Discrimination

Word of Mouth - Segment
12:44 pm
Thu January 26, 2012

"Microaggressions" Exposed

"Microaggressions" Exposed

A web site provides a place to post and read the insidious, small incidents of discrimination many of us encounter - and are guilty of - every day.

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NH News
12:00 am
Thu October 20, 2011

National Guard Controversy Reveals Inequity

National Guard Controversy Reveals Inequity

The official end of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ is barely a month old. But the circumstances around Chief Warrant Office Charlie Morgan reveal inequities still exist within the U.S. military. Gay rights advocates hope Morgan’s story pressures the Department of Defense and Congress to keep leveling the playing field.

Now that ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ is gone, Chief Charlie Morgan can be as OUT to friends and co-workers at the New Hampshire National Guard as she wants to be.

But that doesn’t change the fact that if her spouse Karen gets sick, then she’s out of luck says attorney David McKean.

McKean is a lawyer with the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

He says the spouses of gay soldiers are denied key benefits.

NH News
12:00 am
Mon October 17, 2011

Report Highlights Prison Inequity

Report Highlights Prison Inequity

The treatment of female prison inmates in New Hampshire is raising questions of civil rights violations. After a two year investigation, that’s the conclusion reached by the New Hampshire Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The Commission reports that male inmates enjoy greater opportunities in everything from vocational training to mental health services.

JerriAnne Boggis didn’t have to see anything at the Women’s Prison to know about the problems in Goffstown.

“When we visited the women’s prison, the sheer noise, constant noise, we walked in, until we left... everybody is crushed together, and all of the announcements over the loudspeakers, it was just constant, constant, constant, there was no quiet.”

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