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Friday, February 1, 2007 North Dakota Human Rights News
Hello members and friends of the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition! Select individual headings to view specific content. Thank you for reading.
NEWS: Native American Nicknames / Mascot News
Do you have a Program, Announcement, Update or Resource that you would like shared on our weekly PAUR report? If so, please send an email to HumanRights@NDHRC.org and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Please Note: The NDHRC distributes a weekly PAUR report to inform our members and friends about news, events, and other human rights related information around the state. The opinions expressed within the articles are those of the authors and are not endorsed by the NDHRC.
We need your help and support to make a difference. Your individual advocacy is invaluable. Please consider making a monetary donation to help support the NDHRC's work. Send your donations to NDHRC, P.O. Box 1961, Fargo, ND 58107-1961 or make a donation online by visiting www.ndhrc.org. Free memberships are also available.
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NDHRC Legislative Activity Visit our Legislative Activity page for updates on NDHRC activity and human rights-related legislation! Click any of the following links for more information regarding each issue/bill: Name Change Bill (SB 2121), Minimum Wage (HB 1337, HB 1454, SB 2122, SB 3270), Children's Health Coverage (HB 1047), Limitation on Non-Profit Activities (HB 1226), Property Tax Credit (HB 1051).
NDHRC is posting lists of Legislative Forums taking place around North Dakota. Please contact mitchmarr@ndhrc.org about any forums happening in your area. Visit www.ndhrc.org or go directly to lists for Fargo and West Fargo.
February marks African American Heritage Month. While much progress has been made toward equality, there are constant reminders that we have a long way to go. This video, made by a high school student, is one such reminder. Please take a few minutes to watch. We at the NDHRC think it a thought-provoking piece—especially insightful for its author’s age—and a reminder of why we do the work we do. http://www.komotv.com/home/video/5001856.html?video=YHI&t=a
In Loving Memory of Molly Ivins (1944-2007) "Syndicated political columnist Molly Ivins died of breast cancer Wednesday evening at her home in Austin. She was 62 years old, and had much, much more to give this world..." For the complete announcement, printed in the Texas Observer, visit: http://www.texasobserver.org/molly_obituary.html ... Still more can be found on the homepage of the Texas Observer, where Ivins worked.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is currently seeking qualified applicants for the positions of Program Director (2 positions available) in our Food Systems Rural Development Department. These positions are based in our Battle Creek, MI headquarters office. To learn more, visit www.wkkf.org or e-mail employment@wkkf.org.
The Arc of Bismarck & The ND Protection & Advocacy Project staff are collaborating to offer training and support to groups or individuals wishing to participate in the legislative process. For more details or to schedule a workshop that includes information on how a bill becomes a law and how to draft and deliver legislative testimony, please use one of the contact points listed below to schedule an appointment. Please share this in your circles - Thank you! 701-258-7949. joyce@apsimail.com # arcbis@midconetwork.com # tlarsen@nd.gov
Gandhi Peace Network of North Dakota announces the 5th Annual Season for Nonviolence in North Dakota. This is a program of daily practices inspired by the principles of nonviolence practiced and taught by M K Gandhi and Dr Martin Luther King. Season runs from the date of Gandhi’s assassination on Jan 30th to Martin Luther King’s on Apr 4th. Printed brochures for individual practice over this 64-day period are available FREE of charge at the Bismarck Public Library and at the Bismarck Park and Recreation offices. Contact Aruna or Vinod Seth at 701-223-4234 / 701-426-4788 or jjart@btinet.net. Visit www.gandhipeace.org for more information on the Gandhi Peace Network of North Dakota. See Mayor John Warford’s Proclamation of the SEASON on the Bismarck website http://www.bismarck.org/
Mayor's Human Relations Committee Endorses Season
for Nonviolence
Help Get the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Restored The Arc of the United States and United Cerebral Palsy need your compelling, real-life stories of employment discrimination on the basis of disability to help make the case to Congress that the Supreme Court's narrow interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act have harmed people with disabilities in employment. It is time to restore the original scope and intent of the ADA! The Arc and UCP, in conjunction with the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD), will use these personal stories in coming weeks to educate members of Congress about the need for a legislative "fix" to the ADA in a way they can relate to and that can be readily understood. Click Here - Send Us Your Personal Story
The Women's Fund, a fund of the Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation, in collaboration with the Region V Children's Services Coordinating Committee and the Clay County Collaborative would like to invite you to participate in our Children in Need of Care Survey. This a brief survey regarding children's needs and resources. This document will assist in framing discussions during community strategic planning sessions to be held in February. Following is the link to access this survey, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=156703147305 Please feel free to forward this survey to other interested parties in Cass and Clay counties. After you have completed the survey you will be directed to a link to our Children in Need of Care Strategic Planning Session web-site. Please feel free to register to participate in this event. Your ideas, input, and feed back is what will make this event a success.
Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program - 2007 The Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program encourages residents of the Upper Midwest - including students, teachers, lawyers, health professionals, community leaders, and others - to undertake practical experiences/internships in human rights organizations, locally, nationally, and internationally. The Fellowship Program is designed to promote social justice by providing practical training in the varied aspects of human rights work worldwide. The fellowship placement provides both training for the individual and assistance to the host organization, as well as fosters links between communities in the Upper Midwest and human rights/social justice organizations around the world. Participants return with a stronger commitment to a lifetime of work in human rights/social justice and contribute to bringing human rights concerns home to communities in the Upper Midwest. Over the past 17 years, the Human Rights Center has sponsored 330 interns and fellows to work with human rights/social justice organizations in more than 80 countries and awards approximately 25 fellowship grants each year. In 2006, the Human Rights Center´s Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program awarded grants to 28 individuals committed to the promotion of human rights and social justice. Grant details: * Awards are competitive; approximately twenty grants will be awarded for the 2007 program. * Fellowships should be a minimum of 10 weeks in duration. * Grants will ordinarily range from $1,000 to $4,500, averaging about $3,200 and are intended to cover food, lodging, and transportation during the fellowship experience. * Applications must be received by Monday, February 26, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. * Decisions will be made by April 1, 2007. For more information and an application, please check out our website at http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/center/uppermidwest/ If you have more questions after reviewing our website, feel free to contact Kim Walsh at (612) 626-2226 or via email at hrfellow@umn.edu
Community forums on children in need of care sponsored by the Women's Fund of the Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation are scheduled for February 6 and 20. They will run from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. each evening and will be held at the new Public Works building in northwest Fargo. For more information, contact Dawn Somerdale, Coordinator, Clay County Collaborative, telephone: 218.498.2389 email: coordinator@claycountycollaborative.org
The Environmental Awareness Committee at Ft. Berthold's is hosting a free screening of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's award-winning documentary on Climate Change next Wednesday, February 7th in the Memorial Union Lecture Bowl. In conjunction with that, we will be collecting donations to help members of the Three Affiliated Tribes in their battle to stop an oil refinery from being built on the reservation. For more information, contact Jason Schaefer: pschaefs@gmail.com
Join us for an exciting wellness retreat February 9, 10
,11 -- A Winter SOULstice 2007, in Valley City, ND!
The NDSU Women's Week committee is pleased
to announce the keynote for our 25th anniversary program is Dr. Jean Kilbourne,
internationally acclaimed media critic, author, and filmmaker. Her speech,
"Deadly Persuasion: Advertising and Addiction," will be held on Tuesday,
February 20 at 7pm in the Memorial Union Ballroom, with a reception and
book-signing opportunity to follow.
Heidi Heitkamp, Keynote Speaker!
Laurie Loveland Lecture: The Growing Influence
of Women in Politics
The regular meeting of the Waking the Sleeping Giant group of Health and Human Services Nonprofits will be held the fourth Wednesday of the month, February 28, at Friendship, Inc., 801 Page Drive SW, Fargo. Monthly meetings regularly are held from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The meeting will focus on planning for the March meetings with legislators and continuing the “Put People First” initiative. We want to continue to inform our government officials on how their decisions affect the lives of people in our community. These meetings are open to anyone wishing to attend. Health and human service organization staff and volunteers are encouraged to attend. If you have questions call PEPP 218-236-5434 and ask for Duke or Lysa.
Disability Awareness Day @ North Dakota State Capitol Great Hall - March 14, 2007, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. "Many Voices, One Vision" topics include home and community based services, people first language, housing shortages, employment, ADA compliance, Medicaid, accessible transportation, qualified service providers (QPS's), civil rights & discrimination, family & children's issues, technology that promotes independence, and inclusion in decisions ("Nothing About Us Without Us").
Building Bridges Conference March 26-27 in Fargo Lutheran Social Services’ New American Services of Fargo will host a two-day conference, Building Bridges, at the Holiday Inn, I-29 at 13th Avenue South in Fargo on March 26 and 27th. The conference features national speakers and will bring together a wide range of service providers, educators and employees who work with refugee families. They will work on building and strengthening partnerships that lead to economic self-sufficiency for individuals, companies and communities. The conference is co-sponsored by The ND Department of Education and the Agassiz Valley Human Resource Association. For further information, contact LSS/ND New American Services, 701-271-1603 or www.dasche@lssnd.org.
AFP and NDANO co-host non-profit conference in Fargo Creating Common Ground for Growth, an educational conference on nonprofit funding will be held June 3-5 at the Ramada Plaza Suites and Conference Center, Fargo. The conference will feature excellent speakers and educational tracks, as well as opportunities for networking. More than 200 nonprofit professionals, board members and volunteers from throughout the Midwest are expected at the event to gain quality training at a very reasonable cost. Save the dates now.
Volunteer or Intern with Planned Parenthood! “MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IN HER LIFE. IN HIS LIFE. IN YOUR LIFE.” Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota has provided our community with education and confidential reproductive health care at an affordable cost for more than 70 years. Help us achieve our mission by participating in one of these exciting opportunities: Volunteer and Internship Positions: Reality Checker – Fargo, Bismarck, Minot, Grand Forks Super Activist - Fargo Coffee House Series Committee - Fargo Public Affairs Administrative Assistant - Fargo For more information or to apply, contact ajacobson@ppmns.org or 701.526.0726 , or visit our website at www.ppmns.org.
