COMMUNITY JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER: AUDIO

Tenth Anniversary of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)

The year 2003 marks the 10th anniversary of President Clinton's signing the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), popularly known as the ãMotor Voterä bill. NVRA works by reducing unnecessary and burdensome bureaucratic obstacles to voter registration. The NVRA has produced dramatically higher registration rates for voters of all races and ethnicities, but as a general matter, people of colorâs registration rates still lag behind those of whites. This is a result of failure by many states and counties to implement the NVRA fully and enforce the protections guaranteed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The uneven enforcement of these laws by the U.S. Department of Justice also helps to explain the persistence and pervasiveness of Election Day problems.


In acknowledgement of the tenth anniversary, Advancement Project Senior Attorney Eddie Hailes has circulated an op-ed entitled America's Modern Poll Tax and also participated in an audio news release marking the tenth anniversary. Click on both links to read th op-ed or listen to the audio news release.
Building a Mutiracial Social Justice Movement
Advancement Project and the New York University School of Law co-sponsored a Review of Law & Social Change Colloquium, entitled Building a Multiracial Social Justice Movement. The Symposium lasted for a full day on February 1, 2002. It was a dynamic discussion on topics of higher education, multiracial coalition building, criminal justice, and faith and democracy. Several notable guests were invited from prestigious law schools and organizations throughout the country. The challenges of racial politics produced an important dialogue about how to build a truly multiracial social justice movement in our time.

PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH US WHILE WE UPLOAD THE AUDIO FOR THIS SECTION (Posted June 27, 2005)

New York University
Review of Law & Social Change

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS:
BUILDING A MULTIRACIAL SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT

February 1, 2002
  1. This audio file contains segments of 2 panel discussions.
    • From the first panel, Accessing Higher Education as a Multiracial Movement, which was made up of the following panelists: Albert Cortez, Erika Dowdell, Penda Hair & Lenina Nadel (Panel 1), you will hear the audience discussion.
    • This file also includes the second panel, which was entitled: Divide and Conquer: The Challenges of Multiracial Politics, and included Mimi Ho, Una Kim, Eric Tang & J. Phillip Thompson.
    Click here to listen to the audio file.

    This audio file includes the panelists« remarks from Panel 1 -- Albert Cortez, Erika Dowdell, Penda Hair and Lenina Nadel.
    Click here to listen to the audio file.

    This audio file includes segments of a panel discussion called Books Not Bars: Confronting Criminal Justice Issues Through Multiracial Action. The panel members were: Lenore Anderson, Libero Della Piana, Elizabeth Loeb & Mari Matsuda. The segments recorded here include remarks of Mari Matsuda, Lenore Anderson and Libero Della Piana; comments from the audience and a summary of the panelists« remarks.
    Click here to listen to the audio file.

    Click here to listen to segments of audience participation during the concluding roundtable discussion of the Symposium. The discussion is led by Lani Guinier, who begins this segment with a summary of panelists« remarks. This file also includes the concluding remarks of panelists from a panel entitled, Political Race, Faith and the Democratic Process. The panelists were: Naoka Carey, Saru Jayaraman, Si Khan & Kendall Thomas. You will also hear a portion of Poetry Slam by the Blackout Arts Collective and Jennifer Cendana Armas who are using the arts for social justice in a segment called: A Performative Critique of Democracy.

  2. Click here for the continuation of Poetry Slam and for remarks from the audience and from Lani Guinier on Poetry Slam.