China Detains Lawyers Of Activist Who Exposed China’s Forced Abortions And Sterilizations August 19, 2006
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Authorities detained three lawyers for a blind Chinese activist who was due to go on trial after documenting the accounts of villagers who complained of forced abortions, one of the lawyers said Friday. Other activists already had been put under house arrest in an apparent effort to keep them away from the trial of Chen Guangcheng, due to start later Friday in eastern China.
Legal scholars in China and abroad criticized the detention of Chen’s lawyers as an attempt to interfere in his trial. He faces criminal charges that his supporters say were brought to punish him for his activism.
“This trial is a farce,” said Jerome Cohen, an American lawyer and expert on the Chinese legal system.
Also Friday, state media reported that another Beijing lawyer who had attended an earlier court date for Chen was detained on criminal charges, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether it was connected to Chen’s case.
Chen, 34, is accused of illegal assembly and intent to damage public property.
He was arrested after recording accounts by villagers in Shandong province who said local officials forced them to undergo late-term abortions and sterilizations in order to meet birth control limits. Such practices are illegal, but local officials often resort to drastic measures for fear of being punished for failing to meet birth quotas.
Discriminating Against American Citizens While Exploiting Foreign Workers In The Aftermath Of Katrina August 18, 2006
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Immigrant workers recruited from South America and the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Katrina sued a prominent hotelier Wednesday, saying they are being exploited.
More than 80 workers from Peru, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic have joined the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court against Decatur Hotels LLC and its president and chief executive, F. Patrick Quinn III. The workers are employed in housekeeping, maintenance and other hotel support jobs in New Orleans.
Mary Bauer, a Southern Poverty Law Center attorney who helped file the lawsuit, said workers were lured by recruiters in their home countries with promises of high wages and steady work.
They spent $3,500 to $5,000 for travel and other expenses, which Bauer said Decatur Hotels had yet to reimburse, and are being paid between $6.02 and $7.79 per hour without the overtime pay they were counting on, she said.
“They are hugely in debt. They say, ‘We would have not have come if we had known the truth,’” Bauer said.
Racism In Soccer: Croatian Fans Form Human Swastika In Italy August 18, 2006
Posted by C.A.R.D in Card, Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, Nazi, Racism, Racist, swastika, UEFA, World Cup.comments closed
Croatia’s victory over World Cup winners Italy has been marred by the racist behaviour of their travelling fans last night.
During the warm up match ahead of the EURO 2008 qualification in Livorno, a group of Croatian fans created a human swastika in the stands while making nazi salutes.
Photographic and video evidence sent to the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network shows a group of more than 60 fans in the Croatian section of the Armano Picci stadium positioning themselves to form a swastika.
The FARE network has sent a report to the FIFA and UEFA disciplinary committees to ask for immediate action.
Kurt Wachter, from Austrian FARE partner, FairPlay-VIDC said:
“The photos and video footage that have been sent to us clearly show the Croatian fans forming a human swastika. These kind of actions are highly organised and illustrate that football must continue to intensify it’s work against racism.
South Africa’s Genocide: It’s not crime – it’s WAR August 17, 2006
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The history of the Black African Liberation Struggle against colonial powers has always involved a guerilla strategy of attacking “soft targets” such as isolated farmsteads, bombing civilian public places and churches, politicizing the rural population by way of terrorizing them and branding non-compliants as sell-outs and traitors before brutally executing them in full view of their families and friends.
The tools to used to effect such “Struggles” have in every instance prolifically featured the use of the ubiquitous AK 47. This is a weapon of war – it is an assault rifle, the only purpose of which is to be used in warfare for the killing of human beings. It is not a gardening tool or a spanner (wrench) it is a weapon of war – period.
Direct confrontation with the security forces of the day was to be ruled out as much as possible as this invariably resulted in the annihilation of the entire “Liberation” unit. As such the “Liberation Struggle” was marvelously efficient in every aspect of its operation when it came to slaughtering and coercing unarmed civilians and a spectacular failure when encountering armed trained security forces that could fight back with devastating ferocity.
