Press Release - Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
New Report Reveals Bush Administration's Hostility Toward Civil Rights
For Immediate Release
Contact: Maggie Kao, 202-466-2735, kao@civilrights.org
April 21, 2003
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
