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We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.
She rose from immigrant roots up the industry ladder to become creative lead of her own multimillion - dollar women's wear fashion brand, and then endured a series of nasty breakups — first with her ex-husband and then with Jones Apparel Group, the fashion behemoth that licensed and marketed her creations.
Pari Karem, general manager of immigrant services at the YMCA in Kitchener, Ont., works directly with newcomer youth and women.
She suggests immigrant women instead need better education about balancing family life with employment opportunities.
Combined with women, he said assisting more young people, Indigenous peoples, recent immigrants and Canadians living with disabilities to enter the job market could help the labour force expand by half a million people.
Brad Feld, founder of Incubator Techstars, estimates that women - led companies now make up around 10 percent of TechStars» portfolio, and that companies led by immigrants or minority entrepreneurs make up another 10 percent — but of course they can only work with what teams choose to apply.
And Muhga Eltigani, a Sudanese immigrant, recently launched NaturAll Club, a hair care subscription service for black women with frizzy or unruly tresses.
That initiative provides funds to train unemployed workers not eligible for employment insurance and is aimed at aboriginals, immigrants, women, youth, older workers, people with disabilities and those with low literacy levels.
that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.
In a «good enough» city, the city that the churches seek to build, unskilled immigrants, single women with children and young adults would be able to secure a promising foothold.
«This week I've read messages from some immigrants, women, and people of color in evangelical communities with profound sadness, and I've also heard from evangelicals who have celebrated the election results.
They complain about immigrants, or the French, or women, or the middle - classes, but they get on terribly well with the Polish family next door and chat about the weather with the Arab man who sells them their vegetables.
«Any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values,» Murphy said in a statement this morning.
Trump's selection of senior advisors and cabinet officials with white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic views only serves to heighten the threat that millions of New Yorkers are now facing — most immediately immigrants, Muslims, and women,» said Bill Lipton's the WFP's state director.
And the Senate Democrats themselves issued a statement last month condemning Felder for sticking with the GOP, saying through a spokesman that «any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values.»
«And he's always been a vocal opponent of discrimination of any kind, whether it's against people of color, women, gays, lesbians, and transgender people, immigrants, seniors or people with disabilities.»
Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.
Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.
I am running for Democratic District Leader for the 44th Assembly District to fight for a Democratic Party with a progressive agenda centered on economic justice, criminal justice reform and support for women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and religious and racial minorities.
In her final State of the City speech, Mark - Viverito unveiled a slew of proposals, including blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from most spaces on city property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationals.
But for many women - as well as people of color, immigrants, the working poor, other marginalized communities, and anyone with work & personal responsibilities - it's still nearly impossible to get to the polls.
«With or without Peralta, we will assemble on June 26th to discuss the range of issues at stake on the state level, including public school funding, health care, women's health care, immigrants» rights, sanctuary state, Dream Act, LGBT rights, voter reform, criminal justice reform, and climate change reforms,» organizers wrote in a press release.
Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms
But sources said the governor considered several third - party creations before settling on the Women's Equality Party, including an education - themed organization (Astorino beat him to the punch with his «Stop Common Core» initiative) and a «New Americans» Party to focus on immigrants rights, another W.F.P. priority.
«Any Democrat who joins with Donald Trump's Republican Party enables his continuing assault on immigrants, women, people of color, people of different faiths and our shared American values,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.
Bianey Garcia, a transgender activist with Make the Road, a social justice group out of neighboring Jackson Heights, said while this is the 13th known attack on trans women in Queens this year, «so many are not reported for fear of going to the police,» partly due to transphobia in official ranks and also to fear of exposure for those who are undocumented immigrants.
She said with President - elect Donald Trump in power in Washington in January, Democrats in the New York Legislature and governor's office could be an important firewall and be national leaders against policies that could harm women and immigrants.
The governor rehashed his first - term accomplishments and promised to push for a women's equality agenda (complete with abortion law changes), public campaign finance and the Dream Act, which extends tuition assistance ot undocumented immigrants.
