May 22

Follow up w/ Dr. Arbulu’s talk on Civil Rights

Many thanks to Dr. Agustin Arbulu for taking time out of his schedule to come talk w/ us.

 

 

Elliot – Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976 – http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-act-453-of-1976.pdf

Harvard’s implicit bias test – https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

– You can take the test at the link above to find out about your attitudes toward society.

Dr. Arbulu mentioned that honest dialogue is the key to a better future:

  1. Honest dialogue about women in the workplace – http://interactionassociates.com/insights/videos/creating-honest-dialogue-about-women-leadership

2. How dialogue works – http://www.communitydialogue.org/content/how-dialogue-works

3. Honest dialogue in the corporate workplace – http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1770-honest-dialogue-the-key-to-a-sustainable-future

4. Creating safe spaces for communication – http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/safe-spaces

Here is the link to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights’ report on the Flint Water Crisis – https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdcr/VFlintCrisisRep-F-Edited3-13-17_554317_7.pdf

Michigan Emergency Manager Law 

  1. Article on how we got started w/ the Emergency Manager law – http://michiganradio.org/post/how-did-we-get-here-look-back-michigans-emergency-manager-law
  2. Did the Emergency Manager law cause the Flint crisis – http://fortune.com/2016/02/18/michigan-public-act-436-flint/
  3. Anger of Appointing Emergency Managers in Michigan – NYTimes – https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/us/anger-in-michigan-over-appointing-emergency-managers.html?_r=0

Sensitive Locations Policy – FAQs from federal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – https://www.ice.gov/ero/enforcement/sensitive-loc

Rights of undocumented workers – http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/yes-illegal-immigrants-do-have-rights-under-trumps-new-immigration-plan/

– Know Your Rights – Natrional Immigrants Justice Center

Ban the Box – eliminating the question on employment applications asking if someone has been convicted of a felony – http://www.nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hiring-state-and-local-guide/

– Ban the Box organization – http://bantheboxcampaign.org/

Women’s wage gap – AAUW – Simple Truth about the Wage Gap – http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/

Structural racism – Dismantling Institutional Racism – http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/race_power_policy_workbook.pdf

– Is America Repeating the Mistakes of 1968? The Atlantic – https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/is-america-repeating-the-mistakes-of-1968/490568/

– Evidence of societal and economic inequality – http://www.intergroupresources.com/rc/Definitions%20of%20Racism.pdf

– Issues of Health Inequalities from the New England Journal of Medicine – http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1609535#t=article

LGBTQ+ rights – policy vs. law – interpretation of phrase “prevent discrimination against sex” to include sexual orientation is a policy, not law.

– Issues surrounding LGBTQ rights – http://www.politicalresearch.org/tag/lgbtq-rights/#sthash.pWt98SLo.dpbs

– LGBT rights in America – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States

– Washington Post’s article on anti- LGBT legislation – https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/lgbt-legislation/

Differences between Service Animals vs. Emotional Support Animals (Comfort animals). – https://www.nsarco.com/pop-esa.html

– Americans with Disabilities Act criteria for Service Animals – https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm

– Please Don’t Pet Me – service, therapy, and emotional support dogs – http://pleasedontpetme.com/differences.php

 

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