Episode 8: Human Rights in Crisis: Racial Profiling and Housing

Submitted by ushrnetwork on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 01:45.

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This eposide of our Podcast: No Retreat, No Compromise tackle's two topics.

The federal stimulus package passed into law but questions remain about the implementation and effectiveness of the plan. Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty provides an evaluation of the stimulus package as it relates to housing. Describing the Center's current policy work, she also discusses the value of applying a Human Rights framework to the housing struggle.

In the span of 24 hours between December 31st, 2008 and January 1st, 2009, three Black men were the victims of racial profiling at the hands of various law enforcement agencies throughout the US. Kamau Franklin, activist and attorney with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement discusses their appeal to the federal Department of Justice to end racial profiling and intervene in the three cases of Oscar Grant, Adolph Grimes and Robbie Tolan.