She says with President Trump in power in Washington in January, New York, Democrats in the legislature and the governor's office could be an important firewall and be a national leader against policies that could harm women, and immigrants.
She says with President Trump in power in Washington in January, New York, democrats in the legislature and the governor's office could be an important firewall and be a national leader against policies that could harm women, and immigrants.
He pointed out that as President Donald Trump is set to announce executive action against Muslims and immigrants, on top of other executive actions restricting women's reproductive rights and the plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the way to stand up to Trump «can not be to empower Republicans in the State Senate whose goals are aligned with the Trump regime.»
«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»
Western immigrant men, on the other hand, marry Norwegian women with far greater frequency.
With the increasing rate of immigrants from Latin America into the United States of America (USA), there are more and more single women and men available and looking for love and marriage.
With a recent influx of asylum seeking immigrants that has altered the homogeneity somewhat, Norwegian men and women are open to outsiders in the dating world, as long as they are not subject to archaic traditions and values.
Weaving in and out of the working girls» path is cabbie Razmik (Karren Karagulian), an Armenian - immigrant husband and father who adores the more feminine - featured Sin - Dee, but doesn't mind rolling through the car wash (if you know what I mean) with Alexandra as a backup when the two women briefly separate.
But scratch that familiar surface and the evening was one that quietly made history, not only giving us the first Best Picture winner featuring a woman's love affair with a fish, but also a Best Picture from a Mexican immigrant about a black woman, gay man and a disabled woman all teaming up to fight the real monster: white male tyranny.
She dines with other Irish immigrant women in a similar position and the head of the boarding house Mrs. Kehoe (a very funny Julie Walters), who scolds and warns the girls that she'll have the parish priest give a sermon on gossip if they keep going with it.
She lives in a home with other immigrant women and she learns better ways to «fit in» among New Yorkers.
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The magnum opus of Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric and paranoid Polish immigrant with the looks of a B - movie vampire and a mess of personal issues about women, The Room is nearly an anti-film — an inane and unintentionally surreal soap opera, filled with non sequiturs, confused characters, and gratuitous, anatomically incorrect sex.
After making the stomach - churning long boat ride over, Ellis moves into a boarding house in the titular New York borough with other single women, most of them fellow immigrants, sharing meals and experiences.
One per - centers are taking it on the chin at the movies these days with recent releases like «The Founder» and «Get Out,» and now the latest cinematic smack out of Sundance, Beatriz at Dinner, a sly and telling exposé of class in America as seen through the eyes of a Mexican immigrant woman named Beatriz (Salma Hayek, «Savages»), a new - age holistic healer who works at a cancer rehabilitation center, does private massage therapy on the side, lives with her pet goats and drives a broken - down Volkswagen.
«I walk a fine line between being a Congolese woman from Africa and immigrant to America,» she said, «and every day I live with this dualism and it is not easy, but it is worth it.»
The National Sister Schools Organization, together with the San Diego and La Jolla California Rotary Club, support a school in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, a project inspired by an Iranian immigrant woman who was concerned about American's failure to understand Muslims.
This group includes working families, young men of color, marginalized girls and young women, immigrants and refugees, undocumented youth and adults, opportunity youth, low - skilled adults, and individuals with significant disabilities or other barriers to employment or advancement.
But according to media reports, immigrant rights groups are being flooded with calls from fearful parents, along with pregnant women afraid to go to the hospital and crime victims afraid to call the police — all affected by the new law.
The news is backed up by recent deals with major publishers for first novels, like Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven, an immigrant tale of two women, two cultures, family secrets and the fight to find a new life in America, sold to NAL this year by veteran agent Jill Marsal.
A talked - up novel that deserved the buzz it got, Cleave's portrait of a Nigerian refugee with a startling connection to a well - to - do British woman and her husband is a moving, honest story of immigrant life and the ties that bind us all.