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Do you know your rights? These easy-to-use resources were created by the ACLU so you can have your rights at your fingertips.
Do you know your rights? These easy-to-use resources were created by the ACLU so you can have your rights at your fingertips.
Excellent resource. Check it out, and share.
HARRY POTTER series!
The cutest.
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Indigenous People’s Day Photo Project 2013
“Dear Columbus…”
Photo Credit: Andrew Burlingham
South Puget Sound Community College’s Diversity & Equity Center
Olympia, WA
Today, nine countries in the United States officially recognize Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day.
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Obama’s new pick to run the civil rights division is as passionate an advocate for racial justice as you could find. But will that help or hurt her nomination?
The Obama administration has chosen a harsh critic of the criminal justice system to run the civil rights division of the Justice Department, even as his party appears on the verge of losing the Senate.
The ACLU announced Wednesday that Vanita Gupta, their deputy legal director and head of their Justice Center, was being nominated for the job.
“I think it shows some real commitment to civil rights on the part of the administration that they’re putting forth another serious civil rights lawyer after Debo [Adegbile’s] nomination,” said Sam Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former top lawyer in the division.
Gupta is as passionate an advocate for racial justice as you could find. At a time when the Obama administration faces a potential Republican majority in the Senate — and having lost a tough nomination battle over the nominee’s connection to a racially charged murder case involving a police officer — they chose a nominee who has spent the last decade attacking racism in the American criminal justice system. Gupta has called for the decriminalization of marijuana, criticized the militarization of local police, and gone after cops engaging in “highway robbery” through civil asset forfeiture laws.
Given Gupta’s skill set, it’s hard not to imagine that the scenes coming out of Ferguson, Missouri, where tensions between the black community and a mostly white police force erupted into ongoing protests, influenced the administration’s decision. In many ways, Gupta’s job at the ACLU was policing the police. As head of the civil rights division, she’ll do that with the power of the federal government at her back.
As an attorney with the NAACP LDF, Gupta helped overturn the drug convictions of dozens of black and Hispanic residents of Tulia, Texas, in a sting orchestrated by a local sheriff who was later convicted of perjury. In her work for the ACLU, Gupta has focused on ending the War on Drugs and curtailing mass incarceration, policies she sees as having devastated communities of color.
“Our country, at the state and federal level, has used the criminal justice system to wage a merciless drug war selectively in poor communities, especially in black and brown ones,” Gupta wrote in January.
That’s significant, because the Obama administration’s enforcement of civil rights laws — particularly when it comes to voting rights and housing — has often proved controversial on the right. When Attorney General Eric Holder announced he was resigning last month, Ilya Shapiro, a legal analyst at the Cato Institute, compared Holder to segregationist politician George Wallace.
Obama’s first choice for the job was Debo Adegbile, a celebrated Supreme Court litigator and attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Democratic control of the Senate couldn’t save Adegbile’s nomination from being shot down over his representation of a man convicted of the murder of a police officer.
While at the NAACP LDF, Adegbile helped reverse the decision to sentence Mumia Abu-Jamal to death for the 1981 killing of Officer Daniel Faulkner. The courts found that the judge’s instructions to the jury during his sentencing had been improper,and Abu-Jamal is now serving life in prison. Republicans pilloried Adegbile over his role in the case, and his nomination became so toxic that a handful of Democrats crossed the aisle to vote down his nomination in March.
Though the catalyst for Republican opposition to Adegbile was the Abu-Jamal case, the larger backdrop was an ongoing ideological dispute between right and left over the continuing impact of racial discrimination and the federal government’s role in fighting it.
There’s no question about where Gupta comes down in that argument.
Nevertheless, Gupta’s work on criminal justice reform has drawn allies from across the political spectrum. Many Republicans and conservative elites have come to believe mass incarceration and the War on Drugs are costly and counterproductive. In announcing her nomination, the ACLU sent out a statement with praise from conservative luminaries Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform and David Keene, the former chair of the American Conservative Union.
A nominee with a background in voting rights or housing discrimination would have had a very difficult time being confirmed. By picking Gupta, Obama has chosen a nominee who has spent her career fighting for racial justice and against the abuses of big government at the same time.
It’s an open question whether that will translate to any Republican support in the Senate, where the partisan divide over the role of the federal government in enforcing civil rights laws is no closer to being resolved than it was months ago.
