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Peace Brings Justice: Justice Brings Peace: Peace Brings Justice: Justice...(in progress, want to help?) |
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Peace at Home:
"When
will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human
misery rather than avenge it?"
“Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have seen and ask yourself if the next step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person.”
--Mohandas Gandhi
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Human Rights Issues Civil Rights in the United States ISSUES Budget Priorities: Human Cost of the Budget 1)USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE BY POLICE Police Department Reform---Boycott Demands 2)LOSS OF FUNDING FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS Impact on Kentucky due to Federal Budget Cuts and National Priorities Project Mental Health Programs LOCAL GROUPS Justice Resource Center (774-1116) Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (778-8130) Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Kentucky Mental Health Coalition Louisville Metro Police Department--- Contact form for voicing concerns. NAACP---Louisville NATIONAL RESOURCES Amnesty International---On Police Brutality; USA Race, Rights & Police Brutality Information about Citizen Oversight of Law Enforcement---Click on Information and Guidance Features Interim Report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health---Note: A mandate of this body is to reduce the staggering cost of disability payments by emphasizing recovery and an individual's maximum level of employment and self-care. Original announcement National Police Accountability Project---project of the National Lawyers Guild. Note: Papers on Police Misconduct---Taking Emotionally Disturbed Persons into Custody---Many specific links. Racial Profiling: “What Does the Data Mean?” Introduction to Understanding the Studies and Data Collection Racial Profiling After 9/11: Wrong then; wrong now. On Tavis Smiley, February 28, 2003 When Stopped by Police: Brief Prepared by the National Black Police Association
NATIONAL GROUPS Center for Budget and Policy Priorities CivilRights.org MacArthur Justice Center---The MacArthur Justice Center is committed to addressing problems of police misconduct through systemic litigation. MJC fights for the rights of persons in police custody to have access to counsel and to be free of physical and psychological coercion to speak, in derogation of the rights secured by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. NACOLE: National Association of Citizen Oversight of Law Enforcement National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill National
Black Police Association Police Assessment Resource Center---PARC provides many on-line reviews of Citizen Review Boards Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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Violence at Home Violence against Women
The Center for Women & Families Feminist Peace Network---Louisville Kentucky Domestic Violence Association including links page, information on battered immigrant women. Pan American Health Organization on Gender Based Violence MINCAVA--Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (in Memory of Paul & Sheila Wellstone) Children's Art |
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