Rally planned at 11 a.m. over Beaumont ISD voting rights Many students say they will be wearing their hoodies to remind people that without protection of their voting rights, it will be difficult to pass laws that make it illegal to shoot and kill them as Trayvon Martin was. The DOJ also ruled that changing the seven single member trustee system to a two at-large and five single member district is retrogressive and violated the Voting Rights Act.
July 16, 2013 - Beaumont Enterprise
Cardinal Roger Mahony in Catholic Culture The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law [SB 1070, awaiting the expected signature of Gov. Jan Brewer],Cardinal Mahony wrote on April 18. "The tragedy of the law is...
Goodluck Jonathan in The Hindu This is one crisis too many, and the federal government finds it most unacceptable, retrogressive and capable of further sundering the bonds of unity in our country,Vice President Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement published Wednesday in...
Tony Leon in Independent Online Our failure to translate our domestic constitution and legislation into international support for human rights is clearly motivated by a desire not to offend some of the most retrogressive and authoritarian countries in the world,Leon said....