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The Rights Of Aliens In The 1980s, Juan Ernesto Mendez
The Rights Of Aliens In The 1980s, Juan Ernesto Mendez
Antioch Law Journal
The United States has always been on the receiving end of the immigration stream. Today's immigration flow however, is markedly different from that of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Immigrants continue to come from a large variety of countries and ethnic origins, but a majority of them tend to be both poor and non-white. The flow of immigration has steadily increased since the early 1970's as international travel and communications have become more developed. Another element adding to the number of recent arrivals is the refugee crisis around the world. In some instances, the United States has perpetuated this …
Poverty Law In The 1980s, Marian Wright Edelman
Poverty Law In The 1980s, Marian Wright Edelman
Antioch Law Journal
It is self-interest and not justice that propels most people to act. If we intend to help the poor we will need to build coalitions with a range of others in society. When I came out of Mississippi, I thought that people were good if they were for everything I was for, and they were bad if they were not. I learned through the course of trying to protect Head Start that one could bring a whole range of groups together who had a self-interest in child care who would not speak to each other on welfare reform. Our work …
Civil Rights In The 1980s, Nathaniel R. Jones
Civil Rights In The 1980s, Nathaniel R. Jones
Antioch Law Journal
have been asked for my views on the civil rights agenda for the 1980s. Such an agenda cannot be proposed in a vacuum, for the roots of current civil rights problems extend deep into the nation's history. In fact, public acceptance of civil rights remedies has been impeded precisely because their historical predicates are so little understood. While the civil rights thrust has broadened to include gender, ethnic, and age considerations, the basic problems in shaping remedies continue to center around race and the nation's treatment of racial groups. This fact confounds those who had come to believe that problems …
Reproductive And Sexual Freedom In The 1980s, Rhonda Copelon
Reproductive And Sexual Freedom In The 1980s, Rhonda Copelon
Antioch Law Journal
The inclusion of issues of reproductive and sexual freedom in this symposium is itself a sign of great progress. The civil liberties agenda which, until the last decade, was largely focused on first amendment issues, has grown substantially. This is because the movements of the last several decades-civil rights, black power, feminist, anti-war, Native American, lesbian and gay, anti-nuclear, and others-have broadened our understanding of the meaning of repression. In 1960, for example, there was only a hardy band of progressive civil libertarians working on the idea that a woman's right to contraception and abortion is fundamental to her liberty.' …