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Hope rising in US for national death penalty ban
Source: Agence France Presse
by Lucile Malandain Death penalty opponents in the United States hope New Mexico's decision to ban capital punishment is a turning point and the economic crisis is bolstering the abolition argument. Last week Governor Bill Richardson made the southwestern state the 15th in the nation…
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Connecticut State House Votes to Repeal Death Penalty
Source: Connecticut Post
This article highlights Atlantic grantee Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty (CNADP) in its report that the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to repeal the death penalty with an 86-62 vote. The repeal now moves to the desk of Governor Dannel P. Malloy, who…
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National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
$4,910,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Abolishing the Death Penalty in Maryland
"Maryland today becomes the 18th state to abolish the death penalty....In doing so it joins every other western country and almost every country on the planet.....But most importantly, today, Maryland pushes America towards abolishing the death penalty and rejoining its rightful place as a global…
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Death Penalty Repealed in New Mexico
Source: The Atlantic Philanthropies
Governor Bill Richardson signed legislation on March 18 to repeal New Mexico’s death penalty, saying it was the “most difficult decision in my political life.” Atlantic congratulates its grantee, The New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty, and all member organizations who advocated for the…
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The World Will Remember Troy's Name
Source: NAACP
Originally posted on September 21, 2011 by Eric Wingerter, Director of New Media, NAACP. Read Troy's Last WordsTonight the State of Georgia has killed an innocent man.In recent weeks, we fought hard for the commutation of Troy Davis' sentence. More than one million of your petitions…
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Atlantic Grantees in Texas Work to End a Lethal Lottery
Source: Gara LaMarche
When I arrived in Austin, Texas, the day after Labor Day in 1984 to take up my post as Executive Director of the Texas state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, a 30-year old Yankee who’d never set foot in the state before my…
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Atlantic Grantees Working for Human Rights
International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…
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As We Enter 2008, a Look Back Shows Policy Gains for Atlantic Grantees
Source: Gara LaMarche
The end of one year and the start of the next is a traditional time for looking both back and forward, and a good time to check in with readers of this column – an unusual experiment in philanthropy that we started in July, a…
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The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Embrace of a Social Justice Approach to Grantmaking
The story behind The Atlantic Philanthropies’ embrace of social justice is recounted in this speech by Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, at the Ford Foundation Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It is bracing…
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