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RACIAL INJUSTICE IN CONNECTICUT
From
Inequities in the Application of Criminal Law and Responses to
Violent Crime to Disparities in the Provision of Health Care; From
Anti-Latino and Misogynist University "Cartoons" to Anti-Arab Immigration Policies, Racism is Alive and Well in Connecticut.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
9 AM Gather at Firestone
(Main/Albany Intersection)
9:30 AM Press Conference
10 AM March to Bushnell Park Bandshell
Wear Black to Show Your Support.
Speakers: Thirman Milner, Cornell Lewis, Kamora Herrington.
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COMMENTARY
"People of color do not merit legislative hearings when over a hundred adolescents or men are murdered in this city of Hartford. Let me be clear. There are very few reporters seen on television hands shaking or with watery eyes when two black youth have their faces blown away with shotgun blasts. Let me be clear. When seen through the eyes of Caucasians, only beautiful life bestowed with white skin privilege is valued."
-- Cornell Lewis
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"The publication of this cartoon seems to be a symptom of a much bigger problem at CCSU. The response by university President Jack Miller leaves much to be desired. . . .Miller sounds like a disappointed father, not the leader a college president should be. He is only now, in the face of more controversy, recommending implementation of some of the proposals that were presented last May by the task force on journalism."
-- Bessy Reyna, Hartford Courant
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"When it comes to Senator Louis DeLuca's malfeasance, the silence of the tough-on-crime, three-strikes-you're-out legislators is deafening. If a man of color from an urban community were to hire a reputed mobster to assault someone, that man would likely go to prison for conspiracy along with the actual assailant."
-- Frank O'Gorman
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"The bigoted items in the student newspaper, The Recorder, are just symptomatic of a campus climate that has tolerated bigotry and intolerance for far too long."
-- Moises F. Salinas, Hartford Courant
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The U.S. deported Said Zaim-Sassi to Morocco last week.
"A Wallingford family is now broken. Said's kids don't know when they will see
their father again.
What is the government's purpose in separating Said Zaim's family,
Elvira Arellano's family, and the families of so many others? To
instill fear in the immigrant community and to force immigrants to
live as an underclass, i.e., to forget rights, to forget dignity, and
to forget respect.
But the movement for immigrant rights will continue until immigrant
workers are fully legal. The government's raids and deportation
strategy will not work."
-- Khalil Iskarous
STOP THE RAIDS! AMNESTY NOW!