On December 10, International Human Rights Day, the gay community and its allies will take a historic stance against hatred by donating love to a variety of different causes in Day Without A Gay, a nationwide strike through an economic boycott and doing volunteer work, rather than civil disobedience or other tactics. Conceived by Sean … Continue reading Day Without A Gay: Protesting Prop. 8 by Donating to Causes
Author: Keith Kamisugi
Survey on Media Coverage of Race Issues in the Presidential Election
Onica N. Makwakwa of UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. (unityjournalists.org) and Darrell L. Williams of The Loop (theloop21.com) today announced that their organizations are partnering on a survey of how media covered racial issues in the presidential election, biling it as a "unique opportunity for journalists of color to show how diversity in the newsroom … Continue reading Survey on Media Coverage of Race Issues in the Presidential Election
Talking About Race In The Obama Era
We just finished a call on "Talking About Race In The Obama Era" organized by the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, hosted by Cristóbal Joshua Alex and Tanene Allison, and featuring EJS president Eva Paterson and Opportunity Agenda executive director Alan Jenkins. I'm typing up notes from the call and will post here shortly. … Continue reading Talking About Race In The Obama Era
EJS Gala Caps Off Incredible 2008
All of us at EJS want to thank everyone for attending our annual gala last night at The Regency Center in San Francisco. We'll be posting more incredible photos (like the one above of Eva Paterson and the band Unintended Consequences) taken by Shu-Jon Mao. Kudos to our event team of Eva Paterson, Miguel Gavaldon, … Continue reading EJS Gala Caps Off Incredible 2008
Eva Paterson on ABC7’s ‘Profiles of Excellence’
EJS President Eva Paterson was profiled on the latest installment of the Emmy Award-winning "Profiles of Excellence," hosted by Carolyn Johnson and produced by the ABC 7 Public Affairs Department to celebrate the cultural and ethnic diversity of the Bay Area. Mimi Kwan and Laura Kutch produce the series.
Transitioning Our Site
I'm moving our site over to the WordPress platform so you'll see an incomplete site for a few days. The rest of our site is still live and you can access our old home page here. If you're looking for information on our Dec. 5 gala, click here.
Eva Paterson on Lateefah Simon in the Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle's Leslie Fulbright covers Lateefah Simon, the new executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, in today's edition. Leslie quotes Eva Paterson on her meeting Lateefah for the first time: She said the two were at a function meant to unite older leaders of the … Continue reading Eva Paterson on Lateefah Simon in the Chronicle
Civil Rights Groups Ask California Supreme Court to Stop Prop. 8
Civil rights groups on Nov. 14 filed a petition (PDF) with the California Supreme Court to stop the enactment of Proposition 8 because it would mandate discrimination against a minority group and did not follow the process required for fundamental revisions to the California Constitution. In the petition, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Mexican … Continue reading Civil Rights Groups Ask California Supreme Court to Stop Prop. 8