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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Al Sharpton to Go to Chicago, Take on Jesse Jackson? |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:28 pm |
| Tags: Intel, Al Shartpton, Chicago, Civil Rights, Jesse Jackson |
| by opening a branch of his civil-rights advocacy group, National Action Network, in Jackson's hometown of Chicago, where the elder activist's own civil-rights advocacy group, the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, is headquartered. "There is a demand in that market, and we're answering that demand," Sharpton told New York, innocently. "Every generation |
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| Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 10:37 pm |
| Tags: Quote Of The Day, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr, Quote, Quote Of The Day, Quotes |
| “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King Jr. US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) |
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| Barbarians in Iran get away with MURDER - the liberal West is silent |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 11:10 pm |
| Tags: Islam, Homosexual, Execution, Civil Rights, Iran, Human Rights |
| would take Islamic human rights activists seriously if they became active in such matters, too. After all, as Muslims their protests would likely have a bigger impact on a regime such as the Iranian than my biased bickering. So, may I suggest that civil rights are indivisible and everyone playing in this political arena should go out of |
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| Whatever It Is, I'm Against It Dept.: Ron Paul Doesn't Care About (Giving Medals to) Black People |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 5:41 pm |
| Tags: Bugging Ron Paul Fans For Kicks, Civil Rights, Congress, Gold, Gold Standard, Libertarians, Medals, Ron Paul, Rosa Parks, Whatever It I M Against It Dept |
| That is the one vote cast against giving Rosa Parks the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and it was cast by Mr. Ron Paul on April 20, 1999. This isn’t exactly breaking news but we were... |
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| Best Buy Class Action Lawsuit |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 12:15 pm |
| Tags: Legal, Business, Best Buy Class Action Lawsuit, Best Buy Class Lawsuit, Best Buy, Best Buy Co Inc, Best Buy Stores, Civil Rights Lawsuit, Equal Employment Opportunities, Sex Discrimination In Employment |
| filed a federal class action civil rights lawsuit against the multi-billion dollar national electronics chain. The lawsuit, entitled Holloway et al. v. Best Buy Co, Inc., charges Best Buy with violating federal and state laws against race and sex discrimination in employment. The suit was filed on December 8, 2005, in federal court in San |
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| Bishop Harry Jackson: Obama's 'misinformed' about homosexuality and faith |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 10:34 am |
| Tags: Hypocrites, Visiblevote08, Hrc, Civil Rights, Black Gay, Black Homobigots |
| notion that the homosexual rights movement is similar to the black civil rights movement either."I think what most African-Americans buy is that there should be justice for all, in terms of the outworking of civil law. What they do not buy is that we should rename sin as something righteous and holy," explains Jackson.Jackson says the average |
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| California Supreme Court to Hear Same Sex Marriage Case Tomorrow: Why Domestic Partner Laws Are Not Enough |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 2:17 pm |
| Tags: Discrimination Civil Rights |
| on same-sex marriage rights here in California. We asked Speak Out California Board Member and former Assemblymember, Jackie Goldberg, to update us on what this means for the gay and lesbian community. As a leader in the fight to advance the rights of same-sex couples, Jackie talks a little about the background of her landmark |
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| A Life of Protest and Forgiveness |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 12:27 am |
| Tags: Haberman Clyde, Civil Rights Movement, Nyc, Goodman Carolyn |
| it is as Andrew's mother, a civil rights symbol, that many know her.There she lay on Sunday, beside her first husband, Robert Goodman, and in front of a long, swooping headstone marking Andrew's grave. Robert Goodman, a civil engineer, died five years after his son's murder. Everybody says Bobby died of a broken heart, said Judith Johnson, |
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| Pastor Benjamin Hooks |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 6:20 am |
| Tags: Middle Baptist, Greater Middle Baptist, Civil Rights Arena, America S Greatest, Pastor Benjamin Hooks, Civil Rights |
| Pastor Benjamin Hooks is a veteran preacher and one of America’s greatest warriors in the Civil Rights Arena! |
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| Fredo Will Be The Last Man Standing: Hey, remember when Alberto Gonzales was going ... |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 10:36 am |
| Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Civil Rights, Fredo Will Be The Last Man Standing, Justice Department, Resignations |
| Hey, remember when Alberto Gonzales was going to be forced to resign in disgrace or something? Ha, good times. Anyway, Wan J. Kim, the head of the Civil Rights Division, is resigning. His predecessor resigned just last week! Now who will protect the civil rights of Republican-voting church-goers against those terrible ACLU liberals? [WP] |
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| Social Conservatism For Thee... |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 12:06 pm |
| Tags: Civil Liberties, Wingnuttery, Civil Rights, The Social Conservatism Fraud |
| Matt says:A reasonable politics of "family values" needs to contain some penalties for heterosexuals with anti-family behavior (see, e.g., Dick Vitter, Rudy Giuliani) and support for gays with pro-family behavior. What they have right now is just loathing of gay people masquerading as defense of the traditional family.This is true, but there's |
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| Terror suspect database catches few terrorists but does capture anti-war activists |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 12:05 pm |
| Tags: Civil Rights, Federal Fuckwits At The Helm, War On Terror |
| It makes on wonder who's civil rights are being violated and what is the determining factor for all this bullshit.David Sobel, senior counsel with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy organization, said the numbers "suggest a staggeringly high rate of false positives with respect to the identification of supposed terrorists." He |
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| Head of DoJ Civil Rights Div cutting and running. |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 2:03 pm |
| Tags: Civil Rights, Gonzogate, Doj |
| Department's embattled Civil Rights Division is to resign at the end of August, officials said yesterday, making him the latest in a series of senior political appointees to leave the agency amid continued controversy over Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.Wan J. Kim, the assistant attorney general for civil rights since November 2005, |
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| Torturing whistleblowers |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 7:15 pm |
| Tags: Iraq, Justice, Bush, Civil Rights, Human Rights |
| at the outrage to human rights. So someone remind me again what there is left to distinguish us from some ratty, tin-pot Third-World dictatorship? Good roads? Better TV programs? Whatever it is, it sure isn't the rule of law or respect for human rights. And does anyone want to take bets on how long it'll be before torture becomes routine |
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| Second Amendment Can Protect Citizens Where D.C. Government Fails |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 4:17 pm |
| Tags: Politics, Civil Rights |
| Having failed to protect citizens from crime in the 1970s, the District government chose to ban an effective means of protection for honest citizens. Now that its bans on possessing firearms for self-defense have also failed — both on the ground and in the U.S. Court of Appeals — D.C. defends them even more [...] |
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