January 26, 2012 — This afternoon the New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) released its proposed redistricting maps for New York State Assembly and New York State Senate districts. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has...
Gothamist – NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly rarely apologizes, but yesterday he was forced to drop the A-Bomb in an attempt to defuse the controversy over an anti-Islam propaganda documentary that was screened on a continuous loop for over 1,200 police officers in 2010. Kelly makes a brief appearance in...
FirstPost World – New York City’s Muslims called on Wednesday for Ray Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD), to step down after he admitted he cooperated with filmmakers of The Third Jihad, a documentary film on the rise of radical Islam, which was screened for 1,500 police of...
DNAinfo — A prominent group of Muslim advocates is calling for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his chief spokesman’s resignations over what they allege was an “attempted cover-up” of Kelly’s participation in an anti-Islamic video.
In a story posted late Tuesday, the New York Timesquoted Deputy ...
After all the countless GOP debates, last night we really needed to see someone act presidential and remind us why this whole campaign process is important.
And who else but a president can reassure a nervous country about its well-being, its economic stature, its place in the world?
In an address...
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Ujala Sehgal (AALDEF) mailto:usehgal@aaldef.org 212.966.5932 x217
Linda Sarsour (Arab American NY) mailto:lsarsour@accesscommunity.org 917.306.3323
PRESS CONFERENCE, TOMORROW 1/26, 11:00 AM, STEPS OF CITY HALL
Muslim Groups Call for Resignation of Police Commissioner Kelly
Demand City ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, and Leadership Conference on Race and Human Rights in filing an amicus brief in opposing the imposition of life se...
I don’t care about Romney’s taxes. If H&R Block didn’t do them for him, he made too much money, and he likely paid less tax proportionately than any of us.
Indeed, to make $43 million over two years, paying $6.2 million in taxes, with $7 million to charities, puts Romney at an effective rate of 14%...
New York Times – Howard Leib, a 53-year-old entertainment lawyer, is considering a run for the New York State Senate this year.
But Mr. Leib, a Democrat from the Finger Lakes region, has an unexpected first challenge: he does not know what district he lives in.
Even at a time when many states have...
Now that we are in primary season, it’s pretty clear: The GOP doesn’t have a real answer to President Obama.
The party’s once and future front-runner Mitt Romney is imploding. His hair is in place, but he’s imploding.
And the new momentum guy is the retread Newt Gingrich. Gingrich so undeniably re...
Newsday – Redistricting maps proposed by a coalition of interest groups to take into account New York City’s Asian-American, Latino and black populations.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund proposed the “Unity Map,” a joint effort with LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the National Institute f...
Gotham Gazette – With the preliminary redistricting maps to be announced next week, tensions are rising in Queens, where communities are split along legislative lines and rival plans to redraw them.
Many Asian-American groups, joined by some Latinos, have pushed for State Senate and Assembly border...
Inside City Hall — A panel of civil rights attorneys who have created a Unity Map–a proposal to redraw the city’s legislative districts to better represent growing ethnic communities–discussed their project on Inside City Hall.
Queens Tribune – A map is sometimes a piece of greenish paper with pretty red lines, or an innocuous portrayal of your hometown on Google’s bright screen. After the U.S. Census, a map becomes something else entirely–a fight for just representation, or more simply, a fight for survival.
The magic fo...
Jerry Yang, Chief Yahoo and quintessential Asian American internet entrepreneur, is no longer wildly shrieking the brand.
Instead, the words from Yang’s lips are whatever you say when something doesn’t work out, or you don’t find something.
What’s the opposite of “Eureka” that rhymes with Mitt?
T...
Brooklyn Ink – Asian-American civic groups are pushing for redistricting in Brooklyn that would give growing Asian ethnic groups a district and representation of their own.
Claiming that the Asian vote is too diluted across many districts, the groups are hoping to splice together sections of Sunset...
Race Talk – Arizona’s SB 1070 has left a path of destruction in its wake - harming families, immigrant communities, and various state economies, especially agribusinesses and farms. Georgia, Utah, Indiana, South Carolina, and Alabama have attempted to follow Arizona’s example with their own laws tar...
The first GOP primary was a bit like musical chairs, except when the music stopped, there were still the same number of chairs and the same number of candidates.
No one wants to leave, though surely the gig is up.
Mitt Romney’s still sitting up-front with the others slightly re-arranged though sti...
Village Voice – As the political games of redistricting heat up this week, civil rights groups are staying focused on the prize: good maps. A coalition of advocacy groups teamed up yesterday and released what they call the “Unity Map,” which contains specific recommendations for Senate, Assembly, an...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), together with Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association – New Jersey (APALA), Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), and the South Asian Bar Association (SABA), has advocated throughout th...
