In a recent article posted in the Equal Justice Society newsletter, Lee Cokorinos, the Author of The Assault on Diversity, details the strategy of Wardell Connerly and the Heritage Foundation to pursue the elimination of affirmative action programs through legislative initiatives in Colorado, Missouri, Arizona and Oklahoma. The “Super Tuesday” strategy is well financed by the same foundations that have coordinated the roll back of civil rights over the past two decades. The article is essential reading not only for those in the states currently targeted but for all who work to close the opportunity gaps that fracture and separate our society.

Lee will be presenting on these and other issues at the National Legal Aid & Defender’s Organization’s substantive law conference in San Jose, CA on July 20, 2007.