Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with civil_rights www.salem-news.com 2013 An Oregon Senate committee will consider legislation Thursday that would require colleges and universities to ask students about their sexual orientation. The goal of the bill is to collect data that would help address the issues lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual students may face during college. http://salem-news.com/articles/may232013/gay-students-ss.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may232013/gay-students-ss.php Thu, 23 May 2013 13:35:00 PDT My daughter Kaitlyn is a wonderful 18-year-old who is not guilty of anything other than a high school romance, but is being prosecuted for 2 felony counts of “lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12--16 years of age,” because she has a girlfriend who is 15. Kailtyn’s girlfriend’s parents are pressing charges because they are against the same-sex relationship, even though their daughter has stated that this is a consensual relationship. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212013/lesbian-charges.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212013/lesbian-charges.php Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:00 PDT At least 54 individuals will assemble today to oppose extreme policies in the North Carolina General Assembly. It's the fourth week of nonviolent civil disobedience, led by the NC NAACP. The “Moral Monday” pray-in and teach-in largely focuses on the constitutional right of equal protection under the law. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202013/nc-protest-arrests.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202013/nc-protest-arrests.php Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:00 PDT In California, the Peace Officers Bill of Rights needs to be reviewed and revised. Especially section 3007 and others. This article by the Orange County Register says it all, "California laws strengthened wall of silence around officers." http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/police-accountability-pd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/police-accountability-pd.php Thu, 09 May 2013 16:14:00 PDT When the word radicals and terrorists are mentioned, what is your first thought? Since the horrific events of 9/11, people of a certain skin tone or religious preference have been stereotyped, profiled, harassed, and pre-judged as being anti-American or terrorist. http://salem-news.com/articles/may062013/soon-forgotten-sm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may062013/soon-forgotten-sm.php Mon, 06 May 2013 15:09:00 PDT Intellectual theories, which have largely bypassed complex reality, have had a dramatic influence upon the way Americans view race---and racial differences. In an important new book, "Intellectuals And Race", tests the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed among intellectuals and which have led to a variety of crusades... http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/intellects-racism-ab.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232013/intellects-racism-ab.php Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:57:00 PDT Today, the misguided Manchin-Toomey-Schumer proposal failed in the U.S. Senate. This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution. http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/nra-comment.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/nra-comment.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:42:00 PDT To whom it may concern: I am sure as editors and news professionals for many years you are no doubt all aware of an Oregon Bill that would seek to all but eliminate any meaningful access to what are absolutely every citizens right to know, their collective right to know about arrests. http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/oregon-foia-me.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/oregon-foia-me.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:10:00 PDT Americans used to frequently quote Voltaire's declaration that, "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." That is no longer the case at too many of our colleges and universities. http://salem-news.com/articles/april152013/free-speech-ab.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april152013/free-speech-ab.php Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:54:00 PDT Salem-News.com is pleased to announce the publication of Coral Anika Theill’s updated and revised 2013 Memoir: BONSHEÁ Making Light of the Dark. Coral has written extensively about her traumatic marriage and the injustice of Oregon's judicial system that stripped her rights as a mother. http://salem-news.com/articles/april102013/bonshea-release-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april102013/bonshea-release-tk.php Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:05:00 PDT A new bill gives a special agent, uniform division officer, physical security technician, physical security specialist, or special officer of the United States secret service limited peace officer authority while working in Colorado. The tension surrounding the notion of regulating firearms is leading to new, unexpected federal involvement in local authority. Desperation is showing on all fronts in this fight. Large numbers of gun owners refuse to accept the idea of any type of gun regulation, and anti-gun proponents are willing to showcase national tragedy in an attempt to change firearm laws. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/colorado-sheriffs-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012013/colorado-sheriffs-tk.php Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:07:00 PDT Terms like justice, democracy, freedom and moral accountability are generalized with varied meanings. They also mean something different for those who want to live in America. http://salem-news.com/articles/march302013/view-america-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march302013/view-america-pb.php Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:42:00 PDT Now that assault weapons are secure from efforts to ban them, background checks are still alive as an example of the “incremental” theory of liberal politics. I doubt they will achieve what the anti-gun movement is after but it’s a test of what really big money can do for a liberal cause. http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/background-checks-mm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/background-checks-mm.php Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:04:00 PDT Even before I began my political journey in 2001, I maintained certain principles; a variety of things I just don’t do. And usually, if ever I deviated from those principles, even in error, I’d end up in a tangle of trouble. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/prison-death-krj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/prison-death-krj.php Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:40:00 PDT It reads like a movie script. You have been held prisoner for 11 years, you have been tortured, no charges have been filled against you, nor have you had access to a lawyer. You are innocent, you have claimed innocence for 11 years. Your daughter, unborn when they took you, is now 10, and you have never seen her. