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Items tagged: justice

Justice for Filipina Nurses

Last week, the US Equal Employment Opportunities Commission sided with four Filipina nurses that had been fired from Maryland-based Bon Secours Hospital System for speaking Tagalog.

From the Asian Journal: 


Comments on Breakthrough’s I AM THIS LAND give great insight and hope for the future

From the Restore Fairness blog-

Thank you for all your amazing submissions to the I AM THIS LAND contest. The contest is now officially closed for entries but stay tuned as winners will be announced on Feb 1!


The 4 million women you can thank for your last meal

From the Restore Fairness blog-

They’re the backbone of our food supply. Their hands sliced the chicken breast we had for lunch. Their sweat brought the fresh tomato to our plates. Their backs bent to pick the lettuce in our salads. They are America’s undocumented workers.


Politicians and Corporations Attack Law School Clinics

Law school clinics are programs run by law schools that provide students the opportunity to gain practical experience by taking real cases and representing actual clients in court or in other ways.  Typically, clinics focus on various areas of need, such as domestic violence, immigration, or civil rights.  Since they provide free services to marginalized populations, clinics naturally represent the "little guy," often against government or wealthy corporations.  The New York Times reports that co


Vincent Chin and his Unintended Gift

Today, I was able to catch a screening of Curtis Chin's "Vincent Who?" at the UCLA School of Law and to make sure I would make it to the screening on time, I left two hours in advance but thanks to my terrible driving, atrocious traffic at the 405, and my unfamiliarity with the UCLA campus, what should've taken 25 minutes ended up taking two hours.


Name San Leandro school after Fred Korematsu

 


Reviving Civil Rights Enforcement ... It's About Time!

Under the nation’s first African American President and U.S. Attorney General, a much welcomed reinvigoration of our federal government’s commitment to civil rights is underway.  As a civil rights advocate, I applaud the DOJ’s refocusing on civil rights and urge that the DOJ’s Civil Rights division, which was established in 1957 during the era of massive civil rights changes, reprioritize its original mission of fighting racial discrimination.


Sovereign rights challenged by US Commission on Civil Rights

If Queen Lili'uokalani, the last of the Hawaiian monarchy were alive today, she'd hold a press conference and invite Mariah Carey to sing her latest hit single "Obsessed"