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Memphis Rally Builds African American Support and Launches Campaign to Maximize Super Tues. Voting Strength

PowerPAC, a nonprofit political advocacy organization, will kickoff its “southern strategy” to maximize the participation of African Americans in the 2008 presidential primaries with a rally in Memphis, followed by an intensive eight-state, four-week get-out-the-vote mobilization.

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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT RULINGS IN VOLUNTARY SCHOOL INTEGRATION CASES

Today’s decision striking down voluntary school integration plans in Louisville, KY and Seattle, WA is a step backward from Brown v. Board of Education. LDF is deeply disappointed that five Justices of the Supreme Court today struck down the voluntary racial integration plans of the Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, school systems as unconstitutional because they were not "narrowly tailored" to take race into account to the minimum extent necessary.

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COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM AND AFRICAN AMERICANS
Who Benefits?

As the immigration debate intensifies, what are the stakes, interests and issues confronting African American communities? What are the benefits and impact of comprehensive immigration reform? The status of current legislation? The dangers of wedge politics?

WHERE: National Council of Negro Women's headquarters -- 633 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Washington, DC. (Yellow Line/Archives; Red Line/Judiciary Square/Gallery Place).

WHEN: June 6, 2007 from 10:00-11:30 am

WHO: Panel includes:

• Wade Henderson, executive director of Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• Dr. Mary Frances Berry, former chair US Civil Rights Commission & historian
• Stephanie Jones, director National Urban League Policy Institute
• Alan Jenkins, executive director the Opportunity Agenda
• Dr. Steven Pitts, economist with Center for Labor Research and Education (UC Berkeley)

Audio access via telephone will also be available. For more information and telephone access, please contact Muriel Cooper -- (202) 833-9771 x 110 or muriel@mckpr.com

Breakfast will be served. By invitation; attendance must be confirmed.

(Were you unable to attend? Listen to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform And African Americans panel discussion here or read the transcript)
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STUDENT LEADER TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE
U.S. Senate Banking Committee Hears USSA President
Jennifer S. Pae

United States Student Association President Jennifer S. Pae will testify before the Senate Banking Committee on behalf of college students saddled with private student loan debt. The Senate, shedding light on recent student loan industry scandals, has invited a well-known student advocate to explain the extent to which private loan debt is crippling an entire generation.

In the past twenty years, tuition costs have increased some 400 percent according to Education Secretary Margaret Spellings. Students enter the workforce in severe debt which has a lasting impact on the American economy.

Who: Jennifer S. Pae, president of USSA
What: "Paying for College: The Role of Private Student Lending"
ljdljkjlkSenate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Hearing
When: Wednesday June 6, 2007 at 10:00 am
Where: 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building

"Education is a right that only hte privileged can afford. College costs continue to skyrocket even as federal grant aid dwindles, leaving students with little hope of affording higher education," said USSA President Jennifer S. Pae.

"Americans who depend on private student loans are outraged by recent loan scandals. We look forward to working with Congress to right this egregious wrong."

Founded in 1947, the United States Student Association is the country's oldest and largest national student organization, representing millions of students.

INTERFAITH COALITION LAUNCHES NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT
Responding to the moral imperative to address the need for more just and humane treatment of immigrants, clergy and communities of faith across the country are offering sanctuary to immigrants with deportation orders. Rooted in the 1980’s sanctuary campaign, the New Sanctuary Movement will launch on May 9th with public events in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and San Diego.

New Sanctuary leadership is available to comment on the upcoming launch.

• Kim Bobo, founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice, the leading national organization that mobilizes religious support for low-wage workers.

• Rabbi Laurie Coskey, Ed.D. , executive director of the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and the spiritual leader of Chavurah Kol Haneshama in San Diego. She most recently joined an interfaith coalition to respond to new round of immigration raids.  

• Father Juan Carlos Ruiz an ordained Roman Catholic priest and the founding director of the Asociacion Tepayac Bronx Community Center. He is currently lead organizer for New Sanctuary Movement activities in New York City.

• Reverend Alexia Salvatierra, executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. A founder of the New Sanctuary Movement who has devoted decades to social justice advocacy.

• Reverend Reginald Swilley, associate pastor of Maranatha Christian Center in San Jose, California, is a past board member of the San Jose Chapter of the NAACP and leader of environment, economic and racial justice campaigns.

