Tag: Press Release
Project 21 Release: NAACP Intimidation Tactics in South Carolina Criticized – January 2002
As the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) prepares to deploy "border patrols" to enforce their boycott of the state of South Carolina, the African-American leadership network Project 21 is highly critical of the NAACP's intimidation tactics ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Opposes Racially Divisive Plan to Reinstate Military Draft – January 2003
A proposal by Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) to reinstate a military draft is under fire from African-American conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network. Project 21 members call the Rangel proposal a blatant political maneuver meant to inject a ...
Opening the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage Facility is Important to National Security; Action Would Eliminate the Only Serious Vulnerability of Nuclear Plants to Terrorism
Moving America's nuclear waste to a safe storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada - as was proposed January 10 by Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham - would make an important contribution to national security according to a study, "Terrorism and Nuclear ...
2002 Earth Day Information Center Press Release: “Earth Day Interview Locator Service” and Earth Day Fact Kit Available to Journalists
The Earth Day Information Center is offering a free Earth Day Interview Locator Service to journalists to assist them in booking environmental experts for Earth Day on April 22, 2002. The interview locator service offers access to scientists and public ...
Teamsters’ Hoffa Endorses Alaskan Oil Exploration, Says Union Will Remember Politicians Who Vote Against Job Creation & Energy Independence
International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa told The National Center for Public Policy Research that the Teamsters will hold politicians accountable for their opposition to oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) during this fall's ...
Project 21 Release: Is It Wrong to Require Work in Exchange for a Welfare Check? – December 2001
Black Group Says Public Housing Residents Wrong to Spurn Community Service Provision Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 sharply criticize a provision in the pending 2002 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spending bill that would repeal ...
Project 21 Release: Civil Rights Commission Refuses to Seat Black Appointee; Black Network Says New Official’s Conservative Beliefs Are No Justification for Discrimination – December 2001
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry's refusal to recognize the appointment of Commissioner Peter Kirsanow is akin to former governor George Wallace's refusal to integrate the Alabama school system say members of the African-American leadership network Project ...
Africa Cries Out for Genetically Modified Foods: African-American Leadership Network Joined by African Leaders in Call for Providing Africa With the Tools to Feed Its People – October 2000
African leaders are appealing to the United States government to ignore the misguided political protests against genetically-modified foods so that those afflicted with diseases and starvation on the African continent might have hope for the future. Project 21 members are ...
National Center for Public Policy Research Statement in Light of the Terrorist Attack on America
The 21st Century has begun. Centuries are measured in books by dates and minds by events. In the national memory, the terrorist war on the United States that began September 11, 2001 will mark the beginning of the 21st Century ...
Project 21 Release: Black Activists Support Pledge of Allegiance: Group Outraged by Black Lawmaker Refusing to Honor the Flag and Nation – July 2001
On the eve of the 225th anniversary of American independence, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are appalled that there are prominent African-Americans who refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. These people claim the American flag represents ...
