Dear EJS Supporters, Several weeks ago before we were all sheltering in place, EJS received a $5,000 gift from Tom Given, my friend from my days at Northwestern. He once lent me his Pontiac Trans Am to drive with my friend Jim Fiddler AKA Weasel Piss to Wisconsin to go sky diving but that is another storyContinueContinue reading “On Tyranny: Defend Institutions”
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Voter Empowerment and Education Newsletter
After hosting our Voter Protection and Mobilization Summit at the beginning of this month, EJS is proud to continue the conversation with a curated bi-monthly newsletter. Here’s the election and voter protection news that has been front and center for us: WI 2020 Primary Election | NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund https://bit.ly/3emTazZWertheimer's Political Report:ContinueContinue reading “Voter Empowerment and Education Newsletter”
This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19
Colorlines – Black and Brown people in large cities are being hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis—WBEZ in Chicago confirmed that as of March 4, 70 percent of Cook County’s deaths were Black; in cities like New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee, Black people are dying at astronomical rates—and Los Angeles’ public health director Barbara FerrerContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #119: California’s health directors say they have zero data on POC who are infected with or dying from COVID-19”