“I think the administration is hoping they will get some Republican support because of Gupta’s work with conservatives on criminal justice issues,” said Bagenstos. “It’s a really polarized environment.”
Vanita Gupta appeared on the Daily Show to discuss civil asset forfeiture in July 2014.
Via thedailyshow.cc.com
Source: Adam Serwer for Buzzfeed News
Very proud of ACLU's Vanita Gupta! She'll make such an excellent leader for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. Excellent choice by Holder.
I see where they are coming from with that thought….
I thought the same thing...
Let's Make Fun Of: Anthropologie Furniture
I love to hate Anthropologie furniture. In particular, the way they stage it for their website. There’s this gross fantasy they’ve created of an art student who can afford to spend thousands of dollars on a paint-splattered flea market find. It’s like all their customers are aspiring to be Charlotte in Tiny Furniture (a loft-dwelling trust fund dilettante).
They’ve gone off the deep end with the juxtaposition. You know those fashion editorials every fall where models lasagned in Prada swing around street signs in Red Hook? It’s like that, but on acid. The settings are more deteriorated and the designs are more design-y. It’s like shopping from deep within Fuck Your Noguchi Coffee Table.
If you choose to purchase a piece of Anthropologie furniture, it will only really look right in one of three settings:
1. An alternative gallery space six weeks from opening
2. An urban cabin with faulty electrical wiring
3. A crumbling Southern plantation (soon to be deemed “the new loft” by the NYTimes)
Let’s take a stroll through the Anthropologie furniture section together. What’s for sale today?
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SalvaCultura: THIS WEEK IN CENTRAL AMERICAN NEWS AUGUST 1ST, 2014
Central American Children Humanize Their Struggle Before Congress Three Central American Children testified before the Congressional Progressive Caucus in Washington D.C. on Tuesday July 29th, 2014. The children were: Mayeli Hernández, 12, migrated from Honduras last year in July of 2013; Dulce Medina, 15, came from Guatemala five years; and Saúl Martínez, 15, from El Salvador, the most recent refugee to arrive in just April of this year. All of the children made their journey as unaccompanied minors. They shared their experiences of violence in Central America, their arduous journey through Mexico and into the United States, as well as the abuse and dehumanization they faced in U.S. immigration facilities upon arrival. Speaking directly to their time spent in the “ice-boxes” or unbearably cold holding cells without blankets or warm clothing, the children recounted how in some cases people would turn blue due to the slowing of blood circulation. Saúl Martinez had this to say, “Please don’t mistreat children the way your government has mistreated me. Finally, I want to ask you not to deport children like me because it’s very possible that you will deport them to violence and to their death.” Watch the full video here.
"Why Nicaraguan Kids Aren’t Fleeing to the U.S.” San Diego radio station KPBS discusses Nicaragua’s absence from the unaccompanied Central American children debate. Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Central America, has a difficult history of war and violence yet doesn’t have masses of children heading to the U.S.-Mexico border. This article attempts to find the reasons for the Nicaraguan exception from this humanitarian crisis. The piece suggests the lower rates of criminal activity, community policing, the successes of the Sandinista revolution, and the individual decisions of many Nicaraguans to forego the American Dream for work, advancement, and stability in neighboring Costa Rica. Read the full article here. El Salvador Part of a United Latin American Front Against Israel El Salvador is one of five countries in Latin America, and the only one in Central America, to recall its ambassadors from Tel Aviv. El Salvador follows the example of Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Peru who have done the same. It is worth mentioning that Cuba was the first Latin American country to sever ties with Israel in 1973. Venezuela and Bolivia both cut diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009. Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Uruguay have also condemned the Israeli assault but have not formally cut ties with the State of Israel. El Salvador, which has a sizeable Palestinian community living on its soil, continues to protest against Israel’s illegal military offensive in Gaza. The Salvadoran Ministry of External Relations recently stated, “This action is taken before the serious escalation of violence and implementation of indiscriminate bombing from Israel into the Gaza Strip that has killed children, girls, women and men.” Read the article in Spanish here. Co-written and co-curated by salviprince and Jorge Cuéllar For more visit www.SalvaCultura.com
Here’s a by-the-numbers look at who lives in Ferguson, who’s in charge, who gets stopped by police, and more.
Wow.
