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 [...]
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Have We Been Silencing Dr King?
NASCAR Settles Harassment Suit Out Of Court
Jay W Pennell writes and Harcoreracefans.com reports that NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit with a former technical inspector.
Avoiding a potentially long and drawn-out public trial, NASCAR has settled a $225 million lawsuit with former Nationwide Series official Mauricia Grant. The former technical inspector filed suit against NASCAR in June of [...]
The Price for Fair Pay
By Samantha Mc Lane
Equal Pay Day is a movement that aims for the benefit of all working women in the United States without exception. However, as incredible as it is that gender inequity still persists in this century, inequity and differences remain between races, national origin and legal status. The statistics say it: Latinas earn [...]
Toyota to pay $202,000 to settle race discrimination suit
Toyota of Bowie will pay a total of $202,000 to two black men from Landover and Silver Spring to settle a race discrimination suit, said the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday.
The EEOC’s lawsuit, filed in 2005, alleges that Charles Dyer of Silver Spring was not hired for the position of sales manager or [...]
EEOC Produces New Anti-Discrimination PSAs
The EEOC partnered with Wynton Marsalis and New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center to produce two public service announcements (PSAs) on workplace discrimination. Each of the 30-second spots aims to increase recognition and reporting of race discrimination at work by making viewers aware that it is against the law.
To view the PSAs, go to: http://www.eeoc.gov/psa/marsalis.html
Both [...]
“Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhereâ€
Peter Lattman posts on Wall Street Journal Blog several quotes from MLK. Collected from “Yale Book of Quotations†by Yale Law librarian Fred Shapiro:
Government action is not the whole answer to the present crisis, but it is an important partial answer. Morals cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. The [...]
Abuse of immigrants in focus
Esther Wu writes for Dallas News about abuses among the immigrant communities. She says, there is a high rate number of domestic violence among immigrants, because some immigrant women may feel helpless since they lack communication skills, or their husbands may hold their passports.
Officials say Texas is a major destination for victims of human trafficking.
“Human [...]
Settlement in Bias Suit That Stalled for 37 Years
New York Times reports the settlement of a bias suit that took nearly four decades to grant justice.
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
A federal judge has approved a $6.2 million settlement for black and Hispanic sheet metal workers in a 37-year-old lawsuit against a union that critics have called one of the city’s most notorious for [...]
Apartheid: What the US doesn’t want the world to know
Brenda Norrell posts a blog entry on the Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report. The report will be presented to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racism by the International Indian Treaty Council:
III. Indian Reservation Apartheid
“Apartheid†is a strong word. And certainly, there are recognized Tribes in the US that are now achieving certain levels of [...]
Working Without Laws: Exploitation of the Oppressed in New York City
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 [...]