Fremont: Sikh Coalition will assemble for the hearing before the New York City Council’s Civil Rights Committee today. The hearing will be regarding the bill that would significantly enhance the responsibility of employers to protect religious freedom in the workplace. It will be held at 10:00 AM at 250 Broadway, Committee Room, 14th Fl.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Seven Jewish organizations signed on to a letter appealing to President Obama to reinstate a hiring anti-discrimination provision based on religion for organizations that receive government contracts.
President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order in 1965, prohibiting discrimination in government contracts. In 2002, President George W. Bush amended the order by signing [...]
Who would have thought that my early childhood experience in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II would offer such useful insight, sixty-five years later, in determining the direction America is headed? In reflecting on Thursday’s hearings on Muslim Americans, planned by Congressman Peter King (R-N.Y.), I feel like a mirror is being held [...]
[Today], Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, will use his authority and the sacred space of the US Capitol Building to put an entire religion on trial when he convenes a hearing on the “Radicalization of American Muslims.” King has a long track record of Islamophobic conduct, and [...]
On February 1, 2011, a coalition of 51 organizations including Amnesty International USA, The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, the Interfaith Alliance , and varied smaller non-profits have composed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi requesting a stop to Rep. Peter King’s hearings on homegrown terrorism.
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