OC Weekly, January 18, 2011 “Kill the Cathlics” was sprayed onto Saint Boniface Catholic Church at 120 N. Janss St., Anaheim, and threatening hate speech against Asians and African-Americans was scrawled outside the Orange County Housing Authority at 1170 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. That graffiti was discovered on Jan. 11, and now authorities have disclosed even more hate speech was discovered
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Fullerton Observer, December 2010 Over 550 students and educators from 28 Orange County Junior High and High Schools attended OC Human Relations BRIDGES youth conference at UC Irvine. The program brings students together to explore issues of identity and culture, develop their leadership skills and to be exposed to examples of successful youth activism…click here to read more
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The Daily Pilot, December 8, 2010 One person can make a difference. You just have to believe in yourself, be patient, put in many hours of work, and, sometimes — just sometimes — search far and wide for Spanish translators. That was the message delivered to students at Corona del Mar High School on Tuesday by M.C. Sungaila, a graduate
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Orange County Register, November 10, 2010 The 24-year-old singer-songwriter, an award-winning fixture on the local nightclub circuit, strums a few chords on his acoustic guitar in his Corona del Mar home, the tune a work in progress. Hopped up on pain medication, his broken nose covered in a bandage and his left eye red and sunken in its shattered socket,
Read more →Nguoi Viet 2 News, November 4, 2010 Rusty Kennedy has been working for the OC Human Relations Commission for nearly 35 years and currently serves as its Executive Director. As a man who still lives in the same house he grew up in as a child, Kennedy is well-aware of the issues that have been plaguing Orange County since the
Read more →Nguoi Viet 2 Online, November 4, 201 Nicholas told an audience gathered at a recent discussion panel on cyberbullying, organized by the Orange County Human Relations Commission, about the years of emotional torture he had endured. He admitted to trying to end his own life by overdosing on 30 pills after he couldn’t take the bullying any longer. He passed
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The Examiner.com, October 18, 2010 The recent suicides of young students, Tyler Clementi, 18, Phoebe Prince, 15, Seth Walsh, 13, Asher Brown, 13, and Billy Lucas, 15 have sparked national outrage against the kids believed to have bullied them “to death.” In Orange County, OC Human Relations is doing their part to bring even more attention to this growing problem by
Read more →Orange County Register, September 22, 2010 African Americans are the most frequent targets of hate crimes while Jewish and Muslim communities experienced the most dramatic increases in hate crimes in 2009, according to a report released by the Orange County Human Relations Commission. The report also found that hate crimes against Latinos were down in 2009 after a two-year upward
Read more →Posted in “The OC”, June 29, 2010 The 5.5 billion dollar budget passed today for the 2010-2011 fiscal year probably ensures that no layoffs will take place at the Human Relations Commission even as $97,000 was slashed from its coffers. These are difficult times nearly everywhere to be sure, but it is heartening to see the agency preserved – although
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India Journal, May 13, 2010 OC Human Relations recognized Placentia resident, Dr. Arinder Singh Chadha, with a Community Leader Award for his extensive Interfaith activities in Orange County at the Human Relations Awards 39 Gala Celebration attended by over 450 people on May 6 at the Grove of Anaheim…click here to read more
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