Today’s New Diversity Topics: Two Immigrant Americans Honored, Texas A&M Diversity Conference Set This Week, The Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement, School Warned Over Bullying, Black Legislators Lose Gains, Iowa Prosecutors Fight Free Speech, Fanatics Prefer Intolerance, Maps Errors Rekindle Border Conflict ,Using Correct Terms Increases Diversity Success
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Welcome to Diversity Briefings: 11/08/2010
Volume 1, Issue 13
Group Klopfer Diversity Consulting
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Today’s New Diversity Topics: Two Immigrant Americans Honored, Texas A&M Diversity Conference Set This Week, The Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement, School Warned Over Bullying, Black Legislators Lose Gains, Iowa Prosecutors Fight Free Speech, Fanatics Prefer Intolerance, Maps Errors Rekindle Border Conflict , Using Correct Terms Increases Diversity Success
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Upwardly Global Honors Two Immigrant Americans for Outstanding Leadership
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Upwardly Global, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization with a mission to eliminate barriers to professional workplace entry for foreign-educated immigrants and refugees in the United States, announced today the names of two influential immigrant Americans it will recognize at its annual 2010 Passport to Possibilities Gala, on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at the Edison Ballroom. Deven Sharma, President of Standard & Poor's, and Mariam Assefa, Executive Director of World Education Services will receive the organization's prestigious Outstanding Leadership award for their personal and professional accomplishments elevating the profile of immigrant Americans as well as supporting diversity in the workplace. This story continues --
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/upwardly-global-honors-two-immigrant-americans-for-outstanding-leadership-106882683.html
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Big 12 Diversity Conference To Be Held At Texas A&M Nov. 12-13
COLLEGE STATION, Nov. 8, 2010 – Texas A&M University will host the annual Big 12 Diversity Conference Nov. 12-13, bringing together the chief diversity officers in the top-tier athletic conference that includes schools in seven states. The keynote address will be delivered by William Harvey, provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Rosemont College and formerly vice president for diversity and equity at the University of Virginia. Stanley said Harvey is expected to share examples of successful initiatives and best practices and discuss methods for collaborating on strategies that support institution-wide diversity agendas. Continued --
http://tamunews.tamu.edu/2010/11/08/big-12-diversity-conference-to-be-held-at-texas-am-nov-12-13/
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Speakers link start of Holocaust to civil rights movement in the South
Rabbi Alvin Wainhaus : "It all came to a head on Kristallnacht, during which police and firemen were instructed not to intervene except to safeguard German citizens and their property," the rabbi said. "Sixty thousand Jewish males were sent to concentration camps that night, the start of the Holocaust. That event took place in darkness but the second was in broad daylight. That event turned out to be a tipping point toward justice and dignity for all people."
Joseph McNeil: "We didn't want to be carried out in a pine box, but it was a possibility,"one of the four Greensboro, N.C. students who led the nonviolent protest in 1960.
Here is more --
http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Speaker-links-start-of-Holocaust-to-civil-rights-802408.php
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U.S. Dept. of Education Warns Schools Over Bullying; Protects Gay Students For 1st Time
The US Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Russlyn Ali, in a new advisory released Oct. 26, warns that schools can lose federal dollars if they do not comply with the civil rights laws to protect gay students. It has been a traditional Office of Civil Rights policy to protect US students against discrimination based on race, gender, religion, national origin and disability, however this is the first time a government advisory mentions LGBT discrimination. Here is more --
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/entries/11_04_10_end_anti-gay_bullying_in_schools/
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Alabama civil rights attorney fears loss of gains by black legislators
Tuesday's elections marked the 40th anniversary of the election of the first African-American lawmakers to serve in the Alabama Legislature since Reconstruction.The year was 1970, and Fred Gray Sr. had already gained fame as a civil rights attorney. Gray, a son of Montgomery, was actively keeping the secret pact that he had made with himself to become an attorney and "destroy everything segregated (he) could find" in Alabama. This article continues --
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20101107/NEWS02/11070360/Civil-rights-attorney-Gray-fears-loss-of-gains-by-black-legislators
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First Amendment Rights: Iowa Prosecutors Ask Court to Ban Peaceful Protestors
Prosecutors in Polk County Iowa have requested the court ban two anti-war protestors from the Federal Building in Des Moines after their arrest for trespassing. One of the activists, Christine Gaunt of Grinnell, Iowa, has been staging non-violent protests against the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the offices of Sen. Tom Harkin (D) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R) for the past eight months.
The Right to Petition Your Government
Civil rights advocates have expressed concern about the request questioning whether such a move represents a violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees American citizens the right to free speech and the right to petition the government.
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http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/prosecutors-request-court-to-ban-protestors-from-federal-building/
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Do America’s religious fanatics prefer intolerance over civil rights?
Blog Eideard: "If you want to understand how the Taliban thinks, you need look no further than America’s fundamentalist army of fanatics. Free thought and education are meaningless to ideological cave-dwellers who would not allow processes that differ with theirs..."
http://eideard.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/americas-religious-fanatics-prefer-intolerance-over-civil-rights/
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Still More Diversity Notes
Google Maps errors rekindle border conflict between Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Google Maps error is being blamed for Nicaraguan troops accidentally invading Costa Rica last week. The troops have been accused of crossing the hotly disputed Nicaragua border into Costa Rica in Central America and setting up camp for the night after taking down a Costa Rican flag and raising the Nicaraguan flag.
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/11/08/google-maps-errors-rekindle-border-conflict-between-nicaragua-and-costa-rica?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily
Diversity Management Tip of the Day
Working Harder at Using Correct Terms Increases Diversity Success
Susan Klopfer writes:
Ana is talking with one of her team members about a newly employed woman who has a "strange" last name. "I wonder where she's from. I'll bet you she's an illegal alien," Ana whispers to a co-worker.
But Ana receives an unexpected reaction from a nearby team member, who has been listening in to the conversation.
"Say, wait a minute. My name isn't so common, and I was born in Oregon," Jan Ishi calls over to Ana and her friend. "You had better be careful what you're calling someone at work!"
"Oh I didn't mean anything bad, especially about you," Ana says, as she grabs her coffee and leaves the room red-faced.
http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Susan-Klopfer-7986/diversity-128763.php
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