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Illegal Surveillance In Americans Homes & Devices Immediate Oversight Of Clearview AI & Similar Technologies Demanded By The McWhorter Foundation

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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These technologies can capture detailed and intimate information about our private lives​ ( Brookings )​​ ( Brennan Center for Justice )​.

Key Points: 
  • These technologies can capture detailed and intimate information about our private lives​ ( Brookings )​​ ( Brennan Center for Justice )​.
  • The use of surveillance technology, including data monitoring and facial recognition, by law enforcement has significantly expanded, raising important questions about privacy, especially within private settings.
  • Independent Oversight and Regulation: We demand the establishment of rigorous oversight mechanisms, including independent bodies that involve community representatives to oversee the deployment and use of surveillance technologies.
  • McWhorter Foundation has not registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and may operate under exemptions.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation announces new executive staff, leadership promotions and Baldrige honors

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Monday, February 5, 2024
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He will serve as corporate secretary for the foundation board of trustees and oversee the internal audit function of the foundation.

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  • He will serve as corporate secretary for the foundation board of trustees and oversee the internal audit function of the foundation.
  • Williams will be a member of the executive leadership team, reporting to WKKF president and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron.
  • The foundation also announced the promotion of three WKKF executive colleagues to newly designed leadership roles.
  • Kellogg Foundation, using the national Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence as its framework to help Michigan-based organizations enhance their performance.

150 Women Ready to Change the Face of Power in Statehouses Across the U.S. After Vote Run Lead Action’s RUN/51 Summit

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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More than 150 women and gender-diverse people from across the country attended — joining from as far away as Puerto Rico!

Key Points: 
  • More than 150 women and gender-diverse people from across the country attended — joining from as far away as Puerto Rico!
  • “This training highlighted our organization's mission to accelerate the journey towards gender equity at every level of government.
  • Vote Run Lead Action has proudly helped 55,000 women train to run for office, with a successful track record of nearly 76% of alumni who made the 2023 ballot winning their races.
  • For more information about Vote Run Lead Action and its training, visit voterunleadaction.org or sign up today for VRLHQ.org , Vote Run Lead Action’s library of expert-curated resources to learn how to run a campaign — and win!

Former Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar Launches Athena Strategies, LLC

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Drawing upon her broad election experience, Boockvar founded Athena Strategies to provide election security guidance, best practices, and resources, as well as advise on election policy and legislation.

Key Points: 
  • Drawing upon her broad election experience, Boockvar founded Athena Strategies to provide election security guidance, best practices, and resources, as well as advise on election policy and legislation.
  • Boockvar serves as Senior Advisor to the Brennan Center for Justice and the Institute for Responsive Government , among other partners.
  • Boockvar has been a national leader in election security, democracy, and government and nonprofit administration over the last two decades, including serving as Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 2019-2021.
  • “My experiences as Secretary of State during the 2020 election cycle reinforced my dedication to doing everything it takes to fortify our democracy,” said Boockvar.

Joint Statement of Twelve Bar Associations About the Importance of A Diverse Judiciary

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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To promote public confidence in the justice system, we must strive to ensure that our judiciary is as diverse as the public whom it serves.

Key Points: 
  • To promote public confidence in the justice system, we must strive to ensure that our judiciary is as diverse as the public whom it serves.
  • Diversity not only promotes public trust and confidence but, as set forth below, the interplay of diverse viewpoints also improves judicial decision making.
  • Historically, our organizations’ collective efforts to ensure a diverse composition of our nation’s judiciary have been broad and deep.
  • As bar associations dedicated to promoting the administration of justice, we believe that this is an important part of our mission.

A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump

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Friday, August 4, 2023
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Three of the charges in United States of America v. Donald J. Trump are fairly easy to understand.

Key Points: 
  • Three of the charges in United States of America v. Donald J. Trump are fairly easy to understand.
  • They require a jury to determine whether Trump tried to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 election and if he knowingly conspired to obstruct the certification of results on Jan. 6, 2021, all in an attempt to remain in the White House.
  • But the fourth charge against Trump – of conspiring against the rights of the voters to cast ballots and have them fairly and honestly counted – is more complicated, and it comes from a dark time in U.S. history.
  • As a historian who studies and writes about democracy and the American South, I believe the 1870s have something to teach us about the fourth count in the Jan. 6 case against Trump.

