Bill of Rights Dinner: Slide Show
THANK YOU! Thank you for joining us on Saturday, November 14, 2009, for The Texas Civil Rights Project 19th Annual Bill of Rights Dinner at the UT Alumni Center in Austin. This year we celebrated Civil Rights and the Media. TCRP is proud to honor award-winning journalist, author and host of NPR’s weekly show Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa with the 2009 Molly Ivins "Give Em' Hell" Award. Maria is best known for her award winning documentary "Child Brides: Stolen Lives" upon which the National Association of Hispanic Journalists gave her their most prestigious distinction, The Leadership Award. ...
TCRP Human Rights Report 2009: Galveston County Fails to Evacuate Jail for Hurricane Ike
Press Release The Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) announces the publication of its 2009 Human Rights Report, “Shelter from the Storm? Galveston County’s Refusal to Evacuate Detainees and Inmates at Its Jail during Hurricane Ike,” on the anniversary of the hurricane. This report is the first to contain the actual accounts from the people who lived through Ike and its aftermath at the jail. Find the complete report here (in pdf format: 703kb). Despite a mandatory evacuation order for Galveston County, and despite the evacuation of all state prison facilities in the path of Ike, now-former Sheriff Gean Leonard ...
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Alberto Ponce de León El Diario de El Paso At least five El Paso workers, the majority of whom are undocumented, have won labor disputes against their ex–employers through negotiations with the help of Paso Del Norte Civil Rights Project, said the labor justice advocate with the organization, Chris Benoit. The recovered money for each employee,... [Read more...]
View Video ISIAH CAREY HOUSTON - A Fort Bend County family is seeking justice in the form of a federal lawsuit. Pam and Steve Hobart lost their son after he was gunned down by a Stafford police officer. Aaron Hobart, 19, was shot and killed in February after his parents called police for a crisis intervention team. Their son had been behaving irrationally... [Read more...]
(Top) VAWA Interns Erica Schmidt, Valerie Medina, Rebecca Fortson Anderson, (Seated) Intern Rebecca Gonzales and Support Services Coordinator Laura Gomez-Horton The VAWA Social Services Program at TCRP offers counseling, case-management, and support services to clients in the Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence Program (VAWA). Services are offered... [Read more...]
Lindsey Bishop, 25, left, and Carolyn Clark, 26, in front of federal court after filing a lawsuit against the city. The pair said police made homophobic comments and terrorized the women after a drug raid netted nothing. By Guillermo Contreras San Antonio Express-News A lesbian couple sued the city of San Antonio and nine police officers Monday for... [Read more...]
More news from our 2009 ADA actions Jeremy Roebuck McALLEN – Zipping along the sidewalks outside of La Plaza Mall, David Guzman’s Segway draws odd looks from passing drivers and the occasional honk of a horn. The disabled Iraq war veteran usually welcomes the extra attention, he says, because the two-wheeled, self-balancing electric scooter... [Read more...]
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