CUNY plans to raise tuition again by $300 per year, which is cost prohibitive for CUNY’s student body. Nearly 75 percent of CUNY’s student population are people of color. More than half of the CUNY student body come from households making less than $30,000 per year. Many live in shelters…
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Call the White House to End S-Comm TODAY: Monday, August 15th — Suspend “Secure Communities.” Stop the Detentions & Deportations. Restore our Rights. Investigate the Abuses. White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111 Line is open 9am-5pm Eastern | 8am-4pm Central | 6am-2pm Pacific From the National Immigration Law Center: Join your…
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Notwithstanding Michele Bachmann’s extensive record to the contrary, Bachmann now claims that she does not “judge” gays because she is “running for the presidency.” In 2004, Bachmann has been known to make winning statements such as this: “If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is…
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Women with doctorate level degrees make as much their male counterparts with an undergraduate degree. From ThinkProgress.org: Kay Steiger pulls out this chart from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, which notes that, when it comes to lifetime earnings, women with a Ph.D. make as much as men with…
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The Theft of Wealth from People of Color: Who and What are We Organizing For? by Seeta Persaud The Economic Immobility and Financial Insecurity of POC According to a Pew Research Center study released last week, the median wealth (assets minus debt) for white households is a little over $113,000,…
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Solicitor General Barry Morgan prosecuted Raquel Nelson of Marietta, Georgia, vilifying and persecuting her by persuading the all-middle-class-white jury, who has never had to rely upon public transportation, that she was a living embodiment of the pathological, negligent bad black mother archetype. Raquel Nelson’s crime? She was crossing the street…
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DOJ: Court Should Not Dismiss Karen Golinski’s Health Benefits Claim, Should Instead Find DOMA Unconstitutional The Dept. of Justice argues that DOMA fails intermediate scrutiny, thereby making it unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 5th and 14th Amendments. In evaluating whether such statutes are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court…
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A Caucasian female was recording video of the Rochester police handcuffing an African-American male in the 19th Ward, a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Rochester, NY. The RPD arrested the female for video-taping their activities from her own front lawn. The woman arrested was charged with Obstructing Governmental Administration and has…
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