Representatives from some 20 cities will also participate in a rolling series of events including signing of the New Sanctuary Movement pledge and presenting new sanctuary congregations and the immigrant families they will support. Sanctuary, in the form of physical, spiritual, financial or legal support, will be offered to families where at least one parent has a deportation order that would separate them from their children and homes.

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DEATH PENALTY OPPONENTS MARK 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Honor McKinney for Public Service Supporting Life
Washington, DC (October 24, 2006) –The mission to preserve life has been the driving force of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) which this weekend marks its 30 th Anniversary and also spotlights the extraordinary public service of Gwen McKinney, president of McKinney & Associates.

"NCADP's 30th Anniversary celebration is an opportunity to recognize some unique individuals who have made special contribution to our struggle,” says Executive Director Diann Rust–Tierney. “Gwen McKinney is being honored for her unstinting efforts promoting NCADP’s work and social justice advocacy in general.”

McKinney shares the honors with several others who have provided legal services, public policy, volunteer support and personal activism including Bishop Walter Sullivan, NAACP Washington Bureau Director Hillary O. Shelton and Washington Wizards’ Etan Thomas.

Commanding a wide range of successful communications campaigns over its 16 years of operation, McKinney’s firm has carved out as niche as one of the nation’s leading social justice public relations firms. She has assisted NCADP and other death penalty foes to marshal public attention around the injustice of state-sponsored executions. The firm embraces the credo ‘Public Relations with a Conscience.’

Says McKinney, “It is particularly affirming to receive this honor from NCADP – an organization that speaks for those often denied a voice. I am humbled in accepting the award and inspired to continue my support of the abolitionist movement.”

McKinney & Associates serves organizations involved in public policy, civil rights advocacy, criminal justice reform and social justice work.

Established in 1976 after executions were reinstituted, NCADP is the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment. NCADP provides information, public policy advocacy, and supports individuals and institutions that share its commitment to end capital punishment.

For more information about McKinney & Associates please visit www.mckpr.com or call (202) 833-9771.

LANDMARK SERIES PORTRAYS REALITY OF HISTORY, RACIAL JUSTICE
Eyes on the Prize Returns to PBS this Fall
(Washington, DC – September 11, 2006) Eyes on the Prize , the award-winning epic documentary about America’s Civil Rights movement, returns to PBS this fall after nearly two decades away from the public airwaves As a special presentation of American Experience. The broadcast will showcase the first six hours of the landmark series that was delivered through the creative genius of the late Henry Hampton and his Blackside production company.

The first two episodes of Eyes on the Prize, “Awakenings” and “Fighting Back,” will air Monday, October 2 at 9 p.m. on PBS, with four additional episodes following in two-hour slots on October 9 and 16.

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MCKINNEY TEAMS WITH OPPORTUNITY AGENDA
Public Education Campaign Addresses Katrina One Year Later
Firm will highlight dozens of events and studies that commemorate the storm
(Washington, DC — August 4, 2006) As the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, media outlets, political commentators, and Americans from a broad cross-section of society are refocusing on the disaster and its aftermath in the Gulf Coast region. Throughout the year, nonprofit organizations, the faith-based community and individuals have contributed to supporting communities and rebuilding the infrastructure that was ripped away. There is also a more effective and positive role the government can play in rebuilding the Gulf Coast and helping to create a stronger infrastructure less vulnerable to the social and economic storms that are still raging.

PROMINENT WOMEN URGE VOTING RIGHTS ACT PASSAGE
Credit VRA for Expanding Minority Women in Elected Office
Congress Expected to Consider Stalled Amendments This Week
(Washington, DC — July 13, 2006) Invoking the power of women as a political force and embracing the three civil rights figures for whom the bill is named, some 60 prominent women today demanded Congress place “substance over symbolism” and immediately pass the Voting Rights Act (VRA) extension.
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LDF APPLAUDS SUPREME COURT RULING IN TEXAS REDISTRICTING CASE
(New York — June 28, 2006) Theodore M. Shaw, director-counsel and president of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), today praised the Supreme Court’s ruling on voting rights issues in four consolidated appeals challenging the 2003 Texas Congressional redistricting plan.
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EXPERTS, CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATES TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESS
House Hearings Document Continued Need for Voting Rights
(Washington, DC — Mar. 8, 2006) Today, one of the year’s most important national policy debates will intensify as the House Subcommittee on the Constitution begins hearings on the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Today’s Congressional oversight hearing, “The Voting Rights Act: Evidence of Continued Need,” will include testimony on three new sets of reports from four nationally recognized civil rights experts:

