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Racial Profiling: Face the Truth
Connecticut Passes Strengthened Bill Against Racial Profiling
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Thu, 2012-05-10 15:54Image:
The Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this week that strengthens state protections against racial profiling. The bill, if signed into law, would enhance elements of an existing law that mandates data collection on the race and ethnicity of those stopped by police, which was ignored by many police departments in the state.
Rights Groups Call on Attorney General to Strengthen Racial Profiling Guidance
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Tue, 2012-05-08 12:25May 8, 2012, Washington, D.C. – Today, 206 civil rights, human rights, immigrant rights and faith-based organizations pressed Attorney General Eric Holder to fulfill his stated commitment to ending racial profiling by reforming the Department of Justice (DOJ) June 2003 Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies.
Rights Groups Continue to Call for Dismantling of NSEERS and Criticize Department of Homeland Security’s Refusal to Repudiate This Discriminatory Program and Provide Relief to Those Unjustly Profiled
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Mon, 2012-05-07 10:10FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Keith Rushing, Rights Working Group, 202.591.3305.
Nasreen Hosein, South Asian Americans Leading Together, 301.270.1855
Sandhya Bathija, American Civil Liberties Union, 202.675.2312
Ibrahim Hooper, Council on American-Islamic Relations, 202.744.7726
RIGHTS GROUPS CALL ON SUPREME COURT TO REJECT AZ’s SB1070 AND PROTECT CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON DISCRIMINATION
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Thu, 2012-05-03 10:17FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Keith Rushing, Communications Manager, krushing@Rightsworkinggroup (p) 202.591.3305, (c) 202.557.4291
April 24, 2012, Washington, D.C. – A coalition of human rights, civil rights and immigrant rights groups today called on the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Arizona’s racial profiling law, SB1070. The Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in United States v. Arizona tomorrow.
Rights Working Group Condemn Secure Communities Program Reforms as Insignificant
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Wed, 2012-05-02 16:19
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Keith Rushing, Communications Manager krushing@rightsworkinggroup.org<mailto:krushing@rightsworkinggroup.org
(p (202) 591-3305 (c) (202) 557-4291
Shackled and Detained: A Pregnant Woman’s Story
Submitted by Restore Fairness on Wed, 2012-05-02 11:51Juana’s story is one of Breakthrough’s most shared and talked- about videos.
End Secure Communities Press Conference - Friday Aril 27 at Noon
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Thu, 2012-04-26 16:22Two days after the Supreme Court rally, we have the opportunity to protect our own community from Arizonfication. The DC metro area has been at the forefront of defending immigrant rights and rejecting ICE's "Secure Communities" (S-Comm) deportation program.
This Friday, April 27, ICE is holding a "community" roundtable to promote S-Comm. We're calling upon community members and advocates from across the area to join us for a press conference at noon outside the ICE building to make it clear once again: We reject S-Comm.
New video! Mallika Dutt says that the “war on women is bigger than you think”
Submitted by Restore Fairness on Wed, 2012-04-25 17:00As the Supreme Court considers key elements of Arizona’s SB 1070 law, which legalizes racial profiling of and blatant discrimination against immigrant communities and people of color, stories from around the country show that this and other laws like it, such as Alabama’s H.B. 56. are causing intense damage to families, communities and economies, with devastating consequences for immigrant women.
Racial Profiling Victims Join Members of Congress to Call for Federal Action to Ban Racial Profiling
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Tue, 2012-04-24 16:32Media Advisory
Capitol Hill Press Conference to Follow Senate Hearing on ERPA
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