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/dying-in-prison-jc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/dying-in-prison-jc.php Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:02:00 PDT Did all of us see The Statesman's front page story for Saturday? It focuses on an ugly case of racial prejudice of a Black woman named Ms. Dau Tucker employed at Salem Hospital. Clear and simple. I find this a wake-up call not for mere words but actions. http://salem-news.com/articles/march132013/salem-racism-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march132013/salem-racism-blc.php Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:30:00 PDT The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) "seeks to support the wide adoption of Web technologies in digital publishing contexts. . . to reinforce cooperation around well defined technical issues." In this regard, the W3C conducts workshops around a number of technical issues. A workshop will be held in Berlin on March 11 and 12 to discuss how Do-­Not-­Track (DNT) mechanisms should work. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/do-not-track-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122013/do-not-track-rs.php Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:07:00 PDT In 1783-9 ‘Militia’ meant a well regulated body of men under the leadership of such as Geo. Washington who defeated the English whose Officers surrendered to him at York. Victory was won by patriots with firearms meant to provide food for their families... http://salem-news.com/articles/march092013/second-amendment-kr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march092013/second-amendment-kr.php Sat, 09 Mar 2013 10:35:00 PST A multimedia exhibit premiering Thursday tells the stories of faith leaders and people of faith who now support the freedom to marry. The exhibit, a project of the Basic Rights Oregon Education Fund, will travel to churches throughout Oregon. http://salem-news.com/articles/march062013/faith-exhibit.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march062013/faith-exhibit.php Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:17:00 PST I am not one prone to fits of temper. But a few days ago I almost lost it. My outrage was prompted by witnessing the steady deterioration of a prisoner, resulting from particularly acute mental torture inflicted in Oregon’s Disciplinary Segregation Units, which duplicate almost exactly conditions of torture outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1800s. http://salem-news.com/articles/february282013/prison-torture-krj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282013/prison-torture-krj.php Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:14:00 PST Several community organisations, including a South Asian coalition, have launched a signature drive to press lawmakers to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track hate crimes against Sikh, Hindu, and Arab Americans. While the FBI has various categories to track hate crimes, crimes directed at these three communities are not currently tracked, according to the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/sikh-hate-crimes.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/sikh-hate-crimes.php Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:58:00 PST When I first heard the news about former LAPD police officer Christopher Dorner, another name immediately came to mind; Larry Davis. 19 year old Larry Davis, who later changed his name to Adam Abdul-Hakeem, was a former police informant, small time drug dealer and aspiring rapper who went to war with the NYDP in 1986 after a controversial and highly disputed shootout within his sister’s apartment. http://salem-news.com/articles/february202013/christopher-dorner-sm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february202013/christopher-dorner-sm.php Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:02:00 PST You never know when it might happen. Maybe you're in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe you just made a bad decision. Suddenly those red and blue lights are flashing behind you and you're off to jail. Who will you call? When will they pick you up? How long will you be stuck there? With Off to Jail App you're covered! http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/jail-angels.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/jail-angels.php Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:43:00 PST Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jim Garrow shockingly claims he was told by a top military veteran that the Obama Regime’s newest “litmus test” for military leaders is whether or not they will obey an order to fire on U.S. citizens. http://salem-news.com/articles/january282013/obama-shooting-us.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january282013/obama-shooting-us.php Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:58:00 PST Get the Free MP3 of the song by Vic Sadot that highlights what came out in the trial that the book presents. The new recording by Vic Sadot features beautifully moving viola by Eric Golub. Six Black and six White jurors unanimously convicted Loyd Jowers and un-named government co-conspirators. http://salem-news.com/articles/january212013/mlk-song-vs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january212013/mlk-song-vs.php Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:08:00 PST President Obama’s healthcare bill has upset millions of Americans and some of them are responding in ways that are downright disrespectful and racist. A new t-shirt that is popular at the Tea Party convention in South Carolina features President Obama with a bone through his nose. The shirt says that Obama is “your new doctor, coming soon to a clinic near you!” Bob Cramer, the man who created the t-shirt, says that the shirt “isn’t racist, it’s political.” Cramer says that decals he made of the picture on the t-shirt sold out very quickly. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/racist-obama-shirts.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/racist-obama-shirts.php Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:31:00 PST At the direction of the Obama Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) the National Park Service has revoked the permit of the ANSWER Coalition to hold a large scale Speak-out of America’s Unemployed for Jobs and Justice in Freedom Plaza. It was set to happen during the Inauguration Day events on January 21, 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/answer-refused.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132013/answer-refused.php Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:20:00 PST We are a nation of rules and laws, with over 40,000 new laws that went into effect on January 1, 2012, alone. With such a minefield, even for the most sober citizen, it is easy to slide down the rabbit hole. http://salem-news.com/articles/january082013/larissa-nearing-ts.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january082013/larissa-nearing-ts.php Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:00:00 PST As many people make promises to themselves to improve their lives or their societies in the coming year, here is a suggested New Year's resolution for media outlets in America and worldwide: Drop the term "Islamist." The Associated Press (AP) added the term to its influential Stylebook in 2012. That entry reads: "Islamist -- Supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam. http://salem-news.com/articles/january042013/drop-islamist-ih.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042013/drop-islamist-ih.php Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:15:00 PST A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. http://salem-news.com/articles/october122012/student-microchips.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october122012/student-microchips.php Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:15:00 PDT