Imagine if instead of banning employees from masking, huge corporations like Starbucks would offer paid time off, clean the air and encourage customers to mask up. They could even provide free respirators at the door.
Their employees would be healthier, happier and more productive.
Today in Labor History April 25, 1993: Over one million people marched in Washington, D.C., for gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender rights. This was in the era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discrimination within the military and Colorado’s constitutional amendment invalidating laws that protect LGBTQ rights. The marchers had seven basic demands. The 1st demand was a civil rights bill and ending all discrimination by state and federal governments, including the repeal of all sodomy laws. They also demanded more funding for AIDS research and treatment; an end to discrimination in adoption and child custody; full inclusion of all LGBTQ people in the education system; and an end to all discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people. However, in their platform, they also demanded these same rights and protections for ALL people, especially people of color, people with disabilities, women, nonbinary and trans people, and working class and poor people.
The Good Law Project is fundraising to challenge the UK Supreme Court's recent ruling on in the European Court of Human Rights.
If you are unaware, the ruling of the UK Supreme Court was that under the Equality Act 2010, 'sex' was to be interpreted as 'biological sex', rather than gender. This upended over a decade of existing practice and interpretation.
If you are able to contribute, please do: this ruling was devastating blow to the community, undermining our expectations and safety.
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/supreme-court-human-rights-for-trans-people
Boosts would be welcome - the more people see this, the better the chances of them hitting their goal.
#Trans
#TransRights
#CrowdfFunding
#UKpol
#SupremeCourt
#Discrimination
#EqualityAct2010
U.S. officials have interviewed white South Africans seeking refugee status about their troubles with land disputes, crime and perceived racism, while refugees from other countries are being deported or barred. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/25/world/society/trump-white-south-africa-resettlement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #donaldtrump #southafrica #immigration #race #discrimination
Panda Express walked back their employee mask ban in response to public outcry.
Starbucks is also attempting to prohibit their employees from masking unless they have a doctors note.
Get loud. Call, email & boycott. These ableist decisions are reversible, we just need to keep up the fight!
Those #health inequities are the legacy of racial #discrimination that was legal from the country's inception until 1965, the type of historical #injustice #DEI policies were designed to correct.
#Trump also rescinded a 1994 EO by fmr Pres Bill #Clinton that directed every #FederalAgency to develop an agency-wide #EnvironmentalJustice strategy to address adverse health or #environmental effects on *minority* & #LowIncome populations.
#SCOTUS seems likely to let religious families opt out of #LGBTQ+ storybooks
The lawsuit over public school story time with titles like “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” & “Love, Violet” is one of 3 major #FarRight #religious cases on the high court’s docket.
#Law #discrimination #bigotry #heterosexism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #Trump #education #law #ActivistCourt #NewApostolicReformation #NAR
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-22/supreme-court-favors-parents-right-to-opt-out-their-school-children-from-lgbtq-stories
Tran is now feeling both the “pressure of representing a community in a specific way,” and the struggle of continuing to work through her own internalized misogyny, racism and homophobia. But the actor wants “to live in a world where there is a generation after me that does not have any of that.”
Pompeo formed a Commission on Unalienable Rights that focused on Revolution-era & post-WWII notions of rights, de-emphasizing issues like #discrimination & #ReproductiveRights, putting more focus on religious freedom & the right to private property.
The memo reviewed by NPR outlines changes that are far more sweeping.
The documents NPR reviewed confirm reporting by Politico that reports of #violence & #discrimination against #LGBTQ+ people will be removed, along with all references to “#DEI”.
#HumanRights #Trump #TerrorState #UnitedStates #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #MafiaState #Freedom #law #InternationalLaw #GenevaConvention
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-human-rights-report-00238581
Source: @hrdive
From the article: "April 2025 data from digital platform WorkL indicates that while workplace happiness increased slightly for heterosexual workers in 2025, it decreased for LGBTQ+ workers — suggesting a change in the political climate also led to a change in climate for LGBTQ+ workers.
"Similarly, feelings of empowerment for these workers fell from 77% to 71% year over year and pride in their work dropped from 74% to 63%. Job satisfaction for LGBTQ+ workers also dropped from 75% to 64%."
#LGBTQ #LGBTQIAPlus #Employees #Workers #Discrimination
https://www.hrdive.com/news/lgbtq-discrimination-at-work-less-happiness/745070/
“UK government wants to legalise automated police decision-making”
by Statewatch.org
“A proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions to be made solely by computers, with no human input. The Data Use and Access Bill would remove a safeguard in data protection law that prohibits solely automated decision-making by law enforcement agencies”
I am reminding myself that I can do hard things! I can do hard things, even when the hard thing is waiting for an email about the one class I need to finish a degree. Will I have to do the whole damn degree again? I left due to #disability #discrimination, and I'd really like to just finish the class and not have to get a lawyer involved.
But I'm from New Jersey, so I absolutely WILL get a lawyer involved.
Anyway. I can do hard things!
I'ma eat first though.
#israel #palestine : #citizens / #discrimination / #humanrights
(A little look under the surface…)
„How Israel Scapegoats Its Arab Citizens.“
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/other-war-palestinians
The lawsuit came a week after #USDA announced the freeze, one of several actions Trump's admin had taken against the state since Democratic #Maine Gov #JanetMills clashed w/ #Trump over the issue of #transgender athletes during a WH event in Feb.
#Maine sues over #Trump #USDA pause on funds due to support for #transgender athletes
The state of ME on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the USDA's decision to freeze federal #funding for #education programs in the state over its refusal to ban transgender women from sports.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ
https://www.reuters.com/legal/maine-sues-over-usda-pause-funds-over-support-transgender-athletes-2025-04-07/
A district court judge had blocked the #Education Dept from canceling more than 100 grants that funded 2 programs— #Teacher Quality Partnership & Supporting Effective Educator Development—while #litigation challenging the decision continued. Chief Justice #JohnRoberts & #SCOTUS’ 3 liberal justices said they would have denied #Trump’s request to intervene in the case.…
The initiatives provide leadership development, #teacher residency programs, training & other services. A coalition of Democratic-led states that challenged the funding freeze said it would trigger teacher #layoffs & other harm to #schools, weakening the teacher pipelines #Congress intended to enhance when it created the programs.
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