RACISM

Thanks to the vigilence of the Nassau Affirmative Action Project the vetting of Human Rights and Minority Affairs agencies by the Mangano Administration has been thwarted. Although these County Agencies are bereft and deficient in terms of their mandates and indifferent to their duties and responsibilities to safeguard the rights of minorities in Nassau County, they at least serve as a reminder of what America stands for. The inexcusable lack of commitmant by those employed in these agencies to safeguard the rights of minorities, white, black, hispanic or whatever, is a matter that cries to heaven and must be left to the consciences of those employees who for their own purposes look the other way.

A time comes when silence is betrayal…. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.—Martin Luther King Jr.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's proposal to consolidate the Nassau County Human Rights Commission, CASA and the Office of Minority Affairs into an Office for New Local Opportunities is an affront to the communities served by these three County Departments. By law they are separate and distinct so that they may focus on their respective missions of investigating bias and discrimination complaints, violations of human and civil rights and delivering critical social services to their unique constituencies. Support Dr. King's legacy! Mr. Mangano- Empower these agencies!

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The elimination of human & civil rights agencies is not about saving money. While hundreds of Health and social service workers are being fired, the County Legislature passed County Executive Mangano's confiscatory bill awarding 5 million dollars to Morgan Stanley to conduct a fiscal review! As County employees are fired, the tentacles of big business swoop down and suck up their salaries! In these tough economic times, doing something to deliver less services to the neediest communities in Nassau County is unconscionable. Now is the time! Contact your legislator.

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SUPPORT THE COUNTY CHARTER VISITOR BOARD TO OVERSEE THE COUNTY JAIL!

We urge all people of conscience to rally at the Theodore Roosevelt County Building Legislative Chambers on Franklin and Old Country Road in Mineola on Mondays and demand that the County Executive and the County Legislators honor their oath of office and obey the law as mandated by the County Charter and implement the Visitor Board. Click the link above and sign the petition that the County Charter provisions for a Visitor Board to oversee the county jail be immediately implemented. Contact your legislator and demand that that he or she put a stop to County Executive Mangano's proposal to gut and dismantle the County's Human and Civil Rights agencies. www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/Legis/index.html

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