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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. This video summary of the report shows how the disparate and highly clustered use of the…
Resource type: Video
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The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
Only two percent of U.S. counties have been responsible for the majority of cases leading to executions since 1976, according to this report by the Death Penalty Information Center. The disparate and highly clustered use of the death penalty raises serious questions of unequal, costly…
Resource type: Research Report
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Just and Fair Schools Fund Newsletter: April 2013
Source: Just and Fair Schools Fund
Watch this quick video to learn about the Just and Fair School Fund’s grant awards, and the youth, parents, congregations, and teachers they support around the country.FeatureThe Just and Fair Schools Fund is pleased to announce $3.8 million in grants over two years to 35…
Resource type: News
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How gay marriage went mainstream
Source: The Irish Times
The Gay and Lesbian Equality Network is an Atlantic grantee.Kathy SheridanTHE GAY WEDDING BUS is revving up. In the driving seat is Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, sporting a big red T-shirt with the message, “Civil partnership is NOT marriage equality”. Behind him, highly excited, the latest…
Resource type: News
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Federal Appeals Court Blocks Parts of Alabama’s Discriminatory Anti-Immigrant Law
Source: ACLU
Court Issues Order Temporarily Enjoining Business Transaction and Contract Provisions of HB 56FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.orgATLANTA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today blocked two key sections of Alabama’s anti-immigrant law pending a final ruling on the appeal.Parts of the Alabama law…
Resource type: News
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Esther’s Story: Walking Again Thanks to Adult Day Services
“The first day I went to the centre, I was scared, I was in a wheelchair, and I was paralysed on the left side. Everybody was so friendly. My arm was frozen to my side, and now I can move it and I can open…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Statement on the Devastating Effects of the Ryan Budget
Source: Center for Public Policy Priorities
The Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) released the following statement regarding U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget resolution."U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget resolution is not a balanced approach to deficit reduction. In fact, it contains little real deficit reduction.…
Resource type: News
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Up Close: Blogging from South Africa
Source: Gara LaMarche and Jack Rosenthal
Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m. This was a problem for two reasons. First, we’d…
Resource type: News
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Keeping Memory Alive
Source: Gara LaMarche
It wasn’t easy ten years ago when 19 people from diverse backgrounds in Northern Ireland came together to talk about setting up the Healing Through Remembering (HTR) Project. Intense feelings and bitter memories of the conflict made it sometimes hard to be in the same…
Resource type: News
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The South African Institute for Advancement – Making a Stepping Stone into a Milestone
Source: Inyathelo
Issued by: Quo Vadis Communications Attention: News Editors For immediate release: MEDIA STATEMENT BY INYATHELO - THE SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENT - MAKING A STEPPING STONE INTO A MILESTONEA conference that will be held in Cape Town next month will bring together foreign and…
Resource type: News
