This Saturday, March 31, is César E. Chávez National Holiday and César Chávez Day in California, an official state holiday. 2018 also marks the 25th anniversary of César Chávez’s passing. The American labor leader and civil rights activist helped spark and lead a movement in the 1960s and 1970s to empower farmworkers in California andContinueContinue reading “César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong”
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Want to Help Save Our Fragile Democracy? Join a National Call on Thursday, March 22.
The Equal Justice Society is part of this coalition. We’d like to invite your organization to join a call Thursday March 22nd at 1:30pm EST to hear an update on ongoing work to defend our democracy and the efforts to get to the truth about the Trump campaign’s potential illegal activity during the 2016 campaignContinueContinue reading “Want to Help Save Our Fragile Democracy? Join a National Call on Thursday, March 22.”
How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause
Last Friday was a trying day. My friend Bob Demmons, one of the plaintiffs in the SF Fire Department desegregation case from the 1980s and former Chief of the SFFD, buried his 50-year-old son that day. The funeral was beyond sad. As we know, burying one’s child is not the natural order of life. ItContinueContinue reading “How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause”