The New York Times cites Jack Tuckner today in relation to Madison Square Garden Sexual and Racial Discrimination: By DAVID PICKER GREENBURGH, N.Y. — After one of the most miserable nights of his career, Eddy Curry’s body language after practice Thursday conveyed what a lost soul he seems to have become. As sweat fell from [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Even Cute Girl Lawyers Get the Blues
A New York judge has ordered court supervision of a lawyer for “objectionable conduct” toward a female opposing counsel who he said had a “cute little thing going on” during a deposition. According to transcripts of the deposition, Thomas B. Decea of Danzig Fishman & Decea in White Plains also called Michelle A. Rice of [...]
…If our government can’t even say it, how can they stop it?
By Kristen Malone Pop Quiz: What does the United States have in common with Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Nauru, Palau, and Tonga? Stumped? These are the ONLY eight nations in the world who have failed to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), a UN treaty ensuring the [...]
W to Kids: Go to Hell!
By Jack Tuckner, Esq. Did you hear the one about W vetoing the bipartisan supported child health care bill that would have provided an expansion of the federally funded, state-run health insurance program for poor children to cover an additional 10 million children? No? It didn’t get much air play. The cost of funding four [...]
Widows ‘R’ Us
By Jack Tuckner, Esq. It’s nothing short of amazing to me that we all have mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and girlfriends in our lives given the objectifying, brutal and humiliating treatment we humans regularly accord the female of our species. We’re clearly not very fond of women as a general rule. I guess it all [...]
Former Marty Markowitz aide files lawsuit alleging torment
KIRSTEN DANIS, DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF reports about Regina Weiss claims: Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 4:00 AM Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz improperly ordered staffers to work on his 2005 reelection campaign and turned a blind eye to office sexual shenanigans, his former communications chief charged Monday. Regina Weiss claims in a discrimination [...]
FORMER EMPLOYEE FILES DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT
Cites hostile work environment, misuse of office, neglect of public interest In a lawsuit filed today in State Supreme Court, Kings County, a former employee of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz claims she was systematically undermined and illegally removed from her job after enduring more than a year of discriminatory treatment based on her age [...]
Today’s lead story in the NY Times, “Business Lobby Presses Agenda Before ’08 Vote” should have been entitled…
Wealthy Business Owners Voting Republican Vote for Own Interests, Even if Short-Sighted and Mean-Spirited Everyone Else Votes Republican Due to Ignorance caused By Profound Stupidity and Laziness aided by Corporate Media Collusion. By Jack Tuckner, Esq. The story reveals that the United States Labor Department, the Bush Administration, the GOP candidates and the powerful Business [...]
New slavery investigation on: Tomato pickers continue to suffer
By Sonali Chhibber A recent New York Time article entitled “Campaign to Raise Tomato Picker’s Wages Faces Obstacles†highlights the plights of tomato pickers amidst corporate clashes and compromises with the cooperatives. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers wants to raise the price of tomatoes to a penny more per pound. This would mean that the [...]