When Irma Herrera gives her name its correct Spanish pronunciation, some people assume she’s a foreigner. She’s not. Irma proudly claims her Tejano roots and her Mexican and American identity as well as her native languages: Spanish and English. Irma worked three decades as a San Francisco civil rights lawyer and journalist. Her solo play […]
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Names matter. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims of the Pittsburgh massacre and and Louisville murders last week. Pittsburgh: Joyce Fienberg, 75 Richard Gottfried, 65 Rose Mallinger, 97 Jerry Rabinowitz, 66 Cecil Rosenthal, 59 David Rosenthal, 54 Bernice Simon, 84 Sylvan Simon, 86 Daniel Stein, 71 Melvin Wax, 88 Irving Younger, […]
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Today at 1:00 p.m. – Bay Area Rally to Support Dr. Ford #StopKavanaugh https://www.facebook.com/events/294427721155561/ “I think every organization with lawyers or connections to lawyers should reach legal luminaries in the target states* to engage lawyers around this. Not bars or formal associations, just a flood of lawyers — lawyers who know most about what’s at […]
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Thirty-nine national organizations, including the Equal Justice Society, and concerned citizens sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein today urging him not to resign and to continue his service at the Department of Justice. The letter called on Rosenstein to stay in his position and “continue to protect the Mueller and related investigations […]
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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has bravely come forward and shared her story about how Judge Brett Kavanaugh, nominee for the Supreme Court, sexually assaulted her. She made her concerns known anonymously, and then publicly came forward when her identity began to leak to the press. Since then, she’s endured harassment online and offline, received death […]
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