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澳彩开奖 Action Fund Urges Defense Secretary Mark Esper to Remove Confederate Symbols from its Installations Around the World

July 16, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� 澳彩开奖 Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to Defense Secretary Mark Esper鈥檚 four-page memo that calls for expanded diversity within the military, but omits any...

澳彩开奖 Action Fund Statement on Sebastian Gorka鈥檚 nomination to the National Security Education Board

July 15, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� 澳彩开奖 Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the statement below after the White House announced the appointment of Sebastian Gorka 鈥� a right-wing media figure who injects Islamophobia...

澳彩开奖 Publishes Extremist File for White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller

July 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) today released a new Extremist File on Stephen Miller , White House senior adviser and far-right extremist, who has been influential in shaping the Trump administration鈥檚...

澳彩开奖 Whose Heritage? Dataset Updates as of July 14, 2020

July 14, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) today released an update to its Whose Heritage? report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...

澳彩开奖: Tomorrow, Alabama Holds Elections without Public Health Safeguards amidst COVID-19聽Pandemic

July 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� Alabama will hold primary runoff elections statewide tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14. The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the 澳彩开奖: 鈥淭omorrow, as the state...

澳彩开奖 Action Fund Calls for Montgomery Public Schools to Rename Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Sidney Lanier High Schools

July 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� On Tuesday night, July 14, during a board meeting of the Montgomery Public Schools, a group of alumni, students and community members will call on members to eliminate Confederate iconography and rename...

PFPS Statement on Trump Administration鈥檚 Announcement of Push to Fund Private Schools

July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a campaign of 澳彩开奖 Action Fund, Education Law Center, and Munger, Tolles & Olson, issued the statement below following recent announcements that the Trump administration plans...

After 28th person dies from COVID-19 in Florida prisons, Florida CCJR calls again for action from state officials

July 10, 2020

Tallahassee, Fla.- As Florida officials continue resisting efforts to significantly reduce the prison population and have been slow to publicly reveal their plans for handling a coronavirus outbreak in prisons, the 28th person...

澳彩开奖: Saturday鈥檚 Louisiana Election 'Needlessly Exposes People to COVID-19'

July 10, 2020

NEW ORLEANS - Tomorrow, Louisiana will hold a statewide presidential preference primary and municipal primary election. The following statement is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the 澳彩开奖 : 鈥�...

PFPS Applauds States Suing to Strike Down Secretary DeVos鈥� Illegal CARES Act Rule

July 08, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) commends the Attorneys General of several states for filing a lawsuit yesterday to block the Trump Administration鈥檚 attempt to divert critically needed emergency federal funds from...

澳彩开奖: Rise of One America News Network鈥檚 Jack Posobiec Tied to White Supremacist Movement

July 08, 2020

Posobiec has been praised by President Trump ATLANTA 鈥� The 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Hatewatch today released the first two installments of an investigative series into the background of One America News Network (OANN) host...

澳彩开奖: Settlement Confirms Exploitation of Workers Targeted by ICE

July 08, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� The 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) issued the following statement by Julia Sol贸rzano, staff attorney with the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Immigrant Justice Project, responding to the settlement which forces an East Tennessee...

澳彩开奖 Whose Heritage Dataset Updates as of July 7, 2020

July 07, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) today released an update to its Whose Heritage report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...

Advocates Demand Alabama Protect Children in Sequel Facilities Across the State

July 06, 2020

(July 6, 2020 鈥� Montgomery, Ala.) 鈥� Today children鈥檚 rights advocates sent a letter of concern urging leaders in Alabama to take sweeping and immediate action to protect foster youth placed in facilities operated by Sequel Youth...

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Asylum Transit Ban

July 06, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� A federal appeals court has upheld a block on the Trump administration鈥檚 attempt to make individuals who traveled through a third country on the way to the United States before arriving at the southern border...

Groups聽Respond聽to SCOTUS Decision to Grant Stay Application in Alabama Voting Case

July 02, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an emergency stay of a lower court injunction in People First of Alabama v. Merrill. Four justices noted in writing they would deny the application for stay...

澳彩开奖 Action Fund Responds to President Trump Threatening to Veto the Department of Defense Authorization Bill

July 01, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The 澳彩开奖 Action Fund鈥檚 Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to President Trump鈥檚 tweet threatening to veto the Department of Defense Authorization bill if it includes the amendment...

澳彩开奖 Action Fund Statement on Florida鈥檚 E-Verify Expansion

July 01, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. 鈥� Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday signed into law Senate Bill 664, an expansion of Florida鈥檚 E-Verify policy. The new law requires Florida鈥檚 public employers, including municipalities, local governments, and any...

Advocates Urge Georgia Dept. of Ed. Provide Proactive Measures to Meet the Needs of All Students During COVID-19

July 01, 2020

ATLANTA 鈥� Today, advocates from eight student rights and education advocacy organizations sent a letter to Georgia officials urging proactive and equitable measures to address the challenges that the COVID-19 crisis has had and...

澳彩开奖 Action Fund Statement: Florida Gov. DeSantis Shifts Public Funds From MSD Guardian Program

June 30, 2020

Tallahassee, Fla. 鈥� 澳彩开奖 Action Fund Managing Attorney, Children鈥檚 Rights, Bacardi Jackson released the statement below after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reappropriated over $41 million dollars from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas...

澳彩开奖 Action Fund Calls on Georgia Governor to Veto Three Harmful Bills

June 30, 2020

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Today 澳彩开奖 Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang sent a letter to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp asking him to veto three pieces of legislation that have passed the state House and Senate. 鈥淲e write to urge...

PFPS Statement on SCOTUS decision in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue

June 30, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS), a campaign of the 澳彩开奖, 澳彩开奖 Action Fund, Education Law Center, and Munger, Tolles & Olson, issued the below statement following the U.S. Supreme Court...

PERIL and 澳彩开奖 Publish Guide to Help Parents and Caregivers Understand Risks of Online Radicalization During Times of Unrest

June 30, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� In the midst of a pandemic and nationwide protests against racial injustice, American University鈥檚 Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) and the 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) today...

澳彩开奖 Joins #StopHateforProfit Campaign

June 30, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) is joining the #StopHateforProfit campaign launched earlier this month by the Anti-Defamation League, Color of Change, Common Sense Media, Free Press, the NAACP and...

澳彩开奖 Action Fund: After Flag Vote, Mississippi Legislators Take聽Additional Steps to Help聽"Dismantle Vestiges of White Supremacy"

June 30, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. 鈥� The following statement is regarding the passage of the HCR 47 conference report yesterday in the Mississippi Legislature, which will put a constitutional amendment on the November 2020 ballot to end the two-...

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