Chaumtoli HuqBangladesh collapse has political consequences in US
Raising the level of standards for workers’ rights
If workers rights are given, will they ask for more accountability
— Martin Luther King, Jr. , 18th April, 1959 Last year, in 2012, Chief Judge Lippman announced a new pro bono requirement for all applicants seeking admission to the New York State Bar to perform 50 hours of legal services under the...
On this May Day, an internationally recognized workers’ day, we are reminded that thousands of American workers continue to face discrimination on the job each year based on a protected status, such as race, gender or religion, despite a patchwork...
“The hierarchy of poverty has deadly consequences.” Born during Bangladesh’s war for independence, our home was bombed and I survived as the family tale goes cocooned by the rubbles of concrete and iron bars. Soon after, in December...
Police Crush Pro Democracy Movement – 1987 Nobel prize poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore has a famous song cherished by Bengali activists which loosely translates to: If no one heeds your call, then travel the road by yourself. This has been...
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court decided in Gideon v. Wainwright that a criminal indigent client has a right to counsel in state criminal proceedings. The underlying basis for the counsel is to prepare a proper defense. The court reasons: From...
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Perpetual Trespasser
adminTo be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside of the main body. We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out. We understood both. This mode of seeing reminded us of the existence...
