and not criminal perhaps yet, but from what you see here, do you think governor cuomo could be in criminal jeopardy? so as the attorney general stated there are two tracks this report can take by the relevant agencies that may be looking into these reports. the first is a civil right of action that i think all of the 11 victims could potentially have and the other path is a potentially criminal one that either the al bany district attorney could do. that will be for those individual agencies and those individual people to decide but this whole thing is never about is this going to turn into a crime. in very few instances, erin, you know this very well, other than the harvey weinsteins or the bill cosbys, very rarely are sexual abusers held to account
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NPR s Sarah McCammon talks with professor Jenn Jackson about the reversal of Bill Cosby s conviction and why they think restorative justice can ensure accountability and give victims closure.
As legislative session nears end, Adult Survivors Act in limbo
Legislation seeks recourse for those abused later in life
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Tom Andriola poses for a photo on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union) Show MoreShow Less
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ALBANY When the Child Victims Act was signed into law in 2019 it opened up the court system to generations of alleged survivors of childhood sexual abuse who had previously been barred from seeking legal recourse due to New York s statute of limitations. Now, advocates and abuse survivors say, it s time to pass the Adult Survivors Act to offer the same opportunities for those who were abused later in life.
In a recent interview with BizNews founder Alec Hogg, Helen Zille spoke openly about her book ‘#Stay woke: Go broke’ and the dangers of ‘wokeness’ and cancel culture in the South African context (see interviews below). “In South Africa – where the ratios are inverted [and] black people are the overwhelming majority – it doesn’t cause any self-reflection about the abuse of power. Quite the opposite.” In this piece, Tiffany Markman looks at the origin of the word and how it has evolved over the past decade. This article first appeared on FirstRand Perspectives. – Claire Badenhorst
The evolution of ‘Woke’
By Tiffany Markman