The Generational Alliance is a coalition of organizations including United We Dream, GetEQUAL, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)/Institute for Asian Pacific American Leadership & Advancement (APALA), United States Student Association, The Gathering for Justice, Black Youth Vote!, Native Youth Leadership Alliance, National Council of La Raza Action Fund, Local Power Network, Young People For, [...]

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Join us on Thursday, March 24th at 4 p.m. PST for our first hour long #VLCHAT conversation on Twitter! We’ll be tweeting with AZ State Senator Kyrsten Sinema regarding the growing number of SB1070 copy-cat legislation around the country and the rise of hate-speech against Latinos. Senator Sinema is one of the most active Twitter [...]

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Arizona HB2443, passed out of the State Senate yesterday, makes it illegal to perform an abortion on the basis of the sex and/or race of the fetus. This legislation is designed to erode a woman’s right to choose by using a foot-in-the-door strategy. Here is how it works: Arizona Republicans propose legislation restricting abortion rights [...]

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Today, Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, NFL stars, business, clergy and civil rights leaders launched Freedom to Marry’s “Say I Do” campaign urging President Obama to support the freedom to marry for gay and lesbian couples. “My wife and I were married in May of 2010, and I can say without a doubt that marriage [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about the history of conservative efforts to divide and conquer the people by manufacturing conflict. Today, the AP has a story about the GOP trying to turn African-Americans against immigrants: Black lawmakers accused Republicans on Tuesday of trying to “manufacture tension” between African-Americans and immigrants as Republican members of the House of [...]

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