Sentences with phrase «civil rights of workers»

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The civil rights advocate plans to address the typically white - and male - dominated technology industry to push for programs that expand inclusion of diverse workers.

Some of the demonstrations, which are also celebrated under the International Workers» Day banner, reflected cultural traditions, and many others were a rallying cry for equal rights, equal pay, and a renewed focus on social, environmental and civil - rights issues.

«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

Fast - Food Workers File Federal Civil Rights Suit Against City of Memphis Over Illegal Surveillance, Intimidation, Harassment Common Dreams March 1, 2017

Believe me the GOP of today would not have organized Civil Rights workers to go south to register peopleto vote.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state to a new level of political and social awareness.

They remembered the courage and determination of the young civil rights workers («The real heroes were the black «Snick» [SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] personnel, who faced the worst dangers and took more than their share of the violence.

Typical of this approach are the activities of Nader's organization, Common Cause, legal aid for the poor, Chavez» organization of farm workers, the enforcing of civil rights, legislation for minority groups, and revival and application of the doctrine of just war to international conflict.

The Marxists of the 1930s onward also called themselves Progressives, and they can be praised (let's face it) for being on the forefront on the Civil Rights movement — for liberating African Americans to be equal parts of the united workers of the world.

That struggle entered one of its critical stages in the summer of 1964 when young black civil rights workers in Mississippi, aided by about 800 white college students from the North, tried to bring blacks in the Magnolia state...

He invited a group of us civil rights workers to his home one evening, where perhaps a dozen other white sympathizers were gathered.

Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...

(CNN)- The fervent instinct for social action that energized Jewish - Americans when they fought for workers» rights and civil rights, rallied for the creation of a Jewish state, and battled all sorts of bigotry throughout the 20th century still percolates.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

In the summer of 1964, three young civil rights workers were brutally murdered in Mississippi.

Maybe someday, when people can again sing, «We shall overcome» with integrity, there will be celebrations and speeches commemorating slain civil rights workers Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney — and all other who gave so much, yet received so much more from the quiet courage and faith of the people whom they had come to help.

As we were on the bridge over Old Man River, the announcement came that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had found the bodies of the three missing civil rights workers.

Every movement to make America more fully realize its professed values has grown out of some form of public theology, from the abolitionists to the social gospel and the early socialist party to the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King and the farm workers» movement under Caesar Chavez.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

«In the past four years in the Cuomo administration, Kathy Hochul has been an important part of a team that has delivered progressive gains for New York's working families — an increase in the minimum wage for all New Yorkers, and a historic increase in wages for airport workers — and has been a staunch supporter of civil rights issues that matter to our members and everyone in the state,» said 32BJ SEIU President Héctor Figueroa.

Women's rights, workers» rights, civil rights, environmental rights — movements for all of these took root in New York, Gov. Cuomo told the crowd, which

Protestors invoked the spirit of the slain civil rights leaders and said they are committed to doing whatever it takes to win a $ 15 wage and union rights for every airport worker.

TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said: «This Bill is an unnecessary attack on workers» rights and civil liberties that will shift the balance of power in the workplace.

New York City fast food workers involved in the $ 15 - an - hour wage battle came together with Black Lives Matter and civil rights activists and headed to Washington at the beginning of the month to participate in the second Million Man March.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

IDC members prevented passage of vital legislation that would protect immigrants, women, LGBTQ New Yorkers, workers, the environment and civil rights.

I remember viewing the 1980 presidential election as a contest between an incumbent, Jimmy Carter, who had been thoroughly mediocre in the job and a challenger, Ronald Reagan, whose actions as Governor of California had left me with an aversion for him even before he launched his White House campaign in the Mississippi town primarily known as the place where white racists had killed three civil - rights workers in 1964.

Louis» story puts him in a position to be present at almost every major event of the civil rights movement, from participating with the Freedom Riders to having no less than Martin Luther King Jr. (Nelsan Ellis) tell him that Cecil's role as a domestic worker gives him one of the best opportunities to fight racism.

From the good cop / racist cop dynamic of Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman, respectively, — here to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers — to the rather blunt dialogue.

Parker saved the maniac cop role for Gene Hacker, who spent much of the film using some not - quite - legal techniques when it came to interrogating KKK members over the deaths of three civil rights workers in the»60s.

In the same way that the FBI are the heros of a story about the violence committed against civil rights workers.

Liberals (and Socialists, as Shanker was) were then united around the issues of civil rights, workers» rights, and anti-Communism.

In 2001, the union couldn't overcome bipartisan support from congressional leaders, reform - minded governors, business leaders eager to hire well - educated workers, and civil rights advocates who saw NCLB as a natural extension of Brown v. Board.

As the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer approaches, The Hechinger Report will look back at the violence surrounding the 1964 campaign to register blacks to vote in Mississippi and the murders of three civil rights workers.

In the 1960's and 70's we made great headway with the civil rights movement, bilingual education, affirmative action, instructional aides, school nurses, school social workers, eight weeks of extended summer learning, and lots of free afterschool enrichment across the country.

Full of original research and interviews with many personally involved, this book goes into detail about the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 and how the perpetrators were brought to at least partial justice.

It's 1964, and Sunny feels as though her life has been invaded when civil rights workers come to her town of Greenwood, Mississippi, to register blacks to vote.

Combining her own interviews with extensive research, Rubin offers a deeply layered view of the watershed summer of 1964, when civil rights workers flooded into Mississippi to open schools, register voters, and promote civil rights.

Altogether these tours (most lasting one or two hours) cover more than 150 years of state and local history, from early settlement by Swiss immigrant John Sutter to civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.

Kelley Walker paints his lively chocolate abstractions over a famous 1960s photograph, similar to one borrowed earlier by Andy Warhol, of attacks on a civil - rights worker in Birmingham Race Riots.

Warhol's prints include Birmingham Race Riots, much as Robert Indiana singles out states with violence against civil - rights workers, but Warhol stops short of sending a message.

«Avedon's America» is rounded out with slices of a variety of American lives including prisoners, gun enthusiasts, a beekeeper, surviving family members of slain civil rights workers, making for an engaging show that's both easy to look at and provides food for thought in the snapshot presented of American's journey in the last few decades.

The slogan is adapted from the first line of Ralph Ellison's prologue to «Invisible Man»; Photographer Ernest Withers documented the strikers bearing the signs securing the image's prominence in civil rights history; And Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to address the sanitation workers and he was assassinated the next day.

This exhibit featured works by six African - American women artists making public their personal reflections about the deaths of these civil rights workers, and about the continuing struggle for civil rights in America.

Inside, Dallas - based artist Gabriel Dawe had strung two spectral — and spectrum - crossing — thread sculptures between the columns of a space that had once been a department store lunch counter where 1960s civil rights workers staged sit - ins.

«From abolitionism to women's suffrage to civil rights to the rights of workers, Cooper Union has always been at the forefront of America's march of freedom, leading us towards a more equal society and a more perfect union.

While discussions of Nauman's video works from this period have focused on issues of performativity, endurance, and the body, Ligon was interested in how Nauman's discordant note can be heard as a soundtrack to the war in Vietnam or the brutal violence faced by civil rights workers.

He's now associated with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, but his real story is that he worked side by side with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers; he's spent his entire life as a grassroots organizer in the civil rights movement, the farmworkers movement, the LGBT movement, et cetera.