The Southern Coalition for Social Justice responds to community-determined priorities. We view local social justice struggles from a global international human rights perspective and believe it takes a holistic, collective and interdisciplinary approach to address issues at their core, bring sustained structural change, and alter power relations.
By SCSJ - Posted on June 25th, 2010
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SCSJ has partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation and the North Carolina Justice Center to launch an official investigation of recurring police checkpoints outside a Latino church in Zebulon. Church members have reported clear racial bias at these checkpoints, with officers waving white and black drivers through and stopping those who appear to be Latino.
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New Hill is a small unincorporated community in Wake County, NC that was selected by the governments of Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, and Morrisville as the site for a new sewage treatment plant. The population surrounding the site is upwards of 75% ethnic/racial minorities, and the towns represented in Western Wake Partners are all far from New Hill and have an average ethnic/racial minorities populations of about 19%.
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In an effort to build peaceful, nurturing communities, the Beloved Community Center, Pulpit Forum, and the Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation of Greensboro (ALKQN), are working together to address violence in Greensboro. Taking a grassroots perspective, this collaborative focuses on the positive potential for street groups in low-income and communities of color to be a resource to build peace and unity.
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SCSJ is partnering with local activists and community members to monitor police checkpoints in the Triangle for signs of racial profiling. We have trained over 100 community volunteers as checkpoint monitors and distributed over 2,000 cards with our checkpoint hotline number. If you see a checkpoint in the Triangle, let us know at 919-373-4131.
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