Archive for September 2008
HSF Program Officer, Shona Chakravartty collaborated with Jane Lin of the Tides Foundation and Charles Fields of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in organizing a panel for the 2008 Annual Conference of the Neighborhood Funders Group. The conference will be held October 1-3 in Los Angeles, California. Titled The Face of the New Labor Movement: A Budding Relationship between the Immigrant Worker Rights Movement and Organized Labor, the panel is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1st at 2 pm and will feature 3 speakers: Ellen Widess with the Rosenberg Foundation, Pablo Alvarado with the National Day Labor Organizing Network and Jon Hiatt with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).
States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts
By Solomon Moore
Source: New York Times
September 14, 2008
“…Felony disenfranchisement — often a holdover from exclusionary Jim Crow-era laws like poll taxes and ballot box literacy tests — affects about 5.3 million former and current felons in the United States, according to voting rights groups. But voter registration and advocacy groups say that recent overhauls of these Reconstruction-era laws have loosened enough in some states to make it worth the time to lobby statehouses for more liberal voting restoration processes, and to try to track down former felons in indigent neighborhoods…” Click here to read the full article.