Next NAACP Meeting
Always second Saturday! Next regular meeting , Saturday, February 11, 2012, 1:00 pm at the Vision Ford Atrium, 1500 S. White Sands, Alamogordo, NM, Visitors welcome!
Otero County NAACP presents its annual Junteenth Celebration, Saturday, May 12th, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Alamogordo Public Library, music and dance outside under the trees. Karunna Warren and his New World Drummers and Dancers will entertain with traditional African drums and dance. Dancing and singing encouraged. Everyone Welcome!
Legal Redress
The Otero County NAACP Redress Committee provides legal advice and information to community members in the event one may feel that their civil rights have been violated. For more information on Legal Redress, contact any of our local officers listed under our contact information.-
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Web site of the month – February 2012
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 … Continue reading
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Web site of the month – December 2011
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 … Continue reading
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NAACP Decries “James Crow Esq.”
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 … Continue reading
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Who’s afraid of non-violent resistance?
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 … Continue reading
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Otero County NAACP gives book to library
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 … Continue reading
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Web site of the month – Nov. 2011
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 … Continue reading
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