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“Bloody Sunday” in Northern Ireland
In Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators are shot dead by British Army paratroopers in an event that becomes known as “Bloody Sunday.” The protesters, all Northern Catholics, were marching in protest of the British policy of internment of suspected …read more
Rita Z
United States
The California Department of Education must be held accountable for the use of restraint and seclusion practices across public and private schools across the state.
13 year old Max Benson, a student diagnosed with autism, had his life taken from him far too soon on November 18, 2018 at the hands of Guiding Hands School in El Dorado Hills by the use of a violent prone restraint. He was held in a face-down restraint for 105 minutes continuously, as he urinated, vomited on himself, and bit his lip until unconscious. Max’s offense that cost him his life? Spitting and kicking the wall.
The staff that are responsible for his tragic death are teacher Kimberly Wohlwend who held him in the restraint, school nurse David Chambers who arrived 15 minutes after Max lost consciousness to perform CPR, Guiding Hands Principal Staranne Meyers and Site Administrator Cindy Keller, owners of the school who directed staff to use prone restraints. As well as the Davis Joint Unified School District, who sent Max to Guiding Hands school with no oversight.
Various staff members performed these restraints on many other students as well, some restraints lasting over 2 hours. These same teachers have faced no charges or consequences and are currently teaching at other schools across northern California; utilizing these abusive restraints as we speak.
Max is only one of the many student victims of the traumatic abuse under Guiding Hands School’s supervision. Some students are so traumatized they have been unable to return to school at all since, robbing them of their right to an education.
There is also a civil case that Max Benson’s family brought against Guiding Hands School, Handle with Care and the CDE, along with 9 other plaintiff students with disabilities that also endured abuse in prone restraints.
Dangerous seclusion and restraint practices employed against disabled students at school is a statewide and even nationwide crisis that needs to be addressed immediately.
This starts with holding the California Department of Education accountable for letting these violent and dangerous practices continue here in California. Signing this petition will take action to end these deadly prone restraints and hold the people responsible accountable. We must be heard, for our children’ s sake and in honor of Max Benson’s life. Please help us ensure his life was not lost in vain.
Vs what is going on at his Residence …
The evidence for indicting trump is very likely.
In my opinion – Nativegrl77
So, should former vp Pence and potus Trump be treated as a team, as they were in office at the same time? There are a lot of questions about if any documents were taken by one or the other and stored at various locations … food for thought?
Nativegrl77
Police attacking Longshoremen in Charleston
A four-day strike by 2,000 postal workers at the New Jersey Bulk and Foreign Mail Center in Jersey City began on this date. The “Battle of the Bulk” was caused by postal management’s unilateral changes in workers’ hours and working conditions. The wildcat strike was led by a group of young workers who identified themselves as “The Outlaws”. A federal judge ruled in the union’s favor, directing management to settle the issue through binding arbitration. -1974
Six hundred police attacked picketing longshoremen in Charleston, South Carolina. – 2000
voicesoflabor.com
aftguild.org
Some 10,000 clothing workers strike in Rochester, N.Y., for the 8-hour day, a 10-percent wage increase, union recognition, and extra pay for overtime and holidays. Daily parades were held throughout the clothing district and there was at least one instance of mounted police charging the crowd of strikers and arresting 25 picketers. Six people were wounded over the course of the strike and one worker, 18-year-old Ida Breiman, was shot to death by a sweatshop contractor. The strike was called off in April after manufacturers agreed not to discriminate against workers for joining a union – 1913
In Allegany County, MD, workers with the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal era public works program employing unmarried men aged 18-25, are snowbound at Fifteen Mile Creek Camp S-53 when they receive a distress call about a woman in labor who needs to get to a hospital. 20 courageous CCC volunteers dig through miles of snow drifts until the woman is successfully able to be transported – 1936
resource: aftguild.org
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