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Final whistle for 514 families as Haitian government illegally closes stadium camp

By Beatrice Lindstrom, Human rights lawyer and Lawyers’ Earthquake Response Network (LERN) Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti/ Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, This post was co-authored by Jocelyn Brooks, who is an Ella Baker associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights, based at the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, [...]

Outside of Bank of America’s former headquarters in San Francisco, there is a sculpture that locals have dubbed a “banker’s heart.” The NAACP has come under fire for its “partnership” with cold-hearted Wells Fargo, which is being sued by states and municipalities for discriminatory and predatory mortgage lending practices. Up until a few weeks ago, [...]

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Article also written by Christy Rogers The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) securities fraud case against Goldman Sachs seems to indicate that Wall Streeters care more about their own paychecks than that of their investors — a practice that Michael Lewis brought home not only recently with The Big Short, but over 20 years [...]

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Last week’s apology by city of Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly, for the evictions and razing of the African-Canadian community of Africville in Nova Scotia during the 1960s, marks a small but significant moment in the history of slavery and racism in Canada. The official apology issued February 24, 2010, made on behalf of Halifax Regional Council [...]

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In response to our nation’s ongoing economic challenges, a new federal jobs bill is expected from Congress soon. The Kirwan Institute has been tracking the impact of federal efforts to alleviate the economic crisis for the past year.  Given our experiences tracking the impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and other federal relief programs, [...]

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“It is an old maxim and a very sound one that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. . . I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler.” President Abraham Lincoln made this profound statement in 1837, yet it remains applicable today. The people have once again bailed [...]

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The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President, gave me hope that our Country was at last moving forward from centuries of racist thought and practice. By the fall of 2009, the President was rejecting suggestions that political opposition was couched in racist thinking. US News on September 16, 2009, reported that “President [...]

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What a long, strange year it’s been. A year that began with the loud insistence by some that Barack Obama’s election confirmed the United States as an essentially colorblind, post-racial nation went on to present a series of spectacular counterpoints to that claim – flaps over Attorney General Eric Holder’s “nation of cowards” race speech, [...]

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The following is a statement from PolicyLink CEO Angela Glover Blackwell on President Obama’s first State of the Union address: “A recovery that merely recreates our inequitable pre-recession economy is no recovery at all. Throughout his first year and his first State of the Union address, President Obama has made it clear that all Americans [...]

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Read President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address here. “Last night’s speech was President Obama at his oratorical best. Powerful opening—great walk through the struggles of our nation’s history. He was Presidential and confident. He was humble, yet scolding of the politicians that filled the chamber. The best line of the night came from [...]

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