University Daily Kansan / Thursday, Januarv 23. 1992
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Alliance fights discrimination
By Shelly Solon
Kenanostaffwriter
Kansan staff writer
"Discrimination is the common enemy" is the theme that members of the KU Coalition of the Lawrence Alliance hope will unify them with KU student organizations.
"We are all concerned with racism," said Ann Weick, member of the coalition and dean of social welfare. "A lot of the existing campus organizations are linked in some way, but we would like to find ways to develop communication and create better strategies for fighting discrimination in Lawrence."
The KU Coalition is part of the Lawrence Alliance, an organization designed to fight discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, physical condition and gender.
Weick said community members went to the Lawrence City Commission and requested that a task force be formed in the summer of 1998 to study racism in Lawrence. She said the Community Task Force on Racism, Discrimination and Human Diversity completed its report last summer.
The city commission appointed people
the Lawrence Alliance in November.
"Each of the coalitions will design projects and programs to address discrimination in its respective area," she said. "For example, the business coalition will focus on improving the service environment at local businesses."
Weck said the alliance was divided into 12 coalitions.
The city commission, the University of Kansas, Haskell Indian Junior College and the Lawrence School District sponsor the coalition, Weick said.
pus Friday at a rally publicized as a forum for the Conservative Christian Crusade.
The coalition first appeared on cam-
Weick said the coalition planned to sponsor events promoting unity between campus groups including having a day once a year to bring everyone together.
The coalition's next meeting at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 4 in 208 Twente Hall.
University Scholarship Halls for Ethnic Reality members already have attended coalition meetings.
She said the coalition had begun to contact students. About half of the 15 coalition members are students.
Mike Deines, co-coordinator of USHER, said, "USHER is a group that wants to work with different campus groups to fight racism. The KU Coalition is just that on a larger scale. The more people together to fight, the better."
Group seeks rights for gays, lesbians
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
The Freedom Coalition, an affiliate of the Lawrence Alliance, wants to gain civil rights for gay, lesbian and bisexual people in Lawrence.
"Lesbians and gays have no civil rights," said Diane Silver, a free-lance writer and editor in Lawrence. "It is legal to discriminate against us. We are the only citizens who are denied their livelihood, denied their kids and denied their jobs without being guilty of any crime or ever doing anything bad."
The Lawrence Alliance is an organization designed to fight discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, physical condition and gender.
Silver, one of the founders of the coalition, said the role of the group was to make Lawrence and Douglas County safe for people regardless of their sexual orientation, as well as their race, religion and ethnicity.
"We're connected with the liaison in that we are working to create an environment free of discrimination," she said.
said he and Silver became involved in the alliance because they were concerned that no gays and lesbians were involved with the Lawrence Alliance.
He said they eventually were asked to be representatives of the alliance. They also decided to form an independent coalition to work within the gay and lesbian community.
"We ultimately want protection in Lawrence," Zimmerman said. "We want civil rights. We are not one of the protected classes under Lawrence's Human Rights Ordinance."
The Human Rights Ordinance protects people from job, housing and public accommodation discrimination. Last ye ar, Citizens for Human Rights in Lawrence attempted to have gays and lesbians included in the ordinance, but the motion was rejected by the Lawrence City Commission.
Because the coalition is a new organization, Zimmerman said they were concentrating on reaching out to the community and planning strategies to gain rights in Lawrence.
"we're discussing employment strategies," he said. "We're interested in securing job and housing protection. That will probably be the issue for the year."
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