In SA the “Liberation Struggle” was declared successful with the advent of 1994 and the installation of the ANC Government and was deemed to have ceased in order to commence with “Nation Building” of the Rainbow Nation.
However, it is apparent that the “Liberation Struggle” continued with the removal of White Farmers in Zimbabwe resulting immediately in Zimbabwe becoming a basket case and millions of refugees flooding over the border into South Africa in search of a better life due to South Africa’s apparently better economy.
As Zimbabwe collapsed, the plunder, pillage, murder, and human rights violations of Robert Mugabe were benignly regarded from South Africa by Thabo Mbeki who explained away his stance as one of “Quiet Diplomacy”
Profiling plan angers UK Muslims August 17, 2006
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The British government is considering a system of passenger profiling that includes checks on travelers’ ethnic or religious background, according to media reports.
The planned system of tougher airport checks would create a new offense of “traveling whilst Asian,” according to one of Britain’s most senior Muslim police officers.
Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei said intelligence could be used to examine travel history, how a ticket is purchased and frequency of travel, but added: “It becomes hugely problematic when it’s based on ethnicity, religion and country of origin. I don’t think there’s a stereotypical image of a terrorist.”
The Times newspaper reports that officials at the Department for Transport are considering a system of passenger profiling that would select people behaving suspiciously, who have an unusual travel pattern or have a certain ethnic or religious background.
Norway ‘Nazi cartoon’ irks Israel August 17, 2006
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Israel’s ambassador to Norway has complained to press regulators about a cartoon showing Israeli PM Ehud Olmert as a Nazi concentration camp commander. Miryam Shomrat told the BBC the caricature in Oslo’s Dagbladet newspaper went beyond free speech.
Ms Shomrat said it would be open to prosecution in some European countries.
Dagbladet’s editor said the caricature was “within the bounds of freedom of expression,” according to Norway’s NRK state broadcaster.
Ms Shomrat made the official complaint to the Norwegian Press Trade Committee following the publication of the cartoon on 10 July.
In an interview with the BBC’s Europe Today, she said however that her protest could not be compared to the outcry in the Muslim world over the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Lars Helle, Dagbladet’s acting editor-in-chief, said the newspaper was taking the complaint seriously.
Jim Webb’s Anti-Semitic Campaign Fliers August 16, 2006
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This is a comic strip featured in a campaign flier for Jim Webb, who is running for the Democratic Senate nomination. His opponent Harris Miller, who is Jewish, is depicted with a hooked nose and cash spilling from his pockets.
This is the hidden story that the mainstream media is not reporting on in the shadow of George Allen’s public racial slur. The story is about George Allen’s political opponent James Webb distributing anti-Semitic fliers. You should note that this story first broke in early June and has hardly gotten any attention. The featured story follows below:
A Jim Webb campaign flier that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic drew the ire of his opponent, Harris Miller, in a radio debate yesterday.
Miller, who is Jewish, called the flier despicable.
Sen. George Allen’s Racial Slur: Macaca? Makaka? Macaque? or Mohawk? August 16, 2006
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This story is quite amazing in the fact of how much media attention it has garnered. Regular readers of this site know that politicians and public officials make racist and offensive statements regularly. However, this particular one is being featured on all the major news reports. Where as, most stories are ignored completely by the mainstream news. There seem to be two interesting facts surrounding this story: first, after watching many of the news reports of this story, it is very clear that Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth is letting his hair grow back where it was shaved; as in the first reports and interviews with him show his hair at least on the sides as much shorter. We are unsure if this is to make it seem less plausible that George Allen was referring to his ‘mohawk’ hairstyle or for other reasons. The second interesting part of the story is the story that the media is not reporting; that being the anti-Semitic fliers that Jim Webb himself put out earlier (Link). One thing is certain with both candidates in this campaign: it’s politics as usual.
