The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund today launched a new site, ReclaimCivilRights.org, to serve as a clearinghouse for civil rights enforcement materials. The website features an interactive map demonstrating how individual states have been affected by recent rollbacks in civil rights enforcement as well as an interactive timeline that tracks civil rights progress … Continue reading New ReclaimCivilRights.org Site Launched to Serve as Resource on Civil Rights Enforcement

The Equal Justice Society today issued a report, "Framing Race and Class in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: A Natural and Unnatural Disaster," an examination of coverage by different kinds of media of this unique natural and unnatural disaster in an effort to understand how the story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath were being … Continue reading Report: Framing Race and Class in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Unflagging CourageBy Elaine ElinsonLos Angeles Daily JournalJune 14, 2007Charlotte Gabrielli was 9 years old in 1936, when she was suspended from Fremont Elementary School in Sacramento. The bright little girl with brunette sausage curls and a sweet smile was not suspended for misbehaving; in fact, she was trying to obey her parents' instructions. Her parents, … Continue reading ‘Unflagging Courage’ by Elaine Elinson in LA Daily Journal

Working Assets Wireless congratulates members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for voting to approve legislation restoring habeas corpus by passing the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act.Working Assets (workingassetswireless.com) presented senators with petitions representing more than 4,000 lawyers, retired prosecutors and other members of the legal community urging the Senate to restore the constitutional writ of habeas … Continue reading EJS Helps Working Assets Deliver Petitions to Congress to Urge the Restoration of Habeas Corpus

If I was a Katrina victim in New Orleans, I would be insulted by Google replacing its Maps views with pre-Katrina images -- as if nothing ever happened there. But I think that I would have more critical issues to worry about.North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology's … Continue reading Alternate Realities: Google Maps and NOLA

At the end of Day One, I attended a terrific reception co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Accuracy, Progressive Communicators Network, Project Think Different, Public News Service, The Praxis Project. and will include drinks, food, a short program focused on "Powerful Results from the Grassroots" and a great opportunity to network!