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August 6, 2009 ColorLines Direct. News and commentary from ColorLines magazine and RaceWire blog.   Sizing Up the Surgeon General: Unequal Scales in Health and Racial PrivilegeThe public reaction to Obama’s choice for surgeon general reveals how race and lopsided moralism are being insinuated into the health care debate. Protecting Without Policing A proposed bill would use prisons to address violence against trans people. Overdue Process: Detained Immigrants Wait Indefinitely for Justice For thousands of immigrants in federal custody, the price of resisting deportation is indefinite incarceration, with no opportunity even to challenge their detention in court. Daisy at the CS Monitor: On the Road, Asking the Hard Questions about Race Earlier last week the Christian Science Monitor asked ColorLine’s Daisy Hernandez if she’d share an experience from her own life that challenged her to assess her views on race. ColorLines Reports: GENDA’s Struggles to Protect Trans People Yasmine Farhang, reporting for ColorLines, talks about the ongoing discussion around New York state’s Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act. Advocates are moving swiftly to get it passed, but there are queer groups that oppose the bill. Gov. Schwarzenegger Cut 100% of Domestic Violence Funding and What Californians Can Do About It Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed a budget plan sent to him by legislators to close the state’s deficit, but only after he used his line-item veto power to slash an additional $500 million in cuts from the most vulnerable. Rinku Sen, Executive Director of ARC and Publisher of ColorLines Magazine at Netroots Nation Will you be in Pittsburgh for Netroots? ARC’s Rinku Sen will be at the national progressive blogger conference Friday, August 14th 2009. “Reverse Racism”: Word Distracts from the Big White Elephant of Systemic Racism ARC’s Terry Keleher digs into the term and explains that ‘reverse racism’ is nothing more than a way for those in power to change the subject away from systemic racism, a system that puts people of color at a disadvantage from birth until death. ColorLines Direct is the weekly news update of the Applied Research Center (ARC) sent to subscribers, supporters and participants in ARC’s activities. ARC publishes ColorLines Magazine, Racewire.org and most recently hosted The Compact for Racial Justice Phone Forums.

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