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Groups launch effort to prevent execution of Troy Davis

April 18, 2011 By Joe Sims

Civil rights groups have launched a final effort to prevent the state of Georgia from executing death row inmate Troy Davis.

Community protests immigration raid on elementary school

April 7, 2011 By John Rummel

Like 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.

Across the country, hundreds of thousands declare, “We are One”

April 5, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

In 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.

Wide coalition mobilizes for April 4 “We Are One”

March 29, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Leaders 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...

Leonard Weinglass, defender of civil rights, dies

March 29, 2011 By Emile Schepers

All 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.