Update: We have received many emails in regard to this article and there is an alternate explanation to what macaca/makaka/macaque was intended to mean. This alternate explanation is explained in the following news clip:
But then on Aug. 11, Sen. George Allen, R-Va., by stringing some syllables together, made up the name, “macaca.” A name that is very similar to the name the Allen family calls his niece, Maka. (Allen is known for his penchant of nicknaming friends, family and staff. His head of fund-raising is referred to as “Java,” due to her incredible energy level. His wife, Susan, he calls “chicory,” because her eyes are the same color as the chicory flower. His Listening Tour driver is called “king of the road,” and the list goes on.)
In what seemed an attempt at humor, and not knowing the name of the cameraman that Webb had sent to film Allen’s every move and utterance, Allen called the man, “macaca.”This ignited a firestorm of media speculation. The Washington Post and other media outlets found this word in another language, on another continent. According to ABC’s “Nightline” one Tunisian history expert said it was a derogatory term used hundreds of years ago. Regardless, a word that had no meaning on this continent was defined as racist and pinned on Allen.
The cameraman, S.R. Sidarth, claimed to be offended. Allen apologized, and Allen’s detractors had the opening they needed to drive the media into a feeding frenzy by playing the race card.
It had already been reported that Allen wore a Confederate flag lapel pin as a kid in high school, and later displayed the flag in his office and home. That story didn’t have legs, as these were old claims and Allen’s record of promoting a level playing field for all people regardless of race, ethnicity or religion was well documented. But macaca put fresh blood in the water and the media sharks circled, hungry for the killer story.
The featured stories follows below:
A volunteer of Indian descent working for Democrat Jim Webb’s U.S. Senate campaign said Monday he felt insulted when Sen. George Allen called him a name that sounded like “Macaca” during a rally in western Virginia.S.R. Sidarth, 20, spent last week following Allen’s “listening tour” and filming the appearances for the Webb campaign, which distributed a video clip of Friday’s appearance to reporters.
Discrimination Against The Rich Or The Poor? August 15, 2006
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When students take to the streets, they’re usually united against something like war or racism. But when Indian students took to the streets last May they had a different cause. These were children of the wealthy upper castes out to stop a plan to reserve more university places for their peers from poor and lower-caste backgrounds. This was youth versus youth, and they were fighting for the status quo.
Resistance to social-leveling campaigns in higher education isn’t limited to India. When a top French Grande Ecole—alma mater of presidents and prime ministers—began giving preferential treatment to poor students, there was an outcry from the upper classes. In Britain, there are fears that efforts by top-tier universities to recruit more students from state secondary schools will dumb down the ivory tower. These controversies say something important about the state of academia: for all the pious attacks on injustice that emanate from universities, the class gap is growing from the United States to Britain, parts of Continental Europe and Asia. The reasons are myriad: state-controlled systems that artificially limit the number of university places, admissions procedures that favor the privately educated, falling financial aid and failing public secondary schools.
Indians challenge use of ‘Redskins’ name August 15, 2006
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American Indians have filed a new legal challenge to the Washington Redskins’ trademark, contending the NFL team’s name is racially offensive, speakers at the Native American Journalists Association national convention said Friday.
A petition to cancel the trademark was filed Friday with a board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington.
“There is no compromise with racism,” Suzan Shown Harjo, president of the Morning Star Institute, said at the conference. The institute is a Washington-based non-profit organization that advances Indian causes.
“Power concedes nothing,” she said. “You have to go in and make change happen.”
The patent office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board backed a similar petition filed in 1992. That decision was overturned on appeal, but the door was left open for another attempt to invalidate the trademark, Harjo said.
Malaysia Rejects Bid To Stop Discrimination System August 15, 2006
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Malaysia said it would reject any bid to have their system of discrimination in favor of ethnic Malays canceled.
Malaysia and the United States are now in the process of negotiating a free trade pact which will cover Malaysian government procurement awarding profitable contracts to Malays or bumiputera.
