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United Nations World Conference, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Reparations
The NAACP actively participate in demanding that three issues be addressed at the United Nations Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, August 31 to September 7, 2001:
Credit Cards for Youth
The NAACP and its Units call upon the United States Congress and state legislature to request that institutions include credit card education in the form of a pamphlet, prior to issuing credit cards.
Resolution of Continued Support for a New Flag for the State of Mississippi
The NAACP join with those Mississippians adamantly opposing the validation of the April 17, 2001 referendum vote retaining the confederate flag.
Re-affirming the 2000 Resolution on the Confederate Battle Flag and the Confederate Battle Emblem
The NAACP shall call upon other organizations, churches and faith groups, businesses, corporations and similar entities which embrace freedom and justice to consider locations other than such states or cities until such time that the confederate battle emblem is removed.
Re-affirming the 1999 Resolution on Economic Sanctions for South Carolina
The National NAACP shall apply these economic sanctions against the State of South Carolina as well as any further measures as appropriate, commencing January 1, 2000, until such time that the Confederate Battle Flag is no longer displayed in positions of sovereignty in the State of South Carolina.
Resolution Opposing the Death Penalty
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at its 2001 Annual Convention reaffirm its 1970 Resolution on Abolition of the Death Penalty.
Re-affirming the 1970 Resolution on Abolition of the Death Penalty
The NAACP direct its National Office to use its prestige and resources to press for the Supreme Court of the United States to abolish the death penalty as a cruel and inhuman punishment in violation of the equal protection clause and therefore unconstitutional.
Educationally and Mentally Retarded
The NAACP advocate that those children properly diagnosed as "EMR" receive lifelong social security benefits.
English as Second Language (“ESL”) Bilingual Education
All State Office of Education personnel monitor "ESL" students for up to two years after they have left the program and inform parents in their native languages about Gifted and Talented Programs available in the school district.
Environmental Justice and the African-American Community
The NAACP call upon the EPA and other related governmental agencies to become vigilant about the potential health risks to which the nation's African-American communities are being exposed and that environmental justice and equality demand that specific measures be immediately undertaken to eradicate dangerous levels of PAHs currently existing in and around African-American communities wherever found throughout this nation.
Re-affirming the 2000 Resolution on Environmental Racism
The NAACP call upon locally elected officials to equitably enforce existing zoning and health ordinances and other laws related to environmental and other hazardous conditions.
Re-affirming the 1993 Resolution in Support of Environmental Justice Act
The NAACP particularly supports enactment of the Environmental Justice Act and considers it to be a legislative priority for the 103rd Congress.