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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Miller-McCune
GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Huffington Post
On October 7th Ms. Orellana was quietly eating her lunch when two Frederick County Deputy Sheriffs interrogated and detained her solely based on the color of her skin, according to a lawsuit recently filed in US District Court.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Z-Magazine
Barack Obama won the presidency in no small part because he captured a large
majority of the immigrant vote, especially that of Latinos. Obama's promise
of "comprehensive immigration reform" played an important role in that
victory. Yet, instead of prioritizing immigration reform, President Obama
has escalated several controversial enforcement initiatives.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Greensboro News & Record
FaithAction International House is offering a personal appeal to church leaders and congregations to get involved in the U.S. Census Bureau count.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Raleigh News & Observer
Undocumented immigrants still at risk of arrest for minor offenses despite changes in 287g rules.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Radio Skywriter Podcast
An interview with Avery Book, the SCSJ Census Coordinator, by Pat Murray about the importance of the 2010 Census.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Luz Maria Diaz knew what happened to illegal immigrants at the Wake County jail. But her teenage daughters didn't....
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Peacemaker
Heirs' property is a leading cause of the loss of black land ownership in the South.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Heir's Property Workshop Set for Oct. 10
SCSJ and Land Loss Prevention Project will host a workshop on Heirs' Property on October 10th.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Daily Reflector
Latino officials are encouraging other Latinos to be counted in the 2010 Census to ensure federal funding for critical community needs.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Black Talk Media Project
The Western Wake Partners (WWP) have condemned a 200 acre family farm in the heart of historic New Hill for the purpose of building their regional sewage plant.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
VA Pilot
Undocumented wetlands and rare mussels could block Navy plans to build a practice airfield in northeastern North Carolina.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Triangle Tribune
A black community is in close proximity to a proposed sewage treatment plant designed mostly to benefit other areas surrounding them.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Independent Weekly
DHS changed the 287(g) program to encourage local police to process only serious criminals for deportation. Yet it stops short of guaranteeing only these deportations
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
The News & Observer
Complaints process is widened, but check of immigration status in jails is little changed
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
ABC 11
Eyewitness News has learned a federal government employee allegedly blackmailed women into having sex with him
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Wall Street Journal
Revamped 287g Program Will Target Only Serious Crimes, not Minor Infractions; Sheriff Arpaio Refuses to Ease Up
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Independent Weekly
Problems of racial profiling and other inconsistencies with has led to the Department of Homeland Security announcement of a major overhaul of the 278(g) program
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
The Story with Dick Gordon
A legal conundrum is pending over who owns a particular piece of beach. The case goes back 150 years in history, and it involves land that was originally purchased by a former slave.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Preservation North Carolina
Sewage treatment plant plans in New Hill, NC threaten historic landmarks.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
NC Lawyer's Weekly
SCSJ's work is profiled in the June 8th edition of NC Lawyer's Weekly
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Independent Weekly
University Apartments, a historic complex near downtown Durham, has been sold to a company that specializes in running student housing.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Independent Weekly
University Apartments on Duke University Road has been sold to Capstone Development, a Birmingham, Ala.-based company that focuses exclusively on developing and renovating student housing.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
American Bar Association Journal
A loophole in real estate law pits families against developers and each other. Some say there’s more than money at stake.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Cary News
Community members continue to fight against plan to build a sewage treatment plant in New Hill.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Independent Weekly
Public comment period is open for EIS on sewage treatment plant at New Hill.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
WRAL
Environmental justice advocates argue against a proposed sewage treatment plant in the majority-minority community of New Hill, NC
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
NBC 17
The New Hill community continues to fight against the construction of the Western Wake Regional Wastewater Management Facility in the historic neighborhood.
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Monday, March 9, 2009
WRAL
Supreme Court ruling a setback for minority voting rights in the South.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Virginia Pilot
Rural communities in North Carolina oppose the Navy's OLF.
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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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Friday, January 23, 2009
Independent Weekly
Community activists worry that "Secure Communities" program in Orange County, NC will lead to racial profiling.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Yes Weekly
Typographical error, procedural delay, mar criminal case against security guard accused of assaults.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
ABC 11 News
SHROC Conference attendees protest the 287g program at the Wake County Jail.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
MyNC
Protest of 287g program as part of the SHROC Conference
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Yes Weekly
The right to associate freely is ignored in Greensboro by anti-gang police units.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
News and Observer
Cities can face large fines for disparate treatment of minority communities in access to public services.
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Thursday, June 9, 2005
News 14 Carolina
The battle over where to build a wastewater treatment plant is heating up in western Wake County.
