Social justice

Social justice

The 73-year-old Boston-born historian has long argued that, since the late-1960s, the countercultural rebellion has been playing into the hands of big business interests that is, capitalism. In his books of essays Desire and Fate (2025), published by Eris Press the writer and former war correspondent presents a fierce critique of the left. He believes that progressives have forgotten about unions, labor and class, in order to embrace other causes, such as race, gender and the environment.

It's a midweek morning in the ­early 1990s and I'm on Pat Kenny's show on RTÉ. I've been invited on along with a fellow female Northerner to talk about what it's like living in the south: she as a Catholic and me as a Protestant. It's an illuminating, deep-dive kind of a chat, covering many ­dimensions of our lives and seeking to shine a light on how our advance conceptions - and our lived realities - might differ.

"Empathy as hoisted up as the highest virtue - or even a virtue at all - gets us into a really big mess,"

It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery. As one white man had to stand towards the front, the driver asked the four to get up and move towards the back of the bus. Three did; one did not the rest is history. Or so many American kids might think when they first read the story of Rosa Parks in school.

With clothing companies that will be offering discounted Black Friday deals this week relying heavily on the labor of tens of millions underpaid and overworked garment workers across the Global South, two reports by the human rights group Amnesty International make the case that ensuring these employees are afforded the right to organize their workplaces is key to ending worker exploitation across the fashion industry.

For all those reasons, it was a major blow. But since then, I have allowed myself time to breathe. There's a particular kind of calmness in the eye of the storm. There's a particular kind of calmness when you center yourself back into your own body. I had to recenter myself and be grounded on who I am and what I believe. I believe that love will win.

I unequivocally would like to see that justice is pursued for the destruction of city property and I fully denounce this disgustingly vile attempt to normalize hate as an acceptable form of public expression. It's not acceptable and will not be tolerated,

A new Netflix documentary, The Perfect Neighbor, has introduced millions of viewers to Marion County, Florida, detailing the slow drip of death that was visited upon one neighborhood through the lens of nearly two years of police body camera footage. Directed by Spike Lee protegè, Geeta Ghanbir, the film explores how Susan Lorincz, a White baby boomer held her

This has been happening over again on the inside. So we're just here to say that we believe you and support you,

In Seattle, for many Asian migrants, Chinatown-International District (also known by its initials CID) is our home away from home. Located on Coast Salish lands in Seattle, the CID is a diverse multiracial community, including many immigrants from across Asia, many Indigenous, Black, and Latine communities; and working-class people of all backgrounds. The city government estimates that residents in the neighborhood speak 17 languages in addition to English, the most common being Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese.

It was 50 years ago this Thursday that San Francisco's own annual Unthanksgiving' started on Alcatraz Island, and as always, this year's sunrise ceremony will be streaming online if you can't make it to Alcatraz at 6 am. We are reminded that this is Yelamu, Ohlone Territory on Thanksgiving morning when Alcatraz Island is the site of this Thursday's 50th anniversary Indigenous Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering.

A two-hour-plus standoff between Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies and a man who wouldn't exit his car during a traffic stop ended with the driver fatally shot when he emerged holding a knife. Sheriff Bob Jonsen has discussed the "numerous attempts" deputies made to reach "a peaceful resolution," including the use of "several less-lethal tools and projectiles to prevent the use of deadly force."

More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK alone to claim asylum disappeared from social services' care last year, according to freedom of information data shared with the Guardian. The authors of a report, Until Harm Ends, submitted FoI requests to children's services departments in councils across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking for information about trafficked children and those who arrived alone in the UK and claimed asylum, who then went missing after being taken into care.

Thousands of protesters across France braved the cold on Saturday to express their anger over the persistence of violence against women and demand more public action and funds to combat the scourge. In Paris, crowds of demonstrators -- 50,000 according to organisers, 17,000 according to the police -- waved signs, chanted, danced and sang as they moved through the capital in the protests organised by the Greve feministe (Feminist Strike) collective of some 60 organisations.

Black women are being sidelined at scale Since February, Black women have lost 297,000 jobs. Another 223,000 remain unemployed. And 75,000 have been pushed out of the labor force entirely. I estimate that these forced exits alone are draining an estimated $9.2 billion from U.S. GDP this year. These aren't just missing paychecks; they represent lost productivity, lost tax revenue, and diminished national output.

The number of New Yorkers with disabilities in the workforce has climbed in recent years - but they're still far less likely to be employed than those without a disability. That's one of five big takeaways from a new report by the New York State Comptroller's Office that tracks employment patterns among people with disabilities from 2019 to 2024. The findings highlight both progress and persistent inequality. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of people with disabilities in New York's labor force jumped more than 40% - outpacing the national increase of 31%. The labor force participation rate (which includes both workers and job seekers) also rose, up 4.6 percentage points in New York. Still, at just 28.8%, the state's 2024 participation rate remained well below the national average of 32.3%.

Participants will hold up signs which say: I oppose Genocide / I Support Palestine Action, until they are arrested or until it is clear the police have stopped arresting people, Defend Our Juries explained in a briefing document. The protest is part of a campaign for Palestine Action to be de-proscribed as a terrorist organisation, with events scheduled in 18 towns and cities in the UK from November 18th to 29th.

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"I just called [O'Hanlon] and he apparently disagrees with me that women deserve single-sex spaces, fair sports etc. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news," Linehan wrote on X/Twitter.

There is growing evidence that religion is increasingly visible in Western culture, including in workplaces where leaders and managers explicitly reference their faith and values. Additionally, analyses of workplace dynamics in the U.S. suggest that religious identity and accommodation are becoming more prominent in HR policy, legal claims and corporate diversity frameworks, thereby signaling that many managers are navigating faith elements in organisational life.

Early this year, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines by saying corporate culture needs more "masculine energy." This sentiment was echoed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's call for the military-an employer of 2.1 million Americans-to return to a "warrior ethos", promoting traditional masculine standards like aggression and athleticism. And yet, according to recent news reports, recruits at ICE (another workplace) are struggling to pass basic fitness tests, and Hegseth allegedly installed a makeup room at the Pentagon.

And I'm not just talking about random life events, like winning the lottery, I'm thinking about luck in the broader sense of the circumstances into which each of us is born. It took me a while to realise that my journey through life has been eased by several tailwinds. I have had the incredible luck of being born in the UK, in a peaceful period of history.

I was surrounded by commuters. Nobody intervened. I had been travelling alone and was checking my route home in a passageway, when suddenly I felt someone looming over me. I'd looked up to find a man standing inches from my face, staring down at me. He was motionless, and looking me dead in the eye. I froze - I thought I was about to be mugged.

Santa Clara County officials announced Wednesday a sweeping civil enforcement action against a Milpitas-based home care business, alleging its owners perpetrated a complex scheme to exploit immigrant caregivers. At a Nov. 12 press conference in San José, LoPresti said the lawsuit sends a "clear and simple" message to employers. "We will hold accountable employers who seek to profit by violating the law and exploiting vulnerable immigrant workers," LoPresti said. "We will be sure that they face their day in court."

In an email yesterday, Assistant District Attorney David Angel said the DA's Office is troubled by the ACLU lawsuit because it seeks "thousands upon thousands" of private records that identify Santa Clara County individuals who have been charged with a crime. "We have provided the ACLU, and many others, with tremendous quantities of de-identified and aggregate data," Angel said. "We remain convinced that, especially in today's environment, people have a right to privacy concerning their records."