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Civil Rights and Liberties NewsATHENS BANNER-HERALD: "Left for dead", Amelia Robinson recalls voting rights struggleDate: February 21, 2010MCLARTY: Fighting corporate power in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United rulingDate: February 13, 2010ELIGON: Racial Roots Underlie Debate on Felons' Voting RightsDate: February 12, 2010Take ActionEventsU.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! Democracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. Local Democracy Convention: The Community Power Road to DemocracyThe Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two. Whether you have been doing local democracy work for years, or are just discovering that your concerns are directly related to local power and democracy, join us this fall for what is sure to be a defining moment in the development of a new democracy movement in the United States! Publications & TalksAlabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform introduce new film on 1901 constitutional convention(February 28, 2010)Open Secret is a filmed re-enactment of Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention, which produced the constitution which Alabama currently operates under. Delegates to the convention openly discussed ways to disenfranchise black and poor white voters, and dismiss women's right to vote. Video from the Local Democracy ConventionEdited video footage from the 2006 Local Democracy Convention is now online, and also available for order! PROGRESSIVE STATES: Community Policing as an Alternative to Local Enforcement of Immigration Law(November 9, 2009)Recognizing the financial and social costs of anti-immigrant approaches, more states and communities, as this Stateside Dispatch will outline, are looking to alternative solutions that emphasize community policing that incorporates immigrant community leaders into law enforcement efforts, protects witnesses and victims of crimes from harassment to encourage them to come forward in investigations, and restricts racial profiling to prevent police efforts from harming law-abiding citizens. Community policing is a commonly used and accepted method of combating crime by forming collaborative partnerships between law enforcement agencies and the individuals and organizations they serve to develop solutions to problems and increase trust in police. |
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