(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) One of the concrete outcomes of the Chicago Freedom Movement was the founding of the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities in 1966. The organization was created as part of the final agreement reached on August 26, 1966, between the Movement and the City of Chicago. Now, four decades later, the Leadership Council is … [Read more...] about “Farewell to the Leadership Council” (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
Symposium: The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later
"Assessing the Chicago Freedom Movement" by James Ralph "National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose Compromise Immigration Reform Proposals" from the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights "Katrina's Blueprint for Ending Poverty" by Lance Hill "Success and the Chicago Freedom Movement" by Mary Lou Finley "The … [Read more...] about Symposium: The Chicago Freedom Movement 40 Years Later
“When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson (March-April 2006 P&R Issue)
By Ira Katznelson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Hurricane Katrina’s violent winds and waters tore away the shrouds that ordinarily mask the country’s racial pattern of poverty and neglect. Understandably, most commentators focused on the woeful federal response. Others, taking a longer view, yearned for a burst of activism patterned on the New Deal. … [Read more...] about “When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson (March-April 2006 P&R Issue)
“National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose Compromise Immigration Reform Proposals” (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, headed by PRRAC Board member Catherine Tactaquin, convened a series of discussions among members and partners around the current immigration proposals before Congress; the following Statement is the product of those meetings. Organizations and Individuals are requested to endorse the Statement (available in Spanish as well … [Read more...] about “National Statement to Support Human and Civil Rights for All Immigrants and to Oppose Compromise Immigration Reform Proposals” (May-June 2006 P&R Issue)
“Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
By Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Race and class oppression form the backdrop of everyday reality in the United States. Popular culture is blind to the endemic and systemic nature of racism in our political and economic institutions. Mostly, we tell ourselves comforting stories about who we are and what we have done. Told most … [Read more...] about “Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
