Voting Rights

By SCSJ - Posted on March 16th, 2009

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SCSJ works to ensure that all people have the right to vote and elect candidates of choice to public office.

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Supreme Court Ruling on Voting Rights Act, Court Upholds Full and Equal Right to Vote

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NC Legislature must make boundary changes again

Monday, March 9, 2009

WRAL

Supreme Court ruling a setback for minority voting rights in the South.
March, rally push 14 point progressive agenda

Sunday, February 15, 2009

WRAL

Thousands of North Carolinians attend the 3rd annual HKonJ march in Raleigh to demand progressive changes in state and national policy.

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New Bond Fund Helps NC Immigrants Get Fair Day in Court

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Catawba Valley Citizen

A new bond fund is helping immigrants who are arrested post bond and access legal services. SCSJ partnered with the Bond Fund to provide zero interest matching loans to immigrants who cannot afford to pay a full bond. Since its inception in September, SCSJ has used the fund to help seven families.
Ayudan a pagar fianzas de inmigración a extranjeros en Carolina del Norte

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Terra

Un fondo creado con dinero de organizaciones privadas ha ayudado a varias familias a pagar parte de la fianza de inmigración de sus seres queridos para que disputen sus casos en los tribunales.
Oral arguments in school board case set for March

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Washington Daily News Online

The North Carolina Supreme Court in March is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a Beaufort County-based lawsuit that could affect the future of students who are suspended from public schools for long periods of time across North Carolina and the local school boards that hand down such suspensions.
Mapping Social Justice

Friday, January 29, 2010

The State of Things, NC Public Radio

SCSJ's Anita Earls' coining of the term "invisible fences" is referenced in this piece, which discusses how mapping can be critical in the fight for social justice and proving systematic discrimination.