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“I Have A Dream”‘s 49th Anniversary
This week marks the 49th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which he gave on August 28, 1963 in Washington DC. The full speech has made its way to the internet, and is...
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Advancing Justice
I just got back from Washington DC, where the CSD organizing committee convened to discuss our plans moving forward for the next year. It looks to be an exciting time, even after the election as we...
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Advancing Justice Conference Day 2: Senator Dick Durbin and the DREAM Act
This morning Senator Dick Durbin addressed the crowd at the Advancing Justice Conference. In his address he spoke about his advocacy for the DREAM Act, and his efforts to get it passed by Congress on...
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“I don’t want to reverse the racial hierarchy, I want to take it apart.”
Pretty bummed that I couldn’t make it out to the Facing Race Conference in Baltimore this past weekend, but just reading along on Twitter and checking out the updates on Colorlines made me feel like I...
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Reflection and Revisiting: Executive Order 9066
On this day in 1942, three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which set the stage for the removal of over 120,000 Japanese Americans (a...
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Online Organizing for Social Justice tele-clinic this Friday
Rashad Robinson from ColorOfChange.org (last seen around these parts on a Democracy Exchange last year) will be joining a tele-clinic hosted by the Center for Media Justice this coming Friday. The...
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Demos report shows how money in politics restricts economic mobility
A new report from Demos, “Stacked Deck: How the Dominance of Politics By the Affluent and Business Undermines Economic Mobility in America,” shows how the influence held by wealthy political donors...
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Voter ID laws hurt young voters
A study from Cathy J. Cohen of the University of Chicago and Jon C. Rogowski of Washington University in St. Louis previewed today on Politico finds that voter ID laws disproportionately affect young...
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Immigration: A Democracy Issue
“This is what democracy looks like!” So spoke one of the hosts of a gathering of African Diasporan immigrants on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. last week. Participants gathered from near...
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