The country’s Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz said that Washington knew Malaysia’s necessity to keep its policies for Malays, who comprise about 60 percent of the population, as its sovereign right.
“If government procurement in transparency is what is required, no problem. But if anybody, the U.S. or anybody, wants to impinge upon our rights to put forward or to implement a particular type of policy, that’s no go,” she told AFP.
Coed Citadel Still A Work In Progress August 14, 2006
Posted by C.A.R.D in Discrimination, Sexual harassment, male, Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, Card, legal, woman, minority, Citadel, college, coed, Tara Woodside, cadet corps, West Point, assimilation, alcohol abuse, honor code, racism and discrimination, sexually assaulted, U.S. Air Force Academy.comments closed
Ten years ago, The Citadel threw open its doors to women after a protracted, heated legal fight. On Saturday, a new class of 650 freshmen — including about 40 women — arrive. But the challenge of bringing women into the once all-male cadet corps isn’t over. Some male cadets and alumni still don’t like the idea.
“There will always be pockets of people who don’t want a coed school,” said Nancy Mace Jackson, the college’s first female cadet graduate.
Tara Woodside, a junior from Salem, N.J., was in grade school when Jackson arrived on campus.
“There are some guys who are skeptical at first,” Woodside said. “But once a woman proves herself, they are your biggest supporters.”
One of the biggest difficulties is attracting more women, who now make up 6% of the cadet corps. During the past decade, 129 female cadets have graduated, and this year there will be nearly 130 women among the college’s almost 2,000 cadets.
Passport photograph of girl’s bare shoulders rejected ‘as it may offend’: Discrimination Against Western Culture? August 14, 2006
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A five-year-old girl’s passport application was rejected because her photograph showed her bare shoulders.
Hannah Edwards’s mother, Jane, was told that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country.
The photograph was taken at a photo-booth at a local post office for a family trip to the south of France.
Because of the way the camera was set up, the picture came out showing Hannah’s shoulders.
The family had it signed and presented it at a post office with the completed form but were told that it would not be accepted by the Passport Office.
A woman behind the counter informed them that she was aware of at least two other cases where applications had been rejected because a person’s shoulders were not covered.
21-And-Over Policy Prompts Age Discrimination Complaint August 14, 2006
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A nightspot’s 21-and-over policy has prompted an age discrimination complaint winding through Rhode Island’s Human Rights Commission.
The case began in February when Brian Alber Jr., 19, and his parents were kicked out of POP, a nightspot, because the establishment has a 21-and-over policy, according to documents filed with the commission.
Alber’s family later filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission, which is expected to hold a meeting on the case this week.
Black Leader May Quit After Accusing Mtl Cops of Racism in Alleged Rape Case August 14, 2006
Posted by C.A.R.D in African-American, Black, Black Coalition, Black Coalition of Quebec, black rights, Card, Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, Dan Philip, gang rape, Montreal, Police, Racism, Racist, Rape, Rape Case, violence.comments closed
The longtime head of a black rights group says he may resign for suggesting Montreal police were racist in their handling of an investigation into the alleged gang rape of a young woman.
Dan Philip says he went too far last week when he accused the police of racism because the five men arrested were black while no charges were laid against a white man.
Philip faced a flurry of criticism, even from members of his community, for suggesting a video showed the sex was consensual.
Older Workers Put On ‘Scrap Heap’ August 14, 2006
Posted by C.A.R.D in age, age audit, Age Discrimination, baby boomers, Card, Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, employers, Frances O'Grady, Heap, Job, Older, older workers, over 50, retiring, Scrap, trade union organisation, TUC, Workers.comments closed
More than a million older workers cannot get a job because of a lack of investment by employers, a report by the TUC has claimed.
The trade union organisation said workers were being put on the “scrap heap” when they were keen to work.
The TUC blamed a failure to put cash into retraining for those over 50.
It urged employers to conduct an “age audit” of staff to stop discrimination and retain older workers but the CBI said employers were doing their best.