• Wade Henderson, Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR)
• Bill Lann Lee, chair of the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, and former Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
• Joe Rogers, Commissioner of the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act and former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
• Nadine Strossen, President of the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor of law at New York Law School

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REPORT ON VOTING RIGHTS ACT UNCOVERS NEW DATA
Discrimination Not Confined to the South
(Washington, DC — Feb. 10, 2006) Journalists are invited to call in and learn more about the findings of the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act report, which comes out on Tues., Feb. 21. The report, Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act, 1982 - 2005, uncovers substantial discrimination across the country but also suggests that the VRA has been a powerful deterrent against disenfranchisement and an important safegaurd to equal ballot access for all.
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JATRICE MARTEL GAITER, CEO OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON (PPMW)
(Washington, DC — Jan. 20, 2006) Available for Interviews on the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the ramifications of Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, choice and women of color, the risks of abstinence-only sex education, etc.
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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND OPPOSES ALITO NOMINATION
Report Details Hostility to Civil Rights and Warns of Tipped Balance on High Court
(Washington, DC) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has announced opposition to the nomination of Samuel Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing his hostility to strong enforcement of civil rights laws.
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DIVERSE COALITION SELECTS McKPR FOR CAMPAIGN
McKinney Wins Contract with Voting Rights Act (VRA) Reauthorization Coalition
(Washington, DC -- Dec. 2, 2005) McKinney & Associates, one of DC's premier boutique public policy and social marketing firms, has won a contract to build public awareness about the Congressional reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the need to extend and strengthen it.
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DEMANDS, QUESTIONS ON GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE
Will Poor, People of Color Bear the Brunt of Disaster Across Country?
(New York, NY -- Nov. 14, 2005) The Equal Justice Society (EJS), a national civil rights organization based in San Francisco, will issue a petition to the federal government that seeks answers to the same questions raised in recent public opinion polls: Would the response to Hurricane Katrina have been different if the victims were not mostly poor and people of color? EJS is co-counsel in a lawsuit filed last week against FEMA seeking housing and other assistance for Katrina victims. The EJS petition goes further and calls on the government to take steps to prevent future willful neglect of low-income and minority communities.
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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND HONORS 21ST
CENTURY CHAMPIONS OF VOTING RIGHTS
National Equal Justice Award Dinner Set for Nov. 3
(New York, NY -- Oct. 15, 2005) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will honor advocates of democracy and voting rights at its annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD), the organization’s most important event celebrating the courage and achievements of equal justice champions. The honorees are luminaries in politics, communications and popular culture who have collectively made outstanding contributions to the spirit of equal justice that NEJAD celebrates.
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NATIONAL COMMISSION TO HOLD WESTERN
REGIONAL HEARING ON VOTING RIGHTS SEPT. 27
(Washington, DC – Sept. 20, 2005) The National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, an initiative of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law will hold a hearing to examine the degree of racial discrimination in voting and the impact of the Voting Rights Act since 1982.
(Media Advisory)

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON VOTING RIGHTS ACT LAUNCHES HEARINGS TO EXAMINE VOTING DISCRIMINATION
Panel to Dispel Myths, Document Stories, and Produce Report
(Washington, DC – Sept. 20, 2005) The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has launched the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act with a series of regional hearings across the country soliciting testimony from attorneys, experts, advocates and first-hand experiences of voters to document the record of discrimination in voting since 1982, the last time the Voting Rights Act was reauthorized. The National Commission is writing a report that will be available to stakeholders during the upcoming reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act.
(Media Advisory)

HEADS OF NAACP, NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, AND NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND URGE FAIRNESS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, KATRINA SURVIVORS IN RECOVERY SPENDING
(Washington, DC – Sept. 13, 2005) The heads of three top civil rights organizations today urged President Bush and congressional leaders to be “inclusive” in federal expenditures for Katrina hurricane recovery, and that displaced African Americans and other people of color are given priority for jobs, reconstruction and contracting.
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MCKINNEY WINS CONTRACT TO PROMOTE NEW PBS SERIES
Social Ills: What’s Killing America’s Poor and People of Color?
(Washington, DC – Sept. 8, 2005) Everyone has a common stake in combating the chronic health disparities that are rooted in racial determinants.... “McKinney & Associates is pleased to be awarded the contract to manage publicity and promotion for this groundbreaking and important educational program,” said founder and President Gwen McKinney.

