This week in Washington, people from Detroit, Tucson, New Orleans, San Diego, Atlanta and nine other cities gathered to celebrate doing the impossible. The participants share a tough job: getting homeless veterans off the street and into apartments and social services. They work in cities that have large numbers of homeless vets — but most
In response to the California Assembly’s recent passage of a resolution calling on university administations to address what it calls “anti-Semitism” on California campuses, a group of academics have written an open letter of opposition to each of the 66 Assemblymembers who authored and/or sponsored the resolution.
Read more in The Electronic Intifada: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/scholars-voice-opposition-california-assembly-resolution-anti-semitism
The Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives is scrutinizing the National Labor Relations Board for its recent actions on labor organizing in higher education.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/US-House-Scrutinizes-NLRB/134292/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
NASHVILLE Tenn. – Democratic leaders point to insulting comments made by two Republican lawmakers to the Legislature’s Black caucus in calling for legislators to undergo diversity and sensitivity training.
Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/article/47933/
Los Angeles and other cities are barred by the U.S. Constitution from randomly seizing and destroying property homeless people temporarily leave unattended on city streets, a federal appeals court decided Wednesday.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0906-homeless-lapd-20120906,0,5152005.story
WASHINGTON — A federal court on Thursday struck down a Texas law that would have required voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting their ballots in November, ruling that the law would hurt turnout among minority voters and impose “strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor” by charging those voters who lack proper documentation fees
WASHINGTON — A federal court has ruled for the first time that a strict photo identification law discriminates against poor and minority voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act, barring Texas from enforcing its new requirement at polling places this fall.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-texas-voting-20120831,0,4898092.story
The slurs rang out each time he left or came home to the south Orange County condo he shared with his partner, reaching the point where he thought about just giving up and moving.
“They were destroying my life … with the worst experience of my life,” said the Laguna Niguel resident, who asked to go
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – An Assembly resolution urging California colleges and universities to squelch nascent anti-Semitism also encouraged educators to crack down on demonstrations against Israel, angering advocates for Muslim students.
Read more in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: http://diverseeducation.com/article/17341/
A federal court in Washington ruled on Tuesday that political maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature in Texas discriminated against minority voters, a decision that black and Hispanic groups claimed as a victory and the state attorney general vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/us/federal-court-calls-texas-voting-maps-discriminatory.html?src=rechp