Thursday, September 8th: Citizen Academy Workshop DC VOTING RIGHTS “Taxation Without Representation!â€? We all know this as one of the rallying cries for advocates of American independence from Great Britain in the eighteenth century, but what is it still doing on the license plates of DC vehicles today? Some tourists may think that as the […]
Anti-War Activists Get their Act Together
With Cyndi Sheehan getting tons of media in Crawford and ANSWER and United for Peace playing nice for their little rally in D.C. at the end of the month (complete with a free concert I’m looking forward to), it seems things are finally coming together. This Post article from today’s paper seems like a good […]
Conservatives Planning March on Washington
The website RightMarch.com is planning a protest to support John Roberts in September, on the date when his hearing is scheduled to begin: RightMarch.com is now a leading sponsor of this HUGE counter-protest, which will take place on September 6, 7, 8 and 9, 2005 in our nation’s capital. … All of these hundreds of […]
ACLU of Michigan Planning Conference
The ACLU of Michigan, where I worked as an intern in 2001, is planning their first-ever statewide conference in Lansing next April. They held a couple highly successful student conferences, and I attended one, so I was excited to hear the news: The ACLU of Michigan and friends are planning our first statewide conference for […]
Roberts In the News
Sen. Patrick Leahy unleashed this zinger yesterday: … Those papers that we have received paint a picture of John Roberts as an eager and aggressive advocate of policies that are deeply tinged with the ideology of the far right wing of his party then, and now. In influential White House and Department of Justice positions, […]
Constitution Day
I just found out that thanks to Senator Robert Byrd, this September 16 has been declared “Constitution Day,” and, The act mandates that all publicly-funded educational institutions provide educational programming on the history of the American Constitution on that day. In May 2005, the United States Department of Education announced the enactment of this law […]
John Roberts on Civil Rights
According to his record, John Roberts would vote to end affirmative action if appointed to the Supreme Court.