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Please Distribute: American Civil Rights Coalition P.O. Box  188350 Sacramento CA 95818www.acrc1.org GOVERNOR DAVIS RENEGES ON CAMPAIGN PROMISE NOT TO UNDERMINE WITH THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE ON PROP 209 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:  Diane Schachterle 916-444-2278 SACRAMENTO -- Last week, Governor Gray Davis signed AB 703, authored by Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally.  Regrettably, the Governor has chosen to renege on a campaign promise to the people of California, made during the 1998 gubernatorial campaign when Davis stated that he would do nothing to undermine the will of the people regarding the enforcement of Proposition 209, now Article 1 Section 31...

For distribution, pls. “The [CA] Attorney General’s glaring omission of this exemption could be very misleading to the voters,” commented Ward Connerly, chairman of the Yes on Prop 54 campaign. Who is the Attorney General? Mr. D-Bill Lockyer. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/sc20010607.shtml Though Lay has not been convicted of any crime, Bill Lockyer says, "I would love to personally escort Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'" But on the subject of CA's mysterious "bookkeeping practices" throughout the educational and government bodies, and of course, the significant omission from...

<p>Joining the legions of national figures weighing in on California's wild gubernatorial recall, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday that his civil rights organization will work in the next two months on a ``double no'' campaign to defeat both the recall and Proposition 54, which would ban the collection of racial data in California.</p>

California's Oct. 7 recall election, to determine whether Democratic Gov. Gray Davis should remain in office, will also give voters the chance to decide whether to prohibit the state from collecting information about race or ethnicity. Supporters of the Racial Privacy Initiative (RPI), now numbered Proposition 54, say passage would mark a giant step toward a color-blind society. But affirmative action supporters are campaigning against the ballot measure, deriding it as the "Protect White Privilege Initiative." Proposition 54 backers argue that the state's system of racial classification is outdated and point out that the system has been used in the...

Sonic Fusion Scientists have reported that by bombarding a liquid with sound they were able to produce nuclear fusion in a tabletop apparatus. But their colleagues doubt it. By W. Wayt Gibbs Image: Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, J. S. Cho, C.D. West, R.T. Lahey,Jr., R.I. Nigmatulin and R.C. Block)SIX-MILLIMETER BUBBLE CLOUD is about to implode in a glass chamber filled with acetone. The implosion produces light and shock waves. Donald Kennedy, editor of the prestigious journal Science, knew he was in for a row if he...

<p>California voters -- by a nearly 3-to-2 ratio -- favor a proposed ballot measure that would largely prohibit state and local governments from classifying people by race or ethnicity, according to a new Field Poll.</p> <p>The proposal by University of California Regent Ward Connerly is considered an extension of Proposition 209, his successful anti-affirmative action measure, and could once again inject heated debate over race into a gubernatorial election.</p>