National Updates on the Status of Equal Opportunity and the Deceptive “Civil Rights Initiatives”

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
3 to 4 p.m. ET / Noon to 1 p.m. PT
Please RSVP for the call by Friday, Sept. 5 to Sara Jackson
(You will receive the conference call number after you RSVP.)

Please join the Impact 209 Coalition and the Fulfilling the Dream Fund for a national updates conference call on the status of anti-equal opportunity ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska.

On this call, you’ll hear updates from:

• Representatives from Protect Arizona’s Freedom, Nebraskans United, and Colorado Unity – the state-based coalitions working to protect racial and gender equity;
• NAACP LDF on the status of the legal challenge to the Arizona ballot initiative;
• The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights on the status of national efforts to preserve equal opportunity; and
• National allies working to defend and preserve equal opportunity.
  

You’ll also learn about what you can do to support state and national efforts to promote racial and gender equality. We hope you will join us!

Please RSVP by Friday, September 5, to Sara Jackson at sjackson@equaljusticesociety.org.
(You will receive the conference call number after you RSVP.)

The Equal Justice Society is a national organization of scholars, advocates and concerned individuals advancing innovative legal strategies and public policy for enduring social change. We generate critical analysis on issues of race and social justice through research, public education and bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Our goal is to reshape jurisprudence to ensure that the rights of all are expanded, rather than diminished, by our courts and policy makers.

Equal Justice Society, 220 Sansome St, 14th Flr, San Francisco, CA 94104, Ph (415) 288-8700