#social-justice

#social-justice

French police fired teargas and clashed with demonstrators in Paris and other cities on Monday after trade unions transformed their traditional Labour Day marches into anti-government demonstrations against the rise in the retirement age.In Paris, the trade union-led demonstration began peacefully with many families joining in, holding banners calling for social justice and demanding Macron resign or withdraw his law to raise the minimum eligible pension age from 62 to 64.

For five years, Greta Thunberg has spent her Fridays in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm instead of in class; after 251 weeks, she is hanging up her cardboard protest sign as a student.What began as a 15-year-old with a singular message has spread into a global movement across 7,500 cities.

First Minister Humza Yousaf has appointed his first Cabinet in the job, securing top posts for his supporters.Senior members of the SNP parliamentary group filed into Bute House on Wednesday to be told which jobs they will be given.The announcement comes just hours after the First Minister was sworn in at the Court of Session.

By India Harville-
I'm proud of all my social identity markers-Black, queer, woman, and disabled.Out of all of my identities, developing disability pride was the most challenging.I didn't always identify as disabled, although I have had chronic health challenges my entire life.As a Black queer woman whose ancestors survived by hiding parts of themselves deemed deviant, dangerous, and unlovable by a white ableist cis-heteropatriarchy, I wasn't eager to publicly claim another marginalized identity.

The new monument, located at West India Quay in the city's Docklands, will also recognise the role London played in the trade.Mr Khan has committed 500,000 to help create the memorial, expected to be unveiled in the summer of 2026.The Mayor said: The impact of the slave trade has been felt by generations of Black communities in London, across Britain and around the world.

I first met Glenda Jackson in 2003.I was a young, impressionable university student and she had come to speak at our local Labour party meeting.The hot topic of the day was the war in Iraq.Glenda was unashamedly against the war and wasn't mincing her words about Tony Blair.She was under a huge amount of pressure to vote for the war, but she told us that her conscience wouldn't allow her to do so.

It's Tuesday.Introducing the California issue of The New York Times Magazine.Plus, reparations proposals put Democrats in a quandary.Image Birds reflected in the Salton Sea in Desert Shores.Credit...Mette Lampcov for The New York Times The New York Times Magazine is doing something this week that it has never done before: dedicate an entire issue to California, where many of its readers live.

Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries and into the present day, the Chicago labor movement has faced significant challenges and made remarkable strides toward fostering a more inclusive and equitable workforce.By recognizing historical struggles, we can appreciate the progress achieved while acknowledging the ongoing journey toward true diversity and social justice.

ALABAMA - The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the continued importance of the Voting Rights Act today in Allen v. Milligan by upholding a lower court's unanimous decision that Alabama's state congressional map discriminated against Black voters.In 2021, the Alabama state legislature produced new congressional maps which only allowed one Black majority district within the state's Black Belt, an 18-county region marked by historic discrimination and socioeconomic struggles.

An SNP MP has said he is confident his party can win a by-election in Margaret Ferrier's constituency if one is called.David Linden, the party's spokesman on social justice, also said he does not recognise reports that some in the SNP Westminster group feel the party lacks a clear offer to the electorate.

Labour's decision to abandon its plan to abolish tuition fees means the party has retreated from another of the promises Sir Keir Starmer made during the 2020 leadership election.On Tuesday, Sir Keir told the BBC's Today programme that the vast majority of those promises stand, although he had been forced to adapt to the different economic situation.

In the realm of politics, some leaders recognize the threat of homelessness as a motivator to control a certain class of the population.As a result, they are unmotivated to provide meaningful solutions to this pressing issue.Instead, they resort to measures like no camping ordinances and bans on feeding the homeless, which serve as cruel acts of kabuki theater, designed to change the window dressing on the problem of gross inequality.

After previously announcing he would vacate the seat if elected to serve Zone 3 on the Portland Public Schools Board of Education, former candidate Derrick Peterson may be walking back his plans to quit the race.Last week Peterson made a public statement on his website saying he had withdrawn from the race, noting recent media coverage that served as a "distraction" to PPS students and was taking a toll on his family.

Happy weekend, everyone!We hope the air clears up so you can enjoy the weekend's fun outdoor music shows.If you prefer to stay inside, you can visit the new Capital Jewish Museum, or get tickets to Hadestown the musical.Best Things to Do This Weekend
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Capital Jewish Museum opening.Get a first look at DC's newest cultural attraction: the Capital Jewish Museum.

During the Trump presidency, one of the strongest currents in our culture was the struggle for social justice, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter to the recognition of proliferating gender identities.Now, one of the strongest currents is the backlash to all of that.Resentment of strident progressive politics unites the hapless CNN chief Chris Licht, who complained, in an Atlantic profile, that the network had been producing too much anti-Trump outrage porn, and the louche British rock star (and reputed Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend) Matty Healy, who complained, in a New Yorker profile, that artists are now expected to be liberal academics.

Happy Tuesday, everyone!Welcome back from the long weekend.This week you can party outdoors at Quarterfest Crawl, or spend quality playtime with your dog at Paws on the Plaza.Best Things to Do This Week



Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival.Start Pride Month at the Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival.

King Charles has been urged to go further towards offering reparatory justice for the UK's role in transatlantic slavery, even as he was praised for reportedly ignoring Boris Johnson's advice to avoid the issue at all costs.Academics and campaigners called on Charles to adopt specific measures to help build an understanding of the legacy of the enslavement of black people, as well as putting forward suggestions for how the UK could work towards making amends.

People are having to pay more for baby formula in Canada and that's putting pressure on families who can't afford to shoulder those cost increases.A prominent infant food insecurity expert says it's a long-term problem that's getting worse."If you're a very low-resource family, where you're relying often on food-charity responses, then those babies, I would say, are some of the most food-insecure Canadian citizens," said Lesley Frank, a Canada research chair in food, health and social justice at Nova Scotia's Acadia University.

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The president of Whittier College announced her resignation Friday amid financial troubles, plunging enrollment and criticism of her performance at one of California's oldest liberal arts institutions.Linda Oubré, who took the helm five years ago, did not address the controversies in her resignation email, sent to the campus community.

"I was told by the world I wasn't allowed to write classic country, even though I'd written so much of it and I loved doing it," Mya Byrne says of her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy, which melds her punk sensibility with polished songwriting Tui Jordan/Courtesy of the artist At a showcase during the SXSW music festival this past March, Mya Byrne introduced a rollicking country-punk protest song called "Burn This Statehouse Down," with righteous indignation and campy flourish.

Humza Yousaf, who has become the first minority ethnic leader of the Scottish government, has had the advantage and the curse of being seen as the continuity candidate and Nicola Sturgeon's unacknowledged favourite.Of all three candidates, Yousaf, 37, was the only enthusiast for Sturgeon's approach and earned by far the most endorsements from SNP parliamentarians and ministers, notably including Sturgeon's deputy and closest political friend, John Swinney, himself a former leader of the party.

Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, a teenager in Northern Virginia created a program to measure media biases and in researching older news articles, she found that Black homicide victims were less likely to be humanized in news coverage.Emily Ocasio, an 18-year-old from Falls Church, Virginia, created an AI program that analyzed FBI homicide records between 1976 and 1984 and their corresponding coverage published in The Boston Globe to determine whether victims were presented in a humanizing or impersonal way.