Citizenship classes slated in Moorhead
Bismarck: Human Relations Video Series
The Bismarck Human Relations Committee in partnership with the Bismarck Public
Library presents a Human Rights Video Series the 3rd Sunday of each month,
3:00 PM, at the Bismarck Public Library, Room C. January's video 'Life &
Debt', explores the effect of the International Monetary Fund's policies on
developing counties through Jamaica's experience when it entered into a tricky
agreement...resulting in the loss of jobs and economic self reliance. Contact Information: contact Daphne Ghorbani. Affiliation: Bismarck Human Relations Committee
RE: 1915(c) Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Application
to
North Dakota Family Stories booklet Family Voices of North Dakota has just completed the booklet on North Dakota Family Stories. As it is to big of a file to send, we have placed it on the Family Voices of North Dakota website. http://www.geocities.com/ndfv/ndfvpage7.html
Dental Care is Available at MSCTC You may qualify to receive quality dental care at Minnesota State Community and Technical College-Moorhead. Thanks to grants through the Minnesota State Depaertment of Health and the Dakota Medical Foundation, the college has opened a dental clinic for MN Care and MA recipients providing: dental exams, x-rays, dental cleanings, fillings, extractions, and dentures. The clinic provides staff who are Minnesota Board Certified, with student assistance. Second-year dental hygiene students provide x-rays and cleanings under close supervision. Open Tuesdays from 6-9pm, 1900 28th Avenue South, Moorhead, MN 56560. For appointments or information call 218-299-6560.
Nonprofits Assistance Fund Launches Blog
The Local chapter of the national campaign for the creation of a cabinet level Department of Peace is looking for a few good men and women volunteers, across the state, to team up to lobby for this bill. Please contact State Coordinator and District Team Leader Paddy McLaughlin to see how you might become involved with this powerful bill for peace. Meetings in Fargo at the Center, every 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month, 8 p.m. Call 701-232-0694 for details. www.thepeacealliance.org Local Peace Circle takes place every Tuesday at 7:00 P.M. at The Center for Peace, 411 11th St. N., Fargo, ND. Please join us as we meditate on, prayer for and envision the conditions necessary for healing and peace on Earth. Contact Paddy McLaughlin, 701-232-0694
Letter: Originator would dump ‘Fighting Sioux'Published Sunday, January 28, 2007CLAYTON, Wis. - I've seen reports of the UND vs. NCAA conflict over the use of “Fighting Sioux” as a team mascot name. My father, Ray Herriges, invented the name “Fighting Sioux” when he was a cub reporter for the Herald (circa 1929-1930). He viewed the prior name, “Flickertails,” as weak and unrepresentative of the UND athletic teams. http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=25386§ion=Opinion
Buning: Lawsuit took power
away UND Athletic Director Tom Buning told a small group of students and others Wednesday he thinks the lawsuit between UND and the NCAA over the Fighting Sioux nickname has drawn attention away from a campus solution to the issue. http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=25821§ion=homepage
Bill would provide tribal colleges with extra funding By Andrea Johnson, Staff Writer ajohnson@minotdailynews.com -Minot Daily News 2/1/07 A Senate
bill that would provide $700,000 in funding during the 2007-2009 biennium for
tribal colleges in the state to educate non-Indian students is a step closer
to becoming law, said Rep. Merle Boucher, D-Rolette ... The Senate Education
Committee recommended Wednesday that the full Senate pass SB2404, said
Boucher. A concurrent House bill, HB1395, was heard by the House Education
Committee and also received a do-pass recommendation, said Jim Davis,
president of Turtle Mountain Community College in Belcourt.
http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=8518
American Indian culture series begins Friday on PPTV An American Indian magazine series, a 13-part production called “Indian Pride” produced by Prairie Public Broadcasting, will premiere at 8 p.m. Friday on Prairie Public Television and air over several months. http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=25837§ion=homepage
NEWS: Race & National Origin
Please send news articles to mitchmarr@ndhrc.org
Please send news articles to mitchmarr@ndhrc.org
School for the Deaf
students head to Deaflympics Students, staff and parents from the North Dakota School for the Deaf are attending the 16th Winter Deaflympics in Salt Lake City, not only to take in the games, but also to root for one of their own. http://www.in-forum.com/articles/printer.cfm?id=154769
Please send news articles to mitchmarr@ndhrc.org
In Loving Memory of Molly Ivins (1944-2007) "Syndicated political columnist Molly Ivins died of breast cancer Wednesday evening at her home in Austin. She was 62 years old, and had much, much more to give this world..." For the complete announcement, printed in the Texas Observer, visit: http://www.texasobserver.org/molly_obituary.html ... Still more can be found on the homepage of the Texas Observer, where Ivins worked.
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