Alabama's Immigration Law Is Bad for Citizens

"Stop children, the fascist are waiting at the Alabama border! Your papers please." Republican Alabama Governor "States Rights" Bentley discriminates against American children born of parents in nation illegally. "Make the children suffer," the new Republican mantra.

Link:  Why Alabama's Immigration Bill Is Bad for Citizens - The Atlantic "The state is trying to embed immigration enforcement into everyday life, thereby making government even more omnipresent." 

"Alabama Immigration Law Will Be Costly - Alabama, the lawyers want to say, "thanks."
Read more from this Tulsa World article at  http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectid=61&articleid=20110613_11_A11_Alabam253902


Read more, the Anniston Star, Editorial Board - "Breaking our mean code: Alabama state government punishes working people."
 http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/14215441/article-Breaking-our-mean-code--Alabama-state-government-punishes-working-people?instance=opinion_lead

Photo Coverage: SCOTTSBORO BOYS Protesters Crash the Tonys

Photo of the Scottsboro Boys poster at the Lyceum, courtesy of L. Hodges.

BroadwayWorld.com link:  Photo Coverage: SCOTTSBORO BOYS Protesters Crash the Tonys

TonyAwards.com: http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/shows/2dfdd184-4ef1-45df-8c80-cff1bc9adb51.html 
Winners:  http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html   

Black Star News: "Offensive Scottsboro Boys Should Fail At TONY- Competition is tough this week, thankfully, so “Scottsboro Boys” has little hope of winning any honors. “Scottsboro” does not stand a chance against “Sister Act,” also nominated for musical." http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7432/2011-06-09.html

Official Site of the Scottsboro Boys Musical,  Creative Team: http://scottsboromusical.com/creative.html
History, from the Scottsboro Boys Musical site: http://scottsboromusical.com/history.html

History of the Minstrel Show: http://black-face.com/minstrel-shows.htm  Black-face performers are, "...the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion denied them by nature, in which to make money, and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow citizens." -- Frederick Douglass

"Black-face is more than just burnt cork applied as makeup. It is a style of entertainment based on racist Black stereotypes that began in minstrel shows and continues to this day." A History: http://black-face.com/index.htm

"From controversy comes education for those willing to learn." GLM

"BRIDGES" Womens Equality Day Poster Released

Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute has released the 2011 Womens Equality Day Poster.

From the National Womens History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/aboutnwhp/index.php

What is Women’s Equality Day?  http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/equalityday.php


"At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 the U.S. Congress designated August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.”"

"The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. This was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York."

Joint Resolution of Congress, 1971

Designating August 26 of each year as Women’s Equality Day

WHEREAS, the women of the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not been entitled the full rights and privileges, public or private, legal or institutional, which are available to male citizens of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the women of the United States have united to assure that these rights and privileges are available to all citizens equally regardless of sex; and

WHEREAS, the women of the United States have designated August 26, the anniversary date of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as symbol of the continued fight for equal rights: and

WHEREAS, the women of United States are to be commended and supported in their organizations and activities,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that August 26th of each year is designated as Women’s Equality Day, and the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation annually in commemoration of that day in 1920, on which the women of America were first given the right to vote, and that day in 1970, on which a nationwide demonstration for women’s rights took place.