civil rights
Community protests immigration raid on elementary school
April 7, 2011Like a scene from a bad movie, agents from the Detroit Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, driving six large tinted-glass SUVs, surrounded an elementary school here March 31.
Read moreAcross the country, hundreds of thousands declare, “We are One”
April 5, 2011In over a thousand U.S. cities, unionists, civil rights and community activists gathered April 4, honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated 43 years earlier.
Read moreWide coalition mobilizes for April 4 “We Are One”
March 29, 2011Leaders in labor, faith, civil and immigrant rights groups held a March 29 teleconference to announce coordinated actions nationwide on April 4 to commemorate the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and stand in...
Read moreLeonard Weinglass, defender of civil rights, dies
March 29, 2011All lovers of human and civil rights were saddened last week to hear of the passing of the outstanding attorney Leonard Weinglass, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on March 23.
Read moreRally at Supreme Court backs women Wal-Mart workers
March 29, 2011Women's rights advocates gathered for a Stand with the Women of Wal-Mart rally outside the Supreme Court this morning, as the court heard arguments in what could be the largest class-action civil rights suit in U.S....
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