Picketing

However, as it currently stands, in many cases, those would-be tax dollars are being directly deposited into the pockets of greedy, corrupt clergymen that care less about what is in your heart and more about what is in your wallet. Bear in mind that the Church of Scientology brings in $500-550 million every year, according to an article by L. Christopher Smith for Entrepreneur. This church earns more in a year than most people will see in their entire lifetime, and yet none of it goes to the…

Verizon’s Collective Bargaining Dispute Lets talk about what collective bargaining is which “ consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees so as to determine the conditions of employment. The result of collective bargaining procedures is a collective agreement (collective bargaining)”. The unfair treatment of Verizon employees caused 45,00 workers to go on strike. A, majority of the people that are participating in the strike are part of the landline division. In the…

I chose to interview my boyfriend’s Aunt Jamie about participating in the Blue Lives Matter movement. She explained that she is still an active member of the movement and that their goal is to recognize all of the positive things that the police do for the community and to strengthen support from the community. Aunt Jamie heard about the Blue Lives Matter movement through Facebook when people she knew began posting about the New York City incident when two NYPD officers were murdered right…

In the documentary Before Stonewall the experiences of the LGBTQ community throughout the 20th century are highlighted and discussed. The documentary begins in the early 1900’s. Many speakers at the beginning of the film set the stage, stating that during the early 1900’s getting caught as a gay individual meant being arrested, thrown in an asylum, beaten, or even resorting to suicide. The word “homosexual” was thought to be dirty, and individuals who were called homosexual were thought to be…

Lizabeth Cohen’s book A Consumers’ Republic discusses how politicians, labor, and others supported the Keynesian approach to stimulate the economy after the war. Throughout her narrative she mentions the term “Keynesian”, but fails to fully explain the true meaning of the term. Instead, she describes how politicians, economists, labor, and other supported “full employment at high wages; big markets for high-volume, low unit-cost production of goods, and whatever government intervention was…

As a little boy I always loved going to the festivals with my mama, New Orleans had the best of them. I loved the food, the music, and the mixture of the people from our city. Normally we weren’t allowed to be around the white people, but during festivals they were all over the city, and so were we. At school, we wouldn’t eat lunch at the same table as the white boys, but at the festivals I could be right there and nobody would pay any attention to me. Once during the first Jazz Festival in 1970…

some of her friends separated from the NAWSA and formed the National Woman 's Party (NWP). Despite being seen as unpatriotic Alice and her group went to Washington to protest and picket. For two years hundreds women stood outside the White House picketing. They were beaten by the police and arrested even though there protest were non violent. They were disrespected verbally and physically by men that walked by them, yet nothing was done about it. Paul and many others were sentenced to 7 months…

protesters for women rights, Lucy Burns and Katharine Morey (Zahniser, J.D.). These are just two of many women that protested for equal rights for women. Alice Paul was probably the biggest pioneer for women’s rights. She organized the white house picketing campaign (Zahniser, J.D.). Alice Paul staged a parade of 5,000 people in 1913 (Crocco, Margaret Smith). She did anything and everything for the women’s rights movement. She even went to jail for attacking a politician (Crocco, Margaret…

As with any change, there are supporters and opponents and the Equal Rights Amendment was no different. The main supporter of the amendment was the National Woman 's Party backed by feminists and professional women such as Amelia Earhart. Organized groups such as National Organization for Women and ERAmerica along with a coalition of nearly eighty other mainstream organizations helped push the amendment through the ratification process. National Organization of Women was a compelling advocate…

In the gilded age, many reformers were realizing how many issues there were with a thriving and growing population. During the Progressive Reform Era, many people were attempting to find a way to fix all the problems. One of the problems was Women’s rights. Many women were expected to stay in the home and take care of the children. Two of the most famous reformers of Women’s rights were Alice Paul and Margaret Sanger. While they both fought for the expansion of women’s rights, Alice Paul…