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There are currently 35 states that have ratified the ERA and legal analysis suggests we may need just three more states for women to have equal rights under our Constitution. We ask you to support our efforts nationwide, particularly in the states that have not yet ratified the ERA: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, N. Carolina, Oklahoma, S. Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. We also ask you to place your full support behind Congressional legislation to eliminate deadlines on the original 1972 ERA. It is time our Constitution protects the rights of women, and women need and deserve active participation in ERA advocacy from the White House.
Carroll said no one took the names of the attendees who threw peanuts at her Tuesday on the convention floor and told her, “This is what we feed animals.” She alerted fellow camera operators, producers and CNN security. The head of the delegation — she was not certain of the state — told her the perpetrators must have been alternates, not delegates.
But Carroll, 34, said that as an Alabama native, she was not surprised. “This is Florida, and I’m from the Deep South,” she said. “You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don’t think I should do.
An Alabama teenager who came to Iowa City earlier this month to visit family members is missing after police say he boarded a Greyhound bus to go home but never made a bus transfer in Davenport.
Donald Marshall, 16, is originally from Iowa City and recently moved to Alabama with family members, according to police. He was back in town to visit relatives and attend camp. On July 16, family members took Marshall to the bus depot in Iowa City, and he boarded a Greyhound bus to return to Alabama, according to police.
Marshall was scheduled to get into Montgomery, Ala., in the early morning hours July 17, but he never arrived, police reported. After further investigation, officers discovered that Marshall never made a scheduled bus transfer in Davenport on July 16.
Marshall is described as African-American, 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds. Family members said they don’t believe he has any connections in Davenport, according to police.
Anyone with information on Marshall’s whereabouts can call the Iowa City Area CrimeStoppers at (319) 358-TIPS (8477). Anonymity is guaranteed, according to police, and individuals who provide information don’t have to reveal their name to collect a reward. Individuals with information also can contact their local police department.
There is NO Amber Alert and the police believe the children are endangered. PLEASE SHARE. Do not let an image fool you, some kidnappers are described as “quiet and nice”. The last thing we want to do is not share a story because of what the media is saying and they end up in a bad situation. The survival time for a missing child is 48 hours. The twins were taken SUNDAY. Their time is up. You all know that if they were a different color, they would be national news by now. That will not happen with this case if no one cares enough to SHARE! Please pass this story along even if you THINK they will be back home before we know it. Thanks for your help.
Univision News Tumblr: Immigration law worries mobile home owners in Alabama
By JUAN GASTELUM
Channel: ImmigrationA provision in Alabama’s immigration law that prohibits the state from conducting business with undocumented immigrants is keeping many mobile home owners from renewing their registration tags. Last week, a federal judge issued a temporary…
Derrick Mason is scheduled to die in Alabama tonight
The judge in his case has requested clemency, not least because he had inadequate legal representation which led to the suppression of mitigating factors in his case.
And again, for those who say that the death penalty in the United States is not about race—Derrick Mason is a Black man accused of killing a white woman.
You can contact Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to ask him to reconsider his denial of clemency in this case.
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The Nation's Cruelest Immigration Law
From The New York Times:
The Alabama Legislature opened its session on March 1 on a note of humility and compassion. In the Senate, a Christian pastor asked God to grant members “wisdom and discernment” to do what is right. “Not what’s right in their own eyes,” he said, “but what’s right according to your word.” Soon after, both houses passed, and the governor signed, the country’s cruelest, most unforgiving immigration law.
The law, which takes effect Sept. 1, is so inhumane that four Alabama church leaders — an Episcopal bishop, a Methodist bishop and a Roman Catholic archbishop and bishop — have sued to block it, saying it criminalizes acts of Christian compassion. It is a sweeping attempt to terrorize undocumented immigrants in every aspect of their lives, and to make potential criminals of anyone who may work or live with them or show them kindness.
It effectively makes it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant in Alabama, by criminalizing working, renting a home and failing to comply with federal registration laws that are largely obsolete. It nullifies any contracts when one party is an undocumented immigrant. It requires the police to check the papers of people they suspect to be here illegally.
The new regime does not spare American citizens. Businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants will lose their licenses. Public school officials will be required to determine students’ immigration status and report back to the state. Anyone knowingly “concealing, harboring or shielding” an illegal immigrant could be charged with a crime, say for renting someone an apartment or driving her to church or the doctor.
Vandals strike Birmingham, AL office of Hispanic group challenging immigration law | al.com
- Some things never change.
Stay Classy, Birmingham
Jeff Sessions: The Secretive Senator
- What is Senator Sessions’ policy on issuing secret holds? Does he place them, and has he issued them in the past?
- Does the Senator think there are issues that his constituents do not have the right to know his position on?
- Specifically, what issues does Senator Sessions believe his constituents do not have the right to know his position on?
- I understand that Senator Sessions is one of only four senators who has not confirmed or denied placing a secret hold on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act — also known as the WPEA or S. 372 — on the last day of Congress in December. Is this correct, that the Senator has not denied objecting to this bill’s passage?
- What is the Senator’s basis for not telling the public whether he blocked enactment of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act?
On the day of his swearing-in, Alabama Republican Gov. Robert J. Bentley raised concern among the state’s non-Christians by declaring that people who had not accepted Jesus Christ were not his brothers and sisters.
Speaking to a large crowd Monday at Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church — where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached — Bentley said that “if you’re a Christian and you’re saved … it makes you and me brother and sister,” according to a report in the Birmingham News.
“Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters,” he added, according to the paper. “So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother.
OK, everyone who voted for this man: go to the chalkboard and copy this phrase 25 times:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Donors to his campaign need to copy it an additional 10 times for each dollar they contributed to this schmuck.
Alabama governor: Non-Christians are ‘not my brother’ - latimes.com
