NAACP

The Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society.

Founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. in 1971, the SPLC is internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups. Our innovative Teaching Tolerance program produces and distributes – free of charge – documentary films, books, lesson plans and other materials that promote tolerance and respect in our nation’s schools.

We are based in Montgomery, Ala., the birthplace of the modern civil rights movement, and have offices in Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Fla., and Jackson, Miss.

FOR – Fellowship of Reconciliation

The Fellowship of Reconciliation is composed of women and men who recognize the essential unity of all creation and have joined together to explore the power of love and truth for resolving human conflict. While it has always been vigorous in its opposition to war, FOR has insisted equally that this effort must be based on a commitment to the achieving of a just and peaceful world community, with full dignity and freedom for every human being.

In working out these objectives, FOR seeks the company of people of faith who will respond to conflict nonviolently, seeking reconciliation through compassionate action. FOR encourages the integration of faith into the lives of individual members. At the same time it is a special role of FOR to extend the boundaries of community and affirm its diversity of religious traditions as it seeks the resolution of conflict by the united efforts of people of many faiths.

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Ben Jealous: President NAACP

The civil rights group says recent voter restrictions are a deliberate attempt to dilute the political power of minorities.

State-level voting restrictions are an attempt to suppress the minority vote and prevent them from exercising political influence, according
to a report released by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Monday.

“Jim Crow is poll taxes, James Crow Esquire it’s having to pay for an ID,” said NAACP Sr. Vice President for Policy and Advocacy Hilary Shelton on a conference call with reporters Monday. NAACP officials referred to the voting restrictions as “James Crow, Esq.,” so as to distinguish them from the violent tactics associated with enforcing Jim Crow segregation. ”The intent seems to [be to] disenfranchise people of color disproportionately,” said NAACP President Benjamin Jealous.

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Albert Einstein Institution

Despite the great violence of our world, the ruthless dictatorships, widespread poverty and exploitation, and widespread popular helplessness of oppressed people, the 20th century and the new one have seen the emergence of the practice of powerful movements able to expand justice and freedom by actions of nonviolent people.

Building on decades of experience, study, and learning in many parts of the world, nonviolent struggle has emerged as a realistic alternative to both violence and passivity. People have begun to learn that they need not be the victims of violent oppression nor the tools manipulative elites of their own country or foreign regimes.

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NAACP donates book to Alamogordo Public Library.

Standing from Left to Right, NAACP of Otero County members Virgil George, Velma Moore, Charles Cromer, Denise Lang, Chris Jones, Bill Stroud, Sylvester Mattox, Bill Brooks, Karen Hutchison.  Sitting are Shaughn Marlowe , Johnnie Scott, Alamogordo Public Librarian Steve Haydu, James Washington, Esther Washington and, presenting the book “The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander, is NAACP of Otero County, President Warren Robinson.
Photo – Ken Nicholson
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American Civil Liberties Union

“So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.”

– ACLU Founder Roger Baldwin

The ACLU is our nation’s guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

These rights include:

• Your First Amendment rights – freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.
• Your right to equal protection under the law – protection against unlawful discrimination.
• Your right to due process – fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake.
• Your right to privacy – freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.

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