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Fair Fight Action joined the Voter Empowerment Task Force, which is composed of other civil rights groups such as GA NAACP, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Georgia Coalition for People's Agenda. The coalition's mission was to fight voter intimidation and Raffensperger 's task force. [ 10 ]
November 17 – Move:DC – Approximately 10,000 people marched around the White House to call for an end to the LRA in Central Africa, with the march concluding at the Washington Monument. The march and rally were organized by Invisible Children as a part of the Kony 2012 campaign.
FAIR has held an annual "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" [42] (F2F) event since 2007 in Washington, D.C. [43] In 2008, Lou Dobbs, a regular (F2F) attendee, broadcast on live television from the event's rally, commended FAIR. He was fired from CNN in 2009 and hired at Fox the next year, to run a similar show.
Dan Stein was born in 1955 and is a native of Washington, D.C. He received his undergrad from the University of Indiana and attended the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America where he received his J.D. [2] Before working in immigration law, Stein worked in private practice.
Abrams's first major action as minority leader was to cooperate with Republican governor Nathan Deal's administration to reform the HOPE Scholarship program. She co-sponsored the 2011 legislation that preserved the HOPE program by decreasing the scholarship amount paid to Georgia students and funded a 1% low-interest loan program for students. [37]
It is unclear why Washington ordered her staff to play politics with their relief efforts, but local officials tore into the former fed discriminating against residents.“In times of need, we ...
StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization which aims to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. Its mission statement is "to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all—one story at a time".
The One Fair Wage campaigns to improve tipped wage laws by advocating for higher wages in a number of states including Washington, D.C. [2] California and six other states already have One Fair Wage. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One Fair Wage, chaired by Alicia Renee Farris, is trying to raise the minimum wage in Michigan to $12 an hour by 2022, and to $12 an ...