By Michelle Kornblit
The National Employment Law Project recently released Working Without Laws, a survey of employment and labor law violations in New York City. This report exposes the reality that America’s labor and employment laws are failing to protect significant numbers of individuals in New York City. Many workers are paid less than the minimum [...]
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Working Without Laws: Exploitation of the Oppressed in New York City
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 an academician [...]
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 race, [...]
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 challenge [...]
Blog Talk Radio: Jack Tuckner on Gender Discrimination
From Blog Talk Radio:
Faten Abdallah interviews Jack Tuckner, leading civil rights trial attorney, and the co-founding partner of Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, a NYC-based law firm dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace.
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 [...]
This is What a Conservative Looks Like
Q: How many “Conservatives” does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: How many do you want it to take and what’s it worth to you?
“Americans oppose the Democratic [health care] plan because they know the final product is a colossal legislative mistake.” Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell
The “colossal mistake” this wealthy lawyer [...]
Are Women Really Dominating the Workplace?
In response to Sunday Times of London reporter John Harlow’s query regarding Women Dominating the Workplace, Jack Tuckner filed this response.
Sometime next month, according to Dept. of Labor stats, there will, for the first time, be more women than men with full-time jobs in the U.S. We know the long-term cultural changes behind it, [...]
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 [...]