Category: WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
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Violence at work Indigenous activists clash with UN over proposed park
JAKARTA, Indonesia — When farmer May Cho Win learned that a conservation project proposed by the U.N. Development Program in Myanmar would include the land she’s worked for over a decade, the 28-year-old wondered how she and her husband would be able to support their three children. “Without our land we can’t live,” she told…
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Violence at work From Ferrante to Woodward: a full fall season in books
NEW YORK — The best news about the fall season in books is that there will be a fall season in books. The coronavirus has shut down cineplexes, performance centers, museums and comedy clubs, but books can still be enjoyed at the scale and in the settings the creators intended. While most physical stores are…
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Violence at work How racial issues will define the 2020 presidential election
As the nation reckons with its complicated racial history, issues that impact communities of color are taking center stage in the platforms of each major political party. With less than three months until the election, an effective pitch during the conventions will be crucial as nonwhite voters make up about one-third of the 2020 electorate,…
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Violence at work France mandating masks at all workplaces as virus reawakens
France is now mandating masks in all workplaces, from the Paris business district to factories in the provincesBy ANGELA CHARLTON Associated PressAugust 18, 2020, 5:16 PM4 min readPARIS — France is now mandating masks in all workplaces, from the Paris business district to factories in the provinces, as it tries to contain growing virus infections…
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Violence at work Federal virus money slow to trickle to local public health
As the novel coronavirus began to spread through Minneapolis this spring, Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant tore up her budget to find funds to combat the crisis. Money for test kits. Money to administer tests. Money to hire contact tracers. And yet even more money for a service that helps tracers communicate with residents in dozens…
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Violence at work Victims tell of trauma, healing in Golden State Killer case
Nearly three dozen survivors and family members of victims plan to tell their stories before the man known as the Golden State Killer is formally sentenced to life in prisonBy DON THOMPSON Associated PressAugust 18, 2020, 1:31 AM6 min readSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jane Carson-Sandler says she has served the equivalent of a life sentence in…
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Violence at work Activists: Police killings of Latinos lack attention
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Forty-year-old Antonio Valenzuela’s death didn’t spark widespread protests like George Floyd’s. In fact, the police killing of Valenzuela drew little attention outside the American Southwestern city just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The details about Floyd’s death, a 46-year-old Black man, who died in May at the hands of Minneapolis police…
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Violence at work Black Portland reflects on role of white allies in movement
More than two months of protests in one of the whitest major cities in America have prompted deep introspection in Portland, Oregon’s small Black community about the role of white protesters in the Black Lives Matter movementBy GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated PressAugust 16, 2020, 3:58 PM6 min readPORTLAND, Ore. — More than two months of intense…
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Violence at work Freed from Belarus jails, protesters recount beatings
MINSK, Belarus — They emerged dazed, shaken and in tears from the detention center in Minsk, to be met by waiting relatives. They displayed the black-and-blue bruises on their bodies, saying police had beaten them mercilessly. One teenager asked his weeping mother to look away. Authorities in Belarus have freed at least 2,000 of about…
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Violence at work Arrest made in boy’s death that sparked federal task force
Prosecutors say a suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of a 4-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, boy whose killing sparked a federal task force designed to fight violent crimeAugust 13, 2020, 11:23 PM3 min readKANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man has been charged in the shooting death of a 4-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, boy…