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS CONVENE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VOTING RIGHTS ACT, LAUNCH RENEWAL CAMPAIGN
(Washington – July 26, 2005) The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund will convene a national conference to mark the 40 th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most effective civil rights laws ever passed by Congress. Elected officials, policymakers, community leaders and vast constituencies who compose the nation’s largest civil rights coalition will converge here for this historic conference. The day-long event will include a discussion of the importance of the VRA and its role in advancing equality of voting rights for all Americans and the need to ensure the continued vitality of the Act for years to come.

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND URGES CONSULTATION , INCREASED COMMITMENT TO CIVIL RIGHTS IN O'CONNOR REPLACEMENT
(Washington, DC – July 1, 2005) Underscoring the high stakes in the selection of the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and emphasizing the court’s crucial role in the quest for racial justice, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) urged President Bush to seek bipartisan consultation with the Senate and to avoid the divisive rancor that has characterized recent judicial nominations.
(Release and Statement of Ted Shaw, LDF Director-Counsel and President)

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND HONORS 21ST
CENTURY CHAMPIONS OF VOTING RIGHTS
National Equal Justice Award Dinner Set for Nov. 3
(New York, NY -- Sept. 15, 2005) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will honor advocates of democracy and voting rights at its annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD), the organization’s most important event celebrating the courage and achievements of equal justice champions. The honorees are luminaries in politics, communications and popular culture who have collectively made outstanding contributions to the spirit of equal justice that NEJAD celebrates. (Media Advisory) (Advance Release)

NATIONAL COMMISSION TO HOLD WESTERN
REGIONAL HEARING ON VOTING RIGHTS SEPT. 27
(Washington, DC – Sept. 20, 2005) The National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, an initiative of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law will hold a hearing to examine the degree of racial discrimination in voting and the impact of the Voting Rights Act since 1982.

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON VOTING RIGHTS ACT LAUNCHES HEARINGS TO EXAMINE VOTING DISCRIMINATION
Panel to Dispel Myths, Document Stories, and Produce Report
(Washington, DC – Sept. 20, 2005) The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has launched the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act with a series of regional hearings across the country soliciting testimony from attorneys, experts, advocates and first-hand experiences of voters to document the record of discrimination in voting since 1982, the last time the Voting Rights Act was reauthorized. The National Commission is writing a report that will be available to stakeholders during the upcoming reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act.

HEADS OF NAACP, NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, AND NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND URGE FAIRNESS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, KATRINA SURVIVORS IN RECOVERY SPENDING
(Washington, DC – Sept. 13, 2005) The heads of three top civil rights organizations today urged President Bush and congressional leaders to be “inclusive” in federal expenditures for Katrina hurricane recovery, and that displaced African Americans and other people of color are given priority for jobs, reconstruction and contracting. (Release)
LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH      LETTER TO CONGRESS

MCKINNEY WINS CONTRACT TO PROMOTE NEW PBS SERIES
Social Ills: What’s Killing America’s Poor and People of Color?
(Washington, DC – Sept. 8, 2005) Everyone has a common stake in combating the chronic health disparities that are rooted in racial determinants.... “McKinney & Associates is pleased to be awarded the contract to manage publicity and promotion for this groundbreaking and important educational program,” said founder and President Gwen McKinney.

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS CONVENE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VOTING RIGHTS ACT, LAUNCH RENEWAL CAMPAIGN
(Washington – July 26, 2005) The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund will convene a national conference to mark the 40 th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most effective civil rights laws ever passed by Congress. Elected officials, policymakers, community leaders and vast constituencies who compose the nation’s largest civil rights coalition will converge here for this historic conference. The day-long event will include a discussion of the importance of the VRA and its role in advancing equality of voting rights for all Americans and the need to ensure the continued vitality of the Act for years to come.

TED SHAW, HEAD OF NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Available for Interviews on Racial Justice, the Constitution and
High Stakes Supreme Court Vacancies .

