Ethel Kennedy, Sotomayor, Bader Ginsburg, Starbucks: 3 Stories You Should Read Today – 6/27/2018
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In the category of: This is going to get interesting.
90-year-old Ethel Kennedy joins hunger strike against immigration policies
At 90 years old, Ethel Kennedy is joining the fight against the Trump administration’s separation of immigrant families at the border to Mexico.
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, plans to participate in a hunger strike in protest of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for immigrants who enter the country illegally, in conjunction with several activist groups and nearly 50 other members of the Kennedy family.
The fast, which started Saturday, is scheduled to last for 24 days, in honor of the estimated 2,400 children that have been separated from their parents. Organizers ask that each participant fast for 24 hours and make a donation in place of the food they would have eaten to Break Bread Not Families, said Kerry Kennedy, head of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group.
In the category of: Employee benefits at a whole new level.
Starbucks to pay for all transgender staff’s surgeries
Starbucks has announced plans to offer comprehensive care for transgender employees, covering several procedures that are usually excluded by insurers.
In the new plan announced on Monday, Starbucks said that in addition to covering bottom surgery, they will now cover all other medical steps in a person’s transition.
This will cover several other procedures that were previously considered cosmetic – which can often be hard to obtain as insurers typically refuse to cover them.
In the category of: The women of SCOTUS
“Motivated by Anti-Muslim Animus”: Must-Reads From Justice Sotomayor’s Dissent on Trump’s Travel Ban
In the intervening years since Korematsu, our Nation has done much to leave its sordid legacy behind … Today, the Court takes the important step of finally overruling Korematsu, denouncing it as “gravely wrong the day it was decided.”…This formal repudiation of a shameful precedent is laudable and long overdue. But it does not make the majority’s decision here acceptable or right. By blindly accepting the Government’s misguided invitation to sanction a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity toward a disfavored group, all in the name of a superficial claim of national security, the Court redeploys the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu and merely replaces one “gravely wrong” decision with another.
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