Elections / Legislation

In 1956,  Ellery Schempp at 16 years of age staged a protest against his high school's requirement that each student read Bible passages and recite Lord's Prayer each day during homeroom. To protest Ellery brought a copy of the Qur'an, even though he did not identify as Muslim, and read from that. He was the primary student involved in the landmark 1963 United States Supreme Court case of Abington School District v.

In January, an article in the Westchester Journal News reported that a set of very rich men have so far allocated more than $4.7 million dollars to promote S4099A, the Education Investment Incentives Act, a N.Y. Senate tuition tax credit bill.

On January 8, 2014, Dr. Grania Marcus, who has spent more than 30 years involved with immigration issues in Florida, upstate New York, on the US-Mexico Border and in New York City, discussed US immigration history, the spread of border enforcement throughout the country and what we can do to help end the deportations and family separations that US immigration policy promotes. This was taped at the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, NY at a meeting of the Rochester Committee on Latin America.

Mayor candidate (Green party) Alex White has a plan to make Rochester more bike-friendly.

"The Louisiana DOC has an abysmal history of protecting the rights of its prisoners, and the tragic story of the Angola 3 is a case in point," write US Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, and Cedric Richmond in a letter to the US Justice Department, urging the Attorney General to investigate the use of solitary confinement, and other troubling detention practices, in numerous Louisiana prison facilities, especially LSP-Angola.

 

original article: http://66.147.242.195/~theroche/2013/05/28/bribery-is-bad/