Saswat Pattanayak
Too Sexy for This Shirt? Too Sexy for This Job?
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video. By TOM LLAMAS For NBC New York It’s not a crime to be beautiful or dress well, but if you ask 33-year-old Debrahlee Lorenzana they both can cost you your job. “They pulled me aside and said I could not wear pencil skirts, turtlenecks, I cannot wear business suits [...]
Women Challenge Walmart in Largest Class Action Suit in American History
By Saswat Pattanayak World’s largest retailer is about to face the largest class action suit in American history. Status quo of Walmart Stores Inc., thus far maintained through several expensive public relations campaigns and television advertorials, has been challenged by this lawsuit representing interests of more than 1 million women. In a case that will [...]
Alexandra Kollontai on “International Women’s Day”
(Source: Radical Notes) Mezhdunarodnyi den’ rabotnitz, Moscow 1920 — Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organisation of proletarian women. But this is not a special day for women alone. The 8th of March is a historic and memorable day for the [...]
Lucy Parsons :: Revolutionary Feminist
By Saswat Pattanayak No legal case in American history has been more cited than The Scottsboro Trial. Nine young African American men, aged 13 and up, were jailed in Scottsboro, Alabama to await trial over an accusation that they had raped two white women on a train in the Spring of 1931. The nature of [...]
Remembering Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010)
By Saswat Pattanayak “To be neutral is to collaborate with whatever is going on, and I as a teacher do not want to be a collaborator with whatever is happening in the world today.” (Howard Zinn) In the grossly unequal world that we inhabit, it is always tempting to remain apolitical, especially if one is [...]
First Year Costs of Obama’s Illusions
By Saswat Pattanayak Despite his constant denial of race dynamics necessary to dissect American political roadmap, Barack Obama is going to be the first American President to be judged, also by his color. During his first year, several cartoons, news articles, political mentions – both innocent and deliberate – have brought up the issue of [...]
Have We Been Silencing Dr King?
By Saswat Pattanayak Whenever a progressive leader of the masses, a politically fundamental agent of change, a spirited revolutionary demands replacement of existing social order, the oppressive ruling class never dares confront the person; instead it iconizes him/her after stripping off the necessary radical components. Through an utopian mythification of the leader, the courage to [...]
The Year That Was :: 2009 Human Rights
Compiled and Edited by Saswat Pattanayak for Womensrightsny.com January 1-20: War Capitalism Intensifies: After a week of intense airstrikes, Israel declares more conventional warfare against Palestinians. In clearly what can constitute mammoth war crimes, Israel attacks end the lives of several children. It conducts 50 air strikes per night and kills 1200 Palestinians within less [...]
David Letterman: Privileges produce Consensus
By Saswat Pattanayak Contrary to mainstream media depictions, David Letterman did not have any affairs with his staff members. And contrary to liberal media apprehensions, the world does not need to be bothered about whether the incidents took place before or after his marriage. Letterman’s apologies to his wife on air are ridiculously unnecessary, and [...]
Roman Polanski and Euro-American Privileges
By Saswat Pattanayak It’s a deceitful media circulation which suggests that the American judiciary is going after Roman Polanski. The truth is it never has. Polanski is a filthy criminal who had raped a child and yet was allowed to let go by the American justice system for over three decades. And this time, he [...]
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