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When Genarlow's mom came into my office, if you had said 31 months later we'd still be dealing with this and all of the things that happened, I would have said 'No way,'" said Brenda Joy (BJ) Bernstein, [Thomas H. Wilson]'s attorney. "When I looked at her, I said, 'Oh, we have to get the law changed,'" she recalled. "In retrospect, that was correct and yet a little Pollyanna-thinking that people would just see-just like in the Marcus Dixon* case they saw-and we would eventually get this righted. "We're in waiting mode," says Bernstein. "This has been such a long path. Everything that could be done on his behalf has been done. My lesson, as well as, I think, Genarlow's mom's and Genarlow's, has been letting go now and just waiting He's edgy and I have been edgy, and I've been trying to...
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In response to the President's question about Patriotic Gore, a work which began with scathing criticism of the U.S. government, especially "the ease with which an appetite for war can be created and wrapped in moral justification, [while] individual thought [is] surrendered to a corporate bureaucratic machine," Wilson told the President bluntly to read it for himself.
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WASHINGTON, July 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department today announced an agreement with Wilson County, N.C., to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department's wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA is 20 years old this month, and I commend Wilson County officials for making this commitment to take the necessary steps to ensure equal access to civic life for the county's residents with disabilities," said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "The Civil Rights Division is committed to vigorous enforcement of the ADA, and...
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Justice: Karl Rove never charged in case Former Ambassador Joe Wilson believes "justice has been served" by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 30-month prison sentence for lying to investigators probing the outing of Wilson's wife as a CIA agent.
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Standout pieces in the volume include Ruth Wilson Gilmore's geographic privileging of "forgotten places" in prison abolition movements, Joäo Costa Vargas's refashioning of ethnographic methods to produce scholarship in the service of Los Angeles-based grassroots organizations, and Laura Pulido's FAQ to address the concerns of potential scholar activists. In a reductive misrepresentation of both Civil Rights and AIDS activisms, Domke writes, "early in our partnership we hit an effective way to end our workshops- by invoking three moments that changed the course of history: the writing of the Declaration of Independence, the refusal by Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a bus, and the wearing of a red ribbon to bring a visibility to the AIDS crisis" (pp. 45-46).
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Seniors' Market Vouchers: Putnam County senior citizens farmers' market vouchers will be available at local senior citizen centers starting Monday, July 11. Vouchers will be distributed to senior citizens from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays until they are all gone. To be eligible, seniors must be at least 60 years of age, reside in Putnam County and fall under income guidelines set by the Department of Agriculture. There is a limit of one voucher book per household. The vouchers will be available at the following senior centers: Buffalo Senior Center, 48 Wrights Lane (304-937-3352); Hometown Senior Center, 100 First Ave. North (304-586-2745) and Hurricane Senior Center, 2800 Putnam Ave. (304-562-9451). Singles' Dance: The SpeakEasy Singles social group will host a patriotic-themed dance from...
