In this ever-important election year, we’re excited to launch a major new bilingual campaign to mobilize young voters of color across the South: The South’s Got Now | Decidimos. Together with state and local partners across five states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi – we’ll be showing the power that young Black and Brown people have to change history and our communities. Read more about this campaign in our new blog. Stay tuned for more: https://lnkd.in/gqemijZD
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The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people. We focus our legal, advocacy, and public education efforts on four major areas representing some of the most significant challenges facing the South and beyond: protecting voting rights and civic engagement; eradicating poverty in our Southern communities; dismantling white nationalism and protecting democracy; and decriminalizing and decarcerating Black and Brown people.
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http://www.splcenter.org
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- 201-500 employees
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- Montgomery, Alabama
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- 1971
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- Immigrant Justice Project, Hate and Extremism Research, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice Reform, Economic Justice, Voting Rights, LGBTQ Rights and Special Litigation, and Learning for Justice
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Legally undermining people’s access to health care and their right to make decisions for their own bodies and futures is both inherently harmful and a catalyst for interpersonal violence. As attacks on bodily autonomy persist, we can push back – starting by exercising our #RightToVote this November. #BeAVoter: Access the SPLC's #TSGN resources and #RegisterToVote today 🗳️: https://lnkd.in/eKbdJjDD
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In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service began the Tuskegee syphilis study, withholding treatment from Black men with syphilis. The study didn't stop until after a journalist reported on it #OTD in 1972. The government didn't apologize until 1997. #TheMarchContinues
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Students Isabella Dennison and Madison Thompson joined SPLC’s Youth Leadership Institute last year. Since joining, they have tackled topics such as mental health, community-building and finding one’s purpose in life. Now, they've been awarded the Equal Justice Initiative’s Montgomery Public Schools Legacy Scholarship. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gwVaMZTS
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It's time to end this “War on Drugs.” In the latest #Hopewatch blog, the SPLC calls on the U.S. Department of Justice to finally fully decriminalize marijuana. Marijuana is legal for recreational use in 24 states and for medicinal use in 38 states. The Biden administration should follow suit. Racial, social and #economicjustice demand nothing less. https://lnkd.in/emStFZnx
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🚨 We should all be alarmed by Project 2025 - and ready to act against it for democracy! Are you registered to #vote ❓Access the SPLC's #TSGN resources & register today: https://lnkd.in/eKbdJjDD The far-right Project 2025 handbook is developed and supported by a coalition of 75 organizations – including at least nine hate and antigovernment groups – for a future conservative presidential administration. #YIHE
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Today marks four years since the passing of civil rights hero John Lewis. Today we honor his legacy and continue the work of strengthening our freedom to vote. Activists around the country are hosting events for John Lewis National Day of Action to call for national action to protect our democracy! #TheSouthsGotNow #VotingRights
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“Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project” or Project 2025 is a sweeping plan to reshape presidential powers and the federal bureaucracy in the image of dominionism. A few facts on Project 2025 ⬇️ 💥It's developed and supported by a coalition of 75 organizations – including at least nine hate and antigovernment groups with ties to the Republican Party. 💥It features, in great detail, the ways movement loyalists could use their powers to restrict access to abortion further dramatically. Read the 2023 Year In Hate & Extremism report. https://lnkd.in/e52aHvgf #YIHE #LGBTQRights #AbortionAccess
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The 2024 presidential election is just months away. Why not help by volunteering as a changemaker in this vital election? Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gUndymyG #TheSouthsGotNow
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#OTD in 1776, the founders of the U.S.A. declared that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Today, #TheMarchContinues as we continue to fight so all can exercise those rights.
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