Park. Created by artist John Kindness, the monument—seven table-top sized “work buttons” (see photo)—memorialize the contributions of labor nationwide and Philadelphia’s working-class history. The Fairmont Park Art Association, which commissioned the work, said Kindness, son of a shipyard worker, searched for a symbol that could represent laborers from all industries and discovered old metal work buttons. Regardless of trade or [more...]

Date: 2010-10-17 13:00:57

Fun Facts about Coast Guards Civil Rights Debacle « Coast Guard Report

Top 4 Tweets CGIS agents obstruct justice, follow Allen orders, omit witnesses, construct testimony 3 weeks ago Allen, Papp, Hewitt all remained silent. Booz Allen review well underway. Conspiracy of fear employed to keep leadership quiet. 3 weeks ago Adm Allen, RADM Hewitt briefed in Sep 08 on Civil Rights Violations against employees. According to CGIS documents, no action takien 3 weeks ago The CBC met 15 thru 18 September DC. Coast Guards lack of attention to Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity came up several times. [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 17:19:27

Libertarian Advocate: AP Sacrifices What Little Credibility it ...

Not since the explosive years of the civil rights movement and the hard-fought debut of government-supported health care for the elderly and poor have so many big things — love them or hate them — been done so quickly. Gridlock? It may feel that way. But that's not the story of the 111th Congress — not the story history will remember. Democrats are dearly hoping history won't repeat itself. In 1966, after Democrats created Medicare and Medicaid and passed civil rights laws, they got hammered in the election, losing 48 seats in the House and four in the Senate. They maintained their [more...]

Date: 2010-10-18 14:10:00

Breitbart.tv » Fireworks as Civil Rights Commission and Justice ...

Fireworks as Civil Rights Commission and Justice Dept Clash in Meeting Over New Black Panther Case Here in Chicago, nobody will come forward when a child is shot and killed in broad daylight on a crowded street. In the 'hood, snitches get stitches – if they're lucky. If anyone in the neighborhood ratted on the NBP, he wouldn't last a [more...]

Date: 2010-08-14 04:00:36

U.S. Department of Justice Visitors Tell Muslims They Have Their ...

In April 2005, the civil rights division sued the city of Hollywood, Fla., for denying a building permit for an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in a residential neighborhood. The city wound up paying $2 million in damages and attorneys' fees. After the city of Garden Grove, Calif., denied a Buddhist group's request to convert a former mechanical building into a temple in 2007, the justice department investigated. It halted its query earlier this year, when the city finally relented. And in Berkeley, Ill., a congregation seeking to expand its mosque and accommodate its growing population was denied [more...]

Date: 2010-10-11 12:08:59

August 29, 1957 – The Senate Passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957

On August 29, 1957, the United States Senate passed the final version of what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The first civil rights legislation enacted since the Reconstruction period, the amended act replaced an initial version first proposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 11, 1956. The initial act went through torturous proceedings and changes before it was approved by both houses of Congress and signed into law by Eisenhower on September 9th. The final five-part act was primarily a voting rights act. It did not create new voting rights, but initiated a [more...]

Date: 2010-08-29 15:25:06

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