LEGAL DEFENSE FUND URGES CONSULTATION , INCREASED COMMITMENT TO CIVIL RIGHTS IN O'CONNOR REPLACEMENT
( Washington, DC – July 1, 2005) Underscoring the high stakes in the selection of the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and emphasizing the court’s crucial role in the quest for racial justice, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) urged President Bush to seek bipartisan consultation with the Senate and to avoid the divisive rancor that has characterized recent judicial nominations. Release and Statement of Ted Shaw, Director-Counsel and President.

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND PLEDGES TO SEEK RELIEF FOR BLACK AND LATINO PARKS EMPLOYEES IN DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT
(June 8, 2005--New York, NY)-- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced today that it will continue to pursue its class action discrimination lawsuit against the New York City Parks Department on behalf of African-American and Hispanic employees despite the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) settlement of its separate civil rights suit against the Parks Department. DOJ's settlement will not affect plaintiffs' lawsuit because of significant differences in claims in the two cases.

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND RECEIVES $1 MILLION GIFT FROM DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY TO SUPPORT VOTING RIGHTS
Washington – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. has pledged a million dollars to The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) to support its voting rights work. The gift will mark the 40 th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON VOTING RIGHTS ACT LAUNCHES HEARINGS EXAMINING DISCRIMINATION IN VOTING
On behalf of the civil rights community, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has launched the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act with a series of regional hearings across the country soliciting testimony from attorneys, experts, advocates and first-hand experiences of voters to document the record of discrimination in voting since 1982, the last time the Voting Rights Act was reauthorized. The National Commission is writing a report that will be available to stakeholders during the upcoming reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOOD SERVICE MANAGERS WIN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT FOR DIVERSITY
More than 2,000 African American managers, representing the nation's largest race employment class action lawsuit, on April 27 concluded an $80 million settlement with the food and facilities management Sodexho Alliance in an agreement that includes sweeping changes in diversity and affirmative action practices throughout the corporation.

CIVIL RIGHTS COALITION LAMENTS DEPARTURE OF BERRY, REYNOSO
Wade Henderson , Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest, largest and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, issued the following statement regarding the resignations of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) Chairperson Mary Frances Berry and Vice Chairperson Cruz Reynoso.

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
In an appeal for healing a nation deeply torn across a wide ideological divide, the leaders of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today urged President Bush to forge a stronger commitment to embracing civil rights.

LDF MARKS BROWN 50th ANNIVERSARY
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will unveil a limited edition lithograph created by the renowned African-American artist Benny Andrews at a reception on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at the ACA Galleries to mark the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.

OHIO GOP TARGETS CLEVELAND'S BLACK VOTERS
A continuing voter suppression campaign by the Ohio state Republican Party targeting African American voters in Cleveland is designed to cause widespread chaos and intimidation on November 2nd, concludes ACORN, which today urged the Board of Elections to dismiss the Republican challenge of 17,000 voters in the Cleveland area. (Oct 26, 2004)

DEMOCRACY SOUTH: MAKING DEMOCRACY HAPPEN
Analysis and Interpretation of the Racial Composition of Returned
Voter Applications in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. (Oct 25, 2004)

NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS (BOE) RESPONDS TO LDF CONCERNS
New York City Board of Elections responds to LDF concerns
to correct and inform newly registered voters of erroneous information. The New York media is asked to inform the public of the corrective action and new voters of their right to vote on election day. (Oct 22 2004)

ELECTION 2004 MEDIA TIPS
Unprecedented turnout of “unlikely” voters expected as civil rights lawyers prepare for potential battle. (Oct 22, 2004)

ACORN CONTINUES HISTORIC MOBILIZATION OF NEW VOTERS
Backed by an army of volunteers and neighborhood activists working 12-hour days and enlisted from the untold ranks of the “unlikely,” the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has delivered more than 1.1 million voter registration cards to state and county election offices throughout the country. (Oct 13, 2004)

LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ELECTION PROTECTION
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund along with other public interest organizations, have launched an Election Protection campaign to safeguard minority voters and to avert a repeat of the 2000 Presidential Election debacles this November. (Sep 22, 2004)

LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS ELECTION PROTECTION REPORT SUMMARY (pdf)
A study by Caltech and MIT confirmed that between 4 million and 6 million votes were not counted in the 2000 election as a result of fundamental flaws in the electoral process. (Sep 22, 2004)