New Report Reveals Bush Administration’s Hostility Toward Civil Rights

Media 04.21,03

On Thursday, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF) will release a new report, “The Bush Administration Takes Aim: Civil Rights Under Attack,” which documents the anti-civil rights agenda through regulation, litigation, and budgetary decisions that the Bush Administration has pursued. This quiet agenda is being followed while the administration has a high profile agenda of combating terrorism and prosecuting the war in Iraq. The result is a disturbing pattern of hostility toward the rights of minorities, women, immigrants, workers, and individuals with disabilities, which has systematically undermined decades of civil rights progress.

WHO:


  • Wade Henderson, Executive Director, LCCR

  • Karen Lawson, Executive Director, LCCREF

  • Nancy Zirkin, Deputy Director/Director of Public Policy, LCCR

  • Julie Fernandes, Special Counsel/Senior Policy Analyst, LCCR/LCCREF

WHEN: Thursday, April 24th, 9:30 ? 10:30 AM

WHERE: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 1629 K Street, NW, 10th Floor