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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - 4:53pm
The faith community has been struggling to deal with their core teachings and deep divisions in their congregations over immigration.
It's not always easy for clergy to speak out on immigration reform. Sometimes they don't see eye to eye with their flock. Unity in the Community, the long-time Not In Our Town affiliate in Manassas, VA, has put together Words of Compassion, a collection of relevant resources from a wide variety of religious texts, faith-based organizations and the interfaith community. No matter your stance on the issues, anyone looking to approach the...
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Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 1:41pm
In Nanuet, NY, a Rockland County town about 30 miles north of Manhattan, two men got drunk at a mall, so police called a cab to take them home.
The men were white. The cab driver was Latino. When the men arrived at their destination, they pulled the driver out of his cab and beat him brutally, shouting racist epithets until neighbors called the cops.
The attackers were not charged with a hate crime. It was the third violent assault on Latino workers in recent months in this progressive and increasingly diverse county, and for some local residents, enough was enough....
Monday, June 28, 2010 - 4:45pm
Oregon has just made it easier to report hate crimes--do it online.
That's what the Department of Justice came up with after a meeting of the LGBT community in Portland, called in response to gay-bashings in the city.
Sean Riddell (pictured above, on right), chief counsel for the criminal justice division of Oregon’s Department of Justice, was at the meeting, and was “struck by the number of people who said they’d been the victim of a hate crime and didn’t report it,” says Tony Green, Riddell’s colleague and DOJ spokesman.
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