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No FEAR Coalition/Institute

Celebrates 10^th Anniversary of the No FEAR Act 2002

Institute to present Report Card on Retaliation and Discrimination in Government

Press Release

For Immediate Release

May 17, 2012

Contact: 240-731-9577

703- 271- 8882

Whistleblowers Conference on Civil and Human Rights

The No FEAR Coalition and the No FEAR Institute will join the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees, Acorn 8, Network for Women's Equality (Net-We) and other organizations to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of the 2002 passage of the first civil rights and whistleblower law of the 21^st Century: the Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002, commonly referred to as the No FEAR Act. The celebration of the No FEAR Act will continue throughout the country for one year. The first celebration will be launched at the Blacks in Government Regional Training Program on Saturday from 3-4pm at 301 7^th Street, S.W., Washington, DC ( General Services Administration.) Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo will provide the closing keynote address.

The No FEAR Coalition/Institute, will present a report card, grading agencies on their civil rights and whistleblower performance based on No FEAR data, available on every federal government website. Net-We, The Brown Center

for Public Policy Ethics in Business Institute, Whistlewatch.org, David Pardo (Brown Center) and Tanya Ward Jordan (Coalition 4 Change) will present case studies of the EPA, the Department of Transportation, HHS and Department of
Commerce. The data indicates that federal agencies continue to levy unspeakable retaliation and abuse against whistleblowers. "We will also celebrate whistleblowers who have refused to submit to governmental abuse," said Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, Lawrence Lucas, President of the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees said "we will never stop fighting against the abuse occurring everyday inside the USDA and the war against black farmers." Susan Morris, President of the Network for Women's Equality said, there is a sustained war against women whistleblowers at the EPA. The fact that a woman leads the EPA has not made any difference to the women at the Agency who have been fired or retaliated against because they have blown the whistle on the corruption inside the EPA."

Monday, May 21st – 9:30 Dirksen Senate Office Building room 226. Senator Charles Grassley will preside and provide opening comments

Tuesday, May 22^nd at 11:30 press conference to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the passage of the No FEAR Act . The press conference will take place at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall – 1964 Independence Ave, SW

No FEAR Report Card on government agencies will be presents

No FEAR Whistleblower Awards will be presented

Citizen testimonials about abusive treatment against women in the government, including rape and sexual harassment

Busboys and Poets Book Signing:

14^th and V St., NW, Langston Room – 4-8pm

Featured Authors:

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, No FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

Marcel Reid and Michael McCray, Accorn 8, Race, Power and Politics

Eyal Press, Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

Jesselyn Raddick, Trator: The Whistleblower and the "American Taliban"

This event is free and open to all

Cosponsored by Busboys and Poets, Teaching for Change, The Zinn Education Project, ACORN 8 and the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees.