Families to Praise Gore's Efforts to Pass Comprehensive Hate Crime Legislation
To ratchet up the pressure on Congress, several family members of recent hate crime victims joined civil rights advocates last month to launch UnitedAgainstHate.org, a grassroots campaign to promote passage of HCPA. UnitedAgainstHate.org is a project of LCCR's Hate Crimes Task Force, a group of over 180 national organizations working to strengthen federal hate crime law.
This campaign represents the first time that a coalition of national civil rights, women's, religious, and labor organizations have collectively leveraged Internet technology to mount a coordinated grassroots advocacy campaign.
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HR 1082) has bipartisan support from 57 Senators, 192 Representatives; 22 state attorneys general; and over 175 law enforcement, civil rights, civic, and religious organizations.
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is the oldest, largest and most diverse coalition of organizations committed to the protection of civil and human rights in the United States.