TUC deputy general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “Most baby boomers are not retiring early to cruise around the world or go bungee jumping.
Parents Win Access Discrimination Case For Disabled Child August 13, 2006
Posted by C.A.R.D in Access Discrimination, Belfast, Case, Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, Disabled, Disabled Child, disabled people, Discriminate, Discrimination, Down baby, Fulton's Fine Furnishings, furniture store, Justin Black, Lisa Black, Parents, Rights of access, Win.comments closed
The parents of a disabled County Down baby have won an access discrimination case against a furniture store.
Justin and Lisa Black were told they could not take their son, Thomas, into Fulton’s Fine Furnishings in Belfast because of a no pushchairs policy.
However, Belfast County Court ruled the store unlawfully discriminated against Thomas, who has spina bifida, by failing to make an exception for him.
Mel Gibson Deserves Pity, Not Pillory August 13, 2006
Posted by C.A.R.D in Alcoholic, Alcoholics Anonymous, Anti-Semitic, Anti-Semitism, Card, Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, Drunk, Gibson, Israel, Isreal, Jew, Jewish, Jews, Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world, Mel, Mel Gibson, Middle East, Pity, Police, Racist.comments closed
A Scottish actor who worked on Braveheart once told a director friend of mine what it was like working with Mel Gibson. “He’s off his head,” alleged the actor. “We’d all be standing there in kilts and with blue woad painted on our faces, ready to do a shot, when suddenly Mel would announce to the Alcoholics Anonymous members among us – a healthy number – that we had to have a meeting. So there we would be, behind the catering van with painted faces, reading from the Big Book and sharing our experience. You know, ‘My name’s Mel and I’m an alcoholic,’ then we’d all go back to the set and get stuck into the English.”
Recovering alcoholics like to say that they’re sober one day at a time, and it can’t be easy knowing that you’re always just one drink away from your former self. Gibson went spectacularly off the rails last Friday and reportedly did what many alcoholics do – he allegedly drove his car at nearly 90mph, drank from a bottle of tequila, got stopped and arrested, and verbally abused the officers in charge. As situations go, it wasn’t very striking, except that the drunk was a Hollywood star. It certainly wasn’t unusual that the arrested person issued a stream of abuse at the police, racist, misogynist or otherwise. All police will tell you this is standard. Gibson reportedly said: “F—ing Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”
Silly man – pathetic, even. There isn’t an ounce of reason in what Gibson said, but then, who could expect there to be? Well, the entire Western world, apparently, which imagines that what a drunk Catholic actor says in the extremity of his cups might represent a threat to civilisation.
Sexism at MIT August 12, 2006
Posted by C.A.R.D in Alla Karpova, Card, Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, E-Mail, glass ceiling, Harvard, Hockfield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, scientist, Sexism, Sexism at MIT, Sexist, Susumu Tonegawa, Virginia Valian.comments closed
WHEN SUSAN Hockfield was named president at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the university’s first female leader said she hoped her presence would “give confidence to girls and young women that there are opportunities that will be open to them that they can’t imagine right now.”
Hockfield has her first major chance now to display some imagination over such opportunities on her campus. An MIT professor, Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa, was accused in Globe stories of bullying a scientist into turning down a job offer from the school. Tonegawa sent the scientist, Alla Karpova, a discouraging e-mail less than an hour after the MIT Biology Department offered her a post at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Despite his Nobel Prize , the 66-year-old Tonegawa, director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, may have seen Karpova as a threat to his preeminence in neuroscience, even though she is less than half his age.
‘Terrorist’ slur costs star TV job August 11, 2006
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Former Australian Test player Dean Jones was sacked as a commentator on Monday after referring to South African Muslim batsman Hashim Amla as a “terrorist”.
Jones, who admitted making the comment and apologized, was on a TV team covering the second Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa in Colombo.
According to a statement issued by Cricket South Africa on Monday, viewers heard Jones say, “the terrorist has got another wicket” when Amla took the catch that dismissed Kumar Sangakkara.
