Who owns your Facebook account? You or your employer? The answer may not be as obvious as you think. Several courts have held that our social media pages, which most of us consider personal, could belong to our employers or new business owners after a bankruptcy.
From police brutality to Wall Street excesses to obscene amounts of money in politics, we have much to protest in modern America. Demonstrations helped get women the right to vote, shamed the country into ending Jim Crow segregation laws, and brought about our withdrawal from the Vietnam War. Peaceful protests are a healthy expression of democracy.
Want to participate? Unsure about your rights and when to assert those rights? Please read on.
What is clear from the arrest video is that Officer Encinia wanted to assert his dominance over Ms. Bland, even though it was a routine traffic stop for failing to signal. At every opportunity where he could ratchet up the tense encounter or calm it down, he chose to escalate. Ms. Bland was treated like the enemy, rather than a citizen motorist who had committed only the most minor infraction that caused no harm to anyone.
US politicians have suddenly woken up and realized—finally—that something has to be done about mass incarceration. In a recent speech to the NAACP, President Barack Obama called for a sentencing overhaul bill to be passed this year that would reduce mandatory minimum sentences “or get rid of them entirely,” favoring treatment or other alternatives for many drug offenders. Remarkably, Republican House Speaker John Boehner largely agrees, and said he supports a bipartisan bill currently making its way through the House that would, among other things, lower mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
Mr. Trump’s blanket insulting statements about Mexican Americans are clearly the definition of racism.
In the movies, police often shoot the bad guys, taking any opportunity they can to get the kill. The audience cheers. In the real world, these cases should be closely examined to determine whether our police are respecting human life in each and every case, as the law requires.
So many people fought for so long to secure true equality for LGBT Americans. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
It’s 2015. If you don’t have an inclusive workforce, your competitors are probably beating you in the marketplace.
Our reluctance to call this incident terrorism has little to do with it meeting the definition and everything to do with who we are accustomed to labeling as terrorists.
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