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Coca-Cola Co is dropping its membership in a conservative national advocacy group that supports "Stand Your Ground" laws such as the one being used as a defense in the Florida killing of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin.
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Detroit Free Press: Night of Trayvon Martin's killing filled with conflicting reports
SANFORD, Fla. -- Sunday evening, Feb. 26: It was raining in central Florida while the NBA All-Star game and the Oscars were about to begin on TV.
A Pew Research Center for the People & the Press study found that twice as many Republicans as Democrats say there’s been too much media coverage of the Trayvon Martin case, 56 percent to 25 percent. Whites were more than twice as likely as African Americans to say there has been too much coverage, 43 percent to 16 percent.
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To Be Equal #14
April 05, 2012
“Kill at Will” Laws Blocking Justice for Trayvon Martin
Marc H. Morial
President and CEO
National Urban League
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
- Louis Brandeis, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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What more can be said about the Trayvon Martin tragedy that has not already been said? Two factors that must be resolved before we can move forward are the propensity of police to deal with some crimes presumptuously, and the tendency of blacks and whites to view racial controversies through different prisms.
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Morial Urges Full Disclosure of NRA/ALEC Relationship
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Like bookends, two major news events that have recently captured the attention of America stand distinctly and tragically apart. One involves the senseless shooting of Trayvon Martin, 17, an unarmed Black teenager in Florida by a white Hispanic, self-deputized neighborhood watch captain; the other, Don Thompson, 48, a Black man who grew up poor but got a great education and a chance to prove his himself and will soon become the CEO of McDonald’s.
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Urges ALEC to Disavow Lethal Law after Killing of Florida Teen
WASHINGTON, DC – National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial is among a diverse coalition of advocates, activists and civil rights leaders scheduled to address a protest rally at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which wrote and promoted the deadly “Kill At Will” law that contributed to the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
In consultation with corporate lobbyists, ALEC ghostwrites anti-consumer and anti-worker legislation behind closed doors in Washington. Watchdogs have identified more than 800 ALEC-written model bills and resolutions, which have been introduced in every state without disclosure of the source. So far, 25 states have passed ALEC’s Stand Your Ground legislation, and five more are still considering it, even after the tragic death of Trayvon Martin.
Trayvon Martin’s has focused attention on Florida’s Stand Your Ground self-defense law. A secretive organization called the American Legislative Exchange Council ghostwrote the legislation and has pushed it through more than two dozen state legislatures.
Which is the most concerning of these other ALEC initiatives?
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