Bullying is not just in school ........
People are hurting today.
Please take a look at discrimination and inequality of today, and what people are doing to highlight these injustices, and fight for whats right!!
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Uploaded on Apr 5, 2008
Most Americans are good people...but there is a lot of Islamophobia in the US. This is a good video exposing some of those feelings by ABC Primetime . ABC News Feb 2, 2011- Two young women walk into a coffee shop to apply for a job in the kitchen when something strange happens: the manager seems oddly reluctant to let them fill out an application. Then, in full view of customers, out it comes: the real reason the manager isn't interested in hiring them? They are deaf.
It's a shocking violation of the law, or it would be if this weren't an episode of "What Would You Do?" The manager and the deaf job applicants are actors. Of course the customers don't know that. How will they respond to a display of the kind of discrimination this country outlawed two decades ago? What would you do? Published on Aug 4, 2012
Music, culture, class, religion, race... nothing is off the table in our two-part season finale of StereoTypes. |
Starbucks is facing allegations of discrimination from a job applicant who claimed he was "blatantly" discriminated against because of a disability during a job interview at one of the coffee chain's San Diego stores.
In court documents filed on Feb. 8 at the Superior Court of the State of California in the County of San Diego, Eli Pierre, who was born with half of a left arm, alleged he "was not hired for the position because of his disability, despite his capable work history." Published on Jul 7, 2012
How racist are you? Racism, racist people, prejudice, discrimination, black people, white people, asian, mexican, latino, America, illegal immigrants, driving, asian driving, Josh Klaasen, Uploaded on Dec 15, 2011 A video showing how discrimination is pictured in entertainment, and how these relevant issues are depicted as amusing. |
Facts of inequality-
Women's Inequality
Over half of the 37 million Americans living in poverty today are women. For families, the poverty rates are highest for those headed by single women, particularly Black or Latina. In 2008, 28.7 percent of households headed by single women were poor. About 90 percent of welfare recipients are women. In fact, the gap in poverty rates between men and women is wider in the United States than anywhere else in the Western world.
Women continue to earn less than men in the workplace. White women earn 77 cents on the dollar to their male counterparts, and Black and Latina women earn 58 and 57 cents, respectively. That is in addition to the unofficial limitations put on women at the workplace, the so-called “glass ceilings” that keep women from being promoted. Disability inequality
Discrimination
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Racial inequality
Report sees 'sobering statistics' on racial inequality March 25, 2009Despite hope ushered in by President Obama's election, racial divides persist, a report says.Social and economic gaps between whites and blacks persist in the United States despite an atmosphere that led to the election of President Obama, an Urban League report said.
Blacks remain twice as likely to be unemployed, three times more likely to live in poverty and more than six times as likely to be imprisoned compared with whites, according to the group's annual State of Black America report issued Wednesday. The report urges Obama to tackle the critical challenges of the times, including unemployment, home foreclosures, education and an overhaul of health care. |
Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equal Rights.
- Same-sex couples are denied more than 1,100 federal benefits and approximately 515 state benefits enjoyed by married opposite-sex couples.
- Same-sex couples are raising children in 99.6% of all counties in the United States.
- In 2005, 38% of students ages 12 to 18 had been exposed to hate-related graffiti at school and 11% reported someone directing hate-related words at them (U.S. Department of Education and Justice, 2006). A survey of 7,261 middle and high school students found that nearly 9 out of 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students experienced harassment in school and nearly two-thirds felt unsafe because of their sexual orientation (GLSEN 2009 National School Climate Survey).
Examples of People in Action
Equal Pay day Flash MobUploaded on Apr 11, 2011
The Center for American Progress Action Fund and the American Association of University Women teamed up to hold a flash mob for equal pay in front of the Lincoln Memorial. |
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Race against Racism
Uploaded on May 4, 2011
The YWCA Lancaster is a nonprofit organization in Lancaster, PA. The organization promotes women empowerment and eliminates Racial Inequality. Four local individuals were interviewed and asked their perspective on the Race Against Racism, a large event the YWCA Lancaster holds each year. The event is a 5 kilometer race throughout the streets of Lancaster. |
Disability Discrimination job interview commercialUploaded on Sep 28, 2007
Post - 2000 public information film. A woman with Down's Syndrome is being interviewed for a job, and becomes hesitant when the employer has a question for her - but it's not as bad as she expects. Walk a MIle in Her Shoes!Uploaded on Sep 13, 2011
Edmonton-- There is an old saying: "You can't really understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes." Walk a Mile in Her Shoes asks men to literally walk one mile in women's high-heeled shoes. "It's not easy walking in these shoes, but it's fun and it gets the community to talk about something that's really difficult to talk about: gender relations and sexual violence." |
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On V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, 14 February 2013, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence. ONE BILLION RISING will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders.
What does ONE BILLION look like? On 14 February 2013, it will look like a REVOLUTION. |
One Billion Rising
ABOUT ONE BILLION RISING
ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME.* ONE BILLION WOMEN VIOLATED IS AN ATROCITY ONE BILLION WOMEN DANCING IS A REVOLUTION ONE BILLION RISING IS: A global strike An invitation to dance A call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until rape and rape culture ends An act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of their struggles and their power in numbers A refusal to accept violence against women and girls as a given A new time and a new way of being |
