Racism & Discrimination

Law firm stood up for powerless workers

Richard Sennott, Star Tribune RICHARD SENNOTT� sennorc@startribune.com Babbitt, MN. Thursday 10/13/2005 Lois Jenson at home with an autographed movie poster given to her by the cast of North Country Sprenger and Lang, which has...

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Your Career: What’s in a name?

Throughout Shuki Khalili’s career, he suspected his name might be holding him back. When he worked for a Wall Street headhunter, he felt potential clients would blow him off when they heard his name. When he started his own...

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A Culturally Diverse Society

North Island Rotary Youth Leadership Conference Weir House, Wellington, February 2005. Let me state at the outset that while I will share a few personal experiences with you, I will never use my circumstances and the roll of...

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Austrian student occupations: our social context and our demands

austriaoccupation.jpg A statement by students at the university occupation in Vienna (winter 2009). This document was produced early in the struggle. Published in English by The Commune (22.11.09) . The strike signifies the...

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Changing workplace culture on the waterfront stalled by lack of women workers

By Kim Pemberton, Vancouver SunNovember 22, 2009 5:02 PM Photograph by: Ward Perrin, Vancouver Sun files VANCOUVER - BCMEA president and CEO Andy Smith said a management proposal to deal with the problems can’t proceed until...

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Climate change, spiritualism and discrimination law

Two recent UK decisions have found that belief in man-made climate change, and belief in using psychics to contact the souls of the dead, are covered by discrimination law, so that anyone dismissed or detrimentally treated as a...

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Va. Military Institute Faces Sexism Accusations

Feds Investigate Complaints That Va. Military College Creates Sexist Environment For Cadets (AP) LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - Defenders say VMI has worked hard to recruit women and make them comfortable since the U.S. Supreme Court...

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Trial over Hanford union infighting under way

| RICHLAND -- A federal judge has begun sorting out the apparent bad blood between the United Steelworkers local and related labor organizations in a double trial.At the heart of the two cases being heard are claims of...

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Town divided by housing dispute

Maine community hurt by racism charges, lawsuit Anais Tomezsko, the executive director of Mano en Mano, stands on the edge of the property where the organization intends to build a housing unit for local agricultural workers in...

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‘Freddo Frog’ charge reveals police racism

Were it not so outrageous, it could almost be funny. A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy was brought before a Western Australian court on a charge of receiving stolen goods. He had accepted a chocolate Freddo Frog worth 70 cents from...

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