Ku Klux Klan Acts

    • The indictment asserts that Trump knowingly conspired “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States – that is, the right to vote, and to have one’s vote counted.” That quote comes from a series of laws enacted in the 1870s called the Ku Klux Klan Acts.
    • As the Brennan Center for Justice points out, in the 20th century the Supreme Court has ruled that all sorts of election infringements violate the Enforcement Acts, including stuffing ballot boxes and bribing voters.

Retreat from democracy

    • The Department of Justice secured convictions in 140 cases by using the law that is being used to prosecute Trump.
    • Congress had to expand the attorney general’s staff into an entire department of government to handle the excessive case load.
    • After Grant was reelected, many champions of Black rights lapsed into what historians often characterize as a moral fatigue.
    • Nine stood trial, including one William Cruikshank, the burly, self-confident plantation owner who had supervised the executions.
    • The Supreme Court set William Cruikshank free, and white supremacists established racist regimes in every Southern state for nearly 100 years thereafter.

Civil War amendments today

    • The 5-4 majority held that states could be trusted to guarantee citizens’ voting rights.
    • Writing in dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg compared enforcing the Civil War amendments to “battling the Hydra,” the multiheaded monster that sprouted new heads after one was defeated.
    • Given this long history of advance and retreat, it’s not surprising, then, that special counsel Jack Smith, in his use of a law to prosecute Trump that dates back to the Reconstruction Era’s laws protecting the Black vote, has reasserted the Department of Justice’s power to enforce the Civil War amendments.

Impremedia and Brennan Center for Justice Partner on Democracy Content for Spanish Readers in the U.S.

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Monday, May 1, 2023
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A column based on Brennan Center analysis and research will be published monthly in La Opinión, the nation’s number one Spanish-language daily newspaper, and occasionally in El Diario, the oldest daily in Spanish in the United States.

Key Points: 
  • A column based on Brennan Center analysis and research will be published monthly in La Opinión, the nation’s number one Spanish-language daily newspaper, and occasionally in El Diario, the oldest daily in Spanish in the United States.
  • Impremedia and Brennan en español will also collaborate to build multimedia content and spaces for experts in the electoral process and the Latino vote to analyze and discuss critical issues.
  • "It is especially important for us to collaborate with Impremedia at this critical time for Latinos in the U.S.
  • This collaboration is a step forward for La Opinión/El Diario's commitment to their readers."

NJ Businesswoman & Philanthropist Wendy Neu, Milken Institute’s Matt Horton to Join AltaSea’s Board of Trustees in 2023

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Friday, January 27, 2023
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AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles is pleased to announce the addition of New Jersey philanthropist and entrepreneur Wendy Neu and Matt Horton, a Director at Milken Institute, to its Board of Trustees, effective January 1, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles is pleased to announce the addition of New Jersey philanthropist and entrepreneur Wendy Neu and Matt Horton, a Director at Milken Institute, to its Board of Trustees, effective January 1, 2023.
  • Entrepreneur and philanthropist Wendy Neu is a grassroots community organizer and activist that brings decades of knowledge and experience on environmental boards.
  • “We are thrilled to have Wendy and Matt join our Board of Trustees as AltaSea and our campus continues to grow,” said AltaSea President & CEO Terry Tamminen.
  • “We are looking forward to getting to work with Wendy and Matt, drawing on their experience and expertise.”

Freedman Normand Friedland Announces New Counsel, Richard A. Lafont, and New Associate, Katie Friel, in its New York Office

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, a preeminent litigation boutique firm with offices in New York, Miami, and Boston, is pleased to announce that Richard A. Lafont and Katie Friel have joined our New York office.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, a preeminent litigation boutique firm with offices in New York, Miami, and Boston, is pleased to announce that Richard A. Lafont and Katie Friel have joined our New York office.
  • Mr. Lafont is a general commercial litigator with vast experience handling banking, real estate, and, generally, complex commercial disputes.
  • Katie Friel will be joining the firm as an associate in the firm's New York office.
  • "They are brilliant lawyers that will add tremendous value to our practice and provide great service to our clients."

Carnegie Reporter Magazine’s Winter 2022 Edition — The Voting Issue: People. Protections. Participation. — Focuses on the Power of our Electorate.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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was produced by the philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York .

Key Points: 
  • was produced by the philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York .
  • “The Augustinian precept audi alteram partem — listen to the other side — should be our motto,” commented Richardson.
  • They say federal law must promote changes in three areas: expanding opportunities to register, increasing options for voting, and strengthening effective election administration.
  • For more information, visit the online issue of